If by integration you understand a breakthrough into white society by blacks, an assimilation and acceptance of blacks into an already established set of norms and code of behaviour set up by and maintained by whites, then YES I am against it.
Existing as a black child in these schools often meant one’s presence was burdened by the barrels of stereotypes, myths and assumptions surrounding people of colour. It wasn’t uncommon to hear white teachers or other staff assert and imply racial folklore: black kids were assumed to be loud, lazy and disruptive, the Hindu faith of Indian students was strange, exotic and inconvenient, and coloured students were sometimes expected to have an affinity with violence.
A person can spend up to nearly two decades in an education system. It is in those years where the foundations of a person’s identity are laid; in which that identity will undergo tremendous growth and evolution. And it is in those formative stages of childhood and in the chaotic throws of adolescence where the human mind is vulnerable to influence and impression.
What breathes in between these words is the mentality of a conqueror who views the subjugated subject as infantile, wild and barbaric and therefore in need of an education which will render them not only subservient but existing in harmony with the values of their ruler. The patronising mentality of colonial governments was not confined within the halls of power but prevailed among the white settler societies of past centuries.
Another component which possibly explains the passivity of white students can be retrieved by a brief glance at the legacy of Christian National Education. CNE was an educational policy implemented by the apartheid regime. Under this policy, education served as a form of grand social control by strengthening segregation and proliferating the values of Afrikaner nationalism.
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