Apartheid did not die

[mahnmut]

Reminding of this brilliant 1999 documentary by John Pilger. Every single minute of this 50-minute movie is soaked with meaning.

John Pilger had been banned from South Africa for his reporting during the apartheid era. On his return 30 years later with Alan Lowery, he described the extraordinary generosity of a liberated people, but asked who are the true beneficiaries of a democracy - the black majority or the white minority? He also digs to the bottom of the current situation. Although made 10 years ago, the film turned out to be prophetic.

John Pilger: Apartheid Did Not Die

The movie also shows a great part of the reasons why I have chosen the path that I am walking now, and why I do what I do these days. I have explained much of it here and here, so I will not expand more on the topic right now. The movie says it all.

And finally, let me quote my father.
"It took a generation to defeat white supremacy, if it'll take another one to defeat black totalitarianism, you'd better be ready to go for it."

I'll paraphrase. It is not just totalitarianism that should be uprooted. It is oligarchy, kleptocracy, and social corruption. One person cannot change much, but an ocean consists of many drops. And oceanic tidal waves tend to break levees.

The struggle has not ended.

'Nuff said.

Comments

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) Love Pilger's work.

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

Alexandra has changed a lot for these 10 years...

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Depends.

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

Not really.

[acesspadesdice.livejournal.com]

I do not admire John Pilger as a journalist. He has been caught reporting untruth before, and he is extremely partisan. He has an hysteria making sensationalist style. Auboron Waugh remarked as follows http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/captain-moonlight-in-a-word-1507284.html

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Yes I acknowledge that he's biased and has a specific manner of doing journalism which is far from objective journalism. However, I don't care about the man or even about his journalist works. All I care about is the issue being presented here.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

I've always put him on a level with Michael Moore, do you think that assessment is correct?

Do you have any credible sources on his untruths? I haven't heard of any, and like I said above, I really like the guy, but it'd be good to know what dodgy stuff he's doing (he's a populist journalist, by definition he's doing dodgy stuff, I just like to be aware of the bias in what I'm watching).

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Oh, and what I mean by credible source... I googled and all I can find is people just pissed off that he isn't holding other countries up to the same scrutiny as he is the West. That doesn't cut it for me, if you're goal is to do social commentary on your own culture, you don't really have to bother with looking at what other cultures do.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

That, and the fact that "Oh, others do it too" doesn't justify "us" doing it.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Oh he sure IS populist. Who isn't. But OK, he's a bit more populist than the rest. (Obviously I'm not counting Hannity, O'Reilly & their gang, or Stewart, Colbert & the likes - although I'm not sure if there's anyone left...)

I don't like Moore, mostly because of his Gotcha journalism and his assholish approach, yet some of the stuff he's talked about makes sense. His latest movie is hypocritical though, IMO. He's making millions out of a movie bashing capitalism? WTF.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Add to that that it's just a steaming pile of shit. I know his gig is to cherry pick stories that support his argument, but this was going over the top. Add to that that there was no coherent narrative in it whatsoever. It looks like something he knocked up in an afternoon whilst smoking PCP.

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

Easiest way to dismiss an issue: smear the source. Ie, kill the messenger, the problem will disappear. Game, set, match.

[acesspadesdice.livejournal.com]

it was game set and match for JP long ago, in a far away land mythical land elsewhere in his bibliography

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

This makes anything his mouth utters from now on a moot point not worth addressing. I like your logic.

oh stop crying

[acesspadesdice.livejournal.com]

(http://s25.photobucket.com/albums/c68/asdice/?action=view&current=waaaambulance.png)

Re: oh stop crying

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

Yeah hahahaha OK, no big deal actually. :)))