Did anyone read the paper last week (Mercury) where the main headline
stated the following?
"It's not too late for whites to say sorry for apartheid!"
Check the email that went around responding to the headline. It's a kick
ass response.
Subject: We Apologise
To the Previously Disadvantaged
We are sorry that our ancestors were intelligent, advanced and daring
enough to explore the wild oceans to discover new countries and
develop them.
We are sorry that those who came before us took you out of the bush
and taught you that there was more to life than beating drums, killing
each other and chasing animals with sticks and stones.
We are sorry that they planned, funded and developed roads, towns,
mines, factories, airports and harbours, all of which you now claim to be
your long deprived inheritance giving you every right to change and rename
these at your discretion.
We are sorry that our parents taught us the value of small but strong
families, to not breed like rabbits and end up as underfed, diseased,
illiterate shack dwellers living in poverty.
We are sorry that when the evil apartheid government provided you
with schools, you decided they'd look better without windows or in piles
of ashes.
We happily gave up those bad days of getting spanked in our all white
schools for doing something wrong and much prefer these days of
freedom where problems can be resolved with knives and guns.
We are sorry that it is hard to shake off the bitterness of the past
when you keep on raping, torturing and killing our friends and family
members, and then hide behind the fence of "human rights" with smiles on your
faces.
We are sorry that we do not trust the government. We have no reason
to be so suspicious because none of these poor hard working intellectuals have
ever been involved in any form of corruption or "irregularities".
We are sorry that we do not trust the police force and, even though
they have openly admitted that they have lost the war against crime and
criminals, we should not be negative and just ignore their corruption
and carry on hoping for the best.
We are sorry that it is more important to you to have players of
colour in our national teams than winning games and promoting patriotism. We
know that sponsorship doesn't depend on a team's success.
We are sorry that our border posts have been flung open and now left
you competing for jobs against illegal immigrants from our beautiful
neighbouring countries. All of them countries that have grown into
economic powerhouses after kicking out the "settlers".
We are sorry that we don't believe in witchcraft, beetroot and garlic
cures, urinating on street corners, virginity testing, slaughtering
of bulls in our back yards, trading women for cattle and other barbaric practices.
Maybe we just grew up differently.
We are sorry that your medical care, water supplies, roads, railways
and electricity supplies are going down the toilet because skilled people
who could have planned for and resolved these issues had to be shown away
because they were of the wrong ethnic background and now have to work
in foreign countries where their skills are more needed.
We are so sorry that we'd like this country to fulfil its potential
so we can once again be proud South Africans.
(Signed)
The Previously Advantaged
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