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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
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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)
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Organization: Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto
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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.
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					Dennis Ferguson
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