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Why are some black people afraid of the DA?
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This post is not an attack and has no ill intention towards anyone. I have noticed on most DA social media posts, the top comments are mostly black commenters expressing their distrust towards the DA party. Primarily believing that if the DA will be elected, they will bring back apartheid and a big wave of racism will surge over South Africa again.
Regardless, a lot of black South Africans expresses these concerns. I would like to know if their fear towards the DA party is real, or is a some sort of political tactic to spread fear or misinformation?
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This is thanks in no small part to misinformation being spread throughout South Africa. The ANC and its allies have successfully managed to intermingle the struggle against Apartheid with their political policies. You'll often hear rhetoric implying that social welfare grants or trade unions are only possible under the ANC, who happens to be the party that freed us from Apartheid.
To a lesser extent, they have also managed to attach the idea of a functioning, meritocratic state to the idea of Apartheid. They make it seem like good service delivery is only possible when you exclude a bunch of people, like the Apartheid government did. And they use this as an excuse for why they can't deliver properly. The result is that when someone like John Steenhuisen (or any white person, for that matter) demands improved service delivery, they can characterize that as a white person pining for the good old days.
They keep emphasizing these pictures over and over, so much so that for some people, the Struggle heroes and the politicians become one and the same thing. So when the DA steps up to the podium and criticizes ANC policy, or just the ANC themselves, some people believe that the DA is not simply criticizing a mundane, everyday policy decision but instead are attacking the idea of a post-Apartheid South Africa altogether.
out in da black, mining tritium for the FC
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Laser or ssd?
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I would do laser, but you should have both.
Kodak Black Threatens to Fight A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie
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Top Comment: didn't he just get out of jail
BLACK PEOPLE ARE DA REAL JEWS MUTHAFUCKA
Main Post: BLACK PEOPLE ARE DA REAL JEWS MUTHAFUCKA
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I don't know what the people in this image are doing, they may be some we wuz kangz guys, but there actually are black jews. They are the Beta Israel. Jacques Faitlovitch (an Ashkenazi) lived with them for a time (since he spoke Amharic and Tingrinya) and championed them against the oppression they faced in Ethiopia, a largely Christian country.
He wrote a long paper about them called "The Falashas"
Some quotes on the Beta Israel from this paper:
"In Abyssinia...exist Jews called " Falashas." Their skin of a light black color and the regular and finely cut features which characterize them speak of a non-African race...They call themselves Beta Israel ("The House of Israel"), and with great pride state that they are the offspring of the stock of Abraham...their oral traditions, faithfully transmitted from father to son, sustain their claim as Jews...they have maintained throughout the centuries in this remote corner of the Dark Continent, the assertion of descent from our ancestors, and this sincere claim, next to their religious hope, is their most cherished heirloom...They always show themselves worthy sons of our people"
"Isolated as they were during thousands of years from their coreligionists in other parts of the world, these Jews, living in the very heart of the populations of this gigantic country of Africa, were more resisting and steadfast than a rock against the waves."
So yeah, there are black jews.