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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: I don't favor Apartheid, But....
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Date: Sun, 5-May-85 01:22:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  5 01:22:00 1985
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>/* mjk@ttrdc.UUCP (Mike Kelly) /  5:10 pm  May  3, 1985 */

 >>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

Thanks for showing all of us how to ignore an argument when you
(ostensibly) don't like its conclusions  --  you do it quite well!