[CourtneyLeigh]

I once worked with a "white" South African here in the states, it was back in 98, I think.

He was heavily racist. We had dark complected people working there too. And he always grumbled at them. He would over speak them, and treat them with much dismay.

Then there were a couple of missionaries, from a past congregation we attended, back in early 90's, that had been to South Africa, said the people were beautiful, but talked of much segregation.

So these are some other instances I based my harsh knowledge on.

:(

[cyborg]

If he's OLDER then that's just culture of doing things in certain parts of SA that he's used to do. Some not all, are like civil servants being snotty to everyone, and if he's Afrikaner all the more defensive. My ex used to tell people he was Dutch, not South African.

Even during apartheid, there was not as much segregation as the liberal propaganda mill will have everyone believe. Considering that SA is a country in transition I think a lot of outsiders are very harsh in their judgments which are very uninformed.

[Nataku X]

Unfortunately it has been human nature to react to injustice with more injustice, wrongdoing with more wrongdoing.

Here's an example. For centuries deaf people were put in institutions, and when they weren't, they were forced to learn how to speak (an impossibility when there weren't even hearing aids). They were punished for reverting to their natural communication--sign language. When they were finally allowed to use sign language around the 1970s, they overreacted by forming extremist groups that say that speaking, or even reading, is "traitorous" to the deaf community. Then you've got Malcolm X, Zimbabwe, etc.

Now those who have been freed in Iraq after decades under one tyrant's rule are going to the opposite extreme, and embracing communism.

Humanity is incapable of finding a middle ground, sadly.

[Godebert]

"I once worked with a "white" South African here in the states, it was back in 98, I think. He was heavily racist. We had dark complected people working there too. And he always grumbled at them. He would over speak them, and treat them with much dismay."

He grumbled at them and treated them with dismay? That guy definetly deserves to be necklaced then. Maybe after Mandela dies you can catch a flight to Pretoria and help pour the gasoline. Sounds like your bag, baby.

[nopardons]

You're either lying through your teeth, or making all of this up. Look, newbie, that is no way to makes it, here on FR.

You'd be better served,as would FR, going off to some skinhead site.