If You've Ever Heard Someone Unjustly Talk About Reverse Racism You Have To See This South African's Response
http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/05/30/youve-ever-heard-someone-unjustly-talk-reverse-racism-see-south-africans-response/
This white woman is an idiot. But I do think this is a very ungenerous representation of what happened in the referendum. Politics is a process, history is a process. I don't think 'whites ended apartheid'. That would gloss over the many lives of many black activists changed, ruined and taken, not to mention the lives of the few white anti-apartheid activists here, and the many many many activists of all colors everywhere around the world that acted against apartheid. Thank you. You made it happen. ONE of the things that happened was the referendum. The referendum asked "Do you want to end apartheid?". 76% of white people (those who had the political power TO END APARTHEID) in South Africa said that they didn't want it. I think a generous way to look at it, is that 76% of white people in this country knew apartheid was wrong, and wanted to change, that 76% of white people in this country condemned racism and condemned the political power wielded over their countrymen who are black. An even more generous way to look at it would be that 24% of white people are racist, and an even more generous way to look at it, and I can attest to the changes I have seen, is that there are many of that 24% who have come around to realise that that racism they had in 1992 sucked, and they have begun to change. The white face of the loudest racists, is not the true picture of what happens day-to-day, street-to-street in South Africa. And to take this idiot as a representative of me, makes me so sad.
http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/05/30/youve-ever-heard-someone-unjustly-talk-reverse-racism-see-south-africans-response/
This white woman is an idiot. But I do think this is a very ungenerous representation of what happened in the referendum. Politics is a process, history is a process. I don't think 'whites ended apartheid'. That would gloss over the many lives of many black activists changed, ruined and taken, not to mention the lives of the few white anti-apartheid activists here, and the many many many activists of all colors everywhere around the world that acted against apartheid. Thank you. You made it happen. ONE of the things that happened was the referendum. The referendum asked "Do you want to end apartheid?". 76% of white people (those who had the political power TO END APARTHEID) in South Africa said that they didn't want it. I think a generous way to look at it, is that 76% of white people in this country knew apartheid was wrong, and wanted to change, that 76% of white people in this country condemned racism and condemned the political power wielded over their countrymen who are black. An even more generous way to look at it would be that 24% of white people are racist, and an even more generous way to look at it, and I can attest to the changes I have seen, is that there are many of that 24% who have come around to realise that that racism they had in 1992 sucked, and they have begun to change. The white face of the loudest racists, is not the true picture of what happens day-to-day, street-to-street in South Africa. And to take this idiot as a representative of me, makes me so sad.
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