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06-04-2004, 08:49 PM

The message
from (paghat) contains these words:

it is at least true that it's a stupid
idea to insist a Kaffir Lily can't be called a Kaffir Lily because on a
completely different continent Kaffir is a hate-word spewed primarily from
the trashy mouths of a bunch of butt-ugly honky-eqivalent Afrikaaners.(snip)

If not for the World Wide Web, to anyone who'd never been to South Africa,
Kaffir means "a pretty flower from somewhere in Africa," nothing more or
less.

(snip)

That may be true in America, where only a small proportion of the
population ever leaves its own continent; it certainly isn't in Britain
(or any of the continents we occupied more recently).

"Kaffir" as a derogatory term, was seeded over half the world by British
Colonials and the British Army. There are still enough white Brits using
it that way to ensure that all black Brits are well aware of the insult.

Janet.