1 ORANIA AND AZANIA If Social Cohesion is not Right Then only Balkanization is Left By C O Stephens ORANIA AND AZANIA 2 ‘ Table of Contents PREAMBLE ........................................................................................................................................................... 5 PART 1: SOCIAL ALIENATION ............................................................................................................................... 9 1. The Good Ship Rainbow .............................................................................................................................. 9 Why do we treat one another this way? ....................................................................................................... 10 2. Reporting Consistently on Racism ............................................................................................................. 11 #StopRacism .................................................................................................................................................. 13 Case Study ..................................................................................................................................................... 14 3. No one is Perfect ....................................................................................................................................... 16 4. Identity Politics is our Default Drive .......................................................................................................... 19 5. Victims can be Black or White, the Point is – they are Victims ................................................................. 22 6. Is “Implicit Bias” the new term for “Closed Racism”? ............................................................................... 27 7. Affirmative Action is aggravating Implicit Bias .......................................................................................... 31 8. Out of Apartheid; into a de facto Two State Solution ............................................................................... 33 9. From Hardened Attitudes to Balkanization ............................................................................................... 37 10. How Not to Impair the Dignity of Fellow Citizens ................................................................................. 41 A black and white Rainbow ........................................................................................................................... 43 11. Forget Anger Management, we need Greed Therapy .......................................................................... 44 PART 2: POLITICAL PRECEDENTS ....................................................................................................................... 49 12. The Way We Were ............................................................................................................................. 49 Perceptions and Misperceptions ............................................................................................................... 52 13. A Laager of Exclusion? ........................................................................................................................... 55 14. Pan-Africanism Going Forward .............................................................................................................. 58 The Pan-African Movement .......................................................................................................................... 59 Black Consciousness or Black Supremacy? ................................................................................................ 60 15. From Riding Hobby Horses to Riding the Zebra .................................................................................... 61 Vision-led ....................................................................................................................................................... 62 Cool-headed .................................................................................................................................................. 63 Strengths-based Approach ............................................................................................................................ 63 ORANIA AND AZANIA 3 Public/Private Partnership............................................................................................................................. 63 Modeled on ProPAZ ....................................................................................................................................... 63 Recap ............................................................................................................................................................. 63 16. South Africa's Crown of Thorns ......................................................................................................... 64 Affirmative Action ......................................................................................................................................... 66 17. The Pot Calling the Kettle White ....................................................................................................... 67 18. Don't call me “Babe X” ...................................................................................................................... 71 19. The Unification of Germany .............................................................................................................. 75 The Post-Modern State and the World Order ........................................................................................... 76 Empires, States and Mega-states .............................................................................................................. 77 Three Problems with Post-Modernism ..................................................................................................... 78 Lost in Transformation .............................................................................................................................. 82 20. Israel and Palestine – the long and winding road ............................................................................. 84 Anti-Semite and Jew .................................................................................................................................. 87 21. Hindu and Muslim Partition: India and Pakistan ............................................................................... 88 Mahatma Gandhi ....................................................................................................................................... 91 22. The “Troubles” ................................................................................................................................... 93 23. “Forty acres and a mule” - a Vision turned into a Lament .................................................................... 97 Zimbabwe – déjà vu all over again ................................................................................................................ 98 Beware Venezuelan socialist rhetoric ......................................................................................................... 100 Finding one another .................................................................................................................................... 100 The problem is, there is no Panacea ........................................................................................................... 101 24. Déjà vu from the Life of Lincoln........................................................................................................... 103 PART 3: UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL.................................................................................................................. 107 25. Where does the African Renaissance end and Black Supremacy begin? ............................................ 107 Malcolm X .................................................................................................................................................... 110 26. A Tribute to Darlas Mokone ............................................................................................................ 113 27. Back-sliding from Rainbow campus to Zebra campus ..................................................................... 116 A Rainbow Campus .................................................................................................................................. 118 Restructuring ........................................................................................................................................... 119 A Zebra Campus ....................................................................................................................................... 119 A Tenant from Hell .................................................................................................................................. 121 Interference ............................................................................................................................................. 123 ORANIA AND AZANIA 4 28. Gaslighting ....................................................................................................................................... 124 The Movie ................................................................................................................................................ 125 Discrediting, Demonization &