The reason whites feel the way they do about Hamilton Ndlovu is because they know that in SA, the environment is more conducive for THEM to be rich.

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When you tell a YT person that they are the sole beneficiaries and administrators of apartheid and structural racism, and you can be assured a white person or 100 will respond with that statement of how their success is attributable to hard work and not the color of their skin.

Then another white person or 100 will launch a tirade about how they are poor despite being white, asserting that fact as indisputable proof that whiteness does not give one any nonforfeitable benefits.

Thus, they can ignore the network of privilege their race affords them.

Now that network does not guarantee them financial success, however, it does ensure that they are not strapped with the burden of inaccessibility that follows those who are poor and Black.

In fact, no white person can ever be the kind of poor that Black people are..

Because even drowning in debt with no income and no other liquid assets, they cannot be stripped of the most recognizable and universally accepted currency: Whiteness.

Success under capitalism and whiteness are intrinsically linked.

Now, that does not mean all white people...

..are successful under the system, nor does it mean that Black and other non-white people cannot be successful capitalists.

It means that not only have white people spent four centuries at the helm of capitalism and white supremacy, gatekeeping resources, developing networks..

..networks which are minimally most favorable to its white members and at most purposely and explicitly exclusionary to Black people..

Essential to receiving favorable rates on and access to shipping, inventory, marketing, legal representation, patents, real estate, lobbying..

and all other services required to successfully run a business, but that capitalism was created to and continues to function to ensure that those most easily able to live the “rags to riches” dream are white.

Now from a numbers perspective, one could argue that banks are in..

..business solely to make money, so it would make sense and does not demonstrate any racial bias that they would deny the loans of those they believe cannot pay back loans.

But that myopic assessment ignores, maliciously and intentionally, that systemic racism in employment,..

and housing leads to Black people being significantly less likely to be gainfully employed, results in those of us who are employed being paid less across gender lines, that insecurity in employment inescapably contributes to our collective inability to earn or maintain credit,..

and makes it increasingly difficult to obtain mortgages that would allow us to own a home which is a crucial tool in building wealth.

White people can never truly start from nothing because whiteness is always something..

It’s less about working for it than it is about having the sense to grab what’s already set up for you.

Hard work and whiteness make for the most foolproof combination for success. “Self-made” and white are antonymous because the “self” is already partially made.

Calling a white person self-made is like calling a person a good cook because they didn’t burn a frozen dinner.

All of the hard work of preparing the food and building the stove has been done. When you’re white, all you have to do is watch the oven.

KK