akindheart · 61-69, F
i have to tell you i love South AFrica. i was there last November and one of my favorite trips. I have been to africa 3 times and loved each trip. i know i had the sanatized tourist version but there is no country as beautiful as south africa. the only sad thing was i was sitting in the airport waiting for my plane and a light skinned black lady told me that her race was being discriminated. apparently jobs were given to blacks and white people but not her color.
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DarthInvader · 36-40, M
@Logybear50 I'm not sure what I'm supposed to see in Cape Town. That poverty exists among mixed people? Personally I wouldn't know. There are light skin black people and I know there are people of mixed heritage that look dark. But again, I have told you about stats and you returned with perceptions, which is fair, perception drive politics, but again, the people doing the worst overall, according to stats are the black people of south Africa, not those of mixed heritage, or would you feel better if mixed people were doing better while your fellow black people remained behind? Because, for fear of repeating myself, that's exactly what the stats say.
I understand Cape Town is one city. To my understanding it is run by the party called Democratic Alliance which is a predominantly white party although it claims to represent all groups. Yet there is a burgeoning cape independence movement away from the rest of the country, which is run by the black government called the ANC. So on which side are those of mixed heritage if the claim is that both whites and black conspire against them? To my understanding, the Cape independence movement isn't even led by a person of mixed heritage but a white individual.
This again reflects a failure to unite as citizens. A house divided can never stand, and that seems to be one of the key reasons SA is failing in many areas.
Anyway, you know more than I. I can only go off data where it comes to sone of these claims.
I understand Cape Town is one city. To my understanding it is run by the party called Democratic Alliance which is a predominantly white party although it claims to represent all groups. Yet there is a burgeoning cape independence movement away from the rest of the country, which is run by the black government called the ANC. So on which side are those of mixed heritage if the claim is that both whites and black conspire against them? To my understanding, the Cape independence movement isn't even led by a person of mixed heritage but a white individual.
This again reflects a failure to unite as citizens. A house divided can never stand, and that seems to be one of the key reasons SA is failing in many areas.
Anyway, you know more than I. I can only go off data where it comes to sone of these claims.
Logybear50 · 46-50, F
@DarthInvader I just think we all just want equal opportunity, but because the past have to be rectify some measures had to be put in place. The average person don't look at the overall picture, they look at what they are experiencing and what they are seeing. If I walk in a store and I see 20 out of 30 employees are black or I walk into a hospital and I see only black nursing staff, what will my reality be? Our desire is not to be in the majority when it comes to the workplace, all we want is to see equality, that's all❤
DarthInvader · 36-40, M
@Logybear50 fair enough
SumKindaMunster · 51-55, M
ThePatientAnarchist · 61-69
Apartheid would still have been in force in your childhood. I wonder do you remember those times, and what have the changes since then been like for you and yours?
Logybear50 · 46-50, F
There is this one incident I can't erase from my mind and I was about 4yrs old. My parents worked for a white family and we lived on their property. One day I climbed on something to look over the fence into the neighbours back yard and the neighbour came out of the house and pointed a gun at me.. just because I was of colour. Also experienced being one of the first non-white that was able to go to a so-called white school. I was received very well and didn't have any issues there.
ThePatientAnarchist · 61-69
@Logybear50 That is terrifying, having a gun pointed at you at that age and for that reason! But I am glad to know that you were made welcome in that school!
