The sickening killing of 27 year old Mido Macia in South Africa this week brought to mind the white supremacist murders in the US which amounted to ‘lynchings’. This, together with the recent high profile rape and murder of Anene Booysen - and even the Oscar Pistorius case - point to a latent violence in the country that the government seems reluctant to tackle.
The sickening killing of 27 year old Mido Macia in South Africa this week brought to mind the white supremacist murders in the US which amounted to ‘lynchings’.
James Byrd Jr, a black man, was tied to the back of a pickup truck in Texas in 1998 by three men, two of whom were confirmed white supremacists, and dragged at speed to a gruesome death.
As recently as 2010, Anthony Hill, also a black man, was dragged almost ten miles by a white male after being shot, and the matter is now being investigated as a hate crime.
Such killings are the ultimate demonstration of control, power, contempt and hate for the victim.
But in post-Apartheid South Africa, where the police are black, the world, and the people hoped and perhaps dreamed of better.
Black people, who suffered grievously at the hands of the South African police under Apartheid, have a right to expect better. But sadly the corrupting influence of power seems to have transcended racial solidarity in the killing of Macia.
To see black policemen mimic the racist modus operandi of white supremacists is particularly galling. It also sends a clear message to poor blacks that “we are your masters now“.
The brutal video shows that there is good coordination between the policemen who rapidly tether Macia to their vehicle and are chillingly coordinated in their actions. It does not look like the first time they have done it; they appear much practiced in this form of torture and humiliation.
In South Africa, violence is always bubbling just beneath the surface; and when race, poverty, and power are added to the equation things can quickly boil over, as seen in the massacre of Marikana miners of 2012.
As with that atrocity, an investigation has been announced following public outcry, with remarks of condemnation from Jacob Zuma.
The recent high profile rape and murder of Anene Booysen – and even the Oscar Pistorius case – point to a latent violence in the country that the government seems reluctant to tackle in a systematic way. It is time for South Africa to join the dots and see the bigger picture.
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13 Responses to “Why are South African police mimicking white supremacists?”
Truthis Thenewhate
‘lynchings’ were far and few in between, white criminals, black criminals, any criminals begat that fate. The common denominator was the depravity of the crime.
It was the communities swift justice, black communities as well as white communities exercised that right. It wasn’t until a deviant jew in Atlanta commited a horrific savage rape/murder of a little girl it became a big deal. Despite the inhumane cruelty and overwhelming evidence the jews defended the perp with all they had. Even to the point of prolonged retrials attempting to incite racial hatred trying to pin it on a mentally deficient black man who happened to be a janitor at the scene of the crime.
The “stupid rednecks” did not buy it, and that jew tactic failed. The final attempt was long delays until the outrage of the crime subsided as they plotted their 30 pieces of silver into a newly financially supported governor’s pen in the form of a pardon.
The system of fair trial was being usurped leaving the community (black and white) with no alternative but to exercise their right to swift justice. The jewish struggle for the right of the self proclaimed “chosen” to be a minority ruling a majority started the campaign the State ‘has the supreme right against the individual’ removing justice out of the peoples hands firmly into the courts hands. Experience has taught them those hands could be tied, manipulated, and laden with gold subject to their whim.
They then took a 2 prong attack by first creating and controlling the NAACP, reviving and controlling a perverted version of the old defunct Ku Klux Klan. This enabled their subversive expertise of creating a series of Hegelian dialectics through racial differences into conflicts. Their many leftists organizations were designed to create reactionaries culminating in the left-right paradigm, much easier to control and set the terms of national debate. Hence the pavlov dog reaction to the term lynching, the jew transgressions are absent leaving only a white-black confrontation.
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