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Politics : CONSPIRACY THEORIES

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To: sea_urchin who wrote (376)10/8/2005 10:05:32 AM
From: sea_urchin   of 418
 
> I don't think a local NAAWP branch would help -- by defining the problem it doesn't bring one any closer to the solution.

For those who are interested, this is the South African solution -- reclassification.

thestar.co.za

>>South Africa’s white population is shrinking – but there appears to be a massive surge of people reclassifying themselves coloured in order to improve their upward mobility.

.... net loss of 2 420 whites over the past five years was probably due in part to emigration patterns, said Steenkamp, noting that there was also significant undercounting in predominantly white residential areas because of the “iron gates and Rottweiler effect” that kept census-takers at bay.

But other social forces are at work as well: with official race classification continuing in the guise of affirmative action in the post-apartheid era, the self-defined coloured population has soared from 3,6-million people in 1996 to an unlikely 4-million people in 2005.

In the past, many black people redefined themselves as coloured to improve their social status. <<

And now it's whites. And then when they are "coloured", they apply to go to the US as African-Americans and get in line for all the affirmative-action programs and hand-outs.
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