[CourtneyLeigh]

He did consider himself a dutch S.A.
He had a very hard time finding a place to live near work, it was in Downtown Cincinnait. He wouldn't even apply to the local YMCA, instead he asked about our suburbia YMCA. We had to tell him the only housing YMCA were DWTN Cincinnati, and across the river in Ky.

He wouldn't live in those places, because of the "blacks" living there.

He was sad.

[cyborg]

He sounds like some of my friends, and say friends loosely because sometimes I have to cover my ears! Either he is basing that on his experiences with blacks in SA OR he got a prejudiced, negative report from an American white person which happens often.

I remember my boyfriend telling me that many white SA's used to be happy to get black tourists from other countries because that meant an intelligent conversation. He was used to black africans but can't say he enjoyed their company much. He's been living here in USA for a while, and I've never heard him say anything negative about black people. SA has gotten a lot of bad press, most of it undeserved and anyone who wants to understand the country has to read A LOT of different material.

[nopardons]

Would YOU want to live in a slum ?

Now I KNOW that you're lying! Afrikaners are proud to be Afrikaners and not ALL Afrikaners are from Dutch stock. Many are of French and German heritage.Most Afrikaners are all a mix,from intermarriages, with the early settlers, who were NOT all Dutch...not even the majority of them were.

A few Afrikaners, who immigrate here, don't admit to being Afrikaners, but NONE would call themselves " a Dutchman from SA" !

[Cronos]

I get what you're trying to say. You feel that the blacks were mistreated. Well, yes. But slaughter is not the way. Mandela and Desmond Tutu had the right idea, to forgive the past.

Don't forget that the blacks will want to wipe out all "foreigners". Now, that is xenophobia at the very least and the same as Hitler or north Korea.