Genius!

Last week I was sent this clip, and I’d like to share it with you.

I am often amazed about how strong people who are different can be…Society casts out people for being weird, or ugly, or fat, or gay or whatever the case may be. But these people, despite being ostracized rise above the fray and come out stronger. It’s quite amazing to see how easily people break, and how easily others move on and become stronger human beings. It’s a testament to the strength and character of people, the willpower to succeed against all odds.

Sometimes, I find, that people who are shut out from society and more often than not, much happier in their own lives than their “normal” counterparts. How silly are we to think that to shame others will make us feel better. How silly of us to judge others, but expect not to be judged on our own character.

Please watch this, it’s quite inspirational. Thanks Ernest, for making this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n700edTcmxc

Much Love   ♥

Can’t we all just get along?

What a disappointment. Really. Yesterday, there was girl on my Facebook whose status update was something along the line of “Rumour has it that the night of the long knives will happen on the night of the 13th. Pray to God, and let’s be ready”

Firstly, the “Night of the long knives” refers to a prophesy made by Siener van Rensburg a hundred years ago. The prophesy goes that there will come a time in South Africa where all the black people will rise up and start murdering the white people. Furthermore, there a couple of signs that he predicted which would announce the arrival of said prophesy. A couple of these signs are:

• A very cold winter, like no winter before
• The workers at the electricity plants threaten to cut the power
• Mining accidents that will result in uprising
• The Rand (SA’s currency) weakening
• Murders on white people where no theft is involved
• England disappearing into the water
• Several countries that are in a state of war
• The Muslims are involved in a religious war

(Source: http://boere-eenheid-forum.cultureforum.net/gesels-f4/uhurunag-van-die-lang-messe-t189-30.htm)

So, clearly all of these things are true in my country. And what do the scared, racist white people do? They go into a flat-spin over all these signs, and what this man predicted a very long time ago. But hang-on. It’s the 14th today…Nothing happened. No, really?

After I read this status, it bothered me for a couple of hours. I read up a little on this prophesy, and I came across a very frighteningly large number of white supremacist sites who all predict doom and gloom for the white people of South Africa. This upset me, so much so, that I decided I would comment on the girl’s status. I said that I thought it was completely irresponsible to put a post like that up on Facebook. It frightens people, and fear is an incredible driving force. I told her that people thought after the 1994 elections, all the white people would be murdered. They also thought that when Eugene Terre’blache (a former AWB leader) died earlier this year that there would be a civil war. It didn’t happen.

She responded with :”Lol, like Noah tried to warn the people and they all laughed at him”, after which she removed me as a friend. Gosh, I didn’t know that racism and Christianity was the same thing. I don’t see how this prophesy has anything to do with religion. It only fuels people’s fear and hatred for another race. It’s called Xenophobia, people. If the prophesy has anything to do whatsoever with religion, then I guess there must be something very wrong, because it calls for Black people to be heathen murderers, and the poor little White man having to suffer for Christianity. But wait, aren’t there any Black Christians? Of course there are. So how does this fall into the teachings of the Bible to love one another? I told her as much.

I find it deplorable that people can be so ignorant, so hateful and racist. We’ve come a long way from slavery, and the indignation of Apartheid. If the people my age are still racist, still going on and on about Apartheid, what hope is there for the future? It’s ridiculous that my generation has this unexplained hatred of other races. We aren’t old enough to remember Apartheid. We weren’t affected directly by it. Sure maybe our parents and grandparents were, but by the time we could fathom what Apartheid was, it was over.

It’s time to get over it already. It’s over. We need to move on. Not only the white people, but also the black people. We need to stop the hate, and the fear and the violence. We are a civilised nation. Shouldn’t we start acting like it?

Much Love ♥