Posted on 04/05/2010 1:54:47 PM PDT by Jack Black
South Africa will go the way of all independent African countries...
The native Africans have shown time and again that they are incapable of self-governance.
Maybe in a 1000 years... Before that, stop sending our tax money there!
Tribalism and this failure to engage in division of labor kind of go together ~
Apartheid is now a dirty word. Very dirty. But all it means is living separately.
There is a huge difference between keeping yourself separate from people of a different race or background and going out to rape, torture, and murder them. As far as I know (and I never heard of the guy before he was murdered), Terreblanche didn’t go around killing blacks.
You can certainly argue that separation of races is wrong. But there is an element in irrationality in the way the matter is usually treated. It’s OK to have all black dorms on our college campuses, but it’s NOT OK to have all white dorms. It’s OK for blacks to speak harshly about whites, but it’s not OK for whites to speak harshly about blacks.
I believe that all men are created equal by God. And I have had black friends, and friends who are married to blacks. But I’m not entirely sure that it’s possible to simply ignore racial and cultural differences, or to constantly treat them one-sidedly, as the Politically Correct insist that we should do.
I don’t think Terreblanche deserved to be murdered because he thought whites were different from, or even better than, blacks. I’m sure there are plenty of blacks who think they are different from, or better than, whites. That’s not a justification to murder someone.
A good question but THEY will never answer. The quintessential white woman intellectual that lead the cause to destroy the white structure was a safe as houses. Sure, if they risked being interrogated by the police and maybe threatened with jail, the ANC and supporters were going to leave them alone.
I read of one of the icons of this movement and gave a sad chuckle. She lives just outside London, England. There is a peaceful neighbourhood. Yep, it is all there, picket fence and all. I daresay if some loser lurked nearby, she would be able to call a "copper". One of my few nasty remarks I allow myself here.
The hypocritical bitch!
Let's talk about that, what is the reason?
I really don't know. Even blacks raised in upper middle class white neighborhoods seem to have a tendency to "go tribal" when put into a black majority area. (I've seen it happen a few times) Any ideas?
I’ve wondered that myself.
I lived and worked with three white South Africans in Key West in 1992. They knew what was going to happen and were working here illegally, afraid to go back. There were hundreds of South Africans working in Key West back then, usually in the cheesy shirt shops.
Terreblanche was a racist thug that did prison time for assualt on people because they were black.
It will be in the same condition as Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, once the white farmers have gone: corrupt, broke, and unable to feed itself.
Oh dear. Who could have predicted this?
*And then they wonder why we don’t trust them at all.*
It’s nice that you speak for the rest of “us”. I must have missed an election.
I would be afraid to walk through an all black part of a city, especially after dark.
Does that make me a racist?
Yes. Just locking your car at night makes you a racist. :)
Yes. We really don’t know for sure who was in that territory in earlier centuries. The history of Africa is generally one of tribal warfare, and I believe that around the time the Afrikaaners settled there, and probably earlier, various tribes were being displaced and moving south.
Not where I live...
“Reverse-racism is racism.”
Absolutely. It’s also tragic that the ‘payback’ racism is most often directed at those whose generation had nothing to do with the initial problem (kind of like blaming the current white population in the US for slavery and early century segregation).
The Liberal Globalist Racist Media is not going to cover this in-depth....because it totally destroys their myth of a black run South Africa
The ANC is nothing more than a Black Ku Klux Klan in South Africa. The country is slowly turning to S&@% Hole status...and will only have black criminals running everything.
Someday, enough will be enough for Afrikaners...and its going to get ugly for the black racist groups
I really don't know. Even blacks raised in upper middle class white neighborhoods seem to have a tendency to "go tribal" when put into a black majority area. (I've seen it happen a few times) Any ideas?
See Thomas Sowell's book, Culture and Conquest. Most of Africa is inaccessible to other continents, or even to other parts of Africa. Travel is next to impossible because most of the rivers are interrupted with falls and rapids. Most of the continent doesn't even have a proper seacoast, since the coastal areas are mostly mountainous, with a 1,000-foot plunge to the sea. Tough place to sail a boat. Pests, disease, and huge, predatory animals contribute to the same isolation.
The net effect is that the place is impervious to the exchange of ideas and the introduction of improvements of any kind. Unlike the better-traveled areas of the world, most of Africa has had no recognizable culture since the dawn of time, and still lacks any. The exceptions have been the physically accessible areas, such as parts of North Africa and until recently, South Africa, with its ports.
It takes generations for a people to be weaned from tribalism—which is a system of nepotism and pin-headed vengeance with no objective laws, infused by a society-wide creed of compulsive opportunism and dishonesty. I would guess that welfare, by undermining male commitment to families, has the effect of destroying the law and order in an area, leaving improvised tribalism and gang warfare as the only alternatives. I think that's what's at work in our major cities.
The majority in a nation doesn’t care if you get killed and a minority is actively trying to kill you for a reason beyond your control - sounds like a war, or a genocide.
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