{"id":10063,"date":"2013-09-06T13:41:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T13:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10063"},"modified":"2013-09-06T13:50:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T13:50:53","slug":"apartheid-wasnt-conceived-in-a-vacuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10063","title":{"rendered":"Apartheid wasn&#8217;t conceived in a vacuum"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10064\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/homelands.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10064\" alt=\"Apartheid homelands\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/homelands.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apartheid homelands<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Expose entrenched racism as it manifests in contemporary South Africa but don&#8217;t assume your authority to equate (&#8220;all but small dissident groups of alternative&#8221;) Afrikaners with white supremacy. It was the British that united all of South Africa as the political entity we know today, just over 100 years ago, after they showed zero white solidarity towards the Afrikaners and just before they passed the Natives Land Act of 1913. It only needed a name when the NP came to power: Apartheid wasn&#8217;t conceived in a vacuum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Furthermore, dressing the experience of whiteness in a costume of irrational racial hatred that sprang from thin air might impress your Elizabethan audiences in the enchanted forest (for whom Englishness may have been the only conceivable &#8220;default&#8221;) but it will do nothing towards our understanding of how things came to be the way they are, which is crucial for reconciliation in this country and all over the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Playing the brutish white off against the helpless black conjures up images of a 19th-century representation of &#8220;Bongo bongo land&#8221; and your call on &#8220;us whites&#8221; to unite in our collective white guilt is just outright supremacist. Welcome to the African renaissance. It isn&#8217;t up to &#8220;us whites&#8221; anymore. &#8211; Guest on Mail &amp; Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expose entrenched racism as it manifests in contemporary South Africa but don&#8217;t assume your authority to equate (&#8220;all but small dissident groups of alternative&#8221;) Afrikaners with white supremacy. It was the British that united all of South Africa as the political entity we know today, just over 100 years ago, after they showed zero white &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10063\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apartheid wasn&#8217;t conceived in a vacuum&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[492],"tags":[85,164,5892,3074],"class_list":["post-10063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-afrikaners","tag-apartheid","tag-native-land-act","tag-white-guilt"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/homelands.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10066,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063\/revisions\/10066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}