[L.N. Smithee]

LN, no need to get 'ticked'. This is a very distressing story but I am also interested in the motives of the man who posted it. Would he have posted it had white people been the perpetrators? I doubt it somehow. A brief search on his posts reveals many of them have a recurring theme...

This story is horrific enough that it really doesn't matter what his motivation is as long as we know the depths of what really is happening in southern Africa, because so many myopic Americans want to believe that life is peaceful there now that apartheid and colonialism are a thing of the past.

To that effect, in 1980, Stevie Wonder recorded "Jammin'", which contained the following stanza:

They want us to join their fighting
But our answer today
Is to let all our worries
Like the breeze through our fingers slip away
Peace has come to Zimbabwe
Third World's right on the one
Now's the time for celebration
'Cause we've only just begun

It's politically correct to "play Sun City" now, but the question is, is it worth the risk?

[jjbrouwer]

LN: Rather than waste bandwidth I mailed you a private reply.

Mr Meltdown is also welcome to contact me.