Gus > Children ALWAYS pay for their parents and grandparents' crimes and blunders --sooner or later.
When one looks at what is happening in the US today, one wonders whether the children and grandchildren of present-day Americans will be able to scrape even the surface of the tidal wave of debt incurred by the present administration?
> you pay for your forefathers' sins... They rolled in it for most, if not all, of their lifetime, indulging in the most atrocious brutalities and crimes against their black slaves
Actually I read -- and, in fact, I believe -- that the conditions for most slaves were not too bad at all. Sure, the concept of being able to own someone is abhorrent but because they were owned they were looked after. Indeed, they were looked after (I know you don't like the idea of paternalism either) far better as slaves than when they were freed and had to work for a pittance and live under the most abysmal conditions.
> Where's your white Mandela?
I take your point. All the same, one would like to see an end to state-enforced racism especially now that SA is a democratic country. In fact, affirmative action in any shape or form is an anomaly in an allegedly non-racial, non-sexist democracy. Indeed, it is an attempt to legislate outcomes and to confer advantage for the wrong reason and handicap the one who deserves the job, whatever, on the basis of his effort and ability. In other words, it is socialist and, being philosophically a libertarian, is something I, personally, am opposed to. And, of course, this leads to what we are now seeing in SA, which is the result of putting incompetent people into jobs which they cannot do -- major administrative and performance failure, especially in the public sector. |
