Victimization in "Once Upon A Time"

I believe that the blacks were victimized by the South African Government  in “Once Upon a Time.” The government used fear mongering to make the family paranoid of the crimes that were suspected of  happening around them. The government made people fear the black people because they blamed the black people for break ins and robberies. The whites were under pressure by the government to build clear walls around their property to keep the black people out, but it was their choice if they actually agreed with the government which  encouraged them to buy razor bladed coil and implied that if they bought that then they would be safe. The wife was the only member of the family who didn't fully agree with what the government was saying. Even though what the government was saying about the blacks made her fear what might happen to their family, she didn't agree that all of the blacks should be blamed or separated from everyone else. The government warned them to stay away from the blacks, but the wife brought them bread and tea: “The wife could never see anyone go hungry. She sent the trusted housemaid out with bread and tea” (Gordimer 14)
The blacks had never done anything to threaten the whites. The Government spread fear to keep them out because their skin color was different from that of the whites. The whites were afraid that they would do something someday but the black people had never done anything as a group to threaten the white people: “Yet she was afraid that some day such people might come up the street and tear off the plaque YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED and open the gates and stream in”(Gordimer 13)
This quote shows that the blacks haven't actually done anything to the people, but the whites were paranoid that the blacks might do something in the future. Some of the blacks were suspected of committing robberies, but there was an equal chance that if there was a robbery, that it might be a white person. Many people in the society were poor, so the crime rate probably increased. If there was a crime committed, many whites would infer that it was probably committed by a black person. The blacks were banned from entering the suburbs just because of their skin color. There were reports of the blacks rioting, but they were being highly discriminated against by the whites even though they didn't do anything to deserve the discrimination and so they rioted to stop people from segregating them: “There were riots but those were outside the city, where people of another color were being quartered” (Gordimer 13).
Both the blacks and the whites wanted to live their own, peaceful lives. This is inferred because the family put up the walls to keep everyone out, and they put up all of the protection because even though they did not despise the blacks, they wanted to live separately from them so that there would be no destruction of their property by anyone. The government segregated the races and made the whites believe that the black people were bad.  Because they believed that the blacks were bad, they separated them and treated them unfairly even though they didn't deserve to be treated unfairly. This is why I believe that although the South African Government victimized both the blacks and the whites, the blacks were victimized the most because the other people were all under the influence of the government's fear mongering and tricked into segregating them.