Re: Jeff Rense - Racist?
I would just like to give a little perspective here (due to the article posted), just in case anyone thinks that the AWB (Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging / Afrikaner Resistance Movement) is representative of Afrikaners in South Africa – they’re not.
The vast majority of South Africans are moderates. The AWB doesn’t even feature on the political radar in South Africa (they number in the hundreds, possibly in the thousands). Nobody has heard of them since 1994 until now. They are getting a bit of press now because of their leader, Eugene Terre’blanche’s murder.
The youngest political crisis we witnessed, with outspoken racists being given great exposure in the media, both in the ANC camp with the likes of Julius Malema, and in the AWB camp with André Visagie, was good in the sense that it showed that the middle ground (the moderates) held strong. We are too integrated already.
The official opposition to the ANC, is the DA (Democratic Alliance), a non-racial political party. They enjoy the majority of the white vote in South Africa during elections.
Having said all that, I don’t mean to say that the murders of white farmers shouldn’t be addressed, it should, because it does appear to be racially motivated hate crimes, just not in the manner it is currently being addressed, resulting in racial polarisation.
The AWB won’t disrupt the world cup. Their mentality is a little reminiscent of the hillbilly types you find in the US, and their racial war talk has always been a constant.
Anti-racism group has South Africans seeing green
…Facebook unfortunately shut down this group, for some reason.