It’s sensible to think that someone who received over R100 000 after a little crying-in-the-restaurant incident would show some tact when thanking those who donated the cash to her. Negative. People never effing learn.
After Ashleigh Schultz responded to the world (as people from all over donated money) with a Facebook post, it was effortlessly picked apart by the very community that she was insulted by.
Here’s the post of gratitude:
The peeps over at The Daily Vox, however, decided to give Ashley a little insight into what it is her post means to them, when you dissect it along with historical moments:
1. It seems that she is astonished that people of her skin colour get so much attention.
2. It seems that because she experienced racism, Ntokozo Qwabe’s ancestors went to her ancestors and stole the land, enslaved this Becky people and now Ntokozo Qwabe refuses to give her land back.
3. Obviously people came to her rescue not because of her skin colour and the weight of her tears. Because 1652 women’s tears are not gendered. And Beckys don’t use their tears to invoke swaart gevaar or to appeal to violent white masculinities which feel a need to protect “their” women from big dicked black (cis) men.
4. Hot bath. She said hot bath. A privilege most Black people don’t have due to poverty and structural racism.
5. She refers to colonialism and the brutality of Apartheid as “something that happened in the past”. In one sentence she demonstrates historical violence, cultural violence, and psychological violence of white ambivalence on racism. She just blue ticked your whole life, Blacks.
6. Again, in her mind she experienced racism. I guess Ntokozo AND WANDILE note will result in laws that will make it illegal for her to own land. It will commit genocides, it will enslave her and her whole generation of Becky’s and Tom’s. It will segregate the education system and prepare her for slave labour. It will simultaneously create canons of knowledge that state that this Becky is inferior and beast-like.
7. Cool ke. Go take a hot bath Becks. Then drink your chamomile tea. Then swim in your R100k, But please know, we are very serious about the land. You might have to hand over that flat sooner than you think.
But the worst thing came about when people took to the open profiles of Ashley and her mother (Cheryl Grundlingh) to find some image-damaging evidence.
Now, we can’t comment on Ashleigh’s personality, but we sure can say that her mother is not the kind of role model a young, white South African needs:
To all you who donated money to this “cause”, I do hope you’re happy with yourselves.
[source: thedailyvox]
