akindheart · 61-69, F
i have to tell you i love South AFrica. i was there last November and one of my favorite trips. I have been to africa 3 times and loved each trip. i know i had the sanatized tourist version but there is no country as beautiful as south africa. the only sad thing was i was sitting in the airport waiting for my plane and a light skinned black lady told me that her race was being discriminated. apparently jobs were given to blacks and white people but not her color.
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DarthInvader · 36-40, M
@akindheart Black people in SA still make up most of the impoverished class by far.
DarthInvader · 36-40, M
@DarthInvader It doesn't appear to me to be a matter of discrimination but governmental inefficiencies which are rife in South Africa. How those inefficiencies are felt at a local community level may feel like discrimination because the South African government has failed to unify the different groups. Look up the stats. Black South Africans have the worst outcomes of all the people there.
DarthInvader · 36-40, M
@DarthInvader
I hope you are aware South Africa is 75 - 80 percent black. I don't know what you were expecting to see there. In fact many mixed people look black and many black people have lighter skin, how you'd know which is which baffles me.
it was pretty obvious in the airport who was working and who was not.
I hope you are aware South Africa is 75 - 80 percent black. I don't know what you were expecting to see there. In fact many mixed people look black and many black people have lighter skin, how you'd know which is which baffles me.
SumKindaMunster · 51-55, M
ThePatientAnarchist · 61-69
Apartheid would still have been in force in your childhood. I wonder do you remember those times, and what have the changes since then been like for you and yours?
Logybear50 · 51-55, F
There is this one incident I can't erase from my mind and I was about 4yrs old. My parents worked for a white family and we lived on their property. One day I climbed on something to look over the fence into the neighbours back yard and the neighbour came out of the house and pointed a gun at me.. just because I was of colour. Also experienced being one of the first non-white that was able to go to a so-called white school. I was received very well and didn't have any issues there.
ThePatientAnarchist · 61-69
@Logybear50 That is terrifying, having a gun pointed at you at that age and for that reason! But I am glad to know that you were made welcome in that school!
