Someone recently wrote to me from New England on the Eastern seaboard of the US where one finds the seat of liberal sentiment, to share with me his concern that "people in need" in their resentment of those who are more fortunate than themselves, seem to lose touch with reality - to the extent of wanting to destroy those for whom they feel jealous - because of the perceived success and joy of those they resent.

Here in South Africa, this phenomenon is more commonly seen as a crime wave which has held the nation to ransom. Sympathetically, it is rationalised to be a result of poverty which brings people to desperation, such that they don't only steal for their survival but take pleasure in torturing their victims in the process. It is also blatantly advertised by individuals on talk radio stations or political groups as a threat mainly on the whites of the country. For example, the Facebook entry of the Pan Africanist Congress recently called for the killing of whites with additional support from 3000 soldiers who are willing to assist those who wish to join the movement. At the time of writing this article (two days after the event) no success has been had to bring this advertisement to an end. A recent attempt to bring the scourge of crime and violence to the attention of the president failed miserably when he refused to acknowledge the 120,000 letters that were sent to him to appeal to him to do something about it. Small wonder when one considers that he occasionally breaks out in a call for his machine gun! Even the leader of the youth movement has called for the death of the Afrikaaner without a word of criticism from the leaders of this country!

Is it the surfacing of anger from the struggle against white oppression? This seems to be the most likely cause on the face of it, but how does this explain the hatred and anger of blacks in those countries where whites have not had any influence on their destiny for hundreds of years? In the wake of the Haitian earthquake disaster I have heard so many reports of the resentment and blame against whites who went to assist the destitute, even though for the past 200 years the Haitians have single-handedly destroyed what was the second richest exporting nation in the new world when they slaughtered the French to claim the island as their own.

In the United States today where all its people have been afforded equal opportunity for a number of generations, there is still a whole lot of evidence of anger against the whites who seem to do better than blacks in the economic mainstream. Even in that progressive nation with the many social facilities in place to assist and encourage each citizen to be a useful member of the community, there is still a strong black "cultural" sentiment  that spits anger at the whites - from the political figureheads to rap musicians and average citizens alike. These people are living a life envied by the majority of the world's population, yet they still find it necessary to resent the very people that find pleasure and respect in seeing them as integral to a thriving society.

How is it possible that groups of people can be so stupid as to lower their collective emotional state to that of anger against other groups of people who really don't care about their anger except perhaps for a small percentage who belong to secret sects that are belittled by their own people for the most part? Is there any way of making an announcement that this whole emotional anger thing is futile? Surely any mature person can see that the result of anger and the execution of harm on the next person can hardly lead to long-term personal satisfaction.

We've seen too many tragic examples of what happens to the countries where the blacks have succeeded in either killing off the white populations or driving them out of the land... I don't know of any country in Africa or the rest of the world for that matter, where blacks have driven whites out of the land and improved the standard of living for the citizens of the country. But I can make a long list where the result has been disasterous!

I fear that I see the name of South Africa being added to that list if this resentment, hatred and anger isn't addressed soon.

Trevor Kehl.