airborne
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Undoubtedly we would go down the Apartheid crimes rabbit hole hence why I said it. But in short I do no hold to the demonic version of the past alone, just like I don't hold Britain as demonic only in Imperialism/Colonialism. I hold that many blacks were happy, especially in an environment where they could practice their traditional ways each according to his own culture, and this especially in the earlier years. At the same time I do not buy into later events where the army did peacekeeping and were utterly cruel, in fact I believe black-on-black was the order of the day, even intra-tribal. I housed a person who was involved once and he explained their efforts and the cruelty of blacks themselves. In short the media has by repetition painted a false and one-sided picture of the past.
Wow, blinkers make everything awesome.
You obviously never went through the homelands during the bad old days, abject poverty was the order of the day, miserable. Nor saw cops beating black dudes senseless for minor infractions or hospitals refusing to admit desperately ill patients due to being non white and the patient dying on the 30km drive to the "other" hospital.
Apartheid was terrible for races other than white people, there was no upside of you had the misfortune to have the wrong skin colour. Granted many tribal groups in SA have always been bloodthirsty but that's another matter all together.
