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The following essay is included here to give cause for thought amongst those
of us who wonder why in Africa, whenever a nation is taken over by the
Blacks, given their "freedom", it always almost immediately collapses into a
mess. Please be patient and read it though and I beg you not to fall into
the "brainwashed" trap of thinking that the writer is a racialist, the name
used frequently by all who wrongly blame Whites for the Black's misfortunes.
The writer's web site is linked below at the bottom. It was written in
2002.
Read and
decide who are the real racialists. Those who are intelligent and work
out the truth so that at least the best can be done to help the poor Blacks
(as a group) properly, or those who are very left-wing and/or liberal who
are not really interested in solving the problems as long as their little
worlds are not upset, especially when they have a financial interest in
retaining the status quo so they can stay in their ivory towers?
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I've
been meaning to write about Racial Discrimination for a long time,
because there is not a day of my life that goes by that I don't see the
untruth of the entire situation. Black people
around the world have been hypnotized into believing that all their failures
in life are due to discrimination and hatred which emanates from Whites.
This
couldn't be further from the truth.
Everyday I see life here in Johannesburg, South Africa carrying on a lot
like it did under White rule. In spite of racial quotas, Blacks struggle
forward. Black Empowerment businesses fail one after the other. Blacks who
get jobs thanks to Affirmative Action (legal preferential treatment due to
their being Black over others), almost never carry out their duties with the
same level of competence as the Whites who came before them. I see this day
after day, repeating itself thousands of times over - and not just in South
Africa today. This has been going on in lots of other African countries. And
it is clear that the problem is not with White people - the problem is
with the Blacks themselves.
But how many Black people
are willing to admit it?
What people refer to as "Racial Discrimination", is nothing more than logic
in action. You can legislate against it all you want and even throw
people in jail but you will never kill it. You will never kill it because
it is the truth, and even if people don't know it exists they will
sooner or later realize it for themselves. It will never die until the root
cause of it is addressed. Any White or Asian person who remains in contact
with Black people for any length of time (years, or more likely decades),
stands a very good chance of becoming a racist. I have seen this happen, and
it is a fact of life. It often occurs that people from Europe or America
come to Africa and stay here for a long time, and the process will cause
them to become "racist". Even Dr Albert Schweitzer, who
devoted his life to helping Black people in his little hospital, made
statements which would be regarded today as extremely racist.
Why do I say that people will become racist? Well, its because when
you live among Blacks for any length of time you start to realize that
they are often their own worst enemies. You begin to realize that they
are often the cause of their own disasters, and it also happens that many of
them refuse to listen to reason. You can tell them the problem, but they
won't listen until its too late. Black people rule more than 50 countries
on this planet, and every one is a virtual disaster area. In the very
few which have not become a disaster zone, you will discover that there are
either White people or Asian people who are the backbone of the economy,
OR you will find the country receiving tons of foreign aid from Western
nations. What causes racism is the simple logic that people eventually wake
up to the fact that most of the disasters and suffering which befall Blacks
are of their own making. When one is distant from lots of Black people,
or one lives in a society dominated by Whites you do not spot this fact that
easily. What happens is that when people get involved with Black people
and get to know them well that they then begin to realize their shortcomings
and this is how racism comes into being. That is why the police forces in
the USA for example, are among the first to become racist.
The USA and Europe are getting a good share of illegal Black immigrants,
and one can already see the rise of racism in reaction to this. Indeed, in
Europe, one sees this situation is already far more advanced and one can see
the resultant growth in the Far Right (UK, BNP, etc) as
a result. It seems to me that racism is going to be on the rise worldwide as
Black refugees, from failed Black countries continue running away
from messes which they created. The rest of the Western world is slowly,
very slowly, starting to wake up to facts about Blacks which we in Africa
have known for a very long time.
Black people, as individuals are very amiable, funny, musical, etc. As
individuals they can be fun to have around, but as soon as they organize
themselves into groups and nations, something goes wrong. They end up
taking courses of action which can be very self-destructive.
Exactly what causes this? It is two-fold. On the one hand, it has to do with
their attitude and values. On the other hand, it has to do with
intelligence. Let's discuss attitude for a moment. Black people are
extremely gregarious, more so than Whites, and they place little value on
the individual, and much more on the group. One of the key elements in
the rise of European and American dominance in the world has been the value
accorded to individual accomplishment. Native Black African society
suppresses the individual and forces a conformism upon people. This makes
them very susceptible to being herded like sheep. There will be very few
individuals who are willing to stand up as leaders and who will be prepared
to go against the grain. The other fault is a tolerance of the wrong things.
For example, they have a very easy-going attitude to life - an attitude of
Que Sera Sera, or what will be will be. Instead of seeing a problem,
and wanting to deal with it at its root, they instead ignore it and hope
it will go away - which most of the time it does not. So they leave
small problems to grow and to ferment and to then become BIG PROBLEMS! (You
will see this all over Africa). This very "Black" attitude is reflected
in the popular, and funny song (which I like), called "Don't worry, be
happy". It is precisely that sort of viewpoint towards life which causes so
very many problems for them.
Today (2002), in Zimbabwe, we see Mugabe murdering people and doing as he
pleases. We see a lack of leadership and opposition to him. But this story
has played itself out in lesser forms across Africa. Who voted him in?
Whites certainly did not. Time and again, Black people have voted for
the very people who went on to slaughter them. All across Africa one finds
Black people running from countries which they own, and have complete
control over - and yet, just a few decades earlier, those countries were
very successful.
There is a very real tendency for Black people to live for today without
a thought for tomorrow. It is something we are very used to in Africa,
and we take it for granted. Whites and Asians in Africa often feel that they
have to think for the Blacks and to anticipate the problems because if left
to the Blacks, the problems will become very real. What causes us to act
like this is because daily life, and daily experience has taught us that
most of the problems which affect Blacks are actually preventable.
I'm not a slave to science, nor the pronouncements of scientists, but there
are some scientific concepts which may have a lot more validity than we give
them credence for. One idea which I have kicked against a lot is "Survival
of the Fittest". One of the problems is that it is a vague term. But I must
admit, that practical experience has taught me that this concept, or a
derivative of it, may make a lot of sense. I will explain more about that
later.
These days one never stops hearing the "political version" of Darwin's
theory of evolution. The Political version, as I think of it, is that Africa
was the cradle of all human life and therefore, everyone, everywhere, across
the world, owe something to Africa and to Black people in particular. We are
inundated with a lot of this here in South Africa. They can't stop reminding
us that Africa is the cradle of humanity - or so they say. I'm not going to
argue the scientific logic of this issue. Instead, I will approach it from
another angle.
I recently had an interesting conversation with a Jewish friend of mine,
Dave, who, in keeping with many Jews in South Africa (the few that are
left), are very liberal. I should say that of all the people who could not
stomach the New South Africa, the Jews fared the worst. In percentage terms
more Jews have fled South Africa in the last 8 years than any other group of
people. Exact figures are not available, but it could be as much as half the
Jews who have left this country in the last eight years - and yet, many of
these Jews believed the African National Congress would be an improvement
over Apartheid. It was these people who had their businesses destroyed by
the resultant socialism and who bailed out faster than anyone else. I am
normally a supporter of Jewish people, especially Israelis, but I have to
say that the majority of South African Jews definitely read the political
situation wrong with regard to the ANC. I must emphasize however, that there
were exceptions. There were those who fought staunchly against them.
Dave and I were chatting about Africa. Dave remarked that even at his age,
he just can't understand why Blacks just can't get their act together.
They have their "freedom" and they're stuffing it up. "What's wrong with
Blacks?" asked Dave. I looked at him and said, "Its simple really -
lack of intelligence". At the heart of all the problems which Blacks
have - across the world - is one thing, and one thing alone -
intelligence or the lack of it.
Then Dave launched into the theory that if only the Blacks get a chance,
then they will do well. I have had similar discussions with lots of other
people here in South Africa about this same issue. Many White people here in
Africa have indeed tried to adopt liberal values - very hard - but then they
say "There is something that doesn't make sense... All people really are
NOT equal, and they do not behave the same way" They are all mystified
by the lack of Black performance. They become frustrated because they see
Golden opportunities thrown away. They see waste, they see corruption -
and megalomania. They just don't understand the
Black psyche.
A good friend of mine, Bernadette, fights with me about this racial issue a
lot. She is a devoted Christian of the Roman Catholic faith, and she wants,
with all her heart everyone to be equal. She tells me that in 15 years time
South Africa will be a strong country again. I have to smile at her
optimism. I know what Bernadette wants. She wants what everyone in the world
wants. She wants peace, she wants love and she wants everyone to love one
another and to be happy. She believes, in her heart, that love can overcome
all the problems of the world. But I tell her that she is dreaming a dream,
which if she would look around her she will see that this is NOT how the
real world is. Bernadette, is of course a "native" White South African and
many people here still hope that somehow, in spite of all the indications to
the contrary, South Africa will once again be a First World country. There
was a time when South Africa was the 18th biggest trading nation in the
world, and most of us want South Africa to be a country to be proud of. But
I doubt it will happen.
So I fight with my friends. I tell them that they are all dreaming. It is
all wishful thinking. The writing is on the wall. South Africa is NOT going
to be an exception to the trend in Africa. In fact, South Africa's
apparent "successes" of the last 8 years are no different to Mugabe's early
"successes" of the 1980's. The whole thing could come undone very
quickly.
Dave remarked to me that all humans came from Africa. So then I asked him:
"If, as the political interpretation of Darwin goes, the first humans were
Black, then how come they aren't the Master Race of the Earth?" If
Blacks had a head start (by millions of years) on Whites, Asians and
everyone else, then why aren't they running the world? So Dave defends it by
saying that the hot climate was not as conducive to development as the cold
climates. So what causes development? Is it when people struggle to live? Is
it when people have to fight for their lives against others? Did Europe and
Asia have a monopoly on this situation? I think not. Anyway, what about the
Aztecs - they also lived in a hot climate and look at what they did. Africa
might not be cold but life was hard enough for Blacks. Blacks also fought a
lot with each other. The Blacks did not live here in some mythical peace.
That is why, to this day, there is so much tribal hatred in Africa. In this
sense, Africa is no different to Europe. Life in Africa was not a bowl of
cherries so why is it that Blacks did not progress to the extent that Asians
or Europeans did?
The Chinese were, in many areas, about 1,000 years ahead of Europe. I once
saw a list of inventions which the Chinese had before the Europeans, and
they were hundreds of years ahead of them. In fact, in Chinese history, so
Dave tells me, the Chinese once had a huge fleet which was destroyed by a
certain Emperor. It has been announced recently that they might have
evidence that the Chinese visited southern Africa before the Europeans and
the Indians. Note, recent studies have shown that the Great Zimbabwe ruins
might be an Indian temple. There is much evidence of Indian colonization of
Zimbabwe and South Africa hundreds of years before Whites came here. They
even built irrigation canals in Zimbabwe and stone walls miles long.
Dave and I have both read Julius Caesar's Gallic wars. One day I pointed out
to him that if he looked at Caesar's description of Europe, 2,000 years ago,
then he would see that even the Barbaric Europeans (the non-Romans), were
more advanced than the Blacks of Africa - of modern or colonial times. Dave
was quite stunned by my remark and asked me to explain it. Note, there are
those who will say Caesar's writings are something of a propaganda exercise
aimed at painting the Roman conquest of Gaul in a good light. It is clear
that Caesar does not think much of the Barbarians - as he refers to the
other Europeans. Even so, if you read what the Barbarians got up to it
becomes evident that they had a well-structured capitalist society which was
functioning very well. The Barbarian tribes had governments, and they made
laws which were enforced. They negotiated deals, and could engage in some
impressive feats of engineering. If one reads of their exploits and the
things they got up to - including their cunning and deceit one sees people
who are capable of a high level of organization. And yet, these people were
backward by Roman standards. The Roman organization was even more
impressive. I then told Dave to show me anything in African history which
comes even close to this. Africans never invented the wheel. Most
Africans were not even settled in cities. Nor have they had a
written language. They could not because their primitive
agriculture could not sustain them for long and so they were migratory. The
ownership of land, as defined in modern Western society had little meaning
to the Blacks of those days because they were always migrating to places
where they could settle for a while.
As far as I'm concerned, if you believe that Africa is the cradle of
humanity (which I don't, but most people do), then you should immediately
ask yourself why it is that Blacks, having supposedly got a head-start of
millions of years on the rest of us, never developed further.
I am aware of the mythological fantasies of certain Afro-Centrist Black
Americans - but those are mythical dreams in their minds - about the days of
a super Black civilization. Such a thing never existed - and there isn't a
single excavation to support their theory. Yet, we can dig up cities in
Europe, Asia, and even the Americas showing development from ancient times.
Dave had to agree that the Greeks were doing some pretty amazing things.
Consider that they had developed some advanced mathematics and that an
ancient called Erastosthenes was able to estimate the size of the Earth
using a pole in the ground. The Europeans did some marvellous and incredible
things. Some time ago, a Black radio announcer in South Africa said that
we Whites should "get back on to your rotting wooden ships" and leave
Africa. Well, those "rotting wooden ships" were the space ships of their
day. These were FREE ENERGY vehicles which Whites people used to travel the
entire globe from north to south, east to west. These free energy,
environmentally friendly vehicles travelled to every continent and even into
the Antarctic. The mathematics and engineering which went into the
development of navigation and mapping was incredible.
Look at the Asians and one will see among them the same ability to
progress.
Then Dave had to admit that maybe I have a point in supposing that Blacks
just aren't equipped to the same degree as the other races. Dave remarked
that de-colonisation had actually been a good thing everywhere - EXCEPT
IN AFRICA! He pointed out that the Pacific and Asian
countries, and even South America, had fared much better after
de-colonisation than Africa had. What many people don't realize is that
in economic terms, the African countries have gone backwards in proportion
to what they were in colonial times. In terms of proportion, Africa has gone
backwards for more than 40 years while Asian and other countries moved
forward.
Dave admitted that all countries run by Black people are backward - even
those which do not have a history of colonialism, such as Ethiopia and
Liberia. Liberia is interesting because it is inhabited by former Black
Americans. That it descended to the same level as the rest of Africa is
telling. It shows that there is a deeper problem, and it lies within
Blacks as a race.
Time and again, when Blacks, especially as groups and nations, have to
compete with others, they fall short. As you can see, in Zimbabwe, even in
something as basic as food production, they struggle. This is where we
Whites (and Asians) in Africa have a head start on Whites and Asians in the
rest of the world. We understand Blacks and their shortcomings better
than anyone else. Note, Asians in Africa have an even more negative view of
Black abilities than Whites, and Asians have been run out of several Black
African countries. Even now, in South Africa, when they want to show the
"capitalist exploitation of Blacks", the best examples they come up with are
not White businesses, but Indian businesses. For example, there have been
cases where Indian business owners lock their Black employees in the factory
for the night shift. Why? Probably because they believe if the Blacks are
let out they will steal. So they physically lock them in the buildings and
even force them to sleep there. This came to light because of an occasion
where some Blacks burned to death in a factory which caught fire. It then
came to light that many Indian businessmen do not trust their Black
employees.
There is always the old excuse of "discrimination". Now let's be
honest, yes, there was discrimination and yes, discrimination can hold back
even a talented person. But it is here that the issue becomes interesting,
and it is this point which I want to make to the reader. You've heard about
Apartheid, and how Whites maltreated Blacks, etc. So the theory goes "Give
everyone an equal chance and the Blacks will rise." But that is not true.
Among the Blacks there are talented individuals - make no mistake - but
to assume that the majority of Blacks are similarly talented is clearly
false. It is this aspect which I see in South African society almost
every day of my life. I go to work, and I notice how Whites and Asian people
are still the driving force of the country. In
South Africa now, Blacks get work but they get it on the basis that Whites
once got work - due to the color of their skin. But the
difference is, that the color of one's skin did make a difference in terms
of one's IQ. It was not skin color that was the issue, it was IQ.
I notice this in Zimbabwe too. A mere handful of White people still manage
to survive, even in very hostile conditions. Even in these African
countries, when these Affirmative Action laws are enacted, you find that
Blacks still do not dominate those societies. This is the kind of
frustration which someone like Mugabe has. He is discovering what we Whites
have known all along - that to get rid of Whites will mean you have to kill
the Blacks as well. The same will hold true here in South Africa.
Giving Blacks an equal chance is clearly the morally correct thing to do,
and something I agree with. But you will find, even then, that Blacks will
never be represented in proportion to their numbers. Here in South
Africa, there is an insistence on job quotas. People will hold jobs in
proportion to their portion of the population, therefore 80% of all jobs are
supposed to go to Blacks. But what do you do in the computer industry
for example, which is a virtual monopoly of Whites and Asians?
You cannot legislate talent. You cannot legislate intelligence or
technical skill. Its either there or it isn't. It is often argued that
Blacks do not make headway because they are discriminated against. But this
argument holds no water because Indians were treated in exactly the same way
in Apartheid South Africa and even then, Indians became extremely wealthy.
Some Indians say they would rather go back to Apartheid because they
would live with the discrimination as long as they can make as much money
now as they did then!! Many Indians in South Africa are extremely wealthy
(through their own efforts), and one only has to see the cars
they drive or watch them gambling or doing other things to see how flush
they really are with cash. Yet, they were considered "Black" and all the
rules which applied to the Blacks applied to them to.
Even in the USA, Asians have a hard time, coming to a new country, getting
no special treatment and yet, time and again they prove themselves and
become extremely successful.
So now we have outcome based education and job quotas and Affirmative Action
because, giving Blacks an equal chance did not achieve the desired results.
I believe, giving them an equal chance is the only morally correct thing to
do, but one must not go further. To go further is immoral and unfair to
everyone else.
The problem I have, in discussing things even with my friends and associates
in South Africa, is that nobody discusses the horrible genetic facts.
Biologists know that everything you have comes from your DNA and this in
turn comes from your parents. Your skin color is hereditary. So is your hair
and eye color, so too the shape of your nose, lips, etc. In fact, everything
is hereditary... including, to a large degree, your intelligence.
They have been trying to disprove this for decades because this flies in the
face of the concept that "all men are equal". But like it or not, the
biological facts are there - as horribly unpopular as it is. I read reports
some months ago where scientists, using their latest knowledge of DNA are
confirming what European scientists knew a century ago: that most
intelligence is hereditary. They are discovering that, yes, given a chance,
all people will perform better. But, MOST of intelligence is hereditary, and
unless science can figure out how to meddle with the DNA to increase a
person's IQ, there is nothing you can do about it. Further
proof of the hereditary nature of intelligence is that if a Black person
marries a White person and they have kids, then those kids will have an IQ
(on average), half way between that of Blacks and Whites. In other
words, "brown" people (or to use the term we have in Africa, "coloured"
people), are more intelligent than Blacks but less intelligent than Whites.
According to various studies done over many decades, Asian people are
very bright, and are cleverer than Whites. But Blacks always fall short in
these studies. One can see too, in the real world, how intelligence
affects countries. Asian countries are very active and are moving forward at
a great pace. Japan, with no natural resources has the second strongest
economy in the world, while Africa, which is up to its eyeballs in
natural resources, and is potentially the richest continent in the world is
actually the poorest.
Now interestingly, here in South Africa, the "coloured" people like to
identify with the Whites. They regard themselves as superior to the Blacks.
It is entirely possible that a lot of Black Americans are more colored than
Black - which may explain why they do better than native Black Africans.
I've heard all the excuses about why Blacks don't perform to the same degree
as others, and they all do not make sense in the greater scheme of history.
For example, if Blacks are as clever as they now say they were, then how
come they did not have cities and cultures like that which existed
elsewhere? The few cities that might have existed in ancient Africa were
probably only in West Africa. You won't find any cities in the rest of
Africa. If Blacks were so clever and united back then, then how come they
could be conquered by so very few Whites? Also, why didn't Blacks import
the knowledge and science of others? They had contact with Arabs, Europeans
and Asians. So why didn't they acquire scientific knowledge from others
by buying it or getting people to come and teach them? Why did Indians and
even Chinese come to Africa and leave their mark here but you see no marks
left by Blacks? You can see that Asians were here, even centuries later -
yet you see no such buildings left by Blacks. Why didn't Blacks build
fleets of ships and sail the world?
As I explained to Dave, and to Bernadette, on different occasions, the
molly-coddling of Blacks today around the world by giving them special
privileges and special chances is something that never took place in
history. The Whites were never molly coddled. The Asians were
never molly coddled. It was kill or be killed. It was live by your own
abilities or die. If you could do something you didn't talk about how great
you were, you went and did it. History was written by people who could do as
opposed to those who could talk. On the battle field, or in science, it was
a case of winner takes all. Nobody ever asked for or got special treatment.
This brings me to my final point. When the Romans conquered other White
people, was that good or bad? These days people say all war is bad. But I
beg to differ. The Romans could not have waged war if they did not have a
properly structured society which was properly run. It is clearly evident
that even in those times, capitalism ruled. People traded. An army cost
money. Running a society properly required money, intelligence and planning.
Was the conquest of the world by Europeans really such an evil thing? Was
the conquest of Europe by the Mongols all bad? It is a fact of life, that
those who are better organized, who had the right values, and who worked
hard, became strong. Since everyone has to defend himself, all societies
throughout history formed armies. Some of these armies, for whatever reason,
went and fought others. Often, the reasons were complex and not always just
a case of outright conquest.
This brings me back to the beginning, to survival of the fittest. Is there
anything wrong when a group of people are able to conquer another group of
people and are then able to determine the structure which the resultant
society will take? Is this not what the USA is about to do to Iraq, and has
done in Afghanistan? Is this not good? If the fittest are strong enough to
conquer, surely they are in the best position to decide how things will work
from then onwards? Remember, they would not have been strong if they were
not able to run their own society properly. Military power is but a
reflection of something much deeper. You cannot have military power if you
do not have economic power. You cannot have military power if you do not
have intelligent people in your country. There are many prerequisites before
you can have military power. Military power is a reflection of many deeper
things in one's society. It is a reflection of economic power and also of
science, discipline, etc. So when the strong conquer the weak and then bring
to the weak, a better system, which enables the weak to progress and live
better than they were able to by themselves, is that not good?
I sometimes have a Black American telling me that they "don't need charity
from Whites". Well, if that's their attitude then so be it. But, evidently,
they can't do better by themselves. I notice too, a tendency for Blacks
to flee countries which they control, and have made a mess of, and to then
go and live in Whites countries. Once in the
White countries, they complain about discrimination, etc. In short, they
run to their new homeland, because it is better than where they came from.
Once there, they want to start transforming it... but if you let them have
their way, then they will turn their new homeland into a mirror image of
their old country and their new homeland will also fail. Ironically,
this is what is happening to the USA these days as it is flooded with all
manner of Third World immigrants. Strangely, many Americans do not seem to
realize that by letting in Third World failures they are actually helping to
set themselves up for the failure of their own country. (But many do,
and isn't strange that this is just what some Moslems want to do also?)
I have been surrounded by Black people all my life, and I have some
observations to make about their strengths and weaknesses over and above
intelligence. Note, that statistically, not all Blacks are dumber than
Whites. There is a portion of their population which is bright. These people
normally rise and go to the top (which is the way it should be). Even in
Apartheid South Africa you found Black millionaires and multi-millionaires.
But, just because a small portion of the Black population can match the
intelligence of Whites and Asians, does not mean they all can. And
experience shows that the majority of Blacks cannot.
At the end of the day, the crux of "the Black problem", is determined not by
hate and oppression but by DNA and things which we currently have no power
over. Black Americans may find it difficult to understand that in Colonial
times there was a highly paternal relationship between Blacks and Whites in
Africa. Whites often regarded Blacks as children and treated them as such.
There were many Blacks in decades past who understood this and who
believed that White rule was better than Black rule.
History is proving us right, and will continue
doing so. History will show that Whites people could rule over Black people
better than Black people could rule over themselves. It will be no different
in South Africa. Most people outside South Africa think that South Africa
was a vile NAZI-like country. The reality is that South Africa was not much
different from the rest of Colonial Africa. I have long said that in 20
years time non-Whites South Africans, including Blacks will look back to the
days of Apartheid and will say, "In spite of the bad things, those were the
best days of our lives."
Another friend of mine, Steven, has another argument he always puts forward.
He says, "I have no problem admitting that Black people are physically
stronger than White people, so why can't they accept that I am more
intelligent than them?"
Evidently, Steven, many cannot.
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