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Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 40 No. 6. April 4 1977

Leeches disunite!

Leeches disunite!

Dear Editor,

This country is in need of an undertaker to bury all the dead minds and consciences left behind when the cries of Africa were ignored. Don't wait for us Africa—we're in comfy chairs. Only black people died in Soweto (and it didn't cost us a cent)—"But who gives a damn if it don't pay the rent." Ignoring the cries of Africa—not marching makes you a supporter of the oppression of the Black people of Southern Africa, i.e. inertia equates supporting oppression. People have an obligation to demonstrate against what's happening in South Africa and Rhodesia. The ridiculous attitude, almost one of condescending to demonstrate on ignoring the call to demonstrate, must go. We live in a 'wealthy' 'safe' country, but that must not be used as a permit to ignore what happens to our brothers in other countries. It has too long been used as an argument by New Zealanders to avoid responsibility. 'I'm not my brother's keeper.'

Wake up! Get up out of the 'comfortable' mindless bed you've been sleeping in. For this system to exist requires unquestioning, unthinking, egocentric people—Victoria is infested by the like. These people are the enemies of Africa and the third world. They are the leeches who feed off and weaken the struggling third world.

"The most dangerous foe to truth and freedom in our midst is the compact majority. Yes the damned compact, liberal majority."

—Henrik Ibsen.

Yours etc,

Eugene Doyle.