Bantu Education was too good for most Bantu

Anne Paton's "why I am fleeing SA" (here) is a classic example of liberal hand-wringing, self-deception, and stubborn denial of the innate depravity of blacks, whose psychopathic character traits quickly rise to the surface in the absense of a strong authority figure. After a lifetime of liberal indoctrination and self-denial Paton has obviously failed to learn the most important lesson whites need to know about this primitive sub-species of humanity. (see Albert Schweitzer below) Which is that, when he is faced with the incomprehensible sight of the white man surrendering his authority and baring his soft white neck to the predatory instincts of his species, Sipho’s natural subordination and respect for the white man goes out the window.

But, as the saying goes – "there’s no greater fool than an old fool..!"

One of the purposes of this blog is to demolish the slanderous (to SA whites) myth that apartheid was a "Crime Against Humanity" and an "evil system of racial classification" bereft of any moral justification or redeeming qualities. So I will begin by focussing on the subject of "Bantu Education", perhaps the aspect of apartheid most condemned by non South African useful idiot whites when they want to feel smug and morally superior.

In her "fleeing" article Anne Paton made this typical "blame it on whitey" comment - One of the worst legacies of that time is that of the Bantu Education Act, which deliberately gave black people an inferior education.

Nobody is arguing that the white government didn’t spend proportionately much more on the education of white kids. However, nobody ever mentions that during apartheid, when blacks contributed virtually zero to the nations fiscus, 40% of the education budget – almost exclusively white-funded - was allocated to the education of blacks. It would have been a crime against humanity (ie, whites), and the superior white intellect, to have allotted equal amounts to every individual based on absurd Marxist ideals of innate racial equality. After all, if every individual were allocated the same amount of state education funding, then the state would be unable to give any financial support to universities. (Given "transformed" uni entrance exams maybe a good idea for the Rainbow Brain-No Nation)

But lets look at this from another angle. Since when has it been my responsibility to ensure that my neighbour’s kid (even if he is a good friend) gets a decent education? If I were to interfere in my neighbour’s private family affairs, surely he would be entitled to take my interference as a gross insult to his own fatherly ability, maturity and responsibility? So why is it always presumed to be the moral duty of whites to educate blacks, and never the blacks own moral duty? Is it because, secretly, the white liberal knows that blacks are irresponsible and incapable of doing these things without white assistance? We all know the answer to that.

And besides, what sort of education could whites give that would not be intended to teach (inferentially inferior) blacks the (inferentially superior) ways of the whites? If a strong dose of "Eurocentric" education is such a desirable thing (for blacks) that whites are morally bound to project it (by force if necessary) onto them, does that not strongly imply that black culture is so vastly inferior to white culture that blacks would (or should) welcome it with arms outstretched and regard "education" as manna from heaven, and something more desirable than a herd of cattle?

Assuming the apartheid-era SA economy was the worlds richest and the white minority so prosperous that they could have, in theory, given the black majority a "white" standard of education, I am sure that such a concerted effort to educate blacks in the ways and morals of whites would have been retrospectively condemned by the Patons of this world as a "racist" and patronising..! Why is it that liberals consider blacks as either too incapable, too lazy, or too irresponsible to educate their own people in their own "African culture"? This can only be a subliminal admission that whites represent the superior (adult) culture and blacks the inferior (childlike) culture.

Finally, although finance was an important factor, ultimately it was not the biggest reason for giving blacks an "inferior education". The fundamental reason for doing so was that the black intellect itself is inferior to that of whites, and thus their capacity and ability and willingness to learn is in itself inferior.

I have some figures somewhere – which I will later post on my blog – which indicate that as few as 1% of African blacks (versus 50% of whites) have an IQ over 100.

The truth is that "Bantu Education" was too good for all but a tiny minority of Bantu

Albert Schweitzer's opinion of Africans

"I have given my life to try to alleviate the sufferings of Africa. There is something that all white men who have lived here like I must learn and know: that these individuals are a sub-race. They have neither the intellectual, mental, or emotional abilities to equate or to share equally with white men in any function of our civilization. I have given my life to try to bring them the advantages which our civilization must offer, but I have become well aware that we must retain this status: the superior and they the inferior. For whenever a white man seeks to live among them as their equals they will either destroy him or devour him. And they will destroy all of his work. Let white men from anywhere in the world, who would come to Africa, remember that you must continually retain this status; you the master and they the inferior like children that you would help or teach. Never fraternize with them as equals. Never accept them as your social equals or they will devour you. They will destroy you."

Dr Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize Winner 1951 ("African Notebook" 1939)

postscript: the beginnings of post-war political-correctness - a phenomenon largely spearheaded by left-wing Jewish intellectuals - ensured that this passage was omitted from later editions of African Notebook. (thanks UC..!)