tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809553587680806816.post11246381262213966..comments2023-09-27T02:45:42.777-07:00Comments on Countdown to South Africa: This is Real Trouble in South AfricaPaul Oberjuergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08705796235668846804noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809553587680806816.post-56005722248832672682010-04-04T18:19:40.586-07:002010-04-04T18:19:40.586-07:00The Design and Bed of Our Penal Colony [Today'...The Design and Bed of Our Penal Colony [Today's News Poem, April 4, 2010]<br />http://toylit.blogspot.com/2010/04/design-and-bed-of-our-penal-colony.html<br />“There have been more than 3,000 murders of Afrikaner farmers in remote homesteads like this since the end of apartheid 16 years ago.”<br />--BBC, 18:58 GMT, Sunday, 4 April 2010 19:58 UK <br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8602967.stm<br />“With an attitude of respect and concern for other beings, we can create an atmosphere of happiness, real harmony and real brotherhood.”<br />--The Dalai Lama, Twitter, about 12 hours ago via web as of 2:38pm PST<br /><br />White power sleeps and never dies,<br />It simply make a compromise.<br />To pause the never-ending war.<br />The other races seek to score<br />In turn. The tribal instinct stays,<br />For human beings will never stray<br />Too far from those they think as kin.<br />The eye, it lies. They think the skin<br />Has deeper bonds than blood they share.<br />The science (if you must compare)<br />Confirms that which one ought expect<br />To hear from self when ones reflects<br />On totems; such as anger, rage.<br />Unless one seeks to self-engage<br />And not excuse the whim or gene<br />With reason—with our great machines—<br />Unless we make an atmosphere<br />Of harmony, we make the gears<br />Of something that will evermore<br />Both dig and fill the earth it scores.<br /><br />http://toylit.blogspot.comKhakjaan Wessingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05501187261486087495noreply@blogger.com