Posted on 12/08/2002 10:21:39 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March
You may as well ask if we oppose apartheid in Israel.
Then we don't have much to discuss. In my opinion, apartheid was a morally indefensible political and economic system.
By the way, the blacks are not savages. They lack an education because the white-minority government denied them that opportunity for generations.
Did you oppose apartheid in South Africa?
I asked a simple question and got this nonsense in response. Once again, what would you have done if your government had gradually taken away your political rights and eventually stripped you of your citizenship?
Because the white-minority government forced 70% percent of the population to live on 13% to 14% of the national territory.
Because the white-minority government forced 70% percent of the population to live on the most worthless land.
Because the white-minority government forcibly moved 3.5 million blacks from land designated for whites to reservations.
Because the white-minority government stripped blacks of South African citizenship and their remaining civil and political rights.
Because blacks violated pass laws if they were in an urban area for more than seventy-two hours without having obtained special permission.
Because the General Laws Amendment Act allowed the police to hold suspects for up to six months without reporting their arrests.
Because the white-minority government eliminated the requirement of equality for racially segregated facilities.
Because the white-minority government prevented blacks from receiving education for jobs traditionally reserved for whites.
Because blacks were unable to purchase land in white areas.
Because blacks were unable to live in white-owned areas and work as sharecroppers.
Need I go on....
Before or after the government forcibly moved them to homelands and revoked their citizenship?
So, you supported apartheid?
hint: if you're a communist, the answer is 'yes'.
You aren't listening to anyone but yourself. Have you heard anything that's been said about the movement of blacks into South Africa from neighboring countries seeking jobs?
Why would the whites have an obligation to absorb all these immigrants and provide services and opportunities to however many job-seekers who entered ?
Now lets see, might we be describing the very situation we are experiencing in the US with an endless flow of illegal immigrants into our country? Hmmm . . . .
Still waiting for you to answer the first question I asked you. What would you do if your government gradually took away all your political rights and eventually stripped you of your citizenship?
Have you heard anything that's been said about the movement of blacks into South Africa from neighboring countries seeking jobs?
Yes. Does not make apartheid any less objectionable.
Why would the whites have an obligation to absorb all these immigrants and provide services and opportunities to however many job-seekers who entered ?
Because they created the mess with their racist policy.
I would probably resort to violence if my government took away my political rights and citizenship.
So you support Communism?
Never
So you support murderous Black Nationalism?
See #1
So you support the AIDS crisis?
Never
I conclude that you like to ask open-ended questions that infer others support apartheid if they oppose Mandela, like the old legal 'How long has it been since you stopped beating you wife?' Philosophically disingenous, and in my opinion, politically stultifying. When I'm faced with two evils, I fight them both, to spite small minds like yours with relish.
How would you have fought apartheid?
What are your thoughts on Liberty? (lol)
Strongly support, for blacks and whites.
What about the liberty of the blacks taken away by the white-minority government?
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