Thoughts on Racism pt 2

Like all good white people of my age I went to the SADF straight out of school. There, fortunately I trained as a medic and learned to save lives rather than kill people. I worked in military hospitals and did not serve in operational areas either on the so called border or in the township. 
I subsequently went to university where I joined the end conscription campaign, which was an ally of united democratic front. We would attend political rallies and funerals in the township at the height of the state of emergency and the army occupation of the townships. We would sometimes be stopped and questioned by soldiers. These were young white boys who had been brain washed to believe that all black people wanted to kill them. For the most part they were in fear of there lives and they could not understand what we were doing in the township and why we didn't share their fear. 
They would ask us why we not afraid to enter the township. And we would say we are safe because we are here as friends to the people and to support them. 
Sometimes they would call a senior officer or policeman to deal with us. Then we were in for it. I have never before or since been on the receiving end of such hatred and vitriol as we received from these upholder of apartheid. We were insulted, abused, screamed at called all kinds of names. Once when we had some literature in the car we were arrested and spent the night in jail. We were released the next day when the police did not find any of our literature on their long list of banned writings. This is why I sympathise with black people in this country. I have been on the receiving end of white racism. 
Even today I still sometimes see that pure hatred and rage being unleashed on people, normally when they have earned thE disapproval of , or done something to offend a white person . I have never in my life seen a black person talk to a white in such a way. Not in a face to face situation. Yes maybe they will rant and rave for show at a political rally. Yes tHey can be rude and surly and ignore you
Yes they will sometimes make a snide comment in their own language or laugh at the silly umlungu...but that level of rage and hatred I have only ever seen coming from white people.... And plEase white people don't crucify me.... I am not saying you all guilty of it. ...it is a product of a particular attitude which harks to a previous time and age that is hopefully dying out 
But we have to make a conscious effort to kill it... it will not die in its own. It has lately been returning with all this talk of white genocide and fear of land expropriation. The way to kill it is simply to treat each other with respect dignity and friendship. For the most part we South Africans of all colours are a peaceful and friendly nation. Let's Talk to each other. Get to know one another . Hatred only creates more hatred, fear breeds fear, violence more violence. But the opposite is also true. When you treat someone with respect you earn their respect. Love And friendship create more love and friendshiip . I know I sound like a f***ing hippy now...... but  it must be true after all it's in the Bible.....

Some thoughts on racism

I personally have far more experience of white racism than black racism. I work everyday with black people and have done so for many years. I have been going in and out of townships since the age of 5 even during the height of apartheid and during the army occupation if the townships. I have almost never experience any form of racism directed towards me and have only ever been treated with friendship and respect. 
I also work and study at a black university where I  receive a fee waiver, which means I don't pay fees-- this is quite common at doctoral level- and I also receive a bursary. So when people tell me about black racism and lack of opportunities for white people in this country I have to dispute them because this is not my experience. 
On the other hand I daily hear white running down black people and talking down to them as though they are children or stupid.. I daily hear whites sitting around at a braai or in the bar where the main topic of conversation is about how stupid/ dirty/ sexual predatory etc black people are and how much they have ###cked up the country... I am constantly being approached by white people whispering rude and offensive comments in my ear about black people because they assume because I am white I share there offensive assumptions. 
I realise this is my experience and I'm sure black people talk about us behind our backs as well... But I have never seen a black person, except perhaps when drunk, scream and swear and humiliate a white person in a public place in the way white people do, or talk down to people in an arrogant and condescending way as white people do all the time, . And this problem needs to be addressed we cannot ignore it any more as it is creating anti white sentiment and leading to violence against white people.....