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Are you a racist? |
Travel Info I have noticed that unlike WRRRRRR and Alf Garnett, there are some regulars who are overtly racist and they always get thumbs up. We have records of how WRRRRRR feels about white people. He hates them. We have records of how Alf Garnett feels, about black people. He hates them. But records will show that Alf Garnett is a hero to most of the other white members here. I have noted that there are some white people who despise Alf Garnett as much as they despise WRRRRRR, and for the same reason 鈥?both are racists. While there is a united front to condemn WRRRRRR鈥檚 racism, there is this swelling support for Alf Garnett. WRRRRRR has made his bottom line clear 鈥?deport all whites as, according to him, they are liars, thieves and murderers who are hampering Africa鈥檚 development. I鈥檓 on record as saying I will never respond to his drivel as that is not only generalisation but clear hate speech. Alf Garnett has made his bottom line clear 鈥?blacks have inferior intellect and must be wiped off the face of earth. I am on record as saying that I will never answer his questions for his is a scum of a racist. But unlike WRRRRRR, Alf Garnett sometimes post good questions that could be soberly debated. His answers are sometimes not dipped in his poisonous racism. Interesting enough, it is these questions and answers that receive little support from his supporters. He however gets raving reviews (postings in support and thumbs up) when he spews his racial hatred. That makes one wonder. I however feel that openness about race relations is important. Who of you are racist? Travel Tips Hi Moloi. I'm so happy you asked this question.Years ago when you were in Luanda and me in the South off Angola we were on the flipside of the same coin.You and your comrades were fighting a regime that opressed you and I a young man to uphold it. If we had met on the battlefield we would have tried to kill each other for what we believed.I would have most likely acted the same way as you ,if I had grown up under your circumstances.I would also fought the white rule but alas I was born white and grew up in the sixties and seventies.My parents did not teach me to hate ,but we were indifferent to what happened to you or people like you.When I was seventeen and a half,I finished school and was called up to serve in the army and ended up in Northern Namibia and Southern Angola for a long time.There some of my friends got killed and I was part off a team that did the same to the opposing side.I thought that was the right thing to do,we had to fight the communists and therefore prevent the black man from taking over and exterminating us whites. Well if you were told this in school and by your military commanders you eventually believed it. Later when I was 24 and still in the military we were sent for the first time to go and "sort out problems" in Duncan Village at East London.A team of twenty off us went to go to live in the township. It was a first for me and my comrades.It opened our eyes to what life is like in a township.Dirty streets,sewage in the streets,alcholism,a woman giving birth on the street because there were no ambulance to take her away and the violance the people dished out to each other and no police to control it.In fact the only time we did see the police was when they came in the night and screamed insults over a megaphone to the people in their houses. Me and my collegues in the military were horrified at this cowardness and then could see the justification why blacks hates the whites.My whole unit ,myself included left the military shortly after that.After that I tried in civilian life to take more interest and tried to help black collegues until I lost my job because off AA. I left SA because I thought that I would start to feel hate and also for economic reasons.I now have friends from Ethiopia and Sudan.We sometimes argue, but race never seem to come up.Maybe we South Africans just have it in our make up when we argue with each other.My wish is just that the young people in SA do not fall in the same trap, that we the older generation were in.Thats why I wish for a government that would help all its people,because a black or a white person without a job, will have the tendancy in SA to blame the other for its problems.Yes racist thoughts do bubble up in me when I read Wrrr's postings.Ayiza sometimes make me angry because I feel that he is falling in the same trap as I did twenty years ago. Others I'm not racist.....i like white people..... JUST KIDDING!!!!!!! i don't mind being in the same room as them and i will chat to them but will not date,kiss or sleep with one of a other color I am not racists. I myself am multi-racial. i have a little of almost everything in me. my mother is white/black/cajun. my father is mexican/black/some other stuff. i have members in my family of most races and i cant really see a difference between any of us besides different skin color. we all value the same things and have the same morals. i do not judge someone based on the color of their skin. i judge them based on what kind of person they are. if someone is racists then i can tolerate them. they have every right to dislike someone of another race. i have nothing against them unless they are violent towards someone. I was taught to find the good in everyone regardless of colour, race or religion. I judge each individual based on who they are, their personality, intelligence and view on life. (If you have a great sense of humour = bonus points!) I take no stand in the white vs blacks vs coloureds vs aliens issue. If anyone is going to hate me for my colour then no argument of mine will ever change their mind and the best I can do is leave them to their sorry, hate-filled existence. Happiness Rocks!!!! you make a good point - you are right openess about race relations are important in order to try and look past our differences. and no im not racist. - Im Indian , getting married to a white woman and we have a daughter , my family is a microcosm of the rainbow nation. Nice answer jowijo...totally agree... Yes and no. I try in my daily life to follow a philosophy of leave me alone and I will leave you alone, I treat everyone around me with the respect that I would demand they treat me and although my philosophy leads to an insular existence, that is my preference. I was schooled in a multi racial Catholic school during apartheid so unlike most of my generation I have always had exposure to the different races, not only at work but through sports, extra mural activities and other. Although I try not to be a racist, I am often one as are almost all South Africans, both black and white whether they will admit thereto or not, subconsciously we all have racism in our hearts at some levels based on different life experiences and perceptions. The ANC and their policies have definitely affected my perception of South Africa and its peoples over the last 13 years, often for the worse through their racially based speeches, propaganda, rhetoric, policies and in my opinion the alienation of whites in all facets of daily life. I know work for a large company and often have to directly lay off white employees to be replaced by blacks, this is a touchy subject for me and awakens a great deal of resentment, often making me feel somewhat like the "F.W. De Klerk" of my company, it is my job, what can I do? I have experienced more crime than the average South African through the murder of my only brother and father and numerous other incidents, blame and anger is often attributed to black South Africans and their government in these circumstances primarily for their unwillingness to act meaningfully against crime and referring to me and my kind as racists for raising this issue. In light of the above and more, I would often consider myself racist and other times not, I believe it to be an internal conflict, no one willingly wants to hate and we all try to be better people in our daily lives, it is often difficult and unattainable. To all other contributors who will no doubt come out speaking lies that they are not racist in any way, stop lying to yourself, in some ways we all are, every single South African of all races. |
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