I received this email the other day concerning Apartheid in South Africa: "I can see u are one very sick uninformed puppy! Catch a wakeup asshole, apartheid is dead and buried for 4 years now!! Fuck, U are uninformed!!! Catch a fucking wakeup CUNT! Regarding the info on your web site re tax etc., someone caught u for a sucker! Blacks didn't pay half the tax that the whites pay, they recieved free land unlike the whites who had to buy theirs, they are uneducated savages who maim and kill for no reason. These savages now run the country, bribery, corruption, theft etc. are at the order of the day, and these criminals sit in the government. You don't like Capitalism. Shock for u cunt, these blacks are more of a capatilist than the whites can ever be! They live for all the luxuries like BMW's, Merc's, Cell Phones, Jewelry, etc. They will do anything to get it, beg, steal, rob, etc. They have absolutely no shame, it's not a shameful event to go to jail. But ask them to pay for basic services like electricity, water, sewerage. Oh no, they can't afford it all of a sudden. Why? Because they got so used to the Whites providing everything for free, now why must they pay now? We got to pay school fees over and above taxes to put our kids in school, they don't pay a cent. The reason we have a 22:1 pupil to teacher ratio is because the parents pay extra to the school to hire additional teachers to achieve this ratio. I can't see how u can still think that the whites are better off, the Teaching Departments are run by the black government(sic) which by the way are mostly illiterate because they spend their youth burning down schools instead of learning. So catch a wake up and get yourself fucking educated cunt. I will at anytime swop this fuckup country for yours, just say the word. You are welcome to South Africa, or what's left of it! Please get your fucking uninformed ass over here and get yourself shot or highjacked for $5-00. Let's see your pityful opinion about the 'poor' blacks then. An even more racist post apartheid white South African" And so I just wanted to take some time out and write a meager response to this hideous letter. Let me start out by saying that I do not stand for racism of anykind, hatred of any kind, sexism, lookism, ageism, orprejudice based on one's choice of religion or sexual orientation. I can't understand why someone would hate or dislike or judge or look down upon another human being based on generalizations. We all deserve the right to live and love and be treated equally. And what happened and still is going on in South Africa with the black/white conflict (and also all the prejudice that goes on all over the world) is incomprehensible to me. Hatred is unexplainable. I have been accused more than once (believe me) of being blind and naive and ignorant. And it's true that I'm young and that I haven't had a quarter of my life experiences. Perhaps this is why I can't grasp why anyone would be so stupid as to hate a person because he's black or to tease and torture another because he's gay or to demean someone because she's a woman. Why do such things go on? I know it's headstrong and insane of me to wish that the world wasn't the way it is and to hope that one day we might improve as a race, the human race. To hope that one day we will be able to celebrate our differences and revel in our common rises and falls. We are all so much alike even though we don't want to admit it. And all we have to live for is each other. And to the racists of South Africa, to this one especially, have you any right to judge? You call blacks "uneducatedsavages who maim and kill for no reason." But who kept them uneducated? Who took away their rights andself-respect and tortured them so entirely until they finally saw no other way out? Can you say that you would do differently? If someone stole your right to live, would you sit calmly in your rundown matchbox of a house and take it, take all they did to you? If someone took away your home and moved your family hundreds of miles from you and then said, "You can't go here or here or here, and you must use this bathroom and this bus. You must have a bad education and earn low to no wages. You must carry a passbook. And if you do something that I don't want you to do I will beat you and haul your ass to jail and maybe I'll murder you, and no justice will be done for your death. And your family will starve and your baby will die. And all your children and their children after them will live and die like you did, in stinking filthy rat holes without food and without education and without rights," would you take it lying down? How dare you. How dare you judge and condemn and critize. Have you ever lived like them? Have you had to endure such treatment? What is anyone to do in such a situation? I know that Americans would rise up in bloody protests if our rights were taken away. Charleton Heston once said that the most essential of all American rights is the right to bare arms. "How are we to protect all our other rights without the right to bare arms?" And perhaps I don't agree with this entirely, but it does make a statement on American mentality and on the mentality of most human beings. We will not stand for opression, we will not except a lower position. You have only yourself to blame for what has happened in your country. I can't understand how such a government could come into and remain in power, a government based on hatred and ignorance. It is true that I have not seen firsthand what has gone on and what did go on in South Africa, I have not experienced it myself. And so perhaps I can't be definite in my opinions and beliefs. But I know that what was done to the blacks was wrong. Hatred and prejudice of any kind is wrong. When most of the whites of a country are living in luxury and extravagance while the blacks are living in poverty and filth, something fishy is going on. The declaration of supposed white supremacy is one of the curses of the human race. How dare you live like a millionaire in your shining white house with your black servants and your gleaming cars, and then whine like a child when justice is finally served. How dare you have the absolute pomposity to proclaim yourself more deserving than every other human being. How dare you complain. I may never have lived in South Africa (I may never have inhabited the great Land of Hatred and Ignorance), but I believe that you are the one of us who is uninformed, "CUNT."
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