I embraced the Africans. 

They were from over there.

They were a novelty. 

They couldn't be as bad as the aborigines here.

Could they?

I first saw the Africans in Adelaide when I was 35 years ago.

Fifteen years have passed. 

They say locust devour everything that gets in their way.

I never could work it out.

Images of starving children and vultures picking out their eyes.

Bob Geldoff, you should be trialed at the Hague.

Africans are racist.

They hate whites and when they can't get anything out of them, they kill them.

'Watch them,' said my swimming instructor from Zimbabwe. 

'They'll cut your head off when you aren't looking.' 

I didn't doubt it.

'It's what they did to my mother and father.' 

Now that's not racist.

'It is if you say this in Australia,' said the swim instructor. 'Only the blacks can call out racist, when we do, we are just hysterical.' 

Black slavery.

It should never have left the African shores. 

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