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Old 09-04-2013, 05:09 PM
 
Location: Maryland
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How noble of them.

White, middle-class South African family live in township shack for a month - Telegraph

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Julian and Ena Hewitt, both 34, and their daughters Julia, four, and Jessica, two, left their home in a leafy suburb patrolled by private security guards outside Pretoria on August 4.
They moved just six miles down the road but to a different world: an informal settlement in Mamelodi township, which was built by the apartheid government to house black people working in the capital.
The family rented a 97sq feet tin shack with no electricity or running water and a bucket lavatory shared by 20 others. They survived on a budget of just R100 (£6.30) a day, the median wage for black South Africans.
Having renounced the family car, Mr Hewitt, a social entrepreneur, rose at 3.40am each day to walk for 30 minutes to catch a frequently delayed and overcrowded train to work in Johannesburg.
His wife, a former JP Morgan trader, stayed at home with their two daughters, cooking meals on a Primus stove, bathing in buckets filled with kettle water and washing clothes under a tap shared by 20 families.
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Old 09-04-2013, 05:16 PM
 
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Yes, extremely noble. So are you going to follow in their footsteps? Are you going to move to South Africa and live in a shack? Their nobility obviously touches your heart and turns you on. So I would assume you're going to follow in their footsteps.
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Old 09-04-2013, 06:16 PM
 
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Yes, extremely noble. So are you going to follow in their footsteps? Are you going to move to South Africa and live in a shack? Their nobility obviously touches your heart and turns you on. So I would assume you're going to follow in their footsteps.
I could never live in a township like that. A middle-class or middle-upper class Black neighborhood? I could definitely live in. The townships of South Africa or the ghettos of America(of any ethnicity)? No.
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Old 09-04-2013, 06:18 PM
 
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I could never live in a township like that. A middle-class or middle-upper class Black neighborhood? I could definitely live in. The townships of South Africa or the ghettos of America(of any ethnicity)? No.
B-but...don't you wanna be noble and please EdwardA?
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Old 09-04-2013, 06:24 PM
 
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B-but...don't you wanna be noble and please EdwardA?
I'm concerned for my own safety. Alot of people who live in the townships want to live in safer places.
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Old 09-04-2013, 06:31 PM
 
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I'm concerned for my own safety. Alot of people who live in the townships want to live in safer places.
Translation=I don't give a damn how noble it is, I'm not moving to a township to please EdwardA.

Am I right?

Last edited by TheBigGuy; 09-04-2013 at 06:59 PM.. Reason: spelling; incorrect words
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Old 09-04-2013, 06:54 PM
 
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This thread's not going to end well.
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Old 09-04-2013, 06:59 PM
 
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This thread's not going to end well.
Why do you say that?
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Old 09-04-2013, 09:04 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas,Nevada
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When their are victims of violent crime, lets see how noble they are, how how much white liberal guilt they feel, that is if they survive threw it.
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Old 09-04-2013, 10:03 PM
 
Location: Los Awesome, CA
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When their are victims of violent crime, lets see how noble they are, how how much white liberal guilt they feel, that is if they survive threw it.
When you mention "their are" I'm assuming you mean "they're" or "there are" but anyways, how do you know they're liberals? I really didn't see any information naming their political party.
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