Apartheid did not die
Nov. 27th, 2009 12:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mahnmutReminding 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.
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.
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.
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.
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