Inhumane Matshoba Quotes

In “To Kill a Man’s Pride” by Mtutuzeli Matshoba, it states “The harsh enforcement of the inhumane laws that results…deceives them into thinking that everybody is satisfied…they camouflage black vexations with brute violence” (229). This is a quote to show the institutional part of oppression. Mtutu explains the harsh enforcement of laws, but it's the laws that allow and make the officers enforce the laws the way they do. The white people are also only able to see what they want to see, which is somewhat caused by the institution. The brute violence is executed by the police. The police are hired to go through with the violence, embedding the ideology in the laws. The quote shows the way the police and law enforcers go through their jobs with brute

They even fought over space” (230). This quote shows the interpersonal part of oppression in the story. This is how Mtutu refers to his friends, who are black just like him. He even says that he does not wish to insult them, but makes a derogatory statement all the same. He compares them to animals, specifically predators who kill. Comparing them to animals is like comparing them to savages, or to beings that are less developed than others. This is a rude way of looking at his own people and making such an observation. Mtutu makes a statement that a white person might make, if one was there, because it is written as if black people are below humans. He has taken in the messages white people say about his own group so much so that he may feel normal making a disrespectful comment to them. This is interpersonal because Mtutu is black while making the same rude statements to other black people that a white person might say. It furthers the ideology that black people are inferior, since black people send negative messages to their own