posted on Mar, 3 2008 @ 01:50 AM
Originally posted by 44soulslayer
The situation in RSA is pathetic at the moment, and is one step away from being another Zimbabwe! Nelson Mandela was acutely aware of this issue
arising, when he said that he would not allow black supremacy to replace white supremacy. Sadly it would appear that he has failed.
I don't see that being realistic about the way that white people, and especially a generation of white people who did not grow up under systems of
black repression, should have to apologise for the fact that through an accident of nature and something over which they have absolutely no control,
they were born with Caucasian genes and are therefore guilty of the crimes committed by other Caucausions decades ago.A bit like blaming modern
Germans for the Holocaust.
Having said that, I have genuine empathy for the people all over Africa who are victims of the atrocities that seem to be part of everyday life in
Africa. If there was a way to change the situation in places like Kenya, the Congo, Darfur and others, I would most definitely vote or do something to
change it. But being realistic about the fact that these are black on black atrocities and nothing to do with Caucasians at all, does not make me a
racist.I see evil being perpetrated and being excused because people were 'previously disadvantaged' or 'previously repressed'. There is no
disadvantage or repression now, except for what is being meted out by people of the same racial group as the people being repressed and disadvantaged
in northern and central Africa. In southern Africa, ordinary everyday people of all races are being repressed by greedy politicians and their
hangers-on who do not want to better the lives of ordinary people but want to feather their own nests first. At the same time, there are wonderful
benefits being handed out to people that they never had before, like proper education, free electricity, free water and free health care, all great
things and hopefully these will continue. But these same people are victims of the most terrible crimes and nothing is being done to improve the
situation with more police and better quality of people being employed by the police, instead a crack crime fighting unit is disbanded against the
conditions of the Constitution and no one in SA says anything really important about it because they are all concerned with the behavior of a bunch of
frat boys.