gdvsmit@watrose.UUCP (Riel Smit) (10/13/86)
In article <8673@duke.duke.UUCP> rjn@duke.UUCP (R. James Nusbaum) writes: > Maybe if you had lived with racism as I have you might understand >my extreme hate for the South African government. I equate the Afrikaners >and the radical right in SA with the Klan, White Patriot Party, and the >Aryan Nations in the US. If you think that the Afrikaners are even going >to consider peacefully giving up control of that country to the blacks, I >think you are sadly mistaken. > Please don't let your hate for the South African government consume you to such an extent that you hate all Afrikaners, as you seem to be doing. Equating Afrikaner with racist (and all the other nasty things you mention) is nothing else than racism in itself. How can you judge someone based on his/her parentage? That's no different than judging someone based on her/his race.