Tiger32
Senior Member
Registered: Sep 2001
Posts: 313
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Let's just hope that these people are true to their word, but forgive me if I remain skeptical.
DECLARATION OF COMMITMENT BY WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS
We acknowledge that apartheid inflicted massive social, economic, cultural and psychological damage on black South Africans. It undermined our common humanity.
We acknowledge the white community's responsibility for apartheid. Many of us actively and passively supported that system. Some white people were deeply involved in the struggle against apartheid but they were few in number.
We acknowledge our debt to fellow black South Africans since all whites benefited from systematic racial discrimination.
We acknowledge that the damage caused by apartheid has not been overcome. The legacy of racial discrimination remains evident in the acute deprivation experienced by most black people and in the privileged lives of most whites.
We acknowledge that racist attitudes of white superiority and black inferiority continue to shape our lives, communities and institutions.
We acknowledge that our failure to accept responsibility for apartheid has inhibited reconciliation and transformation.
We deeply regret all of this.
We therefore believe that it is right and necessary to commit ourselves to redressing these wrongs. We pledge to use our skills, resources and energy, through individual and collective action, towards empowering disadvantaged people, eliminating racism and promoting a non-racial society whose resources are used to the benefit of all its people. To these ends, and in recognition of the need for restitution, various initiatives will be undertaken, including the establishment of a Development and Reconciliation Fund.
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