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Old 04-17-2013, 12:50 PM
 
Location: Capital Hill
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This novel takes place in Johanesburg, South Africa but when reading it you can't help thinking Chicago, Wash. DC or any of the east coast cities in this country. The chaos and crime that is prevalent in Johanesburg is just real in the cities of this country. What can we do about it? The sins of our forefathers haunts us today. This is a must read for all of us.
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Old 04-17-2013, 01:02 PM
 
Location: Geneva, IL
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This novel takes place in Johanesburg, South Africa but when reading it you can't help thinking Chicago, Wash. DC or any of the east coast cities in this country. The chaos and crime that is prevalent in Johanesburg is just real in the cities of this country. What can we do about it? The sins of our forefathers haunts us today. This is a must read for all of us.
It is a brilliant book, the major themes being fear and the institutionalized racial opression that was present in South Africa in the 1940s. Are you saying the same situation exists in Chicago and DC in present day? I'm failing to see the correlation.
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Old 04-17-2013, 01:07 PM
 
Location: Capital Hill
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It is a brilliant book, the major themes being fear and the institutionalized racial opression that was present in South Africa in the 1940s. Are you saying the same situation exists in Chicago and DC in present day? I'm failing to see the correlation.
I'm saying, you can't help but think what is happening in our own cities.
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Old 04-17-2013, 01:08 PM
 
Location: Geneva, IL
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I'm saying, you can't help but think what is happening in our own cities.
Apartheid?
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Old 04-17-2013, 01:10 PM
 
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The sins of our forefathers haunts us today.
Which sins were those?
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Old 04-17-2013, 01:15 PM
 
Location: San Francisco
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It is a brilliant book, the major themes being fear and the institutionalized racial opression that was present in South Africa in the 1940s.
And its author was a prominent South African anti-apartheid activist and founder of the Liberal Party of South Africa, which was eventually banned by the white authorities.
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Old 04-17-2013, 03:39 PM
 
Location: Capital Hill
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And its author was a prominent South African anti-apartheid activist and founder of the Liberal Party of South Africa, which was eventually banned by the white authorities.
My daughter's job requires that she flies back and forth to Africa. She hasn't been to South Africa or Johanesburg yet, but to neighboring countries. They have told things were very bad and that Johanesburg is very dangerous. From post like this, I now know why.
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