The Canadian Who Went Into The Cold

The following extract from an impassioned letter should be familiar to readers of Why South Africa Sucks. Inspired by the often repeated view, given once again here by Dave, a Canadian who worked in South Africa and then regretfully left when he read the writing on the wall.

We are starting a new blog, My South Africa Blog as a kind of polite counterpoint to the infantile rantings on SAS. We believe that what is happening in South Africa is horrifying enough without having to embroider the facts with racial epithets and spelling errors. My South Africa Blog is here for those who want a blog they can point family and friends to without being embarrassed by childish nonsense which misses the point. Let's build it, without going down to the level of those criminals who are destroying this country for everyone.


Dave's suggestion: "Don't be racist because you want full media coverage and to be able to speak to every person without them changing the channel or flipping the page because of the professed, offence, to their petty, ignorant and programmed sensibilities. Don't give them a reason to turn you off or ignore you! Be in their face as much as possible. If you can, get human interest stories from the actual people that have been directly harmed by this trend in South Africa or Zimbabwe. Nothing impacts like real life and the horrors people experience at the hands of the government and others, especially when written by themselves. Use analogies to help connect people to your ideas, because analogies help people visualize your content. You need to educate people on a level playing field first, then take the high ground when you have made some headway to accelerate the process. You need to use mass media to your own advantage to get the true story out there, use its weight against itself. Always remember your audience! If the content is racist or isn’t interesting and entertaining, you will lose 80-90% of your audience immediately. Imagine what it would be like “touching” the minds of 5 to 10 or 100 times the number of people that visit this blog right now.

One last item, “The measure of intelligence of a person is not what they know, but what knowledge and comprehension they can give freely to another, that they can use.”

I have no prejudices myself and the standing joke is that "I hate everyone equally" but not because of colour or religion or creed or race/breed, but because of stupidity, ignorance and arrogance, therefore I have no trouble filtering what you say on this blog and seeing the real implications of what is happening and what is coming. Not everyone is like me, already hard conditioned to killing terrorists and the covert acts of war, the majority of others have not had world experience, certainly not on borders or battlefields. If people refuse to watch horror, show it to them in a different light, change it to retain the impact but make it more readily acceptable by making the inhuman, human, so you get your message across.

Source: Why South Africa Sucks