If Your Skin is White Your a Liability Now?

When the Government Mistakes Pigment for Guilt.

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In South Africa, your CV doesn’t get read—your Melanin does.

Let’s just stop the goddamn pretense. This isn’t satire. This is policy wearing a human face and grinding real lives into compliance reports.

Cee Rhiannon posted something trembling with hope: "Please let this be satire."

She was quoting the claim that white middle-aged men in South Africa face daily discrimination. She wanted it to be a joke.

I told her it wasn't. Not because I like bitterness. But because lying won't feed your kid or land you the job you're overqualified for.

This isn't apartheid nostalgia. This is what happens when "transformation" stops caring about people and starts worshipping spreadsheets.

You think your clean credit score matters? Think again. You think merit still opens doors? Not if your skin disqualifies you before you knock.

Government policy—backed by B-BBEE and employment equity acts—has turned race into a filter.

Not to uplift the disadvantaged. To meet targets. To look good on paper while real inequality is brewing…