Culturally speaking: Why are the black south africans so mean to the white south africans?

It's basically revenge and economic necessity. When Blacks come to power their mentality is "We in charge now!" Thus they don't think anything of abusing Whites because they were taught probably that White people held them back or stole from them or some other nonsense. Also Blacks tend to think that White magically just somehow "got" their wealth (usually by stealing it from the po' Black man); instead of realizing what in reality was hard work, sweat and tears. So they will feel no pangs of guilt in redistributing YT's wealth to themselves.

Actually this kind of behavior is destructive and purely emotional on the part of Blacks. Look at Rhodesia, where they confiscated rich farm land from YT without themselves knowing anything about running the farms. In a very short time Rhodesia went from being the stable bread basket of Africa to being a starving Zimbabwe with record inflation. Similarly in SA, blacks will reap what they sow. They are too stupid to realize that their great numbers in SA were precisely because of the what the White Man built; the civilization that gave them all jobs and the medicine that allowed their population to get way above what their tribal Zulu numbers were. Blacks will bite and kill the hand that feeds them yet again.

You should know that this racism didn't just come out of thin air. Some people make it seem like the black south Africans woke up one day and said, "I hate white people" The Europeans separated themselves from the blacks (The two groups couldn't get along since the Europeans were trying to take control of the land) and gave the blacks the worst land and the smallest land (There were mostly blacks in south africa) and then they took the most land and the better land for themselves. Even now, the education and wealth of the white and black citizens is very far apart because of apartheid.

What some of the blacks are doing to the whites is still wrong in my opinion, but there are always reasons as to why people do things.

Hello,

1) They black South Africans can be very mean amongst themselves let alone toward the whites.

Now the whites (particularly the Dutch Afrikaners) had the blacks under their heels for 40 years in their Apartheid system and tolerated no social equality.

2) Times changed. Now there is certainly a lot of affirmative action that country and quite a few previously privileged whites are sinking into poverty, suffering a lot of unfairness and resent this saying it is the pot calling the kettle black. Nevertheless unemployment amongst the blacks is still about 60% in some areas. Also crime is getting greatly out of hand but the problem transcends all cultures there.

Here is an intersting video discussing these issues;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFj0HdW2iDs

Cheers,

Michael Kelly

It's because White South Africans came to their land, raped the culture, and stole the natural resources that benefited and enriched White nations. Africans were basic slaves and prisoners in their own homeland. Let's not forget apartheid, which treated Blacks like CRIMINALS in their own home. I would hate White South Africans myself if I live in Africa. The gull and arrogance of these White racists is really what pisses me off.

I don't know that they are mean to the whites but if they are they're probably still suffering the effects of APARTHEID. you do know about apartheid don't you?

Have you not heard about how they were treated during the colonial times/Apartheid?

same reason they are racist against whites, latinos and asians that go on their black Harlem looking hoods