The Trump administration’s support for these claims, while stopping other new refugee arrivals, has inflamed uncomfortable conversations about how far racial reconciliation still has to go, three decades after the end of white minority rule.
The US president’s offer was a “godsend”, said Kyle, now a salesman working remotely for an overseas company: “I’ve got white children, they’re at the bottom of the hiring list here. So, there is no future for them. And the sad thing is they don’t even know what apartheid is.”
White Afrikaner governments racially segregated every aspect of life from relationships to where people were allowed to live during apartheid, repressing South Africa’s Black majority while keeping the white minority safe and much better off.
South Africa remains deeply unequal, more than 30 years since the system ended. The black South African unemployment rate is 46.1%, for example, compared with 9.2% for white people.
Where are you going with this?
Do you think it’s realistic and reasonable that college aged work seeking kids living in America (or South Africa) just haven’t been exposed to the topic is slavery (or apartheid)?
They know what it is, historically.
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Yes.
Japan doesn’t tend to teach its children about the atrocities that Japan committed in the past century.
China is in a similar boat.
Depending on the province, school board, and even teacher, Canada doesn’t always do a good job of teaching its children about the residential schools and related atrocities committed against the indigenous peoples of the land.
So yeah. I think it’s possible that people old enough to work and be looking for jobs (which can be as young as 14 where I live) are ignorant to the atrocities their countries committed.
The USA is actually surprisingly halfway decent at teaching kids about the atrocities committed against Black people, from my perspective. There is still a long way to go, but at least kids grow up knowing that many Americans owned slaves and that it’s wrong to own slaves. Some regions less-so than others, but still, lol
There’s a big difference between understanding and relating to the victims of atrocities, and simply not knowing about historic events.
They aren’t ignorant, you are whitewashing them and stripping them of agency. They know about the racist history that they benefit from greatly! The education system in South Africa covers the rise, implementation, and fall of apartheid in significant detail.
What are you arguing about? It could have taken you less time to look up how seriously apartheid is taken in South Africa instead of listing a bunch of irrelevant countries that don’t take seriously irrelevant crimes, what are you doing?
I don’t know the situation of the children that the parents are talking about. These could be homeschooled kids, etc.
Someone said something about their kids, and I believed that what they said was true. If they meant something else, they could’ve said something else. If they phrased it poorly, then so be it. Lol
just trying to help you understand our reading of the guy’s remark.
I’d infer that the children are of the age where they’d be applying to college in your scenario.
If they’re not, then whoever said that isn’t speaking from experience, but from imagination.