*Rage*
I have no words.
No. I have words but most of them are four letters long, give or take an affix, and none of them are nice.
Give me a moment, I cannot even begin to articulate my utter rage and disgust.
Here's why: 1 2 3 4 5 6
...
OK, half an hour later, I think I've found my words.
This is an open letter to every thrice-damned moron in this country who is shitting on my carpet.
This is my home.
Stop fucking it up.
Yes it may be yours too.
But it is also theirs no matter what you and the rest of your inbred friends think.
They're in this country because they have no other option, because their quality of life sucks, because they have war and famine instead of jobs and food. Because they have a shithead for a president that our shithead, I mean, president won't condemn. Like you, if they could live better elsewhere they would.
Have you forgotten what it was like? Yes it was more than a decade ago and like me you may have been too young to appreciate the full effects at the time, but have you forgotten the legacy of fear and pain and hate that we still put up with today? Have you forgotten petrol-bombs through the window? Being dragged from your homes in the middle of the night? Have you forgotten the burning flesh of an innocent in the street? The fear of losing your family in a riot? And for what? Because someone different to you doesn't like where you live, doesn't like you loving others like them, doesn't like that you need money to live too.
Have we come this far just to take a flying leap back?
Have you forgotten what it was like? Do you want it that way again?
I do not want to open my newspaper to the picture of a burning man. I do not want to have the first ten straight minutes of my news broadcast to be dedicated to violence and hatred and an ever-rising death toll. I do not want to see pictures of 'hot-spots of violence' spreading over the country like the shock waves of an earthquake. I do not want my home, my beautiful "rainbow nation" home, turned into a warzone.
And if you do, you can get your mother-fucking racist, xenophobic asses out of my fucking country.
Update: The totals are sketchy but from I can make out at least 50 are dead, well over 1000 injured, countless women gang-raped, untold amount of property damage, tens of thousands displaced (between 10 & 20 000 in the Cape alone), these displaced are now getting sick (it's winter and most are in tents or at police stations), over 500 arrested (frikkin' A), tourists are fleeing, more than 25 000 Mozambicans and many other African nationals have left, the Zimbabweans are trying to decide which side of the bridge is worse, our honoured president is making ineffectual squeakings, our Health Minister (*snort*) even more so, and somewhere Mugabe is doing a happy dance. Ok, I can't prove the last one, but I'll bet you good money he's doing one. Inside where no-one can see. bastard
Oh, and yesterday was Africa Day.
Hey, South Africa, Happy Fucking Africa Day.
No. I have words but most of them are four letters long, give or take an affix, and none of them are nice.
Give me a moment, I cannot even begin to articulate my utter rage and disgust.
Here's why: 1 2 3 4 5 6
...
OK, half an hour later, I think I've found my words.
This is an open letter to every thrice-damned moron in this country who is shitting on my carpet.
This is my home.
Stop fucking it up.
Yes it may be yours too.
But it is also theirs no matter what you and the rest of your inbred friends think.
They're in this country because they have no other option, because their quality of life sucks, because they have war and famine instead of jobs and food. Because they have a shithead for a president that our shithead, I mean, president won't condemn. Like you, if they could live better elsewhere they would.
Have you forgotten what it was like? Yes it was more than a decade ago and like me you may have been too young to appreciate the full effects at the time, but have you forgotten the legacy of fear and pain and hate that we still put up with today? Have you forgotten petrol-bombs through the window? Being dragged from your homes in the middle of the night? Have you forgotten the burning flesh of an innocent in the street? The fear of losing your family in a riot? And for what? Because someone different to you doesn't like where you live, doesn't like you loving others like them, doesn't like that you need money to live too.
Have we come this far just to take a flying leap back?
Have you forgotten what it was like? Do you want it that way again?
I do not want to open my newspaper to the picture of a burning man. I do not want to have the first ten straight minutes of my news broadcast to be dedicated to violence and hatred and an ever-rising death toll. I do not want to see pictures of 'hot-spots of violence' spreading over the country like the shock waves of an earthquake. I do not want my home, my beautiful "rainbow nation" home, turned into a warzone.
And if you do, you can get your mother-fucking racist, xenophobic asses out of my fucking country.
Update: The totals are sketchy but from I can make out at least 50 are dead, well over 1000 injured, countless women gang-raped, untold amount of property damage, tens of thousands displaced (between 10 & 20 000 in the Cape alone), these displaced are now getting sick (it's winter and most are in tents or at police stations), over 500 arrested (frikkin' A), tourists are fleeing, more than 25 000 Mozambicans and many other African nationals have left, the Zimbabweans are trying to decide which side of the bridge is worse, our honoured president is making ineffectual squeakings, our Health Minister (*snort*) even more so, and somewhere Mugabe is doing a happy dance. Ok, I can't prove the last one, but I'll bet you good money he's doing one. Inside where no-one can see. bastard
Oh, and yesterday was Africa Day.
Hey, South Africa, Happy Fucking Africa Day.