Vorig jaar was op een Zuid-Afrikaans facebook-account het volgende te lezen:
• Black people use racism as an excuse for their failures in a lot of things.
• Racism makes us feel like victims and remember that victims never rise.
• The reason we don’t succeed after every war is because of our inability to move forward.
• We don’t forgive,
• We keep focusing on the enemy instead of picking up the pieces and building afresh.
De woorden 'us' en 'we' suggereren dat het om niet-blanke Zuid-Afrikanen gaat Maar verder lijken het woorden van een vroegere apartheidsaanhanger te zijn. Zeker als je verder leest, in de wetenschap dat 'Afrikaaner' slaat op de Afrikaans sprekende nakomelingen van de Hollandse volksplanters rond Kaap de Goede Hoop.
I think the reason the Afrikaaner nation was able to build themselves into a formidable nation was to forget the past and found ways to empower themselves. The Afrikaaner was:
• oppressed,
• confined to concentration camps by the English.
• yet he rose and sent his kids to school.
• they were murdered in their thousands,
• their women were raped and their babies starved in death camps.
• but they rose because they moved beyond the hatred of their enemies.
• instead of them toyi toying *), what they did was built their own schools,
• taught and trained their kids to work hard and farm the land,
• and real values of respect (ubuntu).
*) toyi-toyi is een protestdans tegen machthebbers.
Hier lijkt een Afrikaner aan het schrijven, zo'n rossige redneck met korte kakibroek. Maar laten we verder lezen. Uit de eerste zin blijkt al dat er geen blanke aan het woord is:
The problem with us Black People is that:
• we see ourselves as victims.
• we feel sorry for ourselves and therefore we think we:
• deserve free things, free houses, free money,
• we don’t teach our kids the value of hard work
• we hate ourselves so much that:
• we destroyed the things that belonged to us.
• we destroy our schools, our libraries and...
• our hospitals that were all given to us for free by white money?
There are only 2,5 million whites *) left and 55-million of us. If we confiscate all their wealth it gives us about R7k each, and no more food as it has been proven that if strangers take over established businesses, production and therefore employment drops by 85%. Within a short time we will starve like Zimbabweans are now.
*) Hier worden Afrikaners bedoeld. Inclusief de Engels sprekende blanken is het aantal ongeveer twee keer zo hoog, maar nog geen 9% van de totale bevolking en dalend.
Check this out:
1. of all the black women raped yesterday, most of them were raped by black men.
2. of all the black ppl that were mugged yesterday, most of them were done by black men.
3. of all the black owned houses that were broken into yesterday, most done by black men.
4. of all the black-owned cars that were hijacked yesterday, most by black men.
5. of all the ATM cards that were swoped, all by black men.
These are the acts of self hatred, and it’s destroying the black man.
Let’s face our real demons as a black nation and rise to the occasion.
We have destroyed the culture of learning in our communities and replaced it with entertainment.
• RACISM IS NOT OUR DOWNFALL, BUT:
• FAILURE TO FIND OURSELVES AND MOVE ON, IS.
• LET’S LEARN FROM OTHER NATIONS,
• LET’S LEARN FROM THE AFRIKAANER AND GOD WILL HEAL US.
Van wie komt deze lofzang op de witte Afrikaner?
Lees het onderschrift en val achterover van verbazing:
Thuli Madonsela (Facebook 23 Jan 2018)
Wie is die Thuli? Google maar even. Juridisch hoogleraar in Stellenbosch. Schreef mee met Mandela aan de nieuwe grondwet van ZA (1995). Nationaal ombudsvrouw 2009-2016. Beoogd (en hopelijk) minister in Ramaphosa's nieuwe kabinet.