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Originally Posted by Antithesis  The moral of the story in this being, of course, that it's far easier to integrate and allow the society to function without partitioning it off than to separate it and complicate things. Did it ever occur to these people that the country would run better if they simply addressed the nation's economic problems with respect to socioeconomic conditions instead of race, kind of like how we do here?
Or at least we try to do it here, but apparently flag-burning and gay marriage are more important than lifting peopel up out of poverty. |
Actually, here's what they were thinking in the early days...
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Originally Posted by Olifant In the beginning Afrikaners merely wanted to remove blacks from our country and to do this the theory called for separation of economy and freedoms. That is to say in perfect practice the Afrikaner government would have had no authority over blacks and they would not exist in South African society, they would be in thier own native lands. |
Here's what I find funny about that whole paragraph...The 'Afrikans', as in the whites living in Africa,
were not native to South Africa. They were basically guests/visitors/explorers of those regions. It wasn't
their country. It was the country of the NATIVES already born there, who happened to be black.
True, some settled there later and started lives and families. BUT, that didn't mean they received the right to take the land and resources from the black populance. Instead, they should have
shared those lands and resources with the black population that already exsisted in those areas.
The methods and thinking used were no different then those used when the US populance was killing off the indians. The only difference is, the people being forced off their lands, being denied the same benefits/advantages of the so called 'Afrikans', are more numerous and more resiliant.