Thursday, January 30, 2014

Teachers: Scraped from the bottom of the tertiary barrel.

Here we have another teachers mouthpiece too scared to call these people out. G-man does his bit to rectify this absurd perception.

http://voices.news24.com/mohamed-saeed/2014/01/reformation-school-system/

G-man:


Here's a novel idea; how about we raise the standards for teachers to qualify FIRST? It is outrageous to me that writers like yourself grind out the same platitudes with regards to your education system completely ignoring the very link in the schooling chain that is causing the most harm in South Africa: The teacher!
You can throw as much money as you want at this problem, hand out millions of iPads, refill libraries with books that were stolen, rebuild schools that were razed by the very scum we're trying to protect and promote, but it won't make a blind bit of difference if your teacher has zero respect for her vocation, is an Affirmative Actionite ne'er-do-weller and just sits around for 30 days waiting for his or her fat give-away check which the tax payer generously ponies up every month, except for occasionally relieving the boredom by molesting a few pupils.
I read through your piece twice Mohamed, and the word 'teacher' came up a grand total of ZERO times. You didn't miss this, you're just as brain-washed into believing these people deserve more money, and that the default feelings on teachers is that they're god-sends and require molly-coddling whenever they come down from the pedestal you placed them on. So, ergo, YOU are part of the problem!
THEY need to be held accountable and held to a higher standard than anyone else out there. And adding a little personal responsibility wouldn't go amiss either.
You already have one of the worst Rondt:student-literacy rates in the entire world. By going the tired old route of nibbling at the edge of the issue will do nothing if teachers don't perform. What you lot need is a backbone and to call the entire teaching profession out for what they have become; a blight on your country. Churning out illiterate unemployable rabble rousers year-in-year-out can only result in a breakdown of your entire society.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

The 400 year old tatty excuse put to bed

Continuing Gakwi's further education I have done my best to inform. But will he appreciate this? Not on yer Nelly! He is quick to denounce whites, thus positioning himself as superior, but this isn't enough to convince him he's a racist. The irony is go-smacking.

http://www.news24.com/MyNews24/Show-Racism-a-Red-Card-20140126

G-man:

The challenge was very simple: Find virtue in your fellow man. You couldn't do it. You have simply denied that there is any, and have even gone so far as to avoid any responsibility of your opinions by suggesting that economically and historically you are a victim and therefor incapable of racism. But you were quick to denounce those same people, no? Surely, at some level, you must find some good in a class/race of people? This speaks volumes of you, but fortunately all your opinions - because of this attitude - can be dismissed as nothing more than the rants of a delusional race-baiter.

Have a word with yourself, if nothing else.

The '400-year-old' chestnut is such a weak excuse as to why your people can't make it in life. It is so absurd, so beyond modern comprehension as to be laughable. When will conditions be perfect enough for an African to thrive? When will you rid yourself of all excuses and accept your cultural shortcomings?

400 years ago none of us were alive, and all the repercussions of political actions since then have diluted to a point as to be immeasurable. So, you only have the modern era to contend with, and with the speed of communication, the vast spectrum of vocations to choose from - even if lumbered by historical reality - you must be able to progress beyond your past. But no. The easy-to-blame avenue is far more lucrative. It shows weakness in cultural character that you even have to go there.

Suck it up. Admit your failings. Move on.

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Well Gakwi has responded.

Evidently a glutton for punishment, and he doesn't know his betters never mind who he's up against. I gave him all the clues with my first response, but he obviously doesn't have the depth of intellect to avoid me.

His response to my previous post:

@Guinness, "Everybody knows white kids are orientated into racism from an early age by their parents and have to unlearn racism. It doesn’t happen automatically." You were probably raised by a Black woman but today you think you can stand on two feet and ask me what I know about white people? Let me tell you; they all think like you, that they're Messiahnic and are put on this earth to save helpless Blacks. News for you; I have never worked for a white person my whole life. I know a lot of Blacks who have never done so and who are doing far better that any Black person your white employers ever gave work. I probably know more about you than you do about me; that's why your whole comment is based on assumptions which don't belong to you; you were never born with but were inculcated to you over a dinner table. I was never subjected to such racist gibberish tutoring as a child that's why I don't seek your love or approval to speak my mind. And by the way what do you know about Africans (since your point of departure clearly indicates you don't see yourself as one but some settler)?


G-Man's retort:

Gakwi. I was respectful enough to not only NOT point out that you NEVER start off an opinion backed up with 'everybody knows' (in lieu of facts and statistics), but also gave you the benefit of the doubt by suggesting that you were generalising and not speaking in absolutes when I used the word 'generally' to describe your point. You are obviously not respectful or intelligent enough to recognise this.

But be that as it may, I must hold you to the standards you generally hold white people to: one of excellence. No more allowances for your obvious intellectual shortcomings, and no more letting you away with utter nonsense.

I did not base my comments on assumptions (think about it, but what did that actually mean?). I came to generally accepted conclusions based on the statistics on hand. My two conclusions were: Blacks are the bigger racists in South Africa, and that white racism is largely a dearly held myth, played by those who are attempting to cover their limitations, be they cultural or personal. This was simply concluded by pointing you to the inter-racial murder rates in SA.

My second conclusion (or assumption, as you refer to it as) was that whites are contributing far more to SA both socially and economically than their population figures would suggest. The reasons are immaterial, but the fact of the matter is SA's tax base is largely white. Your countries biggest employers are all white. These are ACTUAL generally held views that can be taken as fact. The IRS will back this up. There are only so many jobs for taxi-drivers and alleged writers and stick wavers.

Gakwi, I had asked you to simply look at white people on balance, as this was NOT an attempt to point out racial superiority. But this appears to be quite beyond your capabilities for reasons best known to yourself, but I suspect that your innate hatred for whites has blinded you to our virtues completely, and that you are only capable of seeing the alleged bad in us, which is wholly manufactured I might add. I neither asked nor expect any approval from you. On the contrary in fact.

In conclusion, I would add that you are a major part of what the problems in SA are. You are a paradigm of your nation's modern failures. REAL progressive countries wishing to better themselves fill their universities with engineers and economists. Scientists and financiers. You have chosen to go down the well worn path of destruction by becoming a political analyst. A rather useless and unproductive degree. And you are using what little use this degree might have, by bashing your fellow citizens over the head with.

Showing racism the red card

Usual race-mongering from another fist waver. I respond in kind.

http://www.news24.com/MyNews24/Show-Racism-a-Red-Card-20140126

G-man:

It's as if he sat with a thesaurus, and then strung a few words together he hit with a dart. Incoherent. Pointless. Rambling. And that's its good points.

I'd also like to point out his projection here. What does he know of white people? How does he know how we're brought up, generally? If guys like Gakwi spent more time improving their cultural image, and less time looking for white racists, we would all get along a lot better. We're all hearty sick to death having to hear constantly about how bad we are, and how racism appears to be a one way ratchet. The truth is the complete converse of course. BLACKS appear to be the real dangerous racists out there (look at the cross racial murder statistics and let me know what you find), while whites are propping the black population up with jobs, a tax base to milk from, and a civil society in which they can thrive. But they're doing their utmost to bend the truth, cause havoc and generally muddy the social waters.

Here's a handy tip Gakwi: Don't worry about the antics of some uneducated, over paid sports figure. We don't pay any attention to them. Spend more time convincing your fellow Africans to stop the race-baiting and see us for our virtues, and what we bring to the table.

Nice chatting to you. No charge for all this value rolled into one reply to an illiterate mess.