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Maybe Nothing Ever Changes

Nothing like white people giving white people a bad name.


Parent supports 'racist' bus driver

A Johannesburg bus driver accused of kicking eight pupils off his bus because they were white is being victimised, the parent of one of the children said on Thursday.

"My child told me that the children were lying. It's not fair that this poor driver is getting victimised. They [the children] are lying, they demanded to get off the bus," said Leena Bedworth, whose daughter Simone was on the bus on Tuesday.

Bedworth said her daughter - who also attends Parktown High School for Girls - told her about the incident on Tuesday night, before it was reported in the newspapers.

"The bus was late, but when the kids got on [at the Mondeor pickup point] he apologised profusely. Then the white children started attacking the driver verbally."

The driver who was new to the route had been asked to go and help on the Parktown High School route after completing his normal route because of the Metrobus strike.

Bedworth said she had contacted Metrobus's managing director Bheki Shongwe to substantiate the bus driver's claims that he had been taunted by the children.

Gregg Bauer, the deputy headmaster at Parktown High School for Girls, said the children had been "kicked off" the bus on Westcliff Drive - about a kilometre from the school.

The children had told Bauer that the driver had arrived late and would not accept directions to the school from two white boys.

When other children tried to approach the driver, saying they needed to get to school because they had tests, the driver "lambasted" them.

According to the children the driver said: "This is the new South Africa and blacks rule the country. He'll show them how these things are now done," said Bauer.

Shongwe on Tuesday denied that driver had kicked the children off the bus and said an investigation was underway.

"We are continuing to investigate, but the preliminary finding is that there is no correlation between what was in the [newspaper] article and what the driver has told us," he said.

"I have spoken to the driver and he said it was an absolute lie."

Shongwe was not immediately available for comment on Thursday afternoon. - Sapa

A Recent Rant

I wrote this on a mainly american link farm last night, it was in response to an article someone had posted on the resurgence of white power groups (they've grown dramtically in the past few years)

There's this horrible, terrible climate of fear and hate in the world. And I guess I'm feeding it right now, just by hating it back. It's not just your country. It's everywhere. Most of you already know, I'm a white South African. Now, those of you who didn't know that, or haven't seen me post or comment before, ask yourself, what do you think of me? Having never met me or spoken to me, what is the initial impression you have of me in your mind? I'm a racist, bigoted scum bag who enjoyed the fruits of Apartheid on the backs of black people. Now, what if I told you I was 14 years old when Apartheid ended (14 year olds make poor revolutionaries, especially when they don't even know there's one going on). That I had a coloured (that's an acceptable word where I'm from, it means of mixed race descent) girlfriend when I was 13, in 93. That, most young people didn't even know what Apartheid was because its darkside was censored from us and kept out of the news. We didn't even know we'd invaded Angola. Now, skip forward to today. White people make up a tiny proportion of the population, 17%. Yet we still hold many of the top earning jobs... why? Because we could study in our own language and had the same opportunities that many of you enjoy in your own countries. Hence, white people serve as the high-end skills basis for the country. I don't think white people are cleverer, I just think we were given far more opportunities than were ever given to black people, pre 1994. At the same time, the government has issued it's affirmative action and BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) policies, which makes it basically illegal to run a company that is not representative of the country (no black people, no government contracts.). So companies are either lucky, and they find a suitably skilled, qualified black candidate, or they hire window dressing. The ANC were an excellent agent of revolution and change, but in my opinion, they make a terrible government (Ignoring, may he live forever, Nelson Mandela's initial presidency). White people are leaving in droves, and with them, the skills sorely needed to keep the country running. Most of my circle of friends have already left for the UK and Australia. I'll be leaving in June. And the reason for the awfully long, 11:56pm comment is this: I feel ashamed talking about these things. I feel ashamed for speaking on behalf of white people. White -South African- people. I feel ashamed that I don't think I'll ever be considered African by anyone, black or white (are black people in America not considered American? And no I'm not going to start calling myself 'European African'). I feel ashamed for leaving, and I feel ashamed for staying. Here's a link to a story about 8 white kids that were, apparently, thrown off a bus because they were white. Click And here's a link to an updated article, published later in the day, with a response from the company. Click There is still a lot of hate, coming from both directions, in this country/world. And this, finally, is about how Afrikaans bands are starting to create 'Afrikaans/white consciousness' music, for want of a better world (how Freudian of me.) It probably says what I've been trying to say for the past few paragraphs a lot better than I did. How do I be proud of who I am, without making others think I'm not equally proud of who they are? Click My greatest fear is that I start thinking like these closed minded, paranoid, bigoted assholes in the topic. I will leave before I ever allow that to happen. I would die before I ever allowed it to happen. Because even if I am hated by some people, both white and black, I fucking well refuse to hate back. Apologies for the long post.

MF Doom Says

"in the time of your life
live so that in that good time
there shall be no ugliness or death in your life
or any life that your life touches
seek goodness everywhere
and when it is found
bring it out of the hiding place and let it be free and unashamed
place in matter and in flesh the least of the values
for these are the things that hold death and must pass away
discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption
encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have driven into secrecy and sorrow
by the shame and terror of this world
ignore the obvious for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart
be the inferior to no man
nor of any man be the superior
remember that every man is a variation of yourself
no man's guilt is yours
nor is any man's innocence a thing apart
despise evil and ungodliness
but not men of ungodliness or evil
these understand
have no shame in being kindly and gentle
but if the time comes in the time of your life to kill
kill and have no regret
in the time of your life
live so that in that wondrous time
you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world
but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it"

The Times, They Are A Changing.

'Racist driver forced us off the bus'

Karyn Maughan February 07 2007 at 07:49AM

Eight pupils from two prestigious Johannesburg schools claim they were dumped on a busy main road and forced to walk 1km to school because they are white.

The pupils, from Parktown Girls and Parktown Boys high schools, claim they were forced off the bus in the middle of Westcliff Drive by an irate driver, who - after ordering the black pupils to stay on the bus - told the white pupils they "would never ride on this bus again".

"He said to us: 'The black people are ruling this country and I am going to show you how it's done'," Grade 11 pupil Chesney Rose told The Star on Tuesday. "Then he made us get off the bus. I was scared, so I didn't argue with him."

Describing the altercation, Rose said the driver had picked her up from her stop in Mondeor, southern Johannesburg, more than an hour late. He appeared not to know the route that he was supposed to drive and did not respond well when some of the pupils - who were late for their Tuesday tests - attempted to give him directions.

"He called us 'pieces of sh**' and 'white trash' and said ugly things about my mother," Rose said.

When a group of pupils told him that he was going the wrong way, Rose's friend and fellow passenger Jessica Lahoud said he "started ranting like a madman".

"He made us get out of the bus in the middle of a main road … it was scary," she said, adding that five Parktown Girls pupils and three from Parktown Boys then walked to their schools together.

They arrived at school just before 10am.

According to Parktown Girls deputy headmaster Greg Bauer, the driver ordered a black pupil, who had tried to get off with her fellow pupils, to "stay put".

"I understand that she (the black pupil) was quite upset about the whole thing," Bauer said, adding that he had personally requested that Metrobus send another driver to transport the pupils to school Tuesday morning.

Metrobus spokesperson Charles Hlebela on Tuesday told The Star that the company was aware of the alleged incident and was in the process of tracking down the driver concerned.

"We will be taking the necessary corrective action to ensure that this kind of thing never happens again," he said.

Tao Te Ching Says:

Thirty spokes on a cartwheel.

Go towards the hub that is the centre.

-but look, there is nothing at the centre
and that is precisely why it works!

If you mould a cup you have to make a hallow:
it is the emptiness within it that makes it useful.

In a house or room it is the empty spaces
-the doors, the windows - that make it useable.

They all use what they are made of
to do what they do,

but without their nothingness they would be nothing.

Steve Martin Says

When Men Shop

When men shop the clerks come out in awe. The splendid men stooping for scarves and cologne. Forget the bargains and the layaways, for when men shop they go directly to the goods. "I'll take it with me!" say the men, "Don't need no help, I'll take this to the car meself!" Men can scarcely conceal how casually they regard their purchases . They toss them on the back of car seats, often braking them before they get home. The wives are never dismayed when they see what their man has bought. When men shop they set things right in their house-hold. What's the bowl without the spoon? What's the TV without the remote control whistle switch? And what will you do when you see him coming, approaching the counter with his checks and ID? Bring out the best, the back counter stuff and watch what happens when men shop.


From here.

Steve The Ninja

Cool Game

Arkanoid, but better.