One thing is for certain, if you are not living in South Africa and instead calmly reading this from a book panelled library with Dickens on the shelves, an airy conservatory with potted ferns or even an old IKEA chair you found in a rubbish tip somewhere in the EU like I am then you are extremely fortunate. I say that out of sympathy not snobbery and I don't say it lightly. I know that South Africa is not a Third or even Second World country it simply exists within it's own systemic instability. Apart from the high crime rate and immoral government, if you are a white South African you are globally melded to the "Post Apartheid myth" and thus you've been abandoned by the world stage, most of the Left and the entire US media. "PAM" as we'll call it is as convenient to use as the cooking spray which shares it's name and almost makes as much sense; "Apartheid was destructive for Blacks and now they have the countries wealth to control as it should have been all along". Sometimes Steven Biko, Paul Simon or the Boer War is thrown in but that's about it.
History lessons aren't germane to people struggling to survive day to day, hour to hour. Apartheid was evil, awful, hypocritical, a rape of resources the world should and will never forget was all those things. How can anyone? Yet people have to move on and keep the promise of a fair and just society for all races that was made to the world and which European Americans as allies with Black Africans alongside the first anti-imperialist groups like The Council on Africa Affairs fought long and hard for early as the 1940's. Poor Black and poor White people by the thousands are suffering. South Africans of European descent now in the minority (about 9% of the country), born long after Apartheid are not living in the society we must hoped would emerge.
In Part One we''ll look at the current state of race relations via the enlightening video below. Part Two, a few of the solutions from South African activists with opposing views (one Black and one White) and in Part Three- names you need to know, what you can do to help the needy, what the future may hold and even how to stop the horrific canned hunting of Tigers. (Zuma's governments is allowing ANYTHING to be killed in South Africa) Mainly we will ask and answer this question honestly:
"Globally and domestically, why are the clear and unjust discriminations against those of European descent in Post-Apartheid South Africa (inequities that rival and in some cases exceed oppressed groups in the US) acceptable?"
One does not need any statistics, a history lesson on Afrikaners etc at least not yet. Resist the creeping crud of middle class liberalism that convinces you that white African people should suffer "because that's what they asked for". Often statistics are used by racialists are armaments to propagate supremacy and separatism thus don't join them when the Black government official in this video lobs them himself. Use it as an opportunity to be ask yourself what being a "humanitarian leader" really means. Ask yourself as I did, why wasn't Oprah Winfrey's school built for all races of girls to share? Are there any Indian girls allowed in this school? (Asians were discriminated under Apartheid as well) "If she refused all White candidates or didn’t encourage them to apply to a school in the U.S., she’d be violating civil rights law" wrote conservative blogger Debbie Schlussel. It does not make you bigoted or even Conservative to ask for answers to questions regarding human rights!
Please watch these videos which do not take sides.
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