White racism

 

Jason Bartlett

@Jason2bartlett

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Jul 13

Fact of the day: White South Africans built a fully functional nation, one of the richest in the world. Black South African tore it down, burnt it to the ground, destroyed the economy, destroyed the infrastructure and ruined a once beautiful nation and stole everything.

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🔥 CLAIM: “White South Africans built a fully functional nation, one of the richest in the world.”

✅ FACTS:

White South Africans built a system of apartheid — a racially segregated regime that violently excluded the Black majority from economic and political participation for nearly five decades (1948–1994).

• GDP per capita under apartheid was high for whites, but the majority Black population lived in poverty. In the 1980s, the poverty rate among Black South Africans was over 50%, while White South Africans lived in a first-world bubble.

• The economy was heavily reliant on Black labor, especially in mining, agriculture, and domestic work, while denying Black South Africans education, land ownership, and political rights.

➡️ South Africa was not a “fully functional nation” — it was an oppressive state for the majority of its people.

🔥 CLAIM: “Black South Africans tore it down, burnt it to the ground, destroyed the economy.”

✅ FACTS:

South Africa’s democratic transition in 1994 was widely peaceful, and the ANC inherited a broken, unsustainable economy riddled with sanctions, debt, and inequality.

• Apartheid-era mismanagement left a legacy of:

  • A deeply skewed land ownership pattern (87% of land owned by whites).

  • Underfunded and inferior education for Black South Africans.

  • International sanctions that crippled the economy during the 1980s (growth shrank to less than 1%).

➡️ The ANC government had to rebuild the country, not destroy it.

🔥 CLAIM: “Destroyed the economy, infrastructure... stole everything.”

✅ FACT:

• South Africa’s economy has had ups and downs since 1994 — some due to ANC corruption and mismanagement, especially under Jacob Zuma — but it is not destroyed.

• South Africa is still the most industrialised economy in Africa and part of BRICS. It has:

  • The best-developed financial sector on the continent.

  • A higher GDP than during apartheid.

  • A constitution ranked among the most progressive in the world.

Yes, corruption and inequality remain real problems, but they are not the product of Black leadership in itself — they’re complex results of both historic and contemporary factors, including apartheid’s legacy, global capitalism, and poor governance.

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✅ KEY CONTEXT: Apartheid’s Legacy Is Still Felt

• Black South Africans started at a systemic disadvantage — with no wealth, no education, no healthcare, and no land.

• In 1994, 95% of the country’s wealth was controlled by 5% of the population — mostly white.

• Today, the average white household still earns five times more than the average Black household. This is not because Black South Africans “ruined” the country, but because inequality was baked into the system for generations.

✅ Summary

The post is not just inaccurate, it’s dangerous, racist propaganda.

• It erases the crimes of apartheid.

• It ignores the resilience of Black South Africans who peacefully transitioned to democracy instead of seeking revenge.

• It weaponises complex challenges in modern South Africa to blame an entire race, which is a classic white supremacist tactic.

If anyone is responsible for “burning” South Africa, it was the apartheid regime — which burned generations of potential through racist oppression.