I would like to address some of the points made by comrade R3ndi3r, in his article…
http://www.news24.com/MyNews24/A-Story-of-a-White-African-20120213
“However… it is also a name that has been used as an excuse for incompetence, corruption, laziness and so many other terrible things. It’s a name that has turned into an excuse, rather than a terrible mistake and most of all… it’s a name that negatively portray the millions of white youth of this country.”
And the two ‘A-words’ (ANC, African) have been used in the same way by idle-minded and otherwise lugubrious whites who want a legal outing for their repressed racist tendencies. How ‘white’ it has become to simply blame everything on the ANC. It’s no wonder whites in South Africa are still a bunch of cornered savages, in their entire history they could do FUCKALL without some government doing their thinking for them. Governance to the Afrikaner is like their religion christianity. They want something where no thinking is required on their end. A packaged and preached solution to which they can simply give momentary notice and carry on self assured.
“Never has a saying rung so true for a specific ethnicity in this country. You see, since 1994 the white youth of this country have been punished for crimes not committed by them, they have been accused of being advantaged, being racists, being the oppressors and so many other things. They also have to endure being discriminated against, being labeled by an international community as narrow minded and selfish to name a few.”
I can tell you from personal experience, most white afrikaners youths are racist to the core. In fact, I have yet to meet one that does not refer to black people by the K-word. Oh, of course, they do not do it in public. When they engage with black people, they often and vehemently deny being racists, but once the sun sets and their ‘pelle’ show up for a braai, hell, even if they have just met me for the first time, the conversation quickly turns to blacks, die AWB, die ou SA, all that biblical bullshit, and Siener van Rensburg prophecies. The older ones quickly start talking about the past and the younger ones are so stupid they believe everything oupa and oom gert told them. No attempt is made to reason or discern the facts for themselves; it’s just hook, line and sinker all the way. If I had R1 for every time I had a young white in SA tell me that the blacks took over and destroyed our once powerful, proud, clean, safe nation (being barely old enough to properly recall the dying days of Apartheid), I would be well on my way to an early retirement. What a goddamn joke the afrikaner youth have become, still enslaved by the fears and hatred of a bunch of old people with one foot already in the grave. And before someone tries to discredit me or say that not everyone is like that, let me say this, NO, of course it is not everyone, just everyone I met over a span of 26 years of my life in SA/Pretoria (the racist capitol of the planet); and I say that with absolute conviction!
“The discrimination within this country has become so unbearable that for millions of the white youth the only option has been to immigrate and once that has been achieved, they have to endure ridicule from the ill-informed international community.”
At this point in your article, I decided that I have to respond. You see, unlike so many WHITE WHINERS out there in SA, I actually did pack my bags and hop on a Boeing, although it was not for the reasons most whites do so. I’ve not met one single person here that has laid blame on me for apartheid or the continued poverty of millions of black people. A friend of mine here (also a professional journalist and very well educated on international matters in general) and his wife actually asked me more than a few questions about SA post apartheid. Not once did they insinuate that whites are to blame, and I have never had anyone here say or even hint at laying such blame on me (not even in body language), so I don’t know what international community you are referring to .The words ‘international community’, is a pretty damn huge group of people). In my work and daily life I’ve met quite a few people, from dozens of different countries, and I’ve had many questions and comments directed at me when people learn I’m from SA, but not once, NOT ONCE, have I been blamed for SA past or present. Of course, you seem to be intimately well connected with the entire international community and feel at liberty to say such nonsensical CRAP! It is no wonder so many whites in SA are deeply xenophobic about everyone that originates from other shores, or decided to go there for an extended period.
How DARE you sir, how dare you, speak on my behalf or about what my supposed experience has been as an expat in a foreign land, or even insinuate that the international community is infected by the same sort of close-minded, hysterical paranoia that grips a particular group of young white afrikaner minds in SA? Here you will not get away with it, because on news24 it is not just your typical sun-dried/blue bulls supporter/klipdrift-and-coke-mentality white congregation; there are more than a few expats and mold-breaking whites here, as well. You know, those whites who have become utterly embarrassed of their skin colour, because of the pathetic mentality exuded by others that resemble them in appearance. Take that hope for ‘solidarity’ you have and toss it aside when you enter this arena. Hier gaan jy weerstand teekom pel, van andere ook met n wit vel.
Let me ask you this simple question:
Why are we, as Young White South Africans:
• Labeled as Racists by fellow countrymen and people abroad?
Nobody has ever called me a racists, back when I was still in SA. Maybe it is because I never treated people as if they are inferior to me. I never spoke to black people in that ‘broken english/afrikaans accent’ that so many whites like to use when speaking to black people. I never made my work colleagues feel as if I’m embarrassed to have them sit with me during lunch. I also did not succumb to paranoid delusions of collusion when people spoke a language I could not understand. In short, I treat everyone I meet the same. If you want to get offended over what a few shack-dwellers say, because Malema fed them nonsense, then go right ahead; but I know that these people are the inane end of the spectrum of blacks in South Africa. Every black person that I have met has shown me respect and I have felt comfortable and safe, even in SA, because I’m not paranoid about white genocide and bullshit stories meant to scare people who don’t do a lot of thinking or investigating for themselves. Those old racists, and apartheid supporters who can’t wait for the country to descend into chaos because they need this to have their prophecies fulfilled, have been infecting the minds and attitudes of young whites with the same fecal mess that constituted white consciousness fifty years ago . Everything is a sign of the times for them. You are the victim of mass indoctrination by a bunch of religious zealots, and you will not include me in your camp of misery and paranoi, you will not include me in your ‘struggle’. There are plenty of whites (myself included) who stand distinct from your hysterical group of stray Israelites. A group, whose persistence, along with the persistence of those who persecute them, warrants some mention.
• Blamed for Apartheid?
Like being called a racist, I’ve also never had a black person accuse me of being responsible for apartheid, nor do I know anyone (even those deserving of such an insult) who have had it said to them. To claim that blacks are throwing X and Y insult to every white person, has become another ‘white syndrome’ and urban legend. Too many whites in SA can’t distinguish between radical blacks elements in society, and the general black population (most of whom don’t want anything from whites, they just want the government to govern). Unlike the hordes of whites in SA, who were instrumental in making Malema a national icon, I was never insulted or threatened by Malema, because I know he appeals to a small, select group of confused people and in no way represents black consciousness in South Africa. Heresy, I know. That a white person can say such a thing as, ‘not all blacks are uneducated racists out to get revenge on whites’. It flies in the face of every doom and gloom propaganda pamphlet you’ve ever read, doesn’t it?
• Being discriminated against? (AA and BEE)
Are you honestly going to come here to a public place and have the guts to try and state that AA and BEE discriminates against whites? Don’t make me laugh. It discriminates against blacks by robbing them of essential self-determination and actually ensures that whites remain in places of power for longer. It is like taking a primary school child and giving them a degree. What does that help them in the real world? AA and BEE simply makes black people stand in queue for economic handouts from the white man. Don’t make me laugh please. Discrimination against whites … what a damn joke.
• Punished for something we had no control over?
Stop perpetuating the convictions and paranoia of your parents and maybe you will realise that blacks aren’t your enemy. It might also let you see some of the blatant injustices still plaguing black people in SA + maybe it will let you appreciate what a massive head-start a white skin gave you, even in the post-apartheid era.
• Not given a job if qualified?
Yet I have not met one single white youth that does not have a job, and most who have a job have a permanent position. Qualified does not = simply having a diploma, it also means you need work experience + some luck to land a decent job. Come overseas and see how hard it is to get into upper level jobs without near a decade’s worth of experience! Come, I challenge you, you lot who always think everything overseas is SOOO EASY. I promise you, you will be on a jet back to SA before you can scribble South African Airways! I have, however, met many a black person who is qualified and experienced, who is being kept down by their white handlers. There is an overwhelming sense of incredulity amongst the white corporate elite in SA: the widespread belief that almost every qualified black person simply bought their matric, diploma, or degree.
• Told to leave the country because we don’t belong here?
Speaking for myself, I left SA not because I felt I don’t belong there, but because I felt I belong somewhere else. Not all of us expats are a bunch of scared whites with a deep fear of blacks. Some of us just like the thrill of working in highly developed countries that are on the cutting edge of technology and business. Some of us leave SA because we fell in love with a special someone overseas and decided to follow our heart. And believe me, I am more South African, 11 thousand kilometers away, than are some South Africans still in SA!
Take a chill pill boet … life in SA is not nearly the grim horror show that you make it out to be. Once you get out of your cocoon and see things from the outside, you might be pleasantly surprised. I have great hope for SA and I can see the progress being made, it’s slow, but it’s there. I hope for nothing more than a unified South Africa, but people like you, who constantly need to feel threatened and insulted by everything and everyone black, from the chap begging at the traffic light to the president of the ANC, are not helping SA move forward. You keep scratching an old wound and you won’t stop till it bleeds freely.
And for goodness sake, can everyone in SA (white, black and coloured) just take one single breath on their own without blaming or demanding something from the ANC?! Learn the self-determination that people on the ground have in other countries (Greece for example), and maybe you will get things changed.
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