“They were stripped of their humanity and identity and renamed February, after the month of their arrival.”
Think of South African surfer Mikey February, not as the pro surfer who once upon a time ran on the world tour, but surfer as a beautiful object, a beautiful thing, worthy of worship.
No one, I believe, can resist falling love with a such a face or a body with its small round pectorals and nipples like dark brown currants.
Now, the New York Times, a race-obsessed left-tilting newspaper that swings between parody and propaganda, and which was last in these pages when it slammed The Greatest Surf Movie in the Universe as “spectacularly bad“, has fallen under the thirty-one-year-old’s spell, running an op-ed piece from Mikey February, as well as a sixteen-minute documentary about him called A New Wave.
Mikey February writes:
I was born in 1993, just as apartheid was ending in South Africa. My father is an avid surfer who introduced me to the sport at a young age, and the freedom he felt in the ocean had a big impact on me. He faced challenges pursuing the sport, since it was historically reserved for white South Africans and beaches were segregated until 1989. But by the time I came around, things were changing. Being able to bring his son to the beach and into the water was something he’d always dreamed of. He’d always have a big smile on his face when we’d go surfing together, and he still does.
I often think about my ancestors who were brought to Cape Town as enslaved people. They were stripped of their humanity and identity and renamed February, after the month of their arrival. This history is part of my family’s story and I’m proud to carry the name, whose meaning and history changes and deepens with each generation. My parents being so proud of who they are makes me feel proud, too, and I work to continue that legacy.
Trailer, below, whole thing here.
I agree with you both.
What you got a problem with that?
Here here I like this.
I also like puppies.
just say it puppies
it makes you feel good
Did you also watch live streamed October 7th footage?
Your ” resistance”, “colonial occupation”, buzzwords fall on deaf ears, mate.
I’m back to work, feel free to get the last word in, you are just boring us all now
My maternal grandfather’s family immigrated through Ellis Island in the 1880s with the surname Umland (my mom’s maiden name) which means of the land. They were serfs, who were essentially part of the natural environment and therefore the property of who-ever owned/ruled over the land of their many generations. This was basically the way of the entire world until the application of Christianity to social structures, which has ebbed and flowed since the early church, dependent often of when and were it has arrived. Abolitionism and individual liberty are uniquely Christian, and it would often take many, many centuries for the reality of the Gospel to peel back those layers. But the spirit of antichrist/Babylon (totalizing world system) is always present, such as the reapplication through Marx and the Bolshevik/Soviet Revolution.
The WSL tried to shackle Mikey’s jazz hands but he broke free.
NY times is not remotely left leaning. They are a totally establishment corporate paper with no objections to the hyper militaristic Uber capitalist world run by oligarchs. They knowingly published phony articles to manufacture consent to invade Iraq in 2003 just for one little tiny “lefty” example.
Last time I was in SA there was a lot of talk in the news about how turmoil aside, quality of life was statistically better for black South Africans under apartheid government and how hopelessly disillusioned your average black township dweller was with shitshow the country had become.
Quite sad.
I dunno, it’s just quite off-putting to see someone with the success of M Feb milk the oppression thing for himself while the vast majority of the rest of the country has no choice other than getting pounded raw dog by the likes of Jacob Zuma.
these days, 92% of surf flics / gram posts, etc, bore me to tears, but goddamn I do love watching this kid surf, his lines are fucking beautiful
more kill whitey content from the Jew York Slimes
Mikey February went to one of the most expensive private schools in south Africa, does he mention that?
somewhere in everybody’s family tree are people that were treated poorly and people who were cunts .
It’s just white folk that can’t
complain about historic injustice apparently
I will listen to your injustices and grievances. Lay them all out for us.
Has to log into Disqus every time he wants to comment
White men got together, and abolished slavery! Give them credit where due. Now, if they could all kindly head back to Europe…..
Sure and at the same time, all the non whites leave Europe. A perfect plan
You can in Abu Dhabi
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Saffa whites are the worst whites ever!!
At least Hitler was gay.
The English ones aren’t too bad. The Boers are fucking nuts.
No doubt
Kaffa whites?
All this right wing left wing shit is depressing and ultra soft. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Do you pull from the right or left, top or bottom, though?
My ancestors were invaded and forced to speak Latin. Then they were invaded again, their places of worship sacked, and all the good looking women taken to Scandinavia as sex slaves. Then they were invaded again and made to speak French.
Being made to speak French was a low act
Do you have nipples like white grapes, and when crushed they make a little wine?
Wait… grapes come in white?
The whole universe tends towards whiteness…
#black universes matter
I can see why someone might jump to that ill considered opinion, and I’m too busy with an actual job, but this link goes to a more considered and polite response than I would give, Matt;
https://medium.com/@LiatBenZur/no-israel-is-not-an-apartheid-state-heres-why-feebb22f9b55
Some interesting comments in the “responses” section.
Yes, I just had a look at some of them. To say that Israel is perfect is silly, but to label it “Apartheid” is demonstrably inaccurate, for example, the difficulties in being an Arab Israeli or Palestinian moving around Israel are due to the proven security risks at allowing unfettered access, not because of ingrained racism that such a label as Apartheid would infer.
I would challenge any Westerner to transpose their current life with that of an Israeli facing existential threats from their closest neighbours, and ask themselves what they would do to protect their family.
Again, I’m working and haven’t time to address each and every “response”
I’d recommend you read this small book as a starter to get some context ;
https://www.amazon.com.au/Israelophobia-Newest-Version-Oldest-Hatred/dp/1408719274
If you are truly interested in the region it’s worth a read.
I had a look at that artice. Firstly TRT news is not unbiased. Secondly it was a re-iteration of the blanket claim of “Apartheid” without a single example.
I really urge you to have a look at the “Israelophobia” book to challenge what might be your views.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Israelophobia-Newest-Version-Oldest-Hatred/dp/1408719274