Oh Shucks, an accidental blackface hero - The Mail & Guardian

is a term specially designated for black people. You ever say “touch wood” and proceed to tap on your head? Well, Afrikaaner racism believes this of black people.is a thing where young Afrikaaner adolescents ― and I’m sure some adults suffering arrested development ― would drive through townships in bakkies, armed with cricket bats and other weapons, to randomly assault people who were simply minding their own business.

The dude’s blackface cover was so deep that he actually took on the daily beatings that black people faced for their “insolence”, “inefficiency” or “downright laziness”. Yeah, he was a messy slew of stereotypes sellotaped together for the cheap seats. But that’s all the cheap seats could afford and did they not enjoy it? My family sat in those cheap seats and we fucking loved it.

Just as everyone was losing their fucking minds about what was gonna happen when the blacks came to power and busy preparing their bunkers, Schuster was playing on those fears. While black people were being beaten for absolutely no reason and people claimed ignorance of the fact, Schuster was exposing that. And guess what? He was the only person in South African cinema who could, ’cause he’s a white man.

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