Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site utecfc.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!utai!uthub!utecfa!utecfc!dennis From: dennis@utecfc.UUCP (Dennis Ferguson) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: South African Blacks Message-ID: <44@utecfc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 12:18:52 EDT Article-I.D.: utecfc.44 Posted: Sat Oct 26 12:18:52 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 15:42:09 EDT References: <1534@utcsri.UUCP> <7635@watrose.UUCP> Reply-To: dennis@utecfc.UUCP (Dennis Ferguson) Distribution: can Organization: Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto Lines: 25 Summary: In article <7635@watrose.UUCP> gdvsmit@watrose.UUCP (Riel Smit) writes: >In article <1534@utcsri.UUCP> vassos@utcsri.UUCP (Vassos Hadzilacos) writes: >>[ ] the dillema should-black-workers-get- >>$40-per-week-or-should-they-get-$0 is bogus. Why are these the only two >>alternatives? Why aren't these people entitled to decent wages as well >>as to freedom and dignity? > >They sure are (entitled to...), but they definitely won't get >decent wages if the rest of the world boycott the products they produce >or the companies/institutions they work for. >The same results, decent wages, freedom (whatever that >means in the African context - do you regard Ugandans as "free"?) >and dignity can be obtained (and sooner) without sanctions and boycotts >from the outside world. The trouble I have with the opinion in the last sentence is that (at least as far as I can judge from what makes the news) it seems that most of the South African proponents of this point-of-view are white. Black spokesmen seem to be almost always in favour of sanctions and boycotts. I really find it difficult to believe that white South Africans care more about "decent wages, freedom and dignity" for blacks than the blacks themselves do. -- Dennis Ferguson ...!utcsri!utecfc!dennis