NOT a uniquely South African thing
The comments that are now being said on social media specifically by the youth and those affected and influenced by the striking that is occurring at DUT is not a uniquely South African phenomenon.
One only needs to look at International publications throughout the world and look at the comments line and you will see that specifically the youth and the ignorant quickly want to hurt and attack people that are not like minded.
This attack will resort to name calling and one of the most hurtful means of doing this would be attacking race.
So it isn’t a uniquely South African thing to call somebody a ‘stupid black guy’ or an ‘imperialist white guy’ or a ‘greedy Jew’ or an ‘ignorant spic or wop’ - this unfortunately is human behaviour.
The problem in South Africa however is that our leaders, unlike some leaders in the more progressive countries, do not give credence to this ignorant and racist slurring that the youth sometimes use as a last resort.
South African leaders however use it as a political tool and in an election year they know how powerful that tool is.
We only need to look at our election record to see that decision making for our leaders is not based on their leadership abilities, their strengths’ as leaders, but we have a look at how they are chosen due to race, or to tribe or to culture.
So our leaders, our politicians are largely to blame for this knee-jerk hate race. Not only them but also our parents.
Where do you think these youngsters learn their racism from if not from their own parents and families?
I think the best thing we can do for children before we send them to tertiary education is to remove them from their racist parents first so that they don’t have a racist base to work with.
Racism is learned, ignorance fostered and hate taught by those who would use your fear as a tool.
-Darren Maule
VIDEO: DUT students clash with security
Darren and The Breakfast team chatted to Eugene, a previous DUT SRC member in the 90’s and asked him what he did in the past to try and stop this.
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- East Coast Breakfast