The problems of Africans in South Africa may have been caused by years of living in white-dominated systems, but continuance of such problems is not due to white people. White people no longer have power to legislate their prejudice. Africans who have been given the mandate to run the country have all the power to institute remedial mechanisms.People pay taxes to fund the running of their affairs, which gives them power to hold those elected to account.Surely derogatory comments by some isolated white individuals do not contribute to 70% of African children who started school 12 years ago dropping out before matric. Neither have they contributed to Soweto schools dragging down the pass rate in Gauteng.The drop-out rate means an increasing number of Africans without skills or a measure of understanding of how the world works are being unleashed into an incrementally more techno-savvy labour market each year.It is Africans trained as teachers who appear to have no passion to ensure progress of the African child that we need to be worried about.Even more embarrassing is the fact that they trust white people to teach their own children and send their offspring to "white" schools to guarantee that they will be properly educated.It is quite baffling that Africans do not get as hot under the collar at this deliberate stifling of African progress as they get puffed up by comments by people who have absolutely no power to turn them into monkeys or whatever, and who in no way contribute anything to African retrogression except hurt.The rand did not drop in value after these whites' derogatory remarks, but after the actions of those to whom we have given power through the ballot box...