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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. Iguess 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'tstay 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 hatewhites 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 wereprogressing 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 classifypeople 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 ofthe 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.