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From: mom@sftri.UUCP (Mark Modig)
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Subject: Re: South African solutions anyone?
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Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 13:34:57 EDT
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> > How valid are assertions that because South African blacks are
> > better off (Standard-of-living-wise) they should think twice
> > about revamping the status quo?
> This one isn't covered there--the list of African states where
> a black person can go to bed at night without worrying that the
> henchmen of the local (Black) despot will make a midnight courtesy
> call is a short one indeed.  Besides South Africa, I can think of maybe
> one place--Ivory Coast, and I'm not completely sure about that one.
> There is in fact a substantial net IN-migration of blacks INTO South Africa
> looking for a better life.
> Perhaps someone can tell us about other African Elyseums.

The problem in South Africa is not one of economics-- blacks in South
Africa appear to be better off economically than blacks in most of the
rest of Africa.  That still doesn't mean they shouldn't aspire to live
in a country where the distribution of power depends upon race.  If
economic reasons were the only valid ones for seeking change, there
probably would not have been an American Revolution, since many
people in the colonies (particularly the Northern ones) were reasonably
well off by the standards of the day and what life was like in
Europe.

Mark Modig
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