THERE is a disturbing and worrying phenomenon in the issue of racism.
On Tuesday a Zimbabwean man posted on Facebook the following question:Why is it every time the issue of racism is raised its only whites against blacks not the other way round? Are blacks not racist?
It appears there are a number of black people, victims of dehumanising racism, who cannot accept the fact that whites do not like them.
While whites, the world over, are openly expressing their disgust and hatred of blacks, who are simply a nuisance and trouble to them, through their representatives like the clown Donald Trump and South Africa opposition Democratic Alliance’s Penny Sparrow, there are blacks at pains to explain that not all white people are bad.
But truth is that some whites just do not have the guts to openly admit their disdain of black people.
And Trump, so refreshingly honest, represents the thinking and the mindset of the average white person.
This aspiring president of the so-called free-world has garnered support from all sections of the American society, getting even the support of white evangelical voters—33 percent.
So if church-folk are supporting Trump during the ‘night’, yet during the day are hugging blacks and commiserating with them, who is fooling who?
These statistics are not hidden to our black brethren but they choose not see or believe them.
Figures, after all, lie, the black folk appear to be saying.
Closer to home in South Africa blacks want to kill Ms Sparrow, why? For stating her truth?
A truth that has been known for a long time but many blacks have refused to admit.
During Saturday’s Spanish La Liga between European champions Barcelona and the Catalan rivals Espanyol, Brazilian superstar Neymar was subjected to racist taunts, something not unusual in Spain and in most countries in Europe.
A few years ago our own African star Samuel Eto’o threatened to walk off the pitch after being subjected to monkey chants.
Tennis star, Serena Williams has been a constant target of racists and surely to black people who believe that ‘its not all whites who are racist’ these cannot be ‘isolated’ cases as they claim.
It is a wholesome feeling among whites, the difference being that most of them are not as blunt as Trump and Ms Sparrow.
“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. 
So, as a prelude, whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior,” Steve Biko said.

“Instead of involving themselves in an all-out attempt to stamp out racism from their white society, liberals waste time trying to prove to blacks that they accept and view blacks as equals.” 

These fundamental truths by Biko have not found home in the psyche of many black people.
And the most disheartening thing is that the so-called affluent blacks, themselves beneficiaries of the crumbs off white man’s table, are the ones leading campaigns stating not all whites are bad.
Hugs, a shed and shared tear accompanied by a pat on the back does not make whites lovers of blacks.
It does not change attitudes that have been cultivated over hundreds of years and passed on from one generation to another.
Slave masters liked their slaves as much as they loved their pets and fields, they were part of their property that enriched them.
After being ‘embraced’ and ‘accepted’ by whites many of us are ready to defend their bigotry
There will always be rabid racists, who are honest and will not waste time hiding it like Trump whose duty is to remind blacks of their ‘place’ and the subtle ones ready to hug the ‘monkeys’ enduring ‘vermin’ for the sake of maintaining peace.
That is the simple truth.