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
@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.
akindheart · 61-69, F
@DarthInvader actually i was minding my own business waiting for my flight. a light skinned black lady told me that she was not able to get the jobs. so there. all i canoffer.
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SumKindaMunster · 51-55, M
Having people think they know more about your home country is par for the course on social media.
I should know, I live in America.
Don't take it personally.
I should know, I live in America.
Don't take it personally.
daydeeo · 61-69, M
Well said. And could be said of most every country on this old round world.
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!
Kstrong · 56-60, F
We are one race, human, different nationalities, and we all bleed red....
akindheart · 61-69, F
@Kstrong beautiful post
HobNoblin · 36-40, M
Was better in the 90's but people wanted cheap labor and bought in people who didn't belong there.