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Subject: Re: students care about the world.
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 09:27:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 14 09:27:00 1985
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Wake up, Richard..

The blacks in South Africa enjoy the highest standard of living of all
blacks in S. A.

The blacks themselves do not really want divestiture, for example the
chief of the Zulus has published editorials in, among other papers,
the New York Times arguing that divestiture will do far more damage to
S. African blacks than current apartheid.

It is very easy, from a point thousands of miles away, to boil a highly
complex issue down to a veryu basic argument (white vs. black), thereby
conveniently skipping a vast number of facts which would destroy most
arguments about apartheid in RSA.

Apartheid is NOT a way of life to be supported- but starry eyed idealists
typically will do more harm to a suffering people than the actual cause they
are trying to combat.


In the future, try confining your wailing to net.politics.

Bernard H. Schwab
Siemens RTL, Princeton, NJ