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Originally Posted by Daryl_G
That is the problem with oppressing a population for centuries, they tend not to forget and forgive so quickly.
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How could they be so quick to forget?
People are obviously forgetting what happened under apartheid. The murders, the humiliations, the daily degradations that black South Africans had to endure. The police and army abuse. The rotting townships with few services. Men being forced away from their families for months at a time to work in mines for little money. I guess some people don’t think that black people are proud too. We don’t like being stepped upon and marginalized anymore than white folks do. But it’s obvious that we aren’t seen that way. We’re seen as naturally servile.
This is why so many people are shocked that many black South Africans feel as if a little payback isn’t due. What did they expect them to do or feel? Look at what happened POST-WW2 in Europe. Untold millions were killed in revenge murders. But blacks are supposed to be different somehow?
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Originally Posted by Neuling
Laws and the constitution also apply to whatever is going on on private property.
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I don’t know the laws in SA. Maybe you can set up a town that discriminates as long as it’s on private land.
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Originally Posted by middle-aged mom
Attributed to LBJ :
“ When you put your boot on a man’s neck and hold him down for 300 years and then you let him up, what’s he going to do? He’s going to knock your block off.”
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People somehow seemingly forget this point.
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Originally Posted by Mr.Retired
One needs to understand that the slave trade transpired
with Central and West Africans being sold by West Africans
to Western Europeans with some captured by coastal raids.
It is bad to drink poison but far worse to create it.
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This isn’t about the slave trade.
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Originally Posted by Neuling
Would the Netherlands and Britain "take them back" if they wanted to emigrate?
How many millions of white SAns are there?
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I think something like 5 million. And the Netherlands and Britain are definitely not eager to take in a population of people that are aggrieved because they lost a historic privilege due to their own failure to recognize the writing on the wall. Many if not most of these people are frighteningly militant racists, and Britain and Holland have multiracial societies with people that won’t tolerate being referred to as “kaffirs” or worse. There will be blood in the streets.
Not only that, these people will be ripe for courting by far right nationalist parties. Hundreds of thousands of extra voters is enough to tip the political balance in those countries. A balance that’s already highly combustible.