28 June 2025

What will it take to reach a truly non-racial South Africa?

In my world, it's very difficult to ignore race & how it determines people's lives so I don't know what these people claiming we should ignore race are on but let's play along. What would it take to achieve a racially-oblivious South Africa? 

Firstly, we'd need to get rid of mentalities we inherited from Apartheid; we need to see a human being & a person first not his (or her) race & his racial stereotype first. We need to stop looking at black opulence as a negative & stop finding jokes in white poverty. Many of us still chuckle when we see interracial couples in South Africa but we'd need to stop that also. 

But, ultimately, I think any attempt at non-racialism is futile because race is not fiction, it's a biological reality. There'll be mixed-race people who would attempt to promote non-racialism but mixed-race communities themselves are an example that non-racialism fails. I think tradition, heritage & centuries old indigenous customs are more important than any racial experiment in the end. 

I can appreciate what the different races of South Africa bring to the table but we may need to accept that for South Africa to truly work, it may need to federate. Like how oil, water & petrol work in the same motor vehicle but not in the same compartments. Or maybe even separate regions into new countries by race. While nobody is taught to be racist, they learn to be racist the more they experience life in South Africa. 

Even if we did legislate non-racialism into law, one race or the other would eventually strive for supremacy rendering the whole practice unworkable.

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