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[dreamer_easy]

International Blog Against Racism Week 2009 runs from 27 July - 2 August. And I ain't ready. I had mad plans to write up a big essay on slavery in Australia (oh yes) but I just haven't managed to do it in time. Next year. I will post the links I collected while writing my Time Unincorporated essay, though.

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[alawston.livejournal.com]

Luckily there was enough drunkenness involved that a couple of us did finally tell him to just shut the f*** up. And after we did so, there was an awkward silence and he had the nerve to say 'Well, that's ruined the party.'

I hear a lot of carefully vague racist crap from the South Africans around my part of London ("The ANC have done nothing for the country", "It's gone too far", "It'll become another Zimbabwe"), but this was the first time I'd heard one of them come out and say all the vile things I've always suspected them of thinking. It's probably no coincidence that he'd only arrived in the country a few days ago.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

There's your convenient ready phrase for such occasions, then: "Watch out, mate, you're not in Joberg any more!"