DA does not understand racism - Ramphele

It appeard I don't understand racism either anymore. Thesedays you call somebody an idiot then you're being racist. Come on!
 
ghoti said:
Another way of saying coconut or token black person (Based on how Ive seen it used here)

The real heroes in the DA are our black people. I wrote about them. What they have to put up with the racists in their communities is amazing. It is like the liberals standing up to the racist NATs during Apartheid. You have this heavily indoctrinated community obsessed with racial issues, and you if you are part of that group you are labeled a race traitor for suggesting there are more progressive ways of dealing with life.
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Isn’t this an exact core problem currently in SA?
 
Fulcrum29 said:
Isn’t this an exact core problem currently in SA?
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This is a slightly edited version of what I wrote:

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To get context on the title we have to go back to the Democratic Alliance`s early roots. Before the Democratic Alliance was called the Democratic Party.. the Democratic Alliance was known as the Progressive Party.




The Progressive Party was a liberal party started by Helen Suzman on the 11th of August 1959. It was one of the first (if not the first) political parties in South Africa calling for multiracial elections.

The Progressive Party being a liberal party quickly found itself at loggerhead with the ruling conservative National Party. The PP opposed the dompass, the PP opposed detention without trial, the PP opposed forced removals... the PP opposed just about every single racist policy the Apartheid-loving National Party could think of.

Because the Progressive Party was a constant thorn in the side of the Apartheid government, the National Party did everything in their power to stifle and oppress the Progressive Party and its members.

It was a small joke in the Progressive Party to welcome members of the Secret Service Branch to their political gatherings as there were always Apartheid Secret Service members in the groups.

The National Party spent a lot of time and resources demonizing the Progressive Party and its supporters. For instance, it was no secret that the Progressive Party was slightly left of center (actually by today's measurements they would be considered classical liberals and very centrist).

However because the Progressive Party was supporting multiculturalism and multiracial elections, the National Party painted the Progressive Party as "Pink-footed commies". You must remember that at the time communism was a major threat and being labeled a communist back then was akin to social character assassination.

It was very hard being a member of the Progressive Party in the early days. Not only were you called a communist by the ruling party but the National Party also polarized the white population against the Progressive Party. They labeled supporters of the party as, "race traitors". The Apartheid government did everything in its power to demonize members of the the Progressive Party.

The National Party painted the Progressive Party as an anti-white, black/communist-supporting party that wanted to destroy the fabric of society with their alien multicultural plans.

It was hard to wear a Progressive Party shirt. You would walk down the street and because of the nature of Apartheid government you would have members of your own culture and racial group spitting at you and hating on you.

The brave men and women that stood by their liberal principles did not back down. And it is thanks to them that the Democratic Alliance is as strong as it is today.

This brings me to the the subject of my article, "Blue is the new Black". I work with a lot of Democratic Alliance Youth. Most of the black youth I work with are smart, intelligent, determined people who believe in creating an Open Society for All. They are awesome liberal people who just want to improve the lives of ordinary South Africans.

However, our black members find themselves in a similar situation to what liberal whites experienced during Apartheid.

The corrupt African National Congress is doing everything in its power to paint the Democratic Alliance as an Apartheid-supporting right-wing conservative party. The ANC is telling its voting base that if you vote or support the Democratic Alliance you are a "race traitor" and are working to bring back an Apartheid state. Obviously nothing could be further from the truth.

The ANC are actively working against DA members all the time. There is not a conference or workshop that I attend that does not have one or another type of horror story.

In the Eastern Cape where I live, our Democratic Alliances (almost all of them) get constant death threats. The ANC are moving through rural communities trying to polarize the population against DA members. In more than a few cases we have had to organize bodyguards or members have had to move houses because ANC supporters are threatening to burn down their houses.

In my part of the world, the Eastern Cape of South Africa, the black Democratic Alliance members I work with are true heroes. They are out there with their blue shirts on, fighting for your rights against an ocean of animosity and they are making a difference.

They are out there, doing what is right instead of what is popular. From me, they get a standing ovation....
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The core issues are economic. Race is the smoke and mirrors used to keep you distracted from the real core issues.
 
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ghoti said:
Lets break this down.
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good idea

ghoti said:
"AGANG SA leader Dr Mamphela Ramphele on Tuesday launched a thinly veiled attack on the Democratic Alliance (DA), saying the party "just did not understand" that the scars of racism had not entirely healed."
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sounds like a reporters interpretation to me, not necessarily a fact

ghoti said:
She claims the Democratic Alliance "does not understand racism". Why would the Democratic Alliance not understand racism? The average answer was because there are so many white people in the DA so they do not understand racism. That in my books is an insinuation of racism from white members in the DA.
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your interpretation and your insinuation

I don't see her saying anywhere that the DA does not understand racism
 
ghoti said:
The core issues are economic. Race is the smoke and mirrors used to keep you distracted from the real core issues.
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The rich are still rich and the poor are still poor - save for a few ANC elites, not much has changed in that regard.
 
2012 said:
The rich are still rich and the poor are still poor - save for a few ANC elites, not much has changed in that regard.
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This is why the race needs to be brought up to confuse voters.
 
I just wish that SA could be more like Germany and move forward to become a very powerful and united nation! At some point we need to realize that the past is the past and move on from it. Ii understand the anger from the black community over apartheid, but feel that it was almost 2 decades ago and at some point people need to look at the bigger picture and move forward. I'm not asking anyone to forgive or forget, but FFS move forward! I'm tired of being a "racist white" because of my skin colour when my age reflects that i had sweet fsck all to do with apartheid! It just feels like my great great great grankids will still be walking around being called racist for being white, even in the year 2100! I feel like as long as people just moan and expect things to be given to them, we are never going to get anywhere!
 
ghoti said:
This is a slightly edited version of what I wrote:



The core issues are economic. Race is the smoke and mirrors used to keep you distracted from the real core issues.
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Yes, I know that we have economic distress, but indoctrination is not exactly something to be subtle about.
 
"The DA and I disagree, not because they have a different kind of policy position, but they don’t understand just that … the scars of racism in this country have not completely healed,"

So what's the point exactly. She cannot be with the DA because they are mostly white? Does this not make her a racist?
 
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