The Trump administration’s support for these claims, while stopping other new refugee arrivals, has inflamed uncomfortable conversations about how far racial reconciliation still has to go, three decades after the end of white minority rule.
The US president’s offer was a “godsend”, said Kyle, now a salesman working remotely for an overseas company: “I’ve got white children, they’re at the bottom of the hiring list here. So, there is no future for them. And the sad thing is they don’t even know what apartheid is.”
White Afrikaner governments racially segregated every aspect of life from relationships to where people were allowed to live during apartheid, repressing South Africa’s Black majority while keeping the white minority safe and much better off.
South Africa remains deeply unequal, more than 30 years since the system ended. The black South African unemployment rate is 46.1%, for example, compared with 9.2% for white people.
if an American conservative said “My kids are bottom of the college acceptance lists due to affirmative action; it’s bullshit, they don’t even know what slavery is,” what age would you infer that their children are?
Where are you going with this?
Do you think it’s realistic and reasonable that college aged work seeking kids living in America (or South Africa) just haven’t been exposed to the topic is slavery (or apartheid)?
They know what it is, historically.
Yes.
Japan doesn’t tend to teach its children about the atrocities that Japan committed in the past century.
China is in a similar boat.
Depending on the province, school board, and even teacher, Canada doesn’t always do a good job of teaching its children about the residential schools and related atrocities committed against the indigenous peoples of the land.
So yeah. I think it’s possible that people old enough to work and be looking for jobs (which can be as young as 14 where I live) are ignorant to the atrocities their countries committed.
The USA is actually surprisingly halfway decent at teaching kids about the atrocities committed against Black people, from my perspective. There is still a long way to go, but at least kids grow up knowing that many Americans owned slaves and that it’s wrong to own slaves. Some regions less-so than others, but still, lol
just trying to help you understand our reading of the guy’s remark.
I’d infer that the children are of the age where they’d be applying to college in your scenario.
If they’re not, then whoever said that isn’t speaking from experience, but from imagination.