Thread by @watershare

Look, I have entertained myself today with the racists, but we as Afrikaners have to understand a few things loud and clear if we want a better future for the children of 🇿🇦:
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1) We live in Africa - if you think that you are "special" because of the LACK of melanin in your DNA, then move to 🇷🇺, please.
2) If you want to make a future for yourself and your family in 🇿🇦, then start EDUCATING yourself on the history of your own damn country

3) Educate yourself on the history of 🇿🇦, not just the whitewashed Nazi history that the Apartheid masters wanted to teach you between the 1950s and 1980s, but the REAL, UGLY parts of the history as well, and don't get affronted if some of those lessons show us up as the bad guys

3) continue..
Go do your own "research", find out WHY die "Genoodskap van REGTE Afrikaners" gave themselves that name in 1866... Because yes, there were other people who who also spoke Afrikaans, but who had brown skin, and they had to be excluded...
Go research the reason for..

Go research the reason for the Anglo Boer War, and the effect of the war, not only on white people, but also on the black people of this country.

Go research the reasons for the 1914 rebellion, & the reasons behind the Groot Trek, and then maybe you will start to understand...

Understand why the ANC was established in 1916, in Bloemfontein nogal.
Understand the state of a Defeated people after 1902, and understand the reason for the Mine Rebellion of 1922
Understand the global context of the 1920s and 1930s, and the reason for the Nazification of

Many white poor, who believed that Hilter will 'help' them, in the same silly way some Dudebros thought Drumph will come and help them. Those OssewaBrandwag Dudebros (literal Nazis) came into power in 1948 and literally implemented Hilters "solutions" in 🇿🇦, from 1948 to 1994.

Then continue to educate yourself about the stolen election of 1948, the one won by the #WhiteSupremacists calling themselves the National Party. (Wakkerstroom is a clue here)

And then read what the opposition said, people like Sailor Malan, Slimjannie Smuts, NP van Wyk Louw,...

And then educate yourself about the atrocities of the Apartheid government, and yes, this may be hard, because some of you or someone you know could have been involved in committing these crimes..

And ask yourself - WHY DID THIS HAPPEN..?

That's when the hard part come, because that's when you need to start educating yourself about the legacies of Apartheid that still lingers among us today, the stench of a white mechanic who does not want the kid of a black professor to swim in the same pool with him, for one eg.

Then learn about systemic racism, and how it continues to persist in our society, access to water, access to refuse removal, access to basic services, education, you name it, things our fellow countrymen & women don't have simply because they were born with a different skincolor

And once you have educated yourself, then you can progress to the next step - UNDERSTANDING and EMPATHY.

Understanding the need for something like BBBEE, although the implementation may be really wrong sometimes.

Understanding the failure of the power grid, because of two main

.. issues: greed by some in power, yes, but also needing to provide power to 60 million people with a system designed to only produce power for 10 million (whyte) people.

And stresses on water supply and lack of sanitation has the exact same cause - system designed for ⬜ only

Once you have educated yourself, and developed a better understanding, then you will be able to DO something about it - pull your hands out of your ass, stop whining about loadshedding, stop crying about 'farmmurders', and DO something to make 🇿🇦 a better place for EVERYONE!
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Addition 1: This has gone much further than what I thought it would. Thanks for those that shared.

A lot of comments ask what they can do, specifically, and where they can read more.

As a start, everyone in South Africa must read what Frantz Fanon had to say about colonisation.

Addition 2:
Also read up on sahistory.org, and then read County of my Skull by Antjie Krog, read Herman Gilomee, read Dan Sleigh, especially Eilande, read Ettienne van Heerden.

Just. Read.

Addition 3:

As for what you can do as a white Afrikaner living in South Africa, some tips:

1) Stop using Blacklish or Blackfrikaans when speaking to black people.

2) Stop treating your domestic workers as if they owe you something

Addition 4:

3) Make friends with at least one black person, an Indian person, and a coloured person.

Become real friends, so much that you will invite them to your home for a braai and to your own or your kids wedding.

And TALK to them about racism.

Lastly, there are three things that don't work when closed - books, umbrellas, and minds.

Thanks for everyone reading this with an open mind.

Thanks Gill, for your awesome article timeslive.co.za/news/south-afr…

PS. I will be hiding replies containing blatant racism, personal attacks, and that don't contribute to constructive debate.

Closing comments for now, trolls are coming in thick and fast, and I need some family time 😉