Bruce_ma_goose, given what the liberal media (no conspiracy theories!) pushes I can understand why people might think the situation in SA is as cut and dry as that drone footage shows. White = rich and Black = poor. However it's not, and the irony is that the liberals end up taking up essentially racist stances and assumptions. Like why are they overlooking the large ethnic Indian population in SA? Which is about the size of the white population. I really do find it fascinating how that huge portion of SA's demographic never gets a mention. Why is that if the whole point of quotas is to correct the wrongs of the past and represent the demographic of the country?
In SA the black middle class is more than double the size of the white middle class. Those nice houses in that drone footage would have had white, Indian and black families in them. The shacks would have had 99% to 100% black families in them.
Rugby in SA is not a private school thing. Most public schools in a town or city would have a rugby team. These schools have majority black students. When I was at a public high school that had an A, B and (god bless them) C side. In my class of 37 students maybe 8 of us were white. Roughly 80% of the white boys would play rugby and 80% of the black boys wouldn't play rugby. They wanted to play soccer instead. The soccer teams would often have a token white guy.
It's really that simple. The majority of black people prefer soccer and the majority of white people prefer rugby, and Indians don't care about either really. Nobody is being excluded it's just preference at this stage, whatever the reason. Is the contributing factor because of the past? Without a doubt yes. But those barriers are no longer present and that's the point. Why aren't the government subsidising black people to go watch rugby matches if transformation is so important to them?
In SA the black middle class is more than double the size of the white middle class. Those nice houses in that drone footage would have had white, Indian and black families in them. The shacks would have had 99% to 100% black families in them.
Rugby in SA is not a private school thing. Most public schools in a town or city would have a rugby team. These schools have majority black students. When I was at a public high school that had an A, B and (god bless them) C side. In my class of 37 students maybe 8 of us were white. Roughly 80% of the white boys would play rugby and 80% of the black boys wouldn't play rugby. They wanted to play soccer instead. The soccer teams would often have a token white guy.
It's really that simple. The majority of black people prefer soccer and the majority of white people prefer rugby, and Indians don't care about either really. Nobody is being excluded it's just preference at this stage, whatever the reason. Is the contributing factor because of the past? Without a doubt yes. But those barriers are no longer present and that's the point. Why aren't the government subsidising black people to go watch rugby matches if transformation is so important to them?
