Young whites clueless about racist behaviour

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Johannesburg - Young South Africans live in a time and space "where filters are not encouraged" – and this means some white youngsters believe they are merely "calling a spade a spade" when they make racist comments, says the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR).

A white student at Wits University on Monday allegedly said to fellow fourth-year law student Sinethemba Memela: "I will f***ing kill you, you black bitch," during an altercation outside a lecture hall.

Memela told Wits Vuvuzela, the student newspaper, that she had earlier upbraided the white student for mocking a senior black lecturer’s pronunciation of the word 'patent'.

Memela has lodged a formal complaint with the university against her classmate.




The institute, which compiles an annual Reconciliation Barometer, said there were several complex and nuanced reasons why South Africa's so-called born-frees were frequently at the centre of racist allegations.

"Social media contributes greatly to unfiltered utterances with few consequences," the IJR's Stan Henkeman told City Press on Friday.

Henkeman said the institute's work with young people had revealed that "as much as race is at the forefront for most South Africans on a daily basis, there are few safe spaces to openly debate the topic and allow for honest conversations".

This means that those who genuinely want to engage "don't know how and where" to and, consequently, “the more extreme positions and groups with stronger advocacy come to the fore".

The IJR's research also showed different races internalising certain ways of being in the world – white youngsters growing up seeing black people only as domestic workers or gardeners, for instance.

"No one needs to tell them about the pecking order in their world – it is clear for all to see: 'We are superior.'

"Similarly, young black people grow up with a clear message from society that they are not as clever, talented and worthy of success as their white counterparts.

"Without dwelling too long on this, we need to acknowledge that the most powerful education is that which you internalise without interrogating it.”

There have been a number of high-profile racially motivated attacks in recent years by young white people, among them:

-  The case of the so-called Waterkloof Four, who beat a still-unidentified homeless black man to death in 2001;

- The so-called Reitz Four – Free State University students who filmed themselves humiliating black university employees;

- An attack by five young white men, one of them a student at the University of Cape Town (UCT), on a coloured woman named Delia Adonis; and

- A University of Cape Town student and model who allegedly stood on a nightclub balcony and urinated on a black taxi driver. Djavan Arrigone (19) allegedly said he didn't see anything wrong with it. Boss Models sacked him; UCT is investigating.

Henkeman said: "The term 'born-frees' is rather unfortunate because it might communicate to young people that they are not tainted by the past.

"Every child born in South Africa is tainted by the past. They inherit their parents' privileges or marginalisation.”

He said many young black people were “angry because of limited and limiting options, and feel that the new South Africa owes them opportunities”.

Young white people, meanwhile, "generally do not have a deep enough appreciation for the legacy of the past".

The good news, though, is that the IJR doesn’t believe young people are apathetic.

"They are interested in having these conversations and are courageous enough to put themselves out there.

"This is particularly powerful given the fact that for many young South Africans this is a process not only of learning, but also of unlearning," Henkeman said.
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So its OK to call "Young whites" clueless but you cant say "black bitch" ?

I'm confused...
 
A white student at Wits University on Monday allegedly said to fellow fourth-year law student Sinethemba Memela: "I will f***ing kill you, you black bitch," during an altercation outside a lecture hall.
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Let's be honest. She is a bitch though and she happens to be black.
 
Are black kid's more sensitive then? White people just keep on sucking. It's a pity society has to tolerate them.
 
cr@zydude said:
Do you think that calling someone clueless is as bad as calling a woman a bitch?
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Not the point. Would it have been newsworthy if he had just called her a bitch?

Funny how calling someone black instantly turns it into front page news... Are they not black?
 
cr@zydude said:
Do you think that calling someone clueless is as bad as calling a woman a bitch?
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Is calling someone a bitch as bad as labeling a group of people because someone called someone a bitch?
 
Yawn, white people all over the world are being told every single day about their (apparent) endemic racism and everything they've done is through "unearned privilege".

No wonder many whites are beginning to be turned off by "discussing race" as it only ever ends up one way: You whites are racist!

Also we whites know that the SA media basically only reports on white-on-black racism and very rarely the other way round, when simple demographics will indicate there surely must be more black racists than white racists in this country.
 
"Every child born in South Africa is tainted by the past. They inherit their parents' privileges or marginalisation.”
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Says who? I was born into this system as much as any black, and while I can try & change what's happening during my time, I fail to accept that I'm somehow responsible for acts/decisions that was made before I even existed.
 
Deadmanza said:
Not the point. Would it have been newsworthy if he had just called her a bitch?

Funny how calling someone black instantly turns it into front page news... Are they not black?
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I always maintain that context is everything. Describing someone as black, would not be racist at all. Using it though in a derogatory fashion to insult someone, is not going to go down well.
 
Nick333 said:
There have been a lot of articles generalising about white people lately. I'm getting the impression that they are problematic for our society.
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I know.

It should be interesting to see where it leads. Looks and smells like mass conditioning of the populace.
 
Nick333 said:
There have been a lot of articles generalising about white people lately. I'm getting the impression that they are problematic for our society.
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I'm getting the impression the only people who have a problem with someone being 'black' is black people. Everything seems to be turned into a racial thing. This for example, a fight between two people, suddenly its a white racially attacking a black... WTF, can't two people argue anymore? What names was she calling the white dude to build up to that point? Wheres that report?

Also, where is the list of racial attacks on white by black? Oh thats right, there is none, those aren't considered racial, those are just classed as another fight/crime.
 
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