if the rainbow nation never existed then how 'real' is it to be against it? you are instilling the same paradigm into someone's consciousness, only in reverse. in the context of a concrete reality where we address concrete concerns such as shelter and food ideology is irrelevant.
i don't believe in anything political, whenever i come into contact with it, i immediately feel that it will mostly be false and/or irrelevant to concrete reality. this is because it is impossible to hold a political worldview without, to some extent, believing in a world of opposites. which is irrational because all ideas come from same group of organisms (humans) and all of them have an interchangeable sense of truth and truth, again, is a largely irrelevant concept when considered against concrete reality.
Dialectics...
My problem with these people is not necessarily that I disagree with all of what they are saying, but the fact that they find it so difficult to look past the race issue in exploitation and miss the fact that even black owned companies and our black run government are the biggest exploiters out there.
Its a cla**ist debate, but they are so blinded by their black consciousness that they fail to see that it is blacks f***ing them over and then blaming the white man when they get caught. The exploitation is real and so is the '94 selloout. The problem is that they are too racist themselves to notice that its their own race responsible for it, and they write stupid shit like "Blacks can't be racist" in order to justify their blindness.
"Me", apartheid was capitalism based on race, the reality is that althought there were white people who opposed the exploitaion they benefited from it in some way (all white people did). For example the radicals could be sure that if they were to change their view and support the system, they'd sure have a huge chance of getting a good job (with less competition from the blacks). Andile points out that in Soweto's graveyard where the communist revolutionary Joe Slovo was burried there is a board written, "Here lies Joe Slovo among others". Because he is white, it's only him they give the dignity of having a name (and not just be an "other") which should accrue to all human beings.
You cannot redress effects of a racist capitalist sytem by embracing a concept of immaterial equality. Yes the debate also involves cla** and blacks are the largest percentage of the lower cla**. How many of the apartheid radicals lived in overcrowded townships that their black comrades lived in. Were they not sure that just because of their skin colour police would treat them with more respect? How many white marxists actually grew up in families where fathers worked in White owned mines for a few pennies, where you actually feel exploitation?
So yes the debate involves cla** and blacks are a huge percentage of the lower cla**. To have whites admit guilt, through things like the TRC and some being marxists who won't accept the problem is race is patronising.
now Panic, political views influenced the CODESA negotiations and the resultant polictical order... concrete reality is that Black people live in Diepsloot, Hillbrow, Alexandra (adjacent to a mainly white Sandton) and because we live in a "free country that is founded on equality" we almost take these as Natural...Our president thinks a debate on race is backward thinking.
