Great film. As a Kenyan Bitcoin maximalist I love the way you told the story without bias. I love BitcoinEkasi and hope to visit one day. Asante sana ~ Thank you very much.
Well done guys. I've been tracking your progress a while and am blown away. Some day soon I'll be able to help you. Just a few more things to fall into place my side.
just saw it in Warsaw on BTC film fest, one of my favorites film tbh, great cinematography and story amazing, its outstanding from the other documentaries
Cool video but in future leave the racism out please. South Africans are tired of hearing about it beyond what you can imagine by this point. Bitcoin is neutral and open to all.
First of all, thank you for your comment Joshua. I too, am tired of racism beyond what you can imagine and, as you correctly point out, so are many other people. Which is why I'd like to write a proper response. Because, while I understand and share your sentiment, Aubrey's film does not insinuate racism. To the contrary. I think it points at the solution. Aubrey's film highlights the massive inequality still prevalent in South Africa and the obvious reality that that inequality runs along racial divides. It's clear to see. Regardless of which threshold you choose, it's simply a statement of fact that, comparatively speaking, a much larger proportion of South Africa's black population lives in poverty compared to the white population. However, that is not to say that the white population should in, any way, be held retributively responsible. Not at all. I run this project and I am white. My heritage is French Hugenot / Afrikaner. And I very much respect and appreciate that heritage. There's a saying, which you might be familiar with: 'Boer maak n plan.' It translates as 'a person of Afrikaner descent makes a plan' and it speaks to the understanding that we are responsible for our own solutions. And I love that characteristic, entrepreneurial, and self-reliant spirit that's so prevalent here. I don't think white people in South Africa should do anything other than recognize that reality. Inequality breeds discontent. The massive riots we saw in South Africa in 2021, that's what drives it. And the solution is not to ignore the underlying inequality and, specifically, its divisive racial lines. Because if we ignore it, politicians will exploit that, and use it as the basis for more racist rhetoric. The solution is to recognize the reality that breeds it. Which is inequality and the racial divide it runs along. The solution is to introduce tools to address that, specifically there where it's needed. The solution is to introduce tools like #Bitcoin and the mentality that we're all fundamentally responsible for addressing and solving our own problems. That's what we're doing and that's what we've been doing since the very beginning. Our parent organization, The Surfer Kids, was founded in 2010 on the foundational understanding that, in those communities where inequality is worst, in predominantly black South African townships, what's missing is the right tools and the right mentality. If we introduce those, specifically there, disenfranchised people can empower themselves. And we can address the very circumstances that politicians exploit to justify their racist rhetoric. And that's precisely what #Bitcoin is. It's a tool for personal empowerment. If adopted, it allows people (who would otherwise riot, protest and burn down hospitals and shopping malls) to instead take control of their own future. If we're tired of racist rhetoric let's directly address the circumstances that give politicians a platform from which to exploit people's feelings of hopelessness. #Bitcoin is hope. So let's recognize where hope is needed and introduce it there. Wherever, and everywhere it is needed.
@@bitcoinekasi Thank you for your response. Pointing out inequality of poverty / wealth along racial, cultural, gender, sexual orientation or what ever other lines are not relevant unless your goal is to create jealousy and hate among those groups. You could even change your statement to say there is not the same amount of poverty among these groups globally, its not even close by a long margin and leave South Africa completely out of the equation, so why do these international journalists keep on mentioning South African "inequality"? Yes there are differences between races and cultures. But everyone should be seen as individuals. Look at all the racist laws in South Africa because of so called "inequality". Yes all the laws that disadvantage the white minority and they justify it because of "inequality". There is nothing wrong with inequality because everyone is different, makes different decisions and is at a different place in their life. Wanting everyone to be the same is an insane idea if you really pick it apart.
@joshuabrown5130 You need to distinguish between a statement of fact, and normative statements. normative statements being, "people should do this", or "should do that." my comment is the former. it is a simple acknowledgement of reality. I am not a politician, and therefore I do not venture into telling people what they should or should not do. I try and build solutions and I believe the only real solution is personal responsibility and building the solutions you want to see. the intent, with my comment, is to make a statement of fact: South Africa has massive inequality and (obviously) it runs along racial lines. What you choose to do with that information, that's entirely up to you. I don't think that fact should be used to make any laws, as is currently the case. I think affirmative action, BBBEE and land expropriation, is a disaster. People should be treated based on merit. Inequality in outcome is inevitable, off course, because we're all different. The problem is inequality in opportunity. And personally, I think that fact simply needs to be acknowledged, precisely without attaching any normative expectations to it. South Africa has massive inequality, it runs along racial lines, and you shouldn't have to do anything about it. Unless you think there is something you can do about it, in which case, go ahead and do it. Otherwise, go about your life, and as long as you treat people the way you'd like to be treated, I don't see an issue. However, and this is my point: The fact that that fact (inequality) is not acknowledged often enough, is what allows politicians to exploit it, to spread racism, hate and division, and implement things like land expropriation / BBEEE, etc. If we want to stop the spread of racism, hate, division (which is increasingly becoming the policy of government politics) then the more often we simply acknowledge that reality, without any normative expectations attached to it, the better. Recovery from drug addiction taught me this. Often the solution to a problem is simply admitting that there is a problem. And ineqaulity of opportunity is a problem.
Poverty is poverty it has no race, inequality too doesn't have any race associated with it. You don't only see whites at the grocery stores, do you? You don't only see whites at medical facilities, do you? She had to make an impact on the importance of BTC's use case and used apartheid to grab attention. She understands shit about this country and if she did. It would've been a awesome video about YOU and how you are changing lives. Not apartheid. Before you reply to this comment. Please. Please let it sink in for a moment. In short, what I got from this video. So, Apartheid still rains supreme in this Beautiful Rainbow Nation of ours. But wait!! theirs this black guy in a small town of Mosselbay helping black kids staying of the streets to provide and teach them about Bitcoin. This is fantastic right? (Of course, you my friend are doing a great job.) But oh no wait, because of apartheid in South Africa still being so predominant, this project might not even last so long, so let's just hope and see you and your project doesn't sir come to apartheid. What's even sad about this is not you, me or this journalist are old enough or have ever been in any apartheid clashes as shown in this video and to this day we still use apartheid to blame, shame and defend ourselves in our own right which is NOT the right thing to do. Once again someone took on apartheid and apartheid stole the show without even doing anything.
Can't wait to see it on Bitcoin Film Festival in Warsaw, the 20th of April!!
Great film. As a Kenyan Bitcoin maximalist I love the way you told the story without bias. I love BitcoinEkasi and hope to visit one day. Asante sana ~ Thank you very much.
Good work! Good spirit! Plebs together strong!
Very nice vide .Congratulations‼
Great documentary team! Bitcoin Ekasi is a special group of incredible humans. Thanks for sharing
Well done guys. I've been tracking your progress a while and am blown away. Some day soon I'll be able to help you. Just a few more things to fall into place my side.
Excellent production!
What a great film.
very well done Aubrey
Bitcoin + surfing = brilliant.
So proud of the surfer kids npo and the global coverage
very important project, good work. congrats
Excellent idea, Aubrey. I might replicate something similar soon, thank you for the inspiration.
-Ekyum Singh
Bitcoin Ekasi is so Lekker!
Thank you for making this video. Beautiful to see the positive impact the project is having!
Great job
So beautiful~!!
just saw it in Warsaw on BTC film fest, one of my favorites film tbh, great cinematography and story amazing, its outstanding from the other documentaries
The future is bright... thank you for bringing such great hope into the community ❤
You made me want to go surfing, stack more sats and support Bitcoin Ekasi 🧡
👏👏👏
I love everything about this! Thank you for making this. Keep stacking those sats and much love to the world!
Cool video but in future leave the racism out please. South Africans are tired of hearing about it beyond what you can imagine by this point. Bitcoin is neutral and open to all.
First of all, thank you for your comment Joshua. I too, am tired of racism beyond what you can imagine and, as you correctly point out, so are many other people.
Which is why I'd like to write a proper response. Because, while I understand and share your sentiment, Aubrey's film does not insinuate racism. To the contrary. I think it points at the solution.
Aubrey's film highlights the massive inequality still prevalent in South Africa and the obvious reality that that inequality runs along racial divides. It's clear to see.
Regardless of which threshold you choose, it's simply a statement of fact that, comparatively speaking, a much larger proportion of South Africa's black population lives in poverty compared to the white population.
However, that is not to say that the white population should in, any way, be held retributively responsible. Not at all.
I run this project and I am white. My heritage is French Hugenot / Afrikaner. And I very much respect and appreciate that heritage.
There's a saying, which you might be familiar with: 'Boer maak n plan.' It translates as 'a person of Afrikaner descent makes a plan' and it speaks to the understanding that we are responsible for our own solutions. And I love that characteristic, entrepreneurial, and self-reliant spirit that's so prevalent here.
I don't think white people in South Africa should do anything other than recognize that reality.
Inequality breeds discontent. The massive riots we saw in South Africa in 2021, that's what drives it. And the solution is not to ignore the underlying inequality and, specifically, its divisive racial lines. Because if we ignore it, politicians will exploit that, and use it as the basis for more racist rhetoric.
The solution is to recognize the reality that breeds it. Which is inequality and the racial divide it runs along. The solution is to introduce tools to address that, specifically there where it's needed.
The solution is to introduce tools like #Bitcoin and the mentality that we're all fundamentally responsible for addressing and solving our own problems.
That's what we're doing and that's what we've been doing since the very beginning.
Our parent organization, The Surfer Kids, was founded in 2010 on the foundational understanding that, in those communities where inequality is worst, in predominantly black South African townships, what's missing is the right tools and the right mentality. If we introduce those, specifically there, disenfranchised people can empower themselves. And we can address the very circumstances that politicians exploit to justify their racist rhetoric.
And that's precisely what #Bitcoin is. It's a tool for personal empowerment.
If adopted, it allows people (who would otherwise riot, protest and burn down hospitals and shopping malls) to instead take control of their own future.
If we're tired of racist rhetoric let's directly address the circumstances that give politicians a platform from which to exploit people's feelings of hopelessness.
#Bitcoin is hope. So let's recognize where hope is needed and introduce it there. Wherever, and everywhere it is needed.
@@bitcoinekasi Thank you for your response. Pointing out inequality of poverty / wealth along racial, cultural, gender, sexual orientation or what ever other lines are not relevant unless your goal is to create jealousy and hate among those groups. You could even change your statement to say there is not the same amount of poverty among these groups globally, its not even close by a long margin and leave South Africa completely out of the equation, so why do these international journalists keep on mentioning South African "inequality"? Yes there are differences between races and cultures. But everyone should be seen as individuals. Look at all the racist laws in South Africa because of so called "inequality". Yes all the laws that disadvantage the white minority and they justify it because of "inequality". There is nothing wrong with inequality because everyone is different, makes different decisions and is at a different place in their life. Wanting everyone to be the same is an insane idea if you really pick it apart.
@joshuabrown5130
You need to distinguish between a statement of fact, and normative statements. normative statements being, "people should do this", or "should do that."
my comment is the former. it is a simple acknowledgement of reality.
I am not a politician, and therefore I do not venture into telling people what they should or should not do. I try and build solutions and I believe the only real solution is personal responsibility and building the solutions you want to see.
the intent, with my comment, is to make a statement of fact: South Africa has massive inequality and (obviously) it runs along racial lines.
What you choose to do with that information, that's entirely up to you.
I don't think that fact should be used to make any laws, as is currently the case. I think affirmative action, BBBEE and land expropriation, is a disaster. People should be treated based on merit. Inequality in outcome is inevitable, off course, because we're all different.
The problem is inequality in opportunity.
And personally, I think that fact simply needs to be acknowledged, precisely without attaching any normative expectations to it.
South Africa has massive inequality, it runs along racial lines, and you shouldn't have to do anything about it. Unless you think there is something you can do about it, in which case, go ahead and do it. Otherwise, go about your life, and as long as you treat people the way you'd like to be treated, I don't see an issue.
However, and this is my point:
The fact that that fact (inequality) is not acknowledged often enough, is what allows politicians to exploit it, to spread racism, hate and division, and implement things like land expropriation / BBEEE, etc.
If we want to stop the spread of racism, hate, division (which is increasingly becoming the policy of government politics) then the more often we simply acknowledge that reality, without any normative expectations attached to it, the better.
Recovery from drug addiction taught me this.
Often the solution to a problem is simply admitting that there is a problem.
And ineqaulity of opportunity is a problem.
Poverty is poverty it has no race, inequality too doesn't have any race associated with it. You don't only see whites at the grocery stores, do you? You don't only see whites at medical facilities, do you? She had to make an impact on the importance of BTC's use case and used apartheid to grab attention. She understands shit about this country and if she did. It would've been a awesome video about YOU and how you are changing lives. Not apartheid.
Before you reply to this comment. Please. Please let it sink in for a moment. In short, what I got from this video.
So, Apartheid still rains supreme in this Beautiful Rainbow Nation of ours. But wait!! theirs this black guy in a small town of Mosselbay helping black kids staying of the streets to provide and teach them about Bitcoin. This is fantastic right? (Of course, you my friend are doing a great job.) But oh no wait, because of apartheid in South Africa still being so predominant, this project might not even last so long, so let's just hope and see you and your project doesn't sir come to apartheid.
What's even sad about this is not you, me or this journalist are old enough or have ever been in any apartheid clashes as shown in this video and to this day we still use apartheid to blame, shame and defend ourselves in our own right which is NOT the right thing to do.
Once again someone took on apartheid and apartheid stole the show without even doing anything.