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- From: afv@uk.ac.cam.eng (Frans)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
- Subject: Phoka's note
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.123944.13524@eng.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 12:39:44 GMT
- References: <VS8SBPQJ@cc.swarthmore.edu>
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- In article VS8SBPQJ@cc.swarthmore.edu, imofoke1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Ivan Mofokeng) writes:
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-
- > but as an african i am tired of seeing
- >white people constantly attacking my culture without once acknowledging
- >the good things in it.
-
- May I take the liberty to rephrase your statement so that it suits me.
-
- "As an African I feel that no one, irrespctive of race, creed or colour
- should attack our culture without the decency to repect the values
- contained in it" That way at least the non-black africans like myself
- will support your statement.
-
- > they invited themselves to africa and, through years of
- > colonization, striped us of all that we had.
-
- So these white africans whose roots go back to 16??? have all invited
- themselves to be in Africa <now>. I am sure that there are whites in
- Africa who are as much part of Africa as their black brothers &
- sisters.
-
- > our culture is all that we have left to keep us together.
-
- Hear Hear. Now there is some truth. We have every right to be proud of it.
-
- Frans
-