Equality feels like oppression to those used to privilege. If you’ve always been first, fairness feels like loss. But justice isn’t revenge — it’s balance. And if your comfort depends on another’s silence, it was never justice to begin with.
Maybe it’s because white supremacy weaponized colourism using Coloured people to oppress Black people by making them believe lighter skin meant higher status. It’s all part of the system. And let’s be honest…during apartheid, you weren’t complaining. Funny how fairness only matters when power shifts
White supremacy thrives on this logic: Commit centuries of violence, theft, and oppression — then scream “victim” the moment Black people demand restoration. It’s not revenge they fear. It’s accountability.
White South Africans are now outraged by race-based policies aimed at restoring land and power to Black people. But apartheid — a legal system of theft, exclusion, and dehumanization — lasted 46 years.
I was at work conversing with a white-passing coworker. He mentioned that most of our white coworkers aspire to management positions because they perceive it as a form of disrespect to actually work alongside individuals who are below them, feeling as though they are on an equal footing.
