South Africa report # 3
I am not a communist! Just so you know, but during my time in South Africa I wonder why.
On the same street there are the most expensive houses with swimming pool and 8 car garage. But across the street there are people who live in shack of cardboard and as much as I can tell they are not lazy or anything but they are black and the man with 8 cars is white. May be I am not getting something. But it just makes me so sad. I could never be tourist in this country. How could one enjoy his vacation and see all these hungry children. My chicken would stuck in my throat.
I am still not a communist but wouldn’t it make so much sense to make them all share. What do you think?
posted by Foreign_guy at 8:40 AM
7 Comments:
I'm all about sharing. I just can't understand how you could be incredibly wealthy and just pamper yourself while your neighbors are suffering.
Have you read the book Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane? It's an autobiography of a boy growing up in apartheid-era South Africa. It really showed how the majority of the poor weren't lazy--actually, they worked much harder than the whites, but because they were black they never got anywhere.
10:01 AM
You can share to all of them....white or black .. wonder what that could be?
Maybe the whites could form a useful company and employ the other people for a decent wage ... everybody wins!
CD
11:13 AM
Hei! Jaa, tieshi par to es domaaju, kad tev rakstiiju staastot par Dominikaanju Republiku (skaistaas paradiizes otra puse= milziigais, neizprotamais kontrasts: necimi bagaatie / neticami nabadziigie laudis). Ah..! Skumji. Bet pasauli jau neizmaaciisi. Cik forshi,ka tomeer ir cilveeki kaa tu, kas par to domaa un ne tikai - arii reaali paliidz.
Priecaajos, ka esi veiksmiigi ticis iecereetajaa meerkii. Un cik forshi, ka Dievs tev visur iet pa priekshu. Tevi, tavu gimeni veel jo projaam ik dienas paturot aizluugshanaas, Daciks
8:42 PM
i felt a bit like that when i was in mexico. islands with beautiful hotels, and the people who work in there come from families that live in squalor. hurrah for capitalism! hurrah for imperialism!
maybe it's time for a real "white man's burden" . . .
12:21 PM
I'm all aobut sharing...but I'm a socialist too...so...not quite a communist, but almost. I don't think I could handle seeing all that, I would cry all the time!
1:06 PM
Hey my brother! Sorry it has taken so long to write you something. Carter has shown me some of your emails so I am caught up with everything (sort of). We both miss having you around. Disco-land isn't the same either. Hey, I hear monkey is pretty tasty though. I also hear African sunsets are the most beautiful thing in the world. Enjoy a few 4 me and I will continue to pray for you as you keep adjusting to everything. know that our God is bigger than any spider you may shower with. Much love, brother!
8:16 PM
It is incredibly sad...
Our country is amazing, but somehow the social problems of the past continue to be an ever present burden...But I think that as more opportunities created, and the divisions of the past broken (by the new generation, like me!)
More can be done!!!!
SOUTH AFRICA ROCKS!!!!
11:03 AM
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