Wits University is an anti-black space, built on the sweat and back of black mineworkers who are now long

forgotten. The University remembers David Webster, Oliver

Schreiner, Barney Barnato and hardly remembers Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, Benedict
Wallet Vilakazi, Nelson Mandela, Essop Pahad and many others, alive and others dead.
Wits University privileges white bodies, white thought, white culture and white feelings.
In fact, Vice-Chancellor Adam Habib went out of his way campaigning that the university
residents are not diverse enough without white students who mostly willingly left
residents when more and more black students were allowed into the university.
Professor Habib sent me an email informing me about a formal complaint from a
student and an alumnus about your posting, and the charge is of course racism. He
asked that I provide a context of this posting and how I respond to the charge that the
posting is racist. I wonder why the Vice-Chancellor asks me to provide context when he
has already made a public apology to all white people who are offended by a post I
made on my personal Facebook account and subsequently conducted media interviews
and expressed his condemnation on my remarks.
Racism is the violent process of black peoples subjugation which requires institutional
power to continue the subjugation, something black people in general never had even in
the democratic dispensation which gave all whites executive clemency for the mass
murder of black people before they even went to court. Its utterly shocking that given
the history of this country that we have not come up with a theoretically coherent view
and definition of racism. Racism is not defined to avoid offending white people, so
anyone can be a victim, perpetrators become victims and victims become perpetrators.
How could black people be racist? Even after years of racist violence, they met in
Kliptown and declared South Africa belongs to all, black and white.
Aldolf Hitler like all whites is no friend to black people but I fail to separate him as a
freak of nature from the rest of white people. White people came to Africa to enslave
black people, an underestimation of 2.5 million died on their way to America. Not a
single person has taken responsibility for this genocide. Black people were violently
dispossessed by whites of their land, humanity and dignity through capitalist colonial,

exploitation, apartheid and structural racism. No one has taken responsibility for this
genocide committed by whites.
History teaches us, that our collective experience as black people with whites have
always dehumanized us, robbed us of our dignity, reduced us into permanent visitors in
our own land, turned us into migrant labour, perpetual beggars and living copse.
Interestingly during the Rhodes Must Fall campaign and the subsequent defacing of
other colonial statures, the public discourse did not highlight the atrocities committed
against black people by these white colonialists. The black people that found the
statures offensive and the ideas of white superiority they represented were labeled as
senseless barbaric criminals who should be arrested. The justification was that despite
the white supremacist ideas which these individuals held and the violent land grabs they
committed, its heritage and should be preserved. In fact, a handful of whites chained
themselves onto the statures prepared to die or harm anyone who dares touch their
history.
I wonder why Professor Habib did not send a public apology to us black people when a
fourth year law student Sinethemba Memela was told by a white student I will fuckin kill
you, you black bitch! when she confronted the student about mocking the accent of a
black lecturer? Is it because it was a black student who was racially abused? I wonder
why he has not written a public apology to our outrage at the fact that at least 30 black
workers outsourced to MJL electrical, a white company by the university have not been
paid in months or that theyre not allowed into the library if they want to read and not
even allowed to use the public toilets they maintain?
I also wonder how whites in their collective conciseness justify their privilege generated
out of the indignity, dehumanization and exploitation of black people. Do they think its a
coincidence that wherever the white/black dynamic exists, the white is always at the top
and black at the bottom or is it because they, all of them in their collective
consciousness believe in their supposed superiority and hard work and that black
people are simply lazy.

I fear that Wits University punishes black radical thought, anyone who dare offends its
white established values or offend white Jews will be punished like the 11 heroic
students who put their academic careers on the line and challenged university
management for bringing its name and values into disrepute by hosting Israeli funded
pianist Yossi Reshef