Way to punish her for her part in 19th century colonialism!

4.29.2016 Mark Tapson




The Spectator's blogger "Steerpike" reports that the black co-founder of a movement to remove the statue of "racist" Cecil Rhodes from Oxford University gleefully reduced a white waitress to tears for her role in 19th century colonialism.

Law student Ntokozo Qwabe, 24, himself a South African beneficiary of a Rhodes scholarship, gained notoriety last year as a leader of the Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford movement which accused the university of supporting the "existence of systemic racism" and seeks to erase the legacy of "colonialist" Rhodes. First step: remove his statue from Oriel College.

Having failed so far at that, Qwabe has since become elated over a different achievement, something "so black" and "wonderful" that he can't stop smiling, as he put it in a recent Facebook post: refusing to tip a white waitress in South Africa and reducing her to tears for personally stealing the country from black people. Read the ugly story for yourself below:

LOL wow unable to stop smiling because something so black, wonderful & LIT just happened! And of course, the catalyst was a radical non-binary trans black activist - Wandile Dlamini - from the Rhodes Must Fall movement. Because trans activists have BEEN the ultimate blessers of this decolonial struggle!

To cut the long story short, we are out at Obz Cafe with the said activist, and the time for the bill comes. Our waitress is a white woman. I ask the said activist what the going rate for tips/gratuity is in these shores. They look at me very reluctantly and they say 'give me the slip, I'll sort that out'. I give them the slip.

They take a pen & slip in a note where the gratuity/tip amount is supposed to be entered. The note reads in bold: "WE WILL GIVE TIP WHEN YOU RETURN THE LAND". The waitress comes to us with a card machine for the bill to be sorted out. She sees the note & starts shaking. She leaves us & bursts into typical white tears (like why are you crying when all we've done is make a kind request? lol!). Anyways, so this white woman goes to her colleagues who are furious. She exits to cry at the back & a white male colleague of hers reluctantly comes out to address us & to annoy us more with his own white tears telling us that he finds our act "racist".

We then start breaking it down for this white man & ask him why they are catching feelings when we haven't even started (like the part where we take up arms hasn't even come & yall are already out here drowning us in your white tears? Really white people? Wow.). We start drawing him to the political nature of the act & why we couldn't be bothered that they decided to catch feelings from the note. We tell him it's great that business as usual has stopped & the pressing issue of land is now on the agenda in that space - seeing the cowntry was celebrating 'Freedom Day' yesterday. We then chase him back to do his job. And continue with our conversation before exiting the café.

Moral of the story: the time has come when no white person will be absolved. We are tired of "not all white people" and all other bullshit. We are here, and we want the stolen land back. No white person will be out here living their best life while we are out here being a landless and dispossessed black mass. NO white person shall rest. It is irrelevant whether you personally have land/wealth or you don't. Go to your fellow white people & mobilise for them to give us the land back. That will be the starting point of all our interactions from now. We will agitate all our spaces with the big question: WHERE IS THE LAND?

Thank you to all the non binary, trans & all other black bodies who have been at the helm of this decolonial moment in the settler colony known as South Afrika. NOTHING will ever be the same again. Alibuye Izwe Lethu!

Charming. Note his threatening conclusion: "NO white person shall rest. It is irrelevant whether you personally have land/wealth or you don't." All whites are responsible for their ancestors' actions. This is the very definition of racism.

Steerpike noted later that rather than apologize for his vile behavior after word of it got around, Qwabe sneered at the "white media" and their "hysterical" reaction. In a more recent Facebook post (below), he wrote: "Whiteness is so weak. Cute actually."

Charming. Note his threatening conclusion: "NO white person shall rest. It is irrelevant whether you personally have land/wealth or you don't." All whites are responsible for their ancestors' actions. This is the very definition of racism.

Steerpike noted later that rather than apologize for his vile behavior after word of it got around, Qwabe sneered at the "white media" and their "hysterical" reaction. In a more recent Facebook post (below), he wrote: "Whiteness is so weak. Cute actually."



For a further taste of Qwabe, if you can stomach it, check out the short video clip above in which barrister and broadcaster Sophia Cannon hits him with a dose of reality about how he has benefited from Cecil Rhodes. Qwabe utterly ignores her.

After the ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris last year, Qwabe declared that his next target after the Rhodes statue is the removal of the French tricolore flag, which he compares to the Nazi swastika. On his Facebook page he wrote,

“I do NOT stand with France. Not while it continues to terrorise and bomb Afrika & the Middle East for its imperial interests."

Sounds like he and ISIS have something in common: a violent anger toward Western civilization.

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