Afrikaner Apathy: When you play on Goliath’s terms, Goliath wins

“My girls were all blond-haired white girls,” Ranadivé said. “My daughter is the closest we have to a black girl, because she’s half-Indian. One time, we were playing this all-black team from East San Jose. They had been playing for years. These were born-with-a-basketball girls. We were just crushing them. We were up something like twenty to zero. We wouldn’t even let them inbound the ball, and the coach got so mad that he took a chair and threw it. He started screaming at his girls, and of course the more you scream at girls that age the more nervous they get.” Ranadivé shook his head: never, ever raise your voice. “Finally, the ref physically threw him out of the building. I was afraid. I think he couldn’t stand it because here were all these blond-haired girls who were clearly inferior players, and we were killing them.” -- How David Beats Goliath: When Underdogs Refuse to Play by Goliath's Rules

Onbetrokkenheid

by Alwyn De Klerk
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 11:49am.

Ek het nou al vir 'n wyle 'n klippie in my skoen. Dit het egter nou al gegrooi na 'n rots op my bors. Dit druk my so dat ek nie meer kan asemhaal of rasioneel dink nie. Hierdie rots is die onbetrokkenheid van ons volk. Op alle terreine.

Is dit 'n siekte wat ons geërf het van die vorige wit regering, waar daar vir ons gedoen is? Is dit a.g.v. grootmense wat as bederfde kinders alles gekry het sonder om iets daarvoor te doen? Ek ken nie hierdie antwoord nie.

Ons volk staan op die vooraand van seker een van die belangrikste gebeurtenisse in ons volk se geskiedenis. Die Volksraadsverkiesing en steeds is daar mense wat apaties staan. Wat my so seer maak, is dat dit mense is wat soos ek dink. Konserwatiewe mense. Volksgenote. Boere. Almal wag egter dat iemand anders die wa sal trek. Almal wil saam kom vir die rit, of opklim nadat hulle seker is dat die wa mooi loop. Intussen is daar enkelinge wat aan die jukke beur om die wa aan die gang te kry. Die rieme trek al bloed soos dit in die weefsel insny van die swaar vrag op die wa. Maar dis nie genoeg nie. Haak nog 'n wa aan en nog een......

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