APARTHEID STILL EXISTS TODAY IN DIFFERENT VERSIONS

The symbol of apartheid divides people in answering nature's call.

The bible is the best book to read, even though many don't value it. That book can transform a man to be upright, sincere, truthful, faithful, and spiritually strong in whatever he does.

However, there are certain quotations in the holy book that I am not happy about. It may likely be that the scripture was tampered with, and a few things in it were changed for the white man to dominate black people.

For example, in the time of Jesus, there wasn't any camera; therefore, who saw Jesus and all his images appear to be a white man in today's modern scriptures? I guess the person who took Jesus Christ's photo also met the devil that tempted Jesus, and he gave him a snap. He was black.

 

According to Genesis 1:27, "So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." While in the same bible in Ephesians 6:5, it reads, "Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ."

The question I need an answer to, but never found, is if "God created man in His own image, then who is the master and who is the slave?" Studying the bible thoroughly, you can even discover some of the scriptures about discrimination and racism.

One specific example is in Song of Solomon 1:6, "Do not stare at me because I am dark, because I am darkened by the sun. My mother's sons were angry with me and made me take care of the vineyards; my own vineyard I had to neglect."

If I am right, based on the scripture above, Western Europe and the US governments were very angry with Africans because of the color of their skin and subjected a whole race to all kinds of cruelties, including slavery, colonial brutality, segregation, Apartheid, and the deliberate infection of diseases.

No person in this world would treat his fellow human being in such a manner if he or she has a love for that person. Africans are never loved, else there would never be a statue of a lunatic king who maimed and killed millions in Africa, including women and children.

Despite all this, they hate it when you speak the truth about the horrible crimes they committed against Africans. This is something I don't understand. Why do you have the delight of committing a crime? And why are you happy to see the country you once colonized suffering, yet wouldn't like the truth to be spoken?

I can't imagine African leaders taking possession of Europe, then dividing the people, telling them, This is the queue of the white man at the post office and that for the black man. This is the toilet for the white man to 'shit' and that for the black man. White only swimming pool and black only, etc. 

This is what happened yesterday, during the Apartheid era, and still exists today in a modern version in some European countries and the United States of America. In many Western European countries, true justice is never given to the black man.

Western European Governments and the US must ponder over the years and take the endless crimes they have committed in Africa into consideration. The continent that is your obsession to destroy continues to provide you with all your rich mineral resources today to maintain a flourishing economy.

As for Africans and their leaders, it's their actions and thinking that will justify who we are. If you want to be a doormat, people will walk on you, and if you prove to be intelligent, you will repel the oppressors. If any of you lack courage, I will wake all of you from decades of long sleep with the words of the great Steve Biko of South Africa.

Steve Biko said, "Black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language of his own. It is only by making familiar the basic setup in the black world that one will be aware of the urgent need for the reawakening of the sleeping masses."

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South Africa's political legend, the great Steve Biko

"He stressed, "It urges black people to judge themselves as human beings and not to be fooled by the white society, which has white-washed itself to enjoy privileges at the expense of blacks; Biko pointed out that the logic behind white domination is to prepare the Blackman to serve and give him respect." 

The stone the builders refused at long last became the cornerstone. The world is rapidly changing. Who knows, Africa will one day be a haven for Europeans and Americans? A word to the wise is enough.

F.W. DE KLERK SHOULD HAVE FACED JUSTICE IN THE HAGUE LIKE CHARLES TAYLOR

F.W. DE KLERK 

Frankly speaking, there isn’t anything called “justice” for the Blackman or the South African. If there is, F.W. de Klerk, former president of South Africa, in the Apartheid era, should have faced trial at the international court in The Hague, for the crimes he committed against South Africans, including children.

Like a bird, free from its cage, he has forgotten his evil actions, deeds, philosophies, and brutal regime against people in their own country. Now he stands labeling international statesman Nelson Mandela as a 'brutal and unfair' political opponent.  

I don’t blame him, but the European fragile justice of favoritisms supports many white leaders who have a bloodstain on their hands.

Klerk was a man who didn’t deserve to share the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Mandela. Whom he had released from prison four years earlier. De Klerk said that although the liberation leader was a man of 'stature and strength', he was not faultless. 

That is absolute rubbish. If Mandela is not faultless, what about him whose regime murdered and massacred defenseless school children in cold blood? Nelson Mandela was right to fight for his country and the people. They killed Steve Biko, but they couldn't kill him.

Charles Taylor deserves to face justice and be jailed for supporting rebel leader Foday Sankoh in committing a heinous crime against Sierra Leoneans. 

But taking into consideration the weight of the crime ex-Apartheid leaders committed against South Africans, as a matter of fact, none should have escaped judgment or justice in The Hague. 

Yet, all of them went away with impunity because they were “white vampires sucking the blood of innocent Black people.” If it were to be the other way round, the International Court in The Hague would have lined up all the black leaders to face trial.

Charles Taylor cannot be jailed, to convince the world that the “International Court in The Hague” is doing a good job.  Partiality rules in The Hague.  

If Nazi leaders are being hunted to face prosecution over the killing of six million Jews, then any living ex-Apartheid leader and leaders who supported that evil regime, like former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and others must face justice too. 

That would convince the whole world that the International Court in The Hague is doing a good job.

STEVE BIKO: LEGEND OF A POLITICAL HERO

The great Steve Biko

He sacrificed his life to make what South Africa is today.

In the political history of South Africa, many are those who fought against the evil apartheid, oppression, mass arrests, detention without trial, etc. 

Along the line with Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Chief Buthelezi, etc, in the struggle to emancipate blacks from hardships was Steve Bantu Biko, who died in detention before he could see the fall of apartheid years ago, in South Africa.

Although Steve Biko is gone, his great achievement and his part in the struggle to free South Africa, under the previous white minority rule, will always be remembered. 

Steve Biko, the man popularly known as the "Father of Black Consciousness Movement," was born in King William's Town, Cape Province in South Africa, on December 18, 1946. He lost his father at the tender age of four.

After his primary and secondary school education in South Africa, he left for the Lovedale institution in Alice. He received his higher education at the Roman Catholic Marianhill in Natal and entered the medical school of the University of Natal in 1965. 

As an active member of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), his heart was increasingly in politics. He left NUSAS and formed the South African Students Organization (SASO).

Regarded as one of the fearless critics in South Africa, along the line with Nelson Mandela, despite both having different views and options, Biko faced the white regime squarely. 

Not by violence, but through his writings, which he named "I write what I like." The white regime found his writings as nothing but the simple truth and thought his letters posed a threat to national security. He writes:

Black consciousness seeks to talk to the Black man in a language of his own. It is only by making familiar the basic setup in the Black world that one will be aware of the urgent need for the reawakening of the sleeping masses. 

He stressed, "It urges black people to judge themselves as human beings and not to be fooled by the white society, which has white-washed itself to enjoy privileges at the expense of blacks; Biko pointed out that the logic behind white domination is to prepare the Blackman to serve and give him respect. 

Even in sports, Whitman wants to do everything for themselves, all by themselves, by keeping Blacks to stand at touchlines to witness the game they are playing.

In his writings, he always stressed and talked openly against whites, saying that "there is no doubt that the color question in South African politics was originally introduced for economic reasons. 

Because the selfish white leaders installed a barrier between blacks and whites so that they could enjoy what belonged to Blacks. 

To avoid influencing the various Black groups in South Africa, which gave him much support and recognition, Steve Biko was arrested and detained many times under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act in South Africa.

In many cases, he was always released. But on August 18, 1977, when Steve Biko was arrested and detained under the same offense of terrorism, little did everybody know that he would not be seen again. 

He was taken to Port Elizabeth, stripped naked, and tortured to death. His autopsy stated that he died of brain damage. Those responsible for his death lied that he died on a hunger strike in detention.

Unfortunately, Steve Biko wasn't alive to see what he sacrificed his life for: the fall of apartheid. However, on the eve of the 33rd anniversary of his death, it is worthwhile to say that "September 12 of every year should be declared as a public holiday in the Republic of South Africa, in honor of that great man.

If a day in America is observed as a holiday for the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., then the late Steve Biko should be given that recognition, too, in South Africa. Steve Biko died at the age of 31. He left behind a widow and two boys aged seven and three.