[Times Live] So said Catholic Bishop William Slattery at a meeting of religious leaders in Pretoria yesterday.
He said white people "escaped" institutions once they were opened to all races.
He used as an example four Catholic schools in the Pretoria city centre that had only white pupils in the 1960s but now had hardly a single white pupil.
"They have all withdrawn from the schools. So white people have a problem," he said.
Slattery said the fact that the country was grappling with racial tension more than two decades into democracy was a huge frustration for people yearning for a nonracial society.
White people were impoverishing themselves in the process by not being sensitive to other people's cultures, he said.
Slattery said the answer was patience, saying that more than a century after the Anglo-Boer War English and Afrikaners found it difficult to mix and socialise.
"It takes a long time. It is a question of trust," he said, adding that white people needed to learn to trust their brothers and sisters.
Malusi Mpumlwana, a Bishop of the Ethiopian Episcopal Church, shared the same sentiments, saying all churches in Pretoria had gone black because whites "have escaped".
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was grappling with racial tension more than two decades into democracy was a huge frustration for people yearning for a nonracial society.
Now that's funny right there.
Has he noticed how successful the US has been with attaining a nonracial society in 50 years, not to mention the 150 since the Civil War?
Would you want to have your car fixed, no less be operated on, by a guy that was forced to do it against his will all in the name of social engineering?
True integration will take a looooooong time because the real issue isn't race, it's culture.
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it may surprise you to know but blacks are as newcomers to South Africa as whites are
they are not the "native" people there at all.
The indigenous people of South Africa are the San who were pushed out by invading whites from the south and blacks from the north until they retreated north into the Kalahari. Now they are known as the Bushmen of the Kalahari.
They are not black, they are brown. They are totally unlike the black migrants who are an aggressive tribe that came originally from the great lakes region before spreading across the continent.
The whites are now in retreat and will be as invisible one day as the bushmen of the kalahari
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anon1 is right. Wikipedia has a good article in the spread of the Bantu -- with maps -- as currently believed to be true, starting around 2,000 BC here.
[Ynet] The US simply joined the Russian-Turkish party in Syria, essentially allowing Assad's rule to continue--at least for now--and Iran and Hezbollah to establish their hold on the war-battered country. This is the worst possible outcome for Israel.
The Americans are now selling out the Syrian Kurds to the Turks--but we've already gotten used to their cynical foreign policy. What Israel is having a hard time getting used to, however, is the fact its biggest ally is completely disregarding Israeli interests in the Middle East.
Over the past two years, since the international intervention in Syria began, Western diplomacy has been trying to convince allies in the world to cooperate with the minorities in Syria. Alongside the Kurds and Druze, who are the two larger minority groups, there are other ethnic-religious groups in Syria who are demanding autonomy.
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The Americans simply joined this Russian-Turkish party. What this means for Israel is that the Americans are essentially giving their consent to the continuation of the Assad regime, for now, and allowing Iran and Hezbollah to establish their hold on Syria ahead of a future political agreement in the country.
Sending along a photo of the recent first $400m cash installment. No ticki - No ride.
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What Israel is having a hard time getting used to, however, is the fact its biggest ally is completely disregarding Israeli interests in the Middle East
Since it's been going on for 40 years --- american public is pro-Israel, their Gov never was --- we should be used to it by now.
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Pray to God that the next administration treats Turkey as an enemy and the Kurds as friends! It is imperative that some administrative role be granted the minority Kurds in east Mosul once that city is taken. It is imperative that the U.S. military retain their base north of Irbil as a block against both the Turks and the Iraqis. We definitely need another ally in the Middle East beside Israel (which has been treated unconscionably by the Obama admin).Finally, any State Department employee who had a hand in the support of the so-called "Arab Spring" should be purged.
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"How the Turks deceived the Americans on Syria"
With Bambi's crowd in "charge," easily.
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The Americans are now selling out the Syrian Kurds to the Turks--but we've already gotten used to their cynical foreign policy.
Fact: The governments of Iran, Iraq, Syria(sic), and Turkey ALL want to crush an emerging Kurdistan.
Who is going to help them? Who has an vested interest in helping them? Who is willing to pay the butcher's bill involved in helping them? IMO, the Kurds and Lebanon deserve help, unfortunately I don't see anyone that will provide it.
[DAWN] THESE are interesting times for the MQM. On Friday, the party’s politicians in the National Assembly did what even a few weeks ago would have been unthinkable: they supported a government-initiated resolution condemning party supremo the increasingly enormousAltaf Hussain ..The head of MQM in Pakistain, who has lived in London and hasn't laid eyes on Pakistain since Caesar made corporal. Judging from the size of him,he may be a Hutt... and announced they were now ’disconnected’ from the man in London. A day earlier, the party had said it had written Mr Hussain out of the organization’s constitution. These developments -- surprising as they are -- come in the aftermath of the speech Altaf Hussain made on Aug 22. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... for those aware of the Muttahida’s history, this clean break with Mr Hussain, if indeed genuine, is pivotal. After all, not too long ago the party supremo’s word was law on the streets of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , with his cadres rushing to defend his every outburst, and carrying out his questionable commands with zealous dedication. But the anti-Pakistain rant seems to have been the last straw, pushing the Muttahida’s politicianship to the wall and forcing them to denounce their founder’s remarks.
Today, the MQM stands at the crossroads more than ever before in its over three decades of existence. For neutral observers, the party appears to be a bundle of contradictions. It has frequently courted the security establishment, yet has also suffered the consequences when the men in khaki cracked down due to Muttahida ’crossing the line’. It has returned middle-class candidates to the assemblies otherwise dominated by feudal, tribal and financial ’elites’, yet has also ruthlessly plundered its constituents in the name of zakat, fitra and ’donations’. It has emerged as a secular voice of urban Sindh’s Urdu speakers, yet has unambiguously dabbled in political militancy. It has claimed to speak for the descendants of those who ’fought for Pakistain’, yet has also followed this up with talk of secession. On top of all these contradictions, it runs a powerful electoral machine in urban Sindh, one with a solid vote bank that even without the use of strong-arm tactics and electoral malpractices has genuine support, as the recent local government elections and various by-polls have shown.
The million-dollar question is: will the MQM from now on purely concentrate on its political activities and forever forsake the gun? The answer to this question depends on the ’Altaf factor’; the MQM founder has been unusually quiet ever since his Aug 22 diatribe. Some have smelt conspiracies, saying the split is deliberate and cosmetic, while his London-based acolytes have trashed talk of a ’minus-one’ formula. It remains to be seen whether Altaf Hussain will go quietly into the sunset and let the Pakistain-based party rebuild itself. Or will the dreaded hard boy wing -- seen as still loyal to Mr Hussain -- try and wrest control from the political faction? The days ahead will reveal what path the Muttahida takes, and how this will affect Karachi’s politics, and the fate of the MQM in general.
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[Free Beacon] The world is full of amateurs and fools, bumbling their way into dim alleys or falling off the docks into dark water. But maybe the saddest cases are found among the people who actually have some skill: the people who flourish in a profession, productively filling a career, and then decide that their success in one field equips them for success in another.
The problem, I think, is that competent people often think of competence as a general kind of talent, applicable to anything to which they might turn their hand. Unfortunately, competence often proves less fungible and more particular than we like to imagine. To have done one job well doesn’t guarantee an ability to do some other job just as well.
If you ever need an example, you’ll find it in Robert Levinson, the American spy who has been missing in Iran for almost a decade. As recounted by the New York Times reporter Barry Meier in his book Missing Man, Levinson’s tale is by turns shocking, infuriating, and insanely weird--populated with Mafia figures, Russian oligarchs, Columbian drug smugglers, reckless spymasters, and lying diplomats.
But at the same time, Levinson’s story seems almost like a fugue, heading toward its predictable conclusion from the moment the former FBI agent decided to supplement his retirement pension by trying his hand at international intrigue. Once Levinson began contracting part-time with the CIA, he was stumbling toward the end of the dock, where the water is always dark and deep.
As Meier explains in Missing Man, the facts of Levinson’s disappearance are now fairly well known. In 2007, he traveled to Kish, a resort island off the coast of Iran. He did have a letter from British American Tobacco, authorizing him to investigate cigarette smuggling there. But, as it turns out, Levinson himself had forged the letter, and he had actually gone to Iran to gather information he hoped to sell to the Illicit Finance Group of the CIA.
In particular, Levinson seems to have planned a meeting with an American named Teddy Belfield--"a supreme sociopath," according to Meier--who had changed his name to Dawud Salahuddin, assassinated an Iranian dissident in Washington, D.C., and fled to Iran more than 30 years ago. One of Levinson’s old friends, the journalist Ira Silverman, had interviewed Salahuddin, and apparently suggested to Levinson that the man might be growing tired of his Iranian exile. So off Levinson went to see if he could arrange a repatriation, bringing back to the United States all that Salahuddin knew.
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Levinson's background alone should have led him to know better. The real "amateurs and fools" are the college kid who went to NorK and got 20+ years for messing with a propaganda poster, the Canuck, Aussie and Eurine "conflict tourists" who go to places common sense says should be avoided, the well-meaning but naïve missionaries who don't understand there are plenty of people who need help who don't happen to live in places where rebel militias and religious extremists operate. They are all prexy obooboo's "citizens of the world" types who learned everything they know about the world from John Lennon lyrics...
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[SultanKnish] The media has found its latest civil rights cause. It’s not the plight of Christians in Muslim countries who are being blocked from coming here as refugees because Obama’s refugee policy favors Muslims. Obama brought over 2,000 Syrians here in July. Only 15 of them were Christians.
It’s not the rising fear of an Islamic terrorist attack in Jewish synagogues. I have lately witnessed unprecedented levels of security at synagogues including guards in body armor and checkpoints. Racist Muslim violence against Jewish synagogues has been a staple of Islamic terrorism for too many years.
But instead the media has highlighted the civil rights cause of the burkini.
...It’s not about modesty. It’s not about religion. It’s about putting a "Do Not Rape" sign on Muslim women. And putting a "Free to Molest" sign on non-Muslim women.
This isn’t some paranoid misreading of Islamic scripture. Islamic commentaries use synonyms for "molested" such as "harmed", "assaulted" and "attacked" because women who aren’t wearing their burkas aren’t "decent" women and can expect to be assaulted by Muslim men. These clothes designate Muslim women as "believing" women or "women of the believers". That is to say Muslims.
One Koranic commentary is quite explicit. "It is more likely that this way they may be recognized (as pious, free women), and may not be hurt (considered by mistake as roving slave girls.)" The Yazidi girls captured and raped by ISIS are an example of "roving slave girls" who can be assaulted by Muslim men.
Muslim women who don’t want to be mistaken for non-Muslim slave girls had better cover up. And non-Muslim women had better cover up too or they’ll be treated the way ISIS treated Yazidi women and the way that Mohammed and his gang of rapists and bandits treated any woman they came across.
That’s what the burka is. That’s what the hijab is. And that’s what the burkini is. Also.
(1) My backyard, my bat, my ball, my rules.
(2) Render into Caesar, or the Caesar will rend you.
BLUF: [JoshuaPundit] But there's a little more to the story that the media and the NFL will avoid at all costs, because it explains the real reason Mr. Kaepernick has suddenly come out with the idea of inflicting his agenda publicly on the fans. And the media and the NFL have no intention of it coming out if they can help it.
As the French wisely say, Cherchez la femme, look for the woman.
In this case, the woman is hip-hop radio personality DJ Nessa Diab. She's a Berkeley grad, a very dogmatic outspoken Black Lives Matter advocate and a Muslim. She and Colin Kaepernick are engaged, and Kaepernick converted to Islam during the off season.
The two are reportedly planning what Kaepernick calls 'a traditional Muslim wedding.'
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Write into their contracts that they will stand for the "Star Spangled Banner" or make it understood that there will be a fine for each infraction. Enough of this B.S.
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Besoeker, I've noticed cross-fertilization between "Palestinian Struggle" and USA "civil rights" long ago. Paleos borrow the rhetoric of "poor oppressed", and (at least nowadays) "Blacks" beginning to talk about separate state.
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If he's not man enough to have principles to stick to, if they change simply because she demands him to, then he's basically a bastard and I hope they're completely unhappy together for years and years.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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