is south africa starting to come right?

Question

this question is aimed at people like myself and innocentia. we are both still stuck with preconceived ideas about the other race, but i think we are coming to terms with the fact that both black and white in this country are p!ssed off with the government and their strategies and are carrying on on our own.

inno, this may sound strange coming from a guy like me, but you are the kind of black that i can work with and understand, and i have no problem with people of colour like yourself, which although still see colour, but CHOOSE to look past it and get on with life.

so to all the racists of different colour -

DO YOU THINK WE CAN MAKE THIS COUNTRY WORK IF WE STICK TOGETHER????

Answer 1

oh hell yeah, we can!!!
If we stop looking to the flipping government for answers coz I do realise that it is the one tearing us apart to be honest. People have just become too dependant on a certain power because it naturally falls in favour of them (in terms of race), and edit the wrong to suit their idealistic view of these people. I find it hard that forefathers and liberals fought for equality, but have somehow convinced themselves that they are carrying out what wasnt being carried out back then... (affirmative action). Others have merely convinced themselves that they are an endangered species and should be scared of the dominant species, when half of what you see in the paper involves horrid ordeals they go through, but have toughened to because they've just had to. If everyone just for a second stopped going an a "me, me, me" marathon, they wouldnt be running graves into the ground... We all need to resonate a huge "WE"... forget that the sun has kissed the next person purple brown, or snow white is next to you...we're all affected by the same things...especially younger peeps, having to pay for grudges of days that saw us who are here now as just an idea.... I'm sorely tired of being dragged into what yesterday was, and the current isnt being........ Look, my answer is yes... i could yap on. And honestly Proud...there are days where you turn my cheeks an angry red, but yes... i believe we are under the same cause... we dont always agree, but we're somewhere there.

Answer 2

We can make it work, if there is enough level headed people of all races out there. We do not have to agree on everything the whole time, we most definitely will differ a lot of times. We need to agree though that we will work around these differences. If the main goal is a workable, crime free SA why do we argue about trivial things as name changes for towns what good can come from this? We need to focus on the big picture. I for one don't mind working with capable people, no matter the skin colour. Look at the cricket, the 7 players of colour in the team for the world cup all deserve their places in the squad. I as a white person have no reason to want any of them out. It hurts though if you feel someone is in a position just because of his/her skin colour, it hurts because you know that it is not fair to them or to the person who was supposed to get the position because they can actually do the job.

I do think we can make it work. It does start with us Proud, people of our age can make the difference now, not tomorrow, and teach our children the right way for the next generation.

Answer 3

i really hope so :( I always vowed never to leave South Africa EVER no matter what because I believed in it so much, I really saw a lot of hope for our country. But now I have a little 20 month old daughter, and my views have changed, although It breaks my heart to admit it. I'm so scared of somehitng happening to her! And lets face it, the odds are much higher here than most other countries. I still believe that one day South Africa will reach the heights it's capable of reaching (I mean, we really do have it all) but the immediate future is bleak, especially on the crime front, and I'm too scared to take the risk of staying here. Tomorrow might be too late for my little girl. I'll stay until i absolutely have to go tho. I love this country so much! And know what? I grew up in Botswana where we weren't even aware that appartheid had existed, and people were just people, regardless of colour. As a result I don't really see race, even now. goes to show, it's possible to just love one another despite race.

Answer 4

Proud, its interesting what you say, but the thing is it doesn't matter what color you or inno are, its about the fact that you are both generating your own income and can speak as equals about shared ideas and ideals.

The other thing that is interesting to me is that everyone should know about everyone else's cultural history. Not to follow it, you follow what you are raised with but to have an understanding of how other people think and what is important to the person you walk next to on the pavement.

Everyone needs a means to an income which will give them a full belly, a dry and warm place to live and space to be without encroaching on anothers - SA is certainly big enough to do that.

Can you do that? Then you are beginning to move towards a sustainable means of bringing the pendulum back to rest in SA

Answer 5

Not without major economic growth over the next 20 years and a shift from race orientated government policies.
I think the next 3 years are the most crucial in determining the future direction of South Africa with a new generation of black politicians coming of age and decisions to be made on this countries future presidency.
Whether we want to admit it or not, Thabo Mbeki doe have a point that poverty breeds crime and the only way to defeat poverty is economic growth.