{"id":5251,"date":"2013-01-17T19:07:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T19:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/dear-white-people\/"},"modified":"2013-01-17T19:07:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T19:07:51","slug":"dear-white-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/dear-white-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear White People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Settler Sister&#8221; Gillian Schutte started the year with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thoughtleader.co.za\/gillianschutte\/2013\/01\/02\/dear-white-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter to her white fellow citizens<\/a> and thus once again flared up the debate in South Africa about historical responsibility and the strategies of anti-racist and decolonial struggles. In their <a href=\"http:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2013-01-11-00-theres-no-unlearning-whiteness-despite-what-anti-racists-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">response<\/a>, Black Consciousness activists Athi-Nangamso Esther Nkopo and Andile Mngxitama criticize Schutte for producing herself as the good white woman and suggesting that whiteness can be individually discarded or transformed into a good, anti-racist whiteness. Jackie Shandu&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thoughtleader.co.za\/readerblog\/2013\/01\/10\/blacks-fight-your-own-battles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">critique <\/a>is more directed at blacks who are celebrating Schutte and thus indulging their longing for the white messiah rather than fighting their own battles. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/jan\/15\/south-africa-race-debate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here <\/a>is a collection of many worthwhile comments in response to the letter and on the debate as a whole. Schutte then also <a href=\"http:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2013-01-16-dear-white-people-theoretical-wars-and-podium-envy\">spoke up<\/a> again yesterday. Such politically engaged and intellectually high quality debate in the mainstream press &#8230; And all that is left for us to do is to get angry about the thin-board drilling in <a href=\"http:\/\/leserservice.zeit.de\/diesewoche\/2013\/04\/web\/?r=ZO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zeit <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/politik\/deutschland\/warum-kinderbuecher-politisch-korrekt-umgeschrieben-werden-a-878115.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spiegel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Settler Sister&#8221; Gillian Schutte started the year with a letter to her white fellow citizens and thus once again flared up the debate in South Africa about historical responsibility and the strategies of anti-racist and decolonial struggles. In their response, Black Consciousness activists Athi-Nangamso Esther Nkopo and Andile Mngxitama criticize Schutte for producing herself as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[294,214,330,331],"class_list":["post-5251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apartheid-en","tag-racism","tag-south-africa","tag-whiteness"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"glokal","author_link":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/author\/carolin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"&#8220;Settler Sister&#8221; Gillian Schutte started the year with a letter to her white fellow citizens and thus once again flared up the debate in South Africa about historical responsibility and the strategies of anti-racist and decolonial struggles. In their response, Black Consciousness activists Athi-Nangamso Esther Nkopo and Andile Mngxitama criticize Schutte for producing herself as&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}