Woman: โI am a woman of color, daughter of immigrants, Muslim feminist, lefty liberal. Am I your enemy?โ
Jared Taylor: โYou're not subjectively my enemy. But what you are promoting will lead to the disappearance of my people and my culture.
And I'll tell you this: It annoys me tremendously when I'm told by some immigrant or a child of immigrants that the only reason my country is worthwhile is because people like them have come here. It's as if to say my ancestors built a dung heap.
And I don't doubt your good will, but your goodwill is objectively going to lead to the oblivion of my people. I'm sorry, there is no other way to see it.โ
Listen to these promises. Really listen.
"Nobody's going to despise you. Nobody's going to nationalise your house. You'll have the right to use your Afrikaans language. You'll have the right to belong to the Dutch Reformed Church."
That was Thabo Mbeki. Private meeting. Cameras rolling by accident. The ANC's best diplomat telling Afrikaners exactly what they needed to hear to lower the drawbridge.
"There are white heroes, and very many white heroes. African white heroes."
That was also Mbeki. Promising that Afrikaner history would not be erased. That the future would have room for both. That history would be corrected, not replaced.
Thirty-two years later: Afrikaans stripped from universities. Afrikaans schools under siege. Street names erased. Monuments vandalised. A refugee programme to America because the people Mbeki promised would never be despised are now legislated out of the economy by 145 race laws.
"We've got to get white South Africa to understand that they've got a place in this future."
That was the pitch. The product was BEE, cadre deployment, farm murders without a national response, and a government that sings about killing them at rallies.
And notice what the Afrikaners in that room said. They were worried about history being changed too fast. They were worried about the civil service transition. They were talking about managing the shock for their people. They were negotiating in good faith, trying to find the middle ground with men who had already decided there would be no middle.
The Afrikaners in that room gave up a nuclear arsenal, a functioning state, and a military that controlled the subcontinent. They gave it up because they believed the man sitting across from them when he said "nobody's going to despise you."
The naivety was not stupidity. It was decency mistaken for strategy. They projected their own good faith onto people who were running a different game entirely. The ANC did not want to meet in the middle. They wanted the keys. The middle was just the waiting room.
Mbeki promised them a place. The ANC gave them a plane ticket.
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