, Sambo.
To facilitate this, we tricked an illiterate king who nonetheless held sway over the kingdom, and lied about our intention with the aid of a Reverend in the pay of that arch-crook, Rhodes.
That wouldn’t have been so bad, but instead of trying to win hearts and minds, we rode roughshod over the indigenous people so that within a mere six years they rose up in revolt, as was their right to do, and damned near wiped out the white invaders – pity they didn’t – until the Imperial army had to be called in and with the help of the latest technology we machine-gunned and dynamited the rightful owners of the country to hell and back. Then we called it peace, and opened the place up to anyone in search of a bit of adventure.
The indignities inflicted with gusto on the poor, ignorant povo continued unabated for 70 long, weary years, and far outweighed the benefits of education and health care – provided largely by the missionaries. Finally, the ‘uppity niggers’ rose in one mighty roar and after sacrificing many of their own fine young men, swept the whites ignominiously aside. About time, and good riddance say I.
PACHEDU, UK
20.7.2006
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Truth hurts
EDITOR – I agree with Patti Nyemba that the Zimbabwe situation today is the fault of the white race, that's basically Boers and British. How do I know? Well we came in and stole whatever we could and told ourselves it was just fine and dandy to do so. Not so much as a by your leave