Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if the homelands policy works as a device for deflecting future claims by blacks to power in Pretoria, it will do nothing to ameliorate a more immediate problem for the regime: growing anti-white rage among the urban blacks needed to run the South African economy. In Soweto (pop. 1 million), near Johannesburg, less than a third of the blacks' dwellings have electric lights; less than a tenth have running water. In the slum sections, robbery and rape are commonplace; says a woman from the Naledi section of Soweto: "I pray we could have daylight for all 24 hours...
Resignation, rather than rage, seems to be the prevailing mood. A middle-aged farmer from the Mozambique border area struck a common theme. "I'm tired of running," he sighed. "I left Kenya when it became independent and went to Zambia. Then Zambia turned sour for whites, and I came here. Now Rhodesia is going black. The logical place to go may be South Africa, but race relations there are a bloody sight worse than ours. So I'll stay and take my chances, just as long as the blacks don't go bonkers." His buddy...
...North, working class discontent has been diffused largely by ethnic differences that separate the mass of immigrants who fueled industrial development). Northern working class people escaped into privatism and a waxing standard of living; white Southerners, living in a perpetually underdeveloped region, had no such luxury--aside from racist rage, they escaped into tradition and religion. Fundamentals millenarian cults and hysterical revival meetings in one way, opened outlets for the frustration of feeling dumb and oppressed...
...little ashamed of what could be perceived as an unbelievably hatefilled past. But Bass and DeVries could take a different view of the heritage: that the passion and faith of the Southerner, white and black, freed from racism, can be translated into a striving for justice and a rage at his exploitation. A young Mississippian was recently talking about the upcoming presidential election in that state, saying that "the people who talk--the Chamber of Commerce crowd--they're all for Ford; but the people who don't talk--the dirt farmers--are going to vote for Carter." He added...
...adds, "I was a C- student. Smart girls weren't supposed to get boy friends." Says Messer, "Psychiatrists see Southern women because of their rage and resentment at having to bury their feelings. Northern women tend to be treated by psychiatrists more for depression and paranoia. There is much more hysteria in Southern patients." But, Messer notes, change is in the air: fewer Southern women are hiding anger and frustration behind the image of the happy gentlewoman...