#Rhodes must fall has been on everybody's' lips if not their copter screens. The whole country has been affected by the brave students of UCT. Young black students fighting for change in higher education institution. So why is everybody so mad?
For over 300 years black people have been oppressed in this country. Apartheid only accounts for 46 years of that oppression. Before apartheid this country was controlled by the European settlers; the first permanent settlers were the Dutch who eventually transformed their settlements into a colony. the British entered the country and soon they were able to take control of the Dutch colony. Later the were unhappy with what had happened and they started to revolt, which resulted in the Boer war.
The Boer War started in 1899 and ended in 1902; the British had successfully defeated the Afrikaner’s, and gained control over several other colonies. The British reacted by placing Afrikaners in concentration camps, and killing 26,000 of them. Now that the British had control over several new colonies, the British wanted to unify these communities, and they created the South Africa Act in 1910, which established the Union of South Africa. The British recognized that these united colonies of South Africa would not run successfully without the cooperation of the Afrikaners. Therefore, the British proposed some compromises and eventually worked out conflicts between them and the Afrikaners. This cooperation laid out the foundation for a future of white supremacy in South Africa.
One the day of 1913 the native South African, woke up as a pariah in the land of his birth. These were the early stages of white supremacy which further resulted into apartheid.
When young black people stand up, recognise and fight the injustice that has been happening towards black people in this country, it surprises me why some people would think that these kids are causing a unnecessary commotion in this country.
As a new South Africa, we can't have structure that still celebrates heroes of oppression, we should not tolerate any kind of oppression in educational institutions or in the work place. Many white people have a problem with #RhodesMustFall, purely because they realise that they will be losing some of their white privileges which they got through oppression.
If you do not have a valid reason as to why Rhodes should not fall, then you should do this country a huge favour and keep quiet. This is the black man fighting against the oppressive system put in place by our former oppressors, not against white people.
For over 300 years black people have been oppressed in this country. Apartheid only accounts for 46 years of that oppression. Before apartheid this country was controlled by the European settlers; the first permanent settlers were the Dutch who eventually transformed their settlements into a colony. the British entered the country and soon they were able to take control of the Dutch colony. Later the were unhappy with what had happened and they started to revolt, which resulted in the Boer war.
The Boer War started in 1899 and ended in 1902; the British had successfully defeated the Afrikaner’s, and gained control over several other colonies. The British reacted by placing Afrikaners in concentration camps, and killing 26,000 of them. Now that the British had control over several new colonies, the British wanted to unify these communities, and they created the South Africa Act in 1910, which established the Union of South Africa. The British recognized that these united colonies of South Africa would not run successfully without the cooperation of the Afrikaners. Therefore, the British proposed some compromises and eventually worked out conflicts between them and the Afrikaners. This cooperation laid out the foundation for a future of white supremacy in South Africa.
One the day of 1913 the native South African, woke up as a pariah in the land of his birth. These were the early stages of white supremacy which further resulted into apartheid.
When young black people stand up, recognise and fight the injustice that has been happening towards black people in this country, it surprises me why some people would think that these kids are causing a unnecessary commotion in this country.
As a new South Africa, we can't have structure that still celebrates heroes of oppression, we should not tolerate any kind of oppression in educational institutions or in the work place. Many white people have a problem with #RhodesMustFall, purely because they realise that they will be losing some of their white privileges which they got through oppression.
If you do not have a valid reason as to why Rhodes should not fall, then you should do this country a huge favour and keep quiet. This is the black man fighting against the oppressive system put in place by our former oppressors, not against white people.
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