Re: People who live in the US, what schools for the blind are the best?
Frankly, I use "people of colour" and "black" sort of interchangeably. In my professional capacity, I stick to the former more often than not, since it's a little safer, but I also know plenty of black folks who would prefer to be referred to as black (I've asked). Many aren't picky as long as the language you use isn't being weaponized, and I don't think anybody would take what you just wrote as an attack.
What it sounds like you're telling me is that there's a bit of a rebound effect happening. Apartheid was awful, and after it was dismantled, now it feels a bit like people of colour are getting a leg up that they didn't earn. If you're in the minority in South Africa, I feel for you there. You had no hand in apartheid and clearly aren't racist or whatnot, but you and your family may be adversely impacted.
My gentle advice to you here is to try and be patient. Unless this starts to radicalize and ends up in a system where whites really are being persecuted the way blacks used to be, I expect that this will die down.
The thing I want you to think about - and I am not at all scolding you here, this is tough to wrap your head around, especially when you're young - is the idea of equity. It's very easy to say that everyone should have the same rights, and in the big picture I absolutely, 100% agree with you. But once a particular group has been oppressed for long enough, the damage done to that group becomes multigenerational, leaving families poor, often uneducated, and put in positions where they really have difficulty getting a leg up. So for at least a little while after apartheid ended, I am not surprised that blacks were being favoured a bit; this is the equivalent of someone who was once asked to run a race while hopping on one foot being given a three-second head start because they've essentially become unused to running. Eventually they get used to it again, and stuff levels out. Now, apartheid has been gone for awhile now, but it takes time for the effects to go away completely, and I suspect that there are still older white folks who cling to racism, and older black folks who still have long memories and a bitter taste on their tongue. I don't know the situation well enough in your country to say one way or the other if this is still a rebound effect, or if things have started to radicalize in a bad way against whites (because that can happen, the oppressors become the oppressed, and that's not cool), but just bear it in mind. When oppression ends, you can't instantly go straight to equity. Usually you've got to let the people who were oppressed catch up a little.
I didn't understand this myself till about seven years ago, when I was thirty or so. It still sticks in my craw sometimes. But I do get it.
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