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Old 19th June 2003, 14:40
Whoopi Whoopi is offline
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Thanks. And I WILL keep the spirit of equality and respect for individuality alive in my heart
However, where are you from? From South Africa? What languages do you speak?
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Old 20th June 2003, 03:53
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Im South African,

28 years old, and speak english, and Afrikaans, but my Afrikaans is terrible.
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Old 20th June 2003, 12:56
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English and Afrikaans....so you are white, right? I'm looking for somebody who speaks Zulu.
However, what do you think of the black history month? I think that this is a wonderful thing, also because the last year a lot of black actors did something on tv to celebrate this month and there was also Whoopi Goldberg I didn't see it 'cause it was only in USA...uff...
However, in Africa you don't celebrate it?
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Old 25th June 2003, 19:41
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No Black history month is peculiar to the USA ,I've never
even heard of it before! ,In africa most things go unoticed
here by the world, and history is lost.
But there is no real insecurity here ,nobody feels they need
a special celebration of themselves! Africa IS black ,
there are places here where they have never even seen a
white man! even though they still carry around kalishnikovs
and AK-47's ,these things the got through a long string of trades
But Africas History is a dark one lately ,the current
Congolise civil war is THE most Bloody war to ever occur
since world war 2!!!! yet what do you know of it ?
Probably nothing! a low estimate of the deaths involved
is at 4.000.000!! now to you average joe this is just a number
Let me put it into perspective ,Are you standing on a carpet?
Preferably the stiched kind where these stiches are easly
visible ,How big are they 10 should give you around
3cm right ? Check this out! this is a finely stiched carpet
yours is probably courser.
so 1000 should be about 3 meters
so 3x3M gives you a million so we'd be looking at 9x9M meters
which is normally a very big room,now look at all those
frieking people , a Good third a women and children
and a good third of that is children
In one civil war!! there have been how many in africa??
But what does the world hear of this ? not much at all
Infact they don't care much either ,most can't wait for
the blacks to kill themselves off here!!
And if not that then they are trying to Sue Africas Ass
or drop sanctions on us or polish off our resources for us
I mean why is Nigeria even allowing another country NEAR
its oil ? Learn a lesson from the Arabs ! you own oil you
own clout, which turns into money!

Black history month ? you mean African-American history month!
Africas history has been turned into some sort of fairy
tail over there,and the reality here is War on a scale
that I dont doubt makes all other wars combined pale
in comarison when you look at the numbers!
Yet you never hear about it on CNN or BBC , just when
they (The west) broker a cease fire or something.




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