In South Africa, there are a lot of people
who are not white, that seem to have a grudge against whites in general. There
are many who say and keep on saying that whites owe them something. There are a
few who do not like what they call white attitudes or “whiteness”.
There is nothing wrong with whiteness or
blackness, it is the double standards that are problematic. Many believe they
are victims while enjoying first world standards. It is all hypocrisy entitlement
and negativity. Color makes little or no difference towards a winning attitude.
There are the white people who find the “whiteness” in blacks
that make it harder to bear. Not being partial or prejudice all races have done
favors for one another, yet the stigma of being given a favor is blown out of
proportion. It’s the attitude based on color. It is the cry of not being free.
Although apartheid has ended, Africans still do not have land and bear a deep
grudge over land reform.
Although a lot of blacks have land in the tribal
areas, including black townships.The policy of the government is to build
skyscrapers as part of the densification of settlements aimed at saving land and not giving land to people who won't use it profitably.
South Africans attitude toward race
determines the behavior and how to present one to others. If the people showed values,
then we will not see the color.
It
would be naïve to think that "race" does not count, as we do not see a predominantly black township with
a majority "white" population. Most people who are non-white come from horizontal cultures and
prejudice wasn't fed to them as children, but whites have that particular
problem which only they can help themselves. It’s useless wasting energy on
"hating" people
The problem and barrier to cross-cultural understanding are having stereotypes,
which are mostly based on ignorance,
fear, prejudice and competition over wealth. I
guess one cannot like everybody, but dislike must be based on fault, not biological attributes
Whites
are too few to be found everywhere in South Africa.
Due to social privilege and culture, they don't
stay in poor majority townships. The dirt
poor whites are found in working class urban areas
Is the disintegration of Afrikaner nationalism and the laager
mentality due to whites feeling free in a democratic society where human rights
guarantee a place in the sun for everybody regardless of the color of their
skin? Yes.... because the Afrikaner can
choose to be unshackled from the sins of
the fathers. The Afrikaner does not have to have the same attitudes of those
that have gone before us. That's why they
call earth 'The Planet of Choice.'
Black
brothers and sisters who mostly hate
whites are stuck on point and whites do
not recognize that someone is busy doing nothing but hating them. It would be
better if their hatred toward whites were
progressing and thriving. However, they
suffer the most because they cannot play a smart game with the calm and
collected white race.
In the past whites voted for a government that enacted laws to oppress,
exploit, dispossess, give blacks inferior education, and comparatively weak standards of life. Therefore, the
"grudge" the black people have might have something to do with remembering
the past, which affects them today. By focusing on the history, the black people carry the burden of hatred and prejudice,
instead of working on a future.
Could
it be that blacks do not grudge whites
but rather an inequality, injustice,
discrimination, prejudice, gender bias and racism?
The effects and impact of one or all of these classify
people into rich and poor, educated and illiterate.
This in turn forces people to examine how
they got to where they are today. Some blame apartheid, and hence the privileged ones that caused them to be too oppressed.
Some blame race. While others rise above
the past and live with the racial inferiority that was forced upon them. It is
a mental attitude that must be changed.
It is more respectful to not judge people by skin color,
rather take a decision based on the content of character.But it is true
that based on the history of South Africa of over 300 years of black domination
by whites there existed and still
exists a psychology of white supremacy.
The
entire legal framework of SA is founded on corruption and development is far
from normal as colonial patterns of
social structures are still perpetuated. For
South Africa to build a better society,
the White Supremacist system must be dismantled.
Otherwise, it's like driving a
stolen car and painting it another color hoping that the criminality will just evaporate.
The less we pretend to be normal the faster South Africa will arrive at
tangible solutions instead of wishing them away
Whites
are blamed for all ills, both past and current. Also,
if anything is disliked, it is because it's 'white' or 'western'. Yet those
same people just love European cars, and watches, and champagne, and berets!
White supremacy is a state of mind.
Progressive nations have overcome it.
The
African child is taught to be a tool within a European economy and social
structure and it does not get more White Supremacist than that. The Xhosa-speaking child is forced to learn the
English language while the English population in South Africa is less than 10%. Otherwise, that child will not function in
this current society of White Supremacy
T
of inferior complex.
That power of White Supremacy is the
inferiority complex among those that are the capital of capitalism
The race is a western invention. If
race still determines how any person navigates through South Africa, it's
simply naive to ignore the fact that Africans are yet to be in control of their
own society. As the need to shape life according to the former colonizer still
exists and no rainbows will take that away until South Africa deals with the
superstructure of a racialised society. The onus rests on the children
of the barbaric colonizer to show their humanity by acculturating themselves
into African society as this is Africa where the majority are Africans, which
have never expressed a need to dominate anyone culturally or economically. White
Supremacy is a SYSTEM and racism are just
a single manifestation out of many
You only need to take a walk in a predominantly
black or white community to appreciate the past has not passed.
Some
among us are drunk on the "rainbow nation" myth yet the entire social
structure of South Africa remains as it
was in 1960 with minor differences among the chattering classes.Colonization and Apartheid were not just systems of
"hate" on Africans but systems of economic and cultural control by an
extreme minority in a wealthy SA
I
think the Rainbow Nation is working in favor of
the majority. It is not perfect, but racial relations have improved largely that South Africa will never return the
to the apartheid era. Big businesses,
which were wholly white at all levels of employment, are almost entirely black at the coalface. The face of
sectors such as banks, insurance, hotels, restaurants, newspapers, BPO, and
consulting, etc. is black, where only 15
years ago it was the preserve of white faces. Middle management is, I hear,
still stubbornly white, but the racial barriers are crumbling due to pressure
from blacks and white senior managers themselves. There, I am the eternal
optimist
The truth is the majority of
people are unhappy with the situation of inequality. That's why Julius Malema of all the people is able to garner so much support regardless of his record of
accomplishment.
Someday
we will have to discuss the racism of racialism. Racism being hatred towards
other racial grouping and racialism, as in racialist, being an affinity towards
one's race group. Guess it is time to come out the closet, especially those who believe in humanity; the very essence of being human and humane.
