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From: mjk@ttrdc.UUCP (Mike Kelly)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: I don't favor Apartheid, But....
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Date: Fri, 3-May-85 17:10:09 EDT
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 >From: tjj@ssc-vax.UUCP (T J Jardine)
 >The last thing that one would want is to make the condition of the non-white
 >worse than it is now.  Yet those who suggest that the US companies doing
 >business in South Africa pull out would do just that.  Perhaps only a small
 >percent of the non-white population is directly benefited by the policies
 >of the US companies, but at least that shows what can be done and more than
 >anything it provides HOPE.  I have personally seen what US companies in
 >Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban have done to improve wages, working
 >conditions, and opportunities for non-whites.

This reminds me of a cartoon I saw recently in a newspapers.  It showed
a black ghetto in South Africa, with a man looking in puzzlement at the
banjo he's holding.  Walking down the street is Uncle Sam with a sackful
of banjos.  The man is saying to his wife, "He said he just couldn't stand
to see black folks so miserable."

I'm glad that IBM, GM and the rest are in South Africa to better the lives
of blacks; and here I had always thought it was because they made so much
money there.  

Mike Kelly