Schwartzerwitz: Chris Rock - Black / African / Kwerekwere Humour?

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Chris Rock - Black / African / Kwerekwere Humour?

Chris Rock is in South Africa for his sold-out "No Apologies" tour.

Addressing journalists on Monday, Rock said the recent xenophobic attacks on foreigners were a problem of poverty and not black on black violence...

That's funny!! Tell that to a kwerekwere and see if your still smiling or breathing, I'm sure having your skin boil or a claw-hammer in your skull is a poverty thing... or that there was anything else going on at the point other than Black-on-Black Violence.

Chris Rock - You're a funny Guy! - I don't think anyone will laugh at this one. Let me stand closer to you - do you smell like a makwerekwere - 'cause from where I stand you sure look like one! and come to think of it act like one too - you take our hard earned money out of our poverty stricken brothers and country for a laugh?

How many children in these concentration camps, are victims of crime? Rape & Sexual Assault? Camp Violence? Chris?

Hey what's on your Ipod? Try This... Poverty displaces 35,000 people in a week - Not Violence!

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Every Pogrom needs an Armband....

Welcome to Schwartzerwitz. The inevitable consequence of 4 million illegal immigrants arriving in South Africa. More desperate than our local folk they are willing to work longer harder faster for less. The immigrants are more reliable than South African unskilled labour and have outcompeted the local folk. No matter what anyone says it's not FAIR on our locals. Adding 4 million hungry mouths to the country has exacerbated the rocketing food prices felt across the globe. Adding 4 million potential electricity users to the mix has undoubtedly worsened the electricity situation. Having 4 million people send home money to their family drains the economy of money which should stay within the borders. Adding 4 million people and not registering them as taxpayers has cost the country billions. What chance does our government of ridding the country of shacks as per the Millennium Development Goal when 4 million immigrants build/rent shacks. Murambatsvina in Zimbabwe....? Just move to a shack in South Africa. On an individual basis this site condemns violent acts against individuals. However as a collective the illegal immigrants deserve no sympathy and should be deported back from whence they came. These people are economic refugees - "not real refugees" - and they are(generally speaking) in South Africa illegally.

kwerekwere.

The inside cover of my Oxford English dictionary features a word with which I have become all too familiar: the word is kwerekwere.

(It may be more familiar to you with one of its vernacular language–dependant prefixes prepended — the Sotho singular being le– and plural ma–, the Nguni singular being i– and plural ama–). This word is used to refer to black (in the morphological sense) Africans who are not South Africans — South African being defined as Sotho, Nguni, Venda and Tsonga ethnic groups (by that measure the Swazis, Batswana, etc. would be South African?). This word has a very negative sting to it and is often used with contempt. From what I gather it has undertones which speak of how black Africans are believed to be sub–human, too dark and have a pungent smell.