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Whites have learnt the power of organised economy, where they structure their economic power in such a way that it stays within the circle of white minority rule. White privilege is one of the best preserved institutional systems.

While Afrikans can organised themselves in protests and marches, there is a lack of education on the institutions they are protesting against. With no understanding of the enemy’s strategy or knowledge of the type of virus you are fighting, the symptoms can mislead the diagnosis.

The best example of this is the recent incident of Qwabe who chose to leave a condition to the waitress should she qualify for a tip. Qwabe noted the symptom, which is the displacement of the Afrikans land.

 The power of the white man in the South African context was shown when the privileged group raised over R150k to show that they don’t need the Afrikan man’s money, because they own the land, the economy and the Afrikan.
Unknowingly or knowingly the white South African minority showed that they have more power in the in SA economy.
Was Qwabe justifies or right in what he did, that is subjective, a man’s anger towards someone or thing that has hurt him and stolen from him is personal, unfortunately this is personal to +-74% of the people of this land.
Land is a sensitive issue as it lets you know who owns the economy. Qwabe might have said it to the ignorant white person, but the whites who know what he was saying, knew how to show him and the rest of us Afrikan activists and fighters that, "we are the top dogs".
So how do we begin the claim to a land that is ours by birth, but not by deed?

There are lot of people who speak about race, black/African/ Afrikan and non-white. However when Afrikan "natives" speak about black, there is an exclusion on other non-white or Non-European people. Who is Black and what is Black.
If you may allow me to ask, who is African and what is African and who defines African?
However, first allow me to take this direction: There is a miss interruption of what colonization is, it seems that colonization is attributed to white or European - The meaning of Colonialism is, “the establishment of a colony in one territory by a political power from another territory, and the subsequent maintenance, expansion, and exploitation of that colony." Before the west, we had Arabs who conquered Africa way before the West could have ever even dreamed of that kind of power. Slavery in Africa was first brought by the Arabs who over throw African kingdoms. We give the West too much credit.
Further, Africa was well on its way to development before the West even knew there were other lands outside of theirs.
Africa was powerful and rich before the Arab and European Imperialism. As a matter of Fact, Africa is the richest “State/Country” (I say country/state fully aware of what I mean) in the world. We sustain the world’s economy.
However because we don’t own our own Identity, we don’t own our own land, we don’t own our own dignity. We are Africans, but we don’t know what that means.

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