In response to Thabile Mange’s Letter I do not entertain racist.
I am answering your letter not as a racist but an observer. I read the Krugersdorp news every week and your hateful letters started this whole indaba. This country is filled with racist black and white. All spewing and spreading hatred. Two wrongs never make a right. Yes the apartheid era was wrong, and they did wrong a lot of innocent people. But the younger generations had nothing to do with apartheid now they are getting involved in hatreds of long gone.
You say that you forgave the whites yet they continue to be racist. You obviously don’t know the true meaning of forgiveness, because if you truly forgive someone then you make peace with it permanently. You don’t keep going on about it every time you hit a snag. You move forward. You know what made President Nelson Mandela such a tremendously great person is the fact that he understands the true meaning of forgiveness.
He spend 29 years of his life locked up in prison for his beliefs and he came out without any hatred, spreading a message of peace and unity and that’s what makes him better than all the apartheid and post apartheid leaders rolled into one. If you want a role model look to Madiba not to Malema, Malema sows discord and hatred not peace and unity.
One can see the real reason for your behaviour is either your life sucks or you want someone to blame or you have political aspirations and you’re using hatred as a means to get what you want.
You know what black people and white people are all just people and I would love for all this racist nonsense to stop so that our future generations may have a bright future unpolluted by petty hatreds and intolerance.
There is a lot that can be improved in our country and we can improve it if we all unite and work together in harmony. Change can happen if we can truly forgive and move past our own hatreds wouldn’t you agree. It only takes one person at a time to make a difference just look at Madiba.
* Letter published unedited — Ed.
