Anonymous ID: a5b740 Norval Foundation March 27, 2019, 4:23 a.m. No.5919392   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Why this SPIRIT COOKING TYPE CHEAP ART right next to the USA Embassy?

 

Please look into this anons.

Anonymous ID: a5b740 March 27, 2019, 4:34 a.m. No.5919445   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9577

Racist Propaganda alert. - Possibly [Soros] funded.

 

The Whiteness conversation has begun [and it was good!]

What are you doing Friday night? Going to a workshop that interrogates whiteness.

 

Wait, what? And I am paying for it.

 

Those words might seem like they come out of an SNL sketch if South Africa had an SNL type show. But we don’t. And it was the brave decision of eight white people to respond to an invitation that my friend and colleague Megan Furniss put out on Facebook:

 

I am Megan Furniss, a white person, living in Cape Town and I want to start talking about it to other white people. How would you like to end the year by starting the conversation?

 

Few of us know how to navigate our whiteness and what it means, let alone understand the broader concepts of Systemic Racism and White Privilege. Mostly, the problems in South Africa and Cape Town have been so huge and challenging, we white people have been largely left alone in our ‘white spaces’ and have had to do very little shifting, learning, understanding and changing.

 

Are the hairs on the back of your neck starting to stand up? Are you already taking this personally? Are you about to think or say, “But I’m not a racist.”?

We are all somewhere on the spectrum of racism and privilege, just by virtue of being white. There is a lot of work to be done in unpacking what this means and how we, as white people, can stop complaining and take positive steps forward.

 

I want to have these difficult conversations a lot, with as many white people as possible. I have designed an introduction workshop that is safe, creative, holding, generous and free of blame and reprimand. It is a workshop that relies heavily on the positive and team co-operative work of improvisation, and the listening and sharing of storytelling. It is a workshop that is for white people, by white people, before we even consider diversity.

Ten of us, in a room, for over two hours, playing some delightful improv games to break the ice and start thinking about stories and then engaging with aspects of the whiteness story as they emerged.

 

Speaking with the Choir?

To be fair this felt largely like a room of people who got a lot of it. There was no need to explain white privilege or fragility, but that didn’t mean that there wasn’t work to be done. And as Megan and i will both tell you, that work includes us as well. This is very much a journey of walking away from racism and a lot of that requires seeing who we really are mirrored in other people’s words, thoughts and actions.

 

It was super encouraging to hear as we went around the room at the end giving a 40 second feedback on our experience how many people [pretty much all of the group] wanted to continue this work [particularly with this group but maybe also with other people – which either speaks to the caliber of the people in the room or perhaps more likely to the level of work that Megan did in holding the space so well].

 

There is much to be done

It did feel like just a start. And i could definitely have used an extra hour last night as it felt like we got to the edge of being able to really push deeper with a group that felt relatively comfortable with each other. It felt significant that we had someone from Holland wrestling with her country having been one of the colonisers while the people back home don’t seem interested in the conversation at all. And a number of older people [like myself] who grew up during apartheid and so held both sides of the story in a different way to those born after 1994.

 

All in all the work has begun. There will be more of these workshops and i imagine some form of longer running programme, because it is evident that this work is so overdue.

 

“What difference can we make? We can only change ourselves”, was the cry from one participant, and if that is true [which to varying degrees it may or may not be] then we had better get a move on at doing the crucial work of starting there and seeing what else might happen elsewhere.

 

https://brettfish.co.za/2018/12/15/whiteness-conversation-begins/

Anonymous ID: a5b740 March 27, 2019, 4:37 a.m. No.5919464   🗄️.is 🔗kun

More G Soros propaganda:

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https://brettfish.co.za/2018/09/28/40-tips-summary/

 

40 Tips for white people asking, ‘But what can I do?’ – a summary

40 Tips to help white people to answer the question, ‘But what can I do?’ when it comes to race and reconciliation in South Africa. And we have made it to the end of the 40 – which one[s] felt most helpful or relevant to you [show us some love in the comments section]? In this post i give a quick summary of each tip to remind you of the journey we have made together and remember these exist in groups of five on my blog, starting over here:

 

#1 There is a lot of reading you can do – books, articles, blogs etc, but to get you started I recommended the Robert Sobukwe book ‘How can man die better’ by Benjamin Pogrund and Steve Biko’s ‘I write what I like’ – to start to understand the SA story from a different viewpoint. To start to see beyond just Mandela.

 

#2 Commit to calling people by their name or the name they would like to be called by. This might involve gentle questions when you come across a black garage attendant called ‘Eric’ or ‘John’ and not deep interrogation. I’ve found the question, ‘what would you like people to call you?’ very helpful.

 

#3 Interrogate the words that I use – it is offensive to call a fifty-year-old man who works in your garden ‘boy’. The term ‘maid’ might be problematic because it comes from ‘maidservant’ and we don’t do servants any more [well, technically at least]. It is so easy to be able to change up some words we use that might be causing others pain.

 

#4 We examined the concept of ‘the better black/indian/coloured’ – when we say things like “you speak good English” the assumption it carries is [as most of your people don’t] but it also puts whiteness or english at the centre and assumes we are the standard to be measured by or attained. We should not be. We need to look at things we say or think that add to this as well as the expectation that black/coloured/indian people must behave a certain way when they are with us that fits in with our culture and way of doing things at the expense of being themselves.

 

#5 Spend some time intentionally with black/coloured/indian friends deepening relationship. Initially this tip was ‘take a black person out for coffee’ until a black friend gently educated me that taking someone for coffee is a very white thing. So it might be a walk or an invite to your house or responding to an invite to theirs or a dinner, but prioritise building friendships with people you know who do not look like you.

 

#6 – Interrogate the spaces you inhabit and visit – start to take stock of the people at the various places you go to in your week and if they are majority white consider mixing that up a little by going to some new places. Change where you shop, gym, get entertainment, train, church and even live.

 

#7 – Volunteer – so many organisations doing such good work in formerly [and present] disadvantaged areas and there is a spot for you at one of them. You have a skill or even just a presence which can make a difference and hopefully help you build up some empathy and relationships along the way.

 

#8 – Change up the voices you listen to – the books you read, podcasts you listen to – start inviting black/coloured/indian and other voices to inform you – if all you read/listen to is white middle-aged men for example, don’t be surprised if you think a certain way. You don’t have to agree with or even understand everything you read, but by connecting to other voices in a humble, looking-to-learn way, you will grow immensely.

 

#9 – For those of you who employ a black/coloured/indian person in your home, honestly ask, ‘Am I paying a living wage?’ and after having a conversation with them about life, family, transport and the future, see if there is not some work you can do there, possibly in exchange for that extra meal out a month or snob coffee every day or next family vacation.

 

#10 – Commit to interrupting racism and prejudice. #NotOnOurWatch – refuse to let racism happen in front of you – online or offline – without at the very least letting it be known that, “that is not okay!”

Anonymous ID: a5b740 March 27, 2019, 4:59 a.m. No.5919587   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9822

 

Smoking Cannabis

Stoned Immaculate

Close your eyes and travel like a Shaman.

Could this be…

SPACE FORCE??

 

Think anons, it might be…