Dan Roodt - AmRen: Forty Years Since the Soweto Riots - "South Africa today is in something of a 'permanent riot.' Europe and North America are hovering on the brink of chaos, as they try to share their civilization with aliens."

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A legacy of arson, destruction, and killing one’s benefactors.

This is the 40th-year anniversary of one of the events that is said to have brought black rule in South Africa: the Soweto riots of 1976. The riots–now officially known as an “uprising”–are so central to the myths of black liberation that June 16, the day the violence began, is now celebrated as a national holiday known as “Youth Day.” The holiday was declared in 1995, the first full year of black rule, and is now one of the most important days on the propaganda calendar.

The “uprising” is portrayed today as heroic resistance to the apartheid regime’s decision to make Afrikaans rather than English the language of instruction in black public schools. Students recognized that English was the language of openness to the world and of liberation, whereas Afrikaans was the language of the Boer oppressor and a hated symbol of apartheid. They spontaneously boycotted classes, marched in demonstrations, and were slaughtered in the streets by racist white police. This brave act of resistance was a crucial step in the development of the black liberation movement and the rise of Nelson Mandela’s ANC. ...

http://www.amren.com/features/2016/08/forty-years-since-the-soweto-riots/