A PHILOSOPHICAL PROTEST AGAINST THE GROWING NORMS OF THE ENGLISH WORLD. Let us laugh at this hilarious dancing around the terms for Blacks: English - Negroid; Black; or African, that is fine and honest. This is what we find in official governmental forms. Then we have Afrikaans - dodging the terms for Afrikans: instead of referring to us as Swart mense AND Afrikaaners; they prefer to use only Swart and hijack Afrikaaner from themselves, a word meaning African, derived from Dutch - not so fine. So, in reality Afrikaaner means Africa; Black; Negroid. I think the term some radicals use; Dutchkaaner; is more appropriate and reflects the tendency to specify Blacks as seen in special designations like African-Americans; Afro-Arabs, which is a tacit and indeed an implicit non-acceptance of the Black contingent by American society in this case. It is a separation of the Black from whatever societies they are found in, albeit some exceptions exist. To recap, I think the term Dutchkaaner would be an philosophical isomorphic reflect of those attitudes I am presently pathologizing. The term would be a protest; a necessary protest and indeed a beautiful one. I have often noted this with a smirk on my face but I figured it does need to be clarified. I am not saying Afrikaaner should stop calling themselves that but that we know what that means and to whom the noun should refer because in years to come we might find arguments that White people are the first in this land, but since that is already the case, it might be said that they are indigenous here. The other thing I find irksome is the inconsistency when identity concerns Black people. In America Afrikans are specifically labelled African-American; Afro-Latino; Afro-Brazilian and everywhere else where we are always Afro-something and yet Europeans are not Euro-Americans/Euramericans but simply Americans. I must note, I find it interesting when it comes to famous, powerful, or influential Blacks, say in sports where we have Blacks like the uprising football star Raheem Sterling, who is of Jamaican and thus Afro descent and he is perfectly identified as English together with the likes of Daniel Sturridge, or even the legendary Pele or other such personalities, they are simply English or Brazilian. But when a Black in question happens to have committed crimes or is corrupt in some way, he or she is quickly linked to Africa!! I am wondering about what kind of negative influence this has on our perception of things, if any. Does it reinforce stereotypes of uncultured, thug life living, immoral, twisted negros and thus a subconscious legitimization of Black as a peril object, the phobic and White identity as a cue of presumed humanity; safety?
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 17:02:35 +0000
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