A South African's perspective..

[champcaller]

I've been at a conference in Ohio braving blizzards all week, but made friends with a guy from South Africa named, Jaro. He was a PH before recently making a career change to agriculture - real neat fellow.

Anyways the topic of racism was brought up, and he said,
"We have a saying in South Africa. You know the difference between a racist and a tourist?"















"Two weeks."



thought y'all would get a kick out of that!

[tombstone]

[Northbigmuddy]

I've got a handful of friends over there. They are no friend of the natives and for good reason from their stories. They also laugh at us Americans..."can't y'all see what your doing".

[deltadukman]

I've got a handful of friends over there. They are no friend of the natives and for good reason from their stories. They also laugh at us Americans..."can't y'all see what your doing".

I miss that guy. He could tell us where we're going wrong for sure. Black man wants white mans land, they just take it. Reparations, what?

[Ster]

I have some good friends that are missionaries in Zimbabwe. They are a wonderful couple that are originally from Great Britain. They have spent most of their life living in Zimbabwe and they were there prior to the Native uprising that took place in what was once the nation of Rhodesia. Rhodesia was considered the breadbasket of Africa. It was one of the few places where the economy was thriving and they were producing enough food to literally feed most of the continent of Africa. Rhodesia was a prodominantly native population with a small minority that was Anglo saxon. Of course, having once been a colony of Great Britain the Anglo-saxon population had the power and the land. They were almost all farmers that were very successful at cultivating the land, maintaining irrigation etc... The nation of Rhodesia was thriving under White control. Everyone had food to eat and there was very little poverty at that time due to the commercial enterprise of agriculture. Well, after a while they natives got greedy. Long story short, the natives drove out the White minority and confiscated all of the land. From that point on the nation of Rhodesia ended and Zimbabwe was formed. The natives didn't have a clue how to farm, irrigate etc... and they place stayed a war zone between battling tribes. The nation went from a wealthy and prosperous nation to a third world nation over night.

[deltadukman]

I have some good friends that are missionaries in Zimbabwe. They are a wonderful couple that are originally from Great Britain. They have spent most of their life living in Zimbabwe and they were there prior to the Native uprising that took place in what was once the nation of Rhodesia. Rhodesia was considered the breadbasket of Africa. It was one of the few places where the economy was thriving and they were producing enough food to literally feed most of the continent of Africa. Rhodesia was a prodominantly native population with a small minority that was Anglo saxon. Of course, having once been a colony of Great Britain the Anglo-saxon population had the power and the land. They were almost all farmers that were very successful at cultivating the land, maintaining irrigation etc... The nation of Rhodesia was thriving under White control. Everyone had food to eat and there was very little poverty at that time due to the commercial enterprise of agriculture. Well, after a while they natives got greedy. Long story short, the natives drove out the White minority and confiscated all of the land. From that point on the nation of Rhodesia ended and Zimbabwe was formed. The natives didn't have a clue how to farm, irrigate etc... and they place stayed a war zone between battling tribes. The nation went from a wealthy and prosperous nation to a third world nation over night.

Like Jackson, MS

[Ster]

I have some good friends that are missionaries in Zimbabwe. They are a wonderful couple that are originally from Great Britain. They have spent most of their life living in Zimbabwe and they were there prior to the Native uprising that took place in what was once the nation of Rhodesia. Rhodesia was considered the breadbasket of Africa. It was one of the few places where the economy was thriving and they were producing enough food to literally feed most of the continent of Africa. Rhodesia was a prodominantly native population with a small minority that was Anglo saxon. Of course, having once been a colony of Great Britain the Anglo-saxon population had the power and the land. They were almost all farmers that were very successful at cultivating the land, maintaining irrigation etc... The nation of Rhodesia was thriving under White control. Everyone had food to eat and there was very little poverty at that time due to the commercial enterprise of agriculture. Well, after a while they natives got greedy. Long story short, the natives drove out the White minority and confiscated all of the land. From that point on the nation of Rhodesia ended and Zimbabwe was formed. The natives didn't have a clue how to farm, irrigate etc... and they place stayed a war zone between battling tribes. The nation went from a wealthy and prosperous nation to a third world nation over night.

Like Jackson, MS

No question that Jackson is on the same path as many of the large cities. Detroit, Memphis, Jackson are all examples of deterioration.

[peewee]

In my opinion the Capitol ought to be pulled out of Jackson. If the city cant fix the roads around the dang Capitol, it doesn't deserve to keep it there.