1. If you have a son, you are probably old enough to remember the days of separate development. Who have build the plenty of schools, hospitals and universities for blacks during that time ? Who have burned them down and why ? What was the standard of those during that time ? How does the standard of today compare with those days ? How well was unrest taken care of comparing with today ? If you are honest, you will realize that under white rule, standards in all aspects were better. 2. This thing can get long, but look at the most important.: Unemployment during that time comparing with now; the murder rate; all other forms of crime; list goes on.. The blacks get hurt with all this, probably more than the whites. Only a moron will prefer political rights and get affected negatively in all aspects, above what it used to be. Remember to look at the big picture. 3. There was no better solution for the SA situation than the homeland system. No black was forced to go there and those who lived there was free to work in SA. It was an ideal situation for blacks with leadership qualities and intellect to govern their own people. And in the meantime get unasked financial support from the RSA government - where would you get better ? It was also an ideal opportunity for the hardworking blacks you refer to, to proof themselves and live their dream.(and even within the RSA borders there were plenty of black businessmen and -woman. 4. Now your own situation: what prevented you to go ahead in live under the old system of separate development ? Thousands of blacks did. (don't make a fool of yourself like many blacks who still blame everything on apartheid) About you boy working in a garden: Well, I cannot see the whole future, but the day might come that he would be thankful to get a garden job. 5. Do you realize that SA has now the most expensive labor in the world, when looking at productivity ? Economists see the unrealistic high wages as one of the important reasons for our high inflation. When will these striking blacks realize that not everybody can own a car ? When will the black teens realize that not everybody can get a computer job and that the majority will have to do a physical job ? Why do so many blacks prefer to do no job instead of pushing a wheelbarrow ? The ANC already prove that they cannot govern the country and that the color of this rainbow nation is only black. The hard fact of life is that racial integration gives problems worldwide, and to try to govern a country together successfully, is completely impossible and will always be. 6. I have bad news for everybody living in SA, but for the blacks it will end up to be even worse. You would wish that there would still be homelands, but I don't think you would have the privilege to live in such a system again. No wonder that some informed blacks are fleeing to the UK (maybe also other places) 7. I know that God will tolerate only "so much" black oppression, and then I would thank God that I am not black. He tolerated only "so much" Egyptian oppression, and eventually it was the scene in the Red Sea.