The eternal fear of the white man
South Africa, 1994. The country moved from white minority-rule to freedom and full political rights for all of South Africa's peoples. I remember the celebrations when Nelson Mandela was elected the first post-apartheid president. It was all part of the general euphoria still existent from the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union. But I also remember something darker. "The South African Blacks are going to murder all the whites. It will be a bloodbath!" "South Africa is a developed economy. The Blacks will turn it into Zambia." And so on. Elon Musk grew up in that time. For a long while he pretended to be part of the new South Africa. Post-apartheid. Post-white dominance. The Rainbow Nation. Of course, he was nothing of the kind. The racism he imbibed at the feet of his grandmother, who fled Canada for racist South Africa, is his true nature. Increasingly the mask began to fall. His fealty to Donald Trump and the white genocide discourse should b...
