Posted on 02/19/2005 4:34:21 PM PST by CurlyDave
I think that most who have escaped will not want to go back.
You said it! Why in the hell would anyone go back unless the were interested in "necklacing".
The whites of South Africa, like the German Jews of the 1930's, were at first unwilling to leave, then one day, found they could not leave....
The "majority" government of South Africa still tends to some excesses, much more than is actively reported, and the civil situation there is not significantly better than it was 20 years ago. There is simply a different ethnic minority in charge. Tribal warfare never went away.
Any White man that got out of that mess alive had better stay out.
I thought whitey was the problem. The black majority got what they wanted,they shouldn't complain about it now-it's unseemly. IMO
That's basically what it is. My ex left when apartheid was in full swing because he didn't want to be a goverment chemist. No money in the world will pay him to go back, and he also has relatives who rather die than move because it's their land too.
Tons of South African Jews in South Florida now, including two couples in my parent's neighborhood. No, they have NO desire to return under any circumstance.
My, Grandma, what big teeth you have!
All the better to eat you with my dear...
Seriously, I have some South African friends, and after my experiences with their morality and work ethic, we can only hope the South Africans forced to flee that dying socialist state come to America. Why are they fleeing?
Because the UN decided that apartheid was raciest and boycotted and sanctioned a thriving free democratic country to death. Now everyone is fleeing the financial ruin and something much more wicked than apartheid, the UN replacement, Genocide and Socialism.
Yep, the UN fixed South Africa but good.
For later
Actually, I'd say it was another disaster foisted on the American public by the Old Media.
If we had been told the truth, we never would have allowed it to happen.
The same for Rhodesia.
I think the Old Media, or the MSM is in bed with the Marxist Democrats of the USA and the UN. All part of the same Harem.
You are correct. May our anger at the horror they have caused be directed toward exposing their depravity.
2 points:
1) Apartheid WAS racist, and it wasn't only the UN that decided that. Basing "separate but equal" access to opportunities on race alone is rooted in the idea of race, as the Apartheid government freely demonstrated. The fact that there was little "equality" in what was available to people of different racial categories means that it was not just racialist, but racist.
2) A "thriving free democratic country" does not automatically disenfranchise 70% of its citizens because of the color of their skin. SA elections before 1994 were competitive but South Africans were not free to participate in them unless they belonged to the "correct" tribe -- the one in power.
It sure was, and the new government that was put in place is a hundred times more racist. Then UN sure fixed South Africa, but good. Now instead of ride in the back of the bus, you can get killed in the back of the bus. People have their lands taken from them because of the color of their skin, or raped, and or beaten to death in the police stations. Rape, murder, and racial killings are a hundred times worse, you take your life in your hands just walking some places.
But since it is whites at the bottom now, It is a success. Never mind that violence against blacks is also much worse, but it was never about Blacks was it?
South Africa, once the flower of Africa is now just a squashed cactus, once a the bread basket, now an importer. Property rights gone, justice gone, prosperity gone, peace gone, but hey, at least there is not Apartheid, just brewing Genocide.
South Africa is a disaster of Continental proportions for Leftists, so suddenly not news worthy anymore. Face it Apartheid would be one helluva step up from where it is now. By the way, I have never met a South African that was FOR Apartheid. What happened to South Africa was like shooting your neighbor because he had a broken wrist. He's so much better off now...
I've got a friend from high school whose family came the US in '94, right as apartheid ended. Under no circumstance has "going back" ever been something he's talked about. He's far happier here, and occasionally talks to old friends there who tell him to stay away.
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