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I am also sick and tired of some of the racial and apartheid talk surrounding District 9. Yes, it is based on historical events in South Africa, but in the movie itself -

What is the dominant race of people in the streets of Johannesburg cheering that the aliens are finally leaving Earth? Why oh why hasn’t the ANC banned the movie for the suggestion that black people don’t want foreigners in their midst? Who were the culprits in the xenophobic incidents last year? Isn’t xenophobia in this case a synonym for racism?

Are Britons not tired of Pakistani’s and is America not fed up with Hispanics? Don’t birds of a feather flock together? Why do I still need to specify my race when applying for a loan in this wonderful rainbow democracy of ours? Isn’t apartheid alive and well all over the world – but under different names?

Stop bloody pointing the fingers at white South Africans as the scum of the earth when the entire world is/was guilty of it. Come and see South Africa for what it is next year and try to establish the role that white South Africans have played in this country for yourself.

We most definitely deserve credit too.