I was just searching on the Internet, the way you do, trying to think of something trivial to blog about when I came upon this picture. Apparently, it was taken on a Beach in Durban, South Africa in 1989 at the height of South Africa's expulsion from the rest of the world due to its separatist laws.
The picture made me smile, not because I condone racism, but because it is in the past and all those troubles are behind us... or so I thought. It turns out that the United Nations holds a World Conference against Racism in Durban every year and it usually deteriorates into an anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, pro-terrorism frenzy.
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
Sometimes, very occasionally, do you ever feel fucking ashamed to be a human being?
2 comments:
Now the key words are probably not race, but class. The rich (black and white) are now building their little enclaves to keep the poor (whatever, whoever they may be) out.
It really is sad.
That sign reminds me of Stevie Wonder's mid-80's song "Apartheid is Wrong".
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