Discources of hate

At the beginning of this unit, called identity, in English class we started to talk about the apartheid system in South Africa. A period of time between 1955 to 1994 where racism took place. We saw the movie “Goodbye Bafana”. It explained how Nelson Mandela and black people were treated by white people. It also mentioned the freedom charter, a letter written by the African National Congress (ANC), where they said South Africa was for all: black or white.

The freedom charter was prohibited by the white power. They were scared, and convinced that if blacks rose to the power they would exterminate them. Joseph Goebbels, was a German politician and was also very close to Adolf Hitler. He once said “A lie repeated a million times becomes a truth” .That is a real thing that happen in latinamerican countries, were many times people had sold us the idea of different identities better than ours, so we lost our own identity. This affirmation is shown in a testimonial in the movie “Goodbye Bafana” in the 1960's (Testimonial #1).

D. Trump 

The affirmation by Goebbels is also shown in a speech of a lady in Michigan justifying her vote for D. Trump in USA, 2016 (Testimonial#2). She expresses her fear that latinos and muslims would take over their jobs and businesses. Also, this lady says that people do not know what latinos and muslims are planning. This is another example of lies getting repeated so many times that they have become truths. 

In the two testimonials we can see the fear that the power, in each case, was imposed over the community. Also, we can see that people in power stay in it by silencing minorities using the fear.

Testimonial #1

"They don't want to share this country whith us they hate us! if they had it their wayy, they´d drive every single person into the sea. they'd leave us whith nothing. Not even the clothes on our backs."

Taken from the script of "Goodbye Bafana" in the scene in which Gloria Greggory tries to justify the Apartheid system to her husband in South Africa, 1960's. 

Testimonial #2

"Don´t get me wrong, I want everyone to get along. And I dont't want to sound racist. But they are coming into our country. If you ask me, that makes the racist. There is something going on whith the Muslims and Latinos. There is a lot we don't know about. They have a game plan. They want my granchildren to work for them. They want all the business. I'm hoping he can do something about it. We need someone to say no."

American lady in Michigan justifying her voting for Donal Trump in 2016, taken from www.humansofnewyork.com.