Anti-Zionism Is Racism

[Forstater, Mathew]

by 'experience' i simply meant the migration from north to south to
which you referred, implying they were as much (or, in your version,
more) newcomers to "modern South Africa" as the Boer.

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Davies [mailto:d_squared_2002 at yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 1:30 PM
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Subject: RE: Anti-Zionism Is Racism

 --- "Forstater, Mathew" <ForstaterM at umkc.edu> wrote: > the old canard
you
repeat about the experience of the "black
> inhabitants" of South Africa being the comparable to the Boer is an
old
> standard part of the apartheid mythological/ideological scheme. you
just
> need a few touches, like call the Boer "Afrikaaners" (i.e. Africans)
and
> the the Xhosa, etc. 'bantu'. You actually go further than some
versions.
> Anyway, I can't go into the whole argument right now, but wanted to
get
> on record as knowledgeable of it and rejecting it. I'll try to get
back
> soon. 
> Mat

Sorry, but I said not a durn thing about the "experience" of the black
or white
inhabitants of South Africa at any point.  All I commented on was their
status
according to the rather ridiculous criterion of having or not having
ancestors
who had tilled the same patch of land for a sufficient number of
generations. 
That was rather the whole point.

dd

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