@Sandfan: cute, but inaccurate. Sure, the situation is reversed in Zimbabwe. That’s a really ugly place these days, has been for 30 years. But under Mandela it seems to me that South Africa avoided the worst of racial reprisal.
If you Google the words Reagan + Apartheid, you’ll find that Ronnie actually supported this policy and rejected economic sanctions against South Africa, until it became clear that even he couldn’t get away with it for much longer.
And now the impoverishing, enslaving and controlling is being done by a handful of black south africans. Presently the vast majority of blacks in South Africa are worse off under native rule then they were under Apartheid. Average African cannot win.
rayannina almost 14 years ago
That’s how I felt about it, and I’m Caucasian!
thirdguy almost 14 years ago
when you put it that way, I’m not for it either!
Sandfan almost 14 years ago
And now, in South Africa and Rhodesia [Zimbabwe], the situation is basically reversed. What goes around…
chuck_henebry almost 14 years ago
@Sandfan: cute, but inaccurate. Sure, the situation is reversed in Zimbabwe. That’s a really ugly place these days, has been for 30 years. But under Mandela it seems to me that South Africa avoided the worst of racial reprisal.
SaunaBeach almost 14 years ago
PEACE, Brothers! PEACE!!
DesultoryPhillipic almost 14 years ago
I believe Oliver is thinking more literally. They really do look like him and his father, not just skin color.
Sherlock Watson almost 14 years ago
If you Google the words Reagan + Apartheid, you’ll find that Ronnie actually supported this policy and rejected economic sanctions against South Africa, until it became clear that even he couldn’t get away with it for much longer.
BeniHanna6 Premium Member almost 14 years ago
And now the impoverishing, enslaving and controlling is being done by a handful of black south africans. Presently the vast majority of blacks in South Africa are worse off under native rule then they were under Apartheid. Average African cannot win.
rumplesnitz almost 14 years ago
A dream deferred, altruism blunted by greed and stupidity.