19 December 2004, 02:40
SunshineRe: The reality of the new SA arms laws:
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The whites and blacks of Southern Africa have one thing in common though: A totally illogical hatred of the Bushmen who has been harassed by every fraction that�s come in touch with them.
Curt,
you can't be sober. No white person in South Africa hates the Bushmen!!! The oposite is true. The Blacks can't stand them, correct. There are lots of South African books on Bushmen.
Years ago I participated in a safari to the 'real' Bushmen of the Kalahari (Botswana). We spent a week amongst them, what a wonderful time it was.
Whites hate the Bushmen? You are kidding!
19 December 2004, 02:27
ceweThe Finnish redneck community has several names for black people, a couple of the ones you name are quite common. You Swedes aren�t any better though when it comes to namecalling: blattar, svartskallar, trasskallar...

There is no perfect country or political system, quite a few people in modern Russia long for the old communist regime. Why? That had more to eat then.
I see Boers/Anglos who�ve been living in Africa for generations as White Africans. The only true South Africans are the Bushmen, everyone else fled into the country from the North due to tribal warfare.
The whites and blacks of Southern Africa have one thing in common though: A totally illogical hatred of the Bushmen who has been harassed by every fraction that�s come in touch with them.
18 December 2004, 08:45
pwmcewe
it has nothing to do with this here,remeber a scene in the ferry harbor in tallin years ago. was waiting for my ferry to stockholm, other waiting for helsinki. different people, most sweden and finnish but remarkable many negro's. I think they flying to russia and take this way going into the west. a very drunken fin control the passports

of the negro's just for having fun and allmost everyone showed him this.
when i talk with political correct people allways say: NEGRO

19 December 2004, 00:37
ceweThat the black are the most racist people in the world is probably wrong, I think the Japanese should be awarded that prize. Finland has deeply rooted racist tendencies, several black American basketball players left our national league due to racial harassment. We are also well known to very restrictive in taking refugees though we have some Kurds, Somalis and Kosovo Albanians.
This is not might point and it is my point: We�re all human, we make mistakes and tend to oversimplify problems -generalization though is dangerous and leads to polarization and that isn�t constructive if your dealing with a complicated problem. Nor is unilateral condemnation a road to objectiveness.
I have no solutions and I got off the soapbox years ago. I do feel that by not learning from history and not aknowledging basic human nature are grave mistakes. If we are the more "civilized" we should also hold the capacity to at least try to understand instead of being reactionary. I sincerely hope that SA does not go down the drain like Zim has and it is important that the international community is watchful of what is going on there and intervenes when problems emerge that put the new democracy at risk.
All newly independant nations have teething problems, in Finland we had a civil (1917) war that has left scars that still haven�t healed.
By not aknowledging the whole situation we�re just contributing to already existing problems.
My 2 cents and I have more important things to do than educate you bums!

That is a joke!
19 December 2004, 03:59
ceweHistorically everybody had it in for the Bushmen -white, black, Hottentot you name it. The Voertrekkers (often with bible in one hand and a gun in the other) had hunting parties gunning them down and they were classed "bird free" meaning that they could -and should- be shot on sight. Same as the aboriginees of Australia, American Indians, European Gypisies etc.
I�d really like to spend some time with the Bushmen, I�ve heard that they are a remarkable people.
19 December 2004, 06:56
ceweSunshine: Laurens van der Post (South African bred and born) describes the plight of the Bushman in "The Lost World of the Kalahari". Very good reading...and he sees the .375 H&H as THE all round gun for Africa!
And I was sober when I wrote that last post

...now is a different story!
