title: Whiteness Just Isn't What It Used To Be: White Identity in a Changing South Africa (SUNY series, INTERRUPTIONS:  Border Testimony(ies) and Critical Discourse/s)
author: Melissa Steyn
description: This book is exemplary in many aspects: the theoretical approach, the clear and transparent treatment of difficult and sensitive issues that surround discourses of race, the un-emphatic self reflexivity and the style: Steyn illustrates and enriches her arguments with mottos from fiction and non-fiction, poetry and songs.  LHomme. Z.F.G.<br /><br />This seriously argued and sensitive book adds a fresh perspective to the discourse on white racism in South Africa. Confronting whiteness from within, Melissa Steyn charts the only journey that promises to free white South Africans in any profound way from the full implications of the nightmare of their own making.  Njabulo S. Ndebele, author of South African Literature and Culture: Rediscovery of the Ordinary
zlib_text: Purported to be the  
  DYLANN ROOF 'MANIFESTO'  
  -as found on The Last Rhodesian website 
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  I was not raised in a racist home or environment. Living in the South, 
  almost every White person has a small amount of racial awareness, 
  simply beause of the numbers of negroes in this part of the country. 
  But it is a superficial awareness. Growing up, in school, the White and 
  black kids would make racial jokes toward each other, but all they were 
  were jokes. Me and White friends would sometimes would watch things 
  that would make us think that “blacks were the real racists” and other 
  elementary thoughts like this, but there was no real understanding 
  behind it.  
   
   
  The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case. I 
  kept hearing and seeing his name, and eventually I decided to look him 
  up. I read the Wikipedia article and right away I was unable to 
  understand what the big deal was. It was obvious that Zimmerm