a Headline. Question. Why do So Africans - mainly Black - continue to allow white gold mind owners to run ??
. THEIR gold mines? That is, gold mines that belong to the South Africans. I am watching video of some of the 3,000 or more miners being rescued from a South African gold mine yesterday. All I see are Black faces. Then I see video of the "owners" or those who are in charge of the mine. They are white. I thought apartheid was over. The gold belongs to South Africa. Not the white man. . and yes I am white, a young woman under 24, and I believe that man and woman have the right to make money. But it disturbs me in this day and age, to see Blacks still under the foot of the white man. It depends on hopw you look at it Phi]lip. A man named Cecil Rhodes literally STOLE diamonds in what was at one time called Rhodesia..HE didn't own squat. yet he used those men both Black and white at will. THAT is what I see going on here. (By the way Rhodes was of course white, and came from Europe) He died young but left his mark as a thief (He made so much money off of the diamond mines that today, we have what is called the Rhodes Scholarship, the monies within that fund which were made off of the sweat of Black Africans South African belongs to the Blacks. Not the whites. The US belongs to whites, IF we discard the idea that it was stolen from the Indians....many many Blacks in this country employ whites .. do your homework...
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1 :
Mines in America belong to the mine owners not America. South Africa, much to your chagrin, is like America. Not communist.
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There have been white South Africans since the 1700's, when the Boers colonized there. Apartheid is over, but that does not necessarily mean that if you are white you cannot run a company. I think the most important thing is that these 3000 workers get out safely. Many have been rescued, but there are hundreds still trapped. Lets focus on the people, not thier color.
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For many of the same historical reasons, that black Americans mostly work for white Americans.
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Probably because those white owners probably had money to start the business. Africa is not the richest countries with the best economy so don't expect a lot of Africans in Africa to be entrepenuers. And remember Aparthied and slavery was only 60 years ago, and it takes time for an entire society in a 3rd world country to progress in education, technology, economy and so forth after being at the very bottom. Although I have never been to Africa and never seen the inner workings or lived there, this is my perspective as an outsider, i hope i have some truth in what I said... but maybe not. With all the fighting still going on there, it would be difficult to progress and compete in the world economy without help from outside.
