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My neighbourhood "community newspaper" is up in arms about the diversity training at #FishHoekHighSchool & proudly quotes MEC David Maynier saying that the "events happened last week never happen again". The events? Asanda Ngoasheng's diversity training which confronted learners
with the need to understand racism as systematic oppression. Seems that some of the learners, no doubt echoing their parents, are happy when racism has two sides (racism as prejudice) but get "worked up" when they are forced to confront racism as systemic. The poem Ngoasheng read
- "Water" by Koleka Putuma (pensouthafrica.co.za/water-by-kolek…) evokes this powerfully: racism as arising out of a system of white supremacy, racism as the social, economic and political oppression of black people *to the advantage of whites*. Putuma's poem about the water and the beach..
