A White Rhodesian's Apologies

    We white Rhodesians wish to make a confession. We confess our sins against the black people of Zimbabwe ( and those of our forefathers), which are outlined in detail below:
 

  1. We apologize for giving for giving them doctors, new hospitals, medical services that enabled them to survive plagues, disasters and to multiply into uncountable numbers.
  2. We apologize for teaching them to read and write the English language and even for putting their own languages down in writing for them. We even taught them mathematics and built hundreds (if not thousands) of schools for them even rebuilding and repairing same when they were burnt down.
  3. We apologize for building factories and shops, which gave them work. We apologize for taking them into our houses to work, giving them food and even paying them.
  4. We apologize for building farms out of barren bush and gardens from which we fed them (and virtually the rest of Africa)
  5. We apologize for giving them clothes and shoes instead of leaving them in the animal skins they wore before we found them wandering aimlessly around the plains, mountains and valleys.
  6. We apologize for extracting minerals from below the earth, minerals which had always been there but were unknown to the local inhabitants. We apologize for paying them to work in these mines.
  7. We apologize for those among us who established charity organizations to feed and clothe them, while they themselves never knew the meaning of charity.
  8. We apologize for building a network of roads all over the Country which they now use to give Africa one of the highest road accident rate in the world.
  9. We apologize for building huge dams which keep them supplied with fresh water, even in times of drought.
  10. We apologize for paying the lion's share of the countries tax burden while spending the least upon ourselves.


    For all these evil sins we most humble beg forgiveness, and if they will only accept our apologies, we will gladly take back all of the above mentioned evil deeds and leave them where we found them.

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