Posted on 07/25/2015 5:39:30 AM PDT by Islander7
Our country is good at reinventing itself, at trying on new clothes, as if an outfit changes the qualities and personality of the wearer.
We did it in 1910 when the Union of South Africa was birthed by the British. We did it in 1948 when our new apartheid laws turned us into the most unethically dressed nation in Africa. We did it again in 1961 when the National Party declared South Africa a republic, free from the British Commonwealth. Our newest outfit, the dress from our historic Autumn/Winter 1994 collection, is now 21 years old, and evidently in tatters.
Unfortunately, South Africa has never fundamentally changed over the years, we simply changed clothes.
The greatest problem we face as a nation is not our neo-liberal imperialist economy that favours US and British capitalist endeavours. It's not that the police criminalise and sometimes kill people for being poor or that miners, farmworkers and domestic workers are still grossly underpaid. It's not that we have an inadequate education system, which mimics the structures of colonial conquerors or that we are importing instead of producing basic foods. Our biggest problem is not even crime, South Africa.
(Excerpt) Read more at timeslive.co.za ...
The system that created these problems has never been put on trial, nor were its architects. While we all live in a better country by many accounts, our reinvented nation simply wore a radiant new dress, one that was unfortunately covering an enormous white elephant.
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There you have it! It's whitey's fault!
If you had a time machine and visited 100-500 years in the future, you’d still find the predominance of blackdom harping about white supremacy, privilege, slavery, bias, hate and all the other invective. The fact is that it will never stand on its own and take responsibility for what it creates, does or dreams.
The slave dreams not of freedom, but of being master.
Yes, of course. As if that nation didn’t need more help in sliding its way into being another African hell hole.
Show trials and a pogrom is just what they need.
Kick his ass, take his stuff. And guilt YT while we’re at it.
Savages.
Yes indeedie S. Africa, look to Zimbabwe for guidance. Run out the whites, confiscate their land and other properties. That will fix things for sure. Sarc/
The author wants to further polarize the races ala Barak Obama!
The thing that vexes them is that whenever they get rid of Whitey, the result is slow decay (best case) or disaster (worst case). Whitey actually makes things work and produces results. No amount of jawboning will change that.
LOL, Zimbabwe is doing EXACTLY what is proposed here.
...and they know it.
Just look across the border to Zimbabwe, and see what happens when whites are pushed out. Decide if that's what you really want.
The blacks take over and the country fails. It is a formula repeated everywhere in Africa. The cause of the failures: White people.
The blacks take over and the city fails. It is a formula repeated everywhere in America. The cause of the failures: White people.
The blacks take over a neighborhood and it fails. It is a formula repeated everywhere. The cause of the failures: White people.
A black neighborhood burns down its stores and nothing replaces them. It is a formula repeated every time someone stirs up a race riot. The cause: White people.
Blacks take over a public school and test scores fall while discipline disappears. It is a formula repeated in countless schools. The cause: White people.
Feel free to add your own...
As someone of Irish descent I’m glad we simply moved on rather than wallow in self-pity; self-control & hard work will go a long way - but to some people that would be “acting white” or selling out...
When South Africa’s president openly engaged in polygamy, the writing was on the wall for South Africa’s future.
Sadly, without white influence, the clothes on their backs, the buildings, the paved streets, written language, and math would all be absent if not for the whites doing what 98% of the africans are incapable of doing on their own.
Blacks will be forced to face that reality as whites fade away into their self-imposed extinction and blacks are simply dominated by other non-black groups (Red Chinese, Indians, etc.).
“—————————we need to create a South Africa where black people don’t need charity from white people.”
I agree with this statement from the article.
No more Obamphones,eh?
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The black is unable to govern himself much less others.
The white people that are to blame are not the ones they want you to blame.
It’s the white people who see blacks as a voting bloc and exploit them. Lyndon Johnson, for rinstance.
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