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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (196)	9/12/2005 9:27:40 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 418

Gus > Your firm grip on South Africa's riches --and your trade partners/friends overseas-- largely make up for your lack of political rights. I accept the argument and, in fact, always have even during the time of Afrikaaner Nationalist rule when English-speakers were also sidelined. > You talk as if the end of apartheid somehow reversed the racial equation and put South African whites in hovels and shantytowns, deprived of any economic/political clout! I am aware that it didn't but it's hard to see my kids and grandkids having to pay the price for the apartheid regime, indeed, a regime which arguably I may have tacitly benefitted from but otherwise had nothing to do with and, in fact, opposed. I accept that blacks must be given a preference but what pisses me off is that the ones who are really laughing all the way to the bank are the Indians who have jumped into the positions vacated by whites but the blacks (Africans), other than the oligarchs and the few who have enriched themselves via connections to the ANC, are still largely deprived, in fact, in many/most instances are worse off than before. Furthermore, I feel it is manifestly unfair that whites are discriminated against, particularly in the universities and civil service, in perpetuity. I would have been far happier to see a time limit. > what sort of "rights" are you hinting at? I'm not sure exactly? They are always talking about "minority rights" in the US so I presume there must be some advantage. > Do you mean the current "ANC regime", as you put it, forbids you to intermarry with blacks, Chinese,...? You can't sit in "blacks-only" parks? Black tellers in banks and public offices are being rude at you? Or perhaps the police keeps pushing you around? None of those things. In fact, there are many advantages and many freedoms in living here compared to previously. And, although you mock me when I say so, I actually like black people. One advantage of being a SAn is I can shout out I'm an atheist without incurring displeasure from anyone I have to be concerned about. In fact, when I see what is happening in the US and how important religion is and how fascist it has become, I'm only glad that I live in SA.