Gonz said:Yes, using race is generally unimportant to the final results. But it does allow the reader of the story to understand the motivating factor. He's not killing black farmers. So it has bearing on the story. It's wrong, undeniably. Would it help if the story said "British" famers instead? The adjective needs to be in the story at some point to clarify the issue. Race, for those of us who see past it, doesn't matter. But if the story read:
Mugabe's dictatorial government is killing farmers for their land. The farmers are told to evacualte within 24 hours, with all the possessions they can carry, or face jail time & sometimes even death. Upon leaving the land, it's turned over to the locals, allowing the land to be returned to locals.
seems to be missing an important reasoning doesn't it? who is being dislocated & why?
When the "two blacks guys robbed a liquor store" type of headline gets out I get as pissed as you. That is nothing but baiting.
LastLegionary said:This isn't at all what I meant with this thread.
Gato_Solo said:Gonz said:Yes, using race is generally unimportant to the final results. But it does allow the reader of the story to understand the motivating factor. He's not killing black farmers. So it has bearing on the story. It's wrong, undeniably. Would it help if the story said "British" famers instead? The adjective needs to be in the story at some point to clarify the issue. Race, for those of us who see past it, doesn't matter. But if the story read:
Mugabe's dictatorial government is killing farmers for their land. The farmers are told to evacualte within 24 hours, with all the possessions they can carry, or face jail time & sometimes even death. Upon leaving the land, it's turned over to the locals, allowing the land to be returned to locals.
seems to be missing an important reasoning doesn't it? who is being dislocated & why?
When the "two blacks guys robbed a liquor store" type of headline gets out I get as pissed as you. That is nothing but baiting.
That's the whole point. There is no real reasoning behind what he's doing. But...just because the farmers are white, does that make them less human? That's the point I was trying to get at. They deserve to live their lives on the property they bought just as I deserve to live my life on any property I buy. Race isn't a factor in that. I believe that both Mugabe and the press made race a factor, but once you shit on the dining room table, you can't clean it off and pretend it wasn't there...
Well I feel bad for starting yet another flame war. Gah.PuterTutor said:LastLegionary said:This isn't at all what I meant with this thread.
Ok, So?
LastLegionary said:Well I feel bad for starting yet another flame war. Gah.PuterTutor said:LastLegionary said:This isn't at all what I meant with this thread.
Ok, So?
Gato_Solo said:The reason is this...He didn't want descendents of the colonial powers owning the farmland. He wanted his 'friends' to own the land. He decided to evict the descendents of the colonial powers, and they just happen to be white. Now the press comes in...Page 1...White Farmers threatened with eviction and/or death in Africa...Much better story, eh? Reads like a nightmare to some folks and revenge to others. To me, it stinks of yellow journalism and racial baiting.
Blacks are not being booted off and murdered. Not on farms anyway. And it isn't British colonialists really, because those people were born there and so was their fathers and their fathers' fathers.Gonz said:I hadn't read or seen anything about black farmers being victims. If that is so, (I don't have time for the links right now) then race is irrelevent. All I've seen was Bristish colonialists being booted & murderd.