A bit long I know, but still very interesting This WAS AN INTERESTING comment on the News24 site Please explain to me the term "PREVIOUSLY DISADVANTAGED" with special reference to the following... 1. Who "disadvantaged" the black people of the interior of Southern Africa before the (supposed) belligerent 'white' settlers moved inland in the mid- 19thcentury? The fact is, what the 'settlers' found was not a hugely advanced infrastructure, deep mines, airports, vast libraries of written works, grandiose institutions of learning, etc. No, as little as 170 years ago they found masses of black people (indigenous to the Southern tip of Africa and continuously migrating) living on the fringes of the Stone Age, dressed in animal skins, wielding sticks, living in primitive dwellings, dragging and carrying things around, not knowing what a wheel was or that it existed since 3500BC and being used by the ‘whites’ as a daily tool. 2. Ethiopia - this is an African country that was NEVER colonised. Today it's one of the most desolate places on the planet. Question: Who "disadvantaged" the people of Ethiopia? 3. Put Zimbabwe and Germany next to each other and explain the differences. In 1945 Germany was (for all intents and purposes) flattened to the ground and torn in half. Fifteen years later, West Germany was described as an "Economic Wonder." Around the same time as the end of Apartheid, Germany was re-unified. It yanked the (unified) Germany back four decades in time. Yet, in (around) 15 years (for the second time in a few decades) it built an 'economic wonder' and is today fast becoming a global leader in almost every aspect. Reminder: Germany has a lineage strongly associated with WHITE AFRIKAANS-SPEAKING people... On the "flip side," Zimbabwe was handed one of the wealthiest countries in the WORLD (e.g. a currency that was worth more than the US Dollar and known as "The bread basket of Africa"). What is it today? It's competing with Ethiopia to be the most desolate hell-hole on the planet! Can you explain that? I can carry on for days - but that's enough for now. Just one more request: please respect the intellect of our audience and refrain from cheap (ANC-like) red herrings, such as. calling people "racists." Kindly answer the following questions - directly and with tangible substance: In parting, I would suggest the following: The term "Previously Disadvantaged' is as much a fantasy as is the delusional lunacy that threatens voters with the revenge of the ancestors (a bit like the "rapture" we are all eagerly awaiting for the 4 017th time since 2000 alone). It's the same delusional insanity that claims the words "KILL THE BOER" really means "Come over to my mansion for tea and biscuits." You cannot take something from somebody WHO NEVER HAD IT! So what is it that white people, specifically white men, are supposed to "give back" to black people? Can they explain what it is that white men took from blacks? 1. LAND? Blacks NEVER owned any land. Any form of formal ownership is a Western concept. The 'black' tribes of the mid-19th century haphazardly temporarily SETTLED in an ad hoc manner - effectively governed by tribal savagery. In other words, the most savage blacks ruled the land (a bit like Hillbrow today). They simply ran away until they could not run any more - not having ANY grasp of the concept of a horizon or, for that matter, any measure of finite land mass - e.g. a boundary that is the fundamental concept of ownership. 2. MINERALS? More hallucinations aside - e.g. ancient gold mines, a little bit like the Zimbabwe Ruins (or the Pyramids, etc). NEXT to the magnificent structure, the indigenous people build stone-age dwellings out of mud and sticks (at best emulating the birds). Minerals beneficiation is an entirely Imperialist/Western concept - in fact, in many ways, it saw some of the most tangible advances by WHITE SOUTH AFRICAN MEN. Proof is obtained by perusing some of the academic paper at Wits' Engineering Library. 3. WEALTH? Money, capital and the pivotal mechanisms of wealth allowed people to breathe, eat, have children, and live a rather healthy, productive and fulfilling life. But wealth also allowed the cognitive development that led to daft comments - ALL of Western origins. In fact, the key advancements in modern finance and economics were made by the DUTCH. Why do you think New York's financial district is called Wall Street? It was initially 'Wal Straat' - yes, the Dutch settlers took their cognitive substance there as well... They were the same Dutch people who were the direct descendants of exploreres who landed at the Cape in 1652. In fact, the modern 'WEALTH system' was originated by the Dutch and it funded the explorations around the tip of Africa. 4. THE REST? Perhaps we also took their aircraft, their Breitling watches, their Italian suits, their German luxury limousines, their 'Blue Light Brigades' and their Space Shuttles? Mmmm...Don't you just hate the implicit assumption that 'whites' stole from 'blacks?'
