LouBelle,
I read your responses like a gleeming attack against the black natives of South Africa. Now you clarify it and say it is the dismantling of the apartheid system and all those affected, is that what you are saying? Personally, everything that is happening in South Africa is because of the ending of the Apartheid system, and that is the Karma. It is sad to read, yes, but for the years that all those people were treated horribly, it is not surprising. You are going to have people from all sides reacting to it. I feel the pain of all those trying to start over, but it's the journey of your country for the years of systematic hate and mistreatment of millions.
I read your comments very clearly, it does not mean I have to agree with you on every aspect of what you are saying, I don't. You acknowledged that you wrote from a perspective that is not of the black natives and so you will have biases based on that. You wrote it, I acknowledged that I saw it in your writing. I did not read in your initial reading this "all of us" ideology. It is the "blacks" that you attacked repeatedly, not once did I read anything about the government. Now if you had friends of all backgrounds and races, I would have expected you to not heavily rely on racial categorizations in your opinion and talk more of a human discord caused my the system that your country created and the hope for all people to get along in peace. It is not the first time I have read your remarks and saw an underlying "colorized" attacking going on, which I asked you about directly. "These people" and "those people" and that kind of writing reeks something very racially charged and critical. Again, do you not see it?
Now, the average white south african makes six times more than the average black south african, therefore when you wrote "reverse apartheid", that wasn't exactly true as it was written. Now if you meant something else, clarify you point.
Surely, I am going by the observations I made going there and the friends (as in more than three) South Africans that lived in that country until just maybe two or three years ago. Two of them are part Indian, all of them very nice cool people and when they talk I listen and I talk about my observation of visiting there. I am NOT SAYING that Indians and coloreds did not receive any type of discrimination at all, that is not what I wrote, but they did not suffer like the black natives were treated and that was my point.