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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 35 Number 6. April 11, 1972

Apartheid

Apartheid

Sir,

Peter Simpson agrees, apartheid is wrong, but how does he propose to change it? Can we expect to see him dancing to the airports, throwing kisses and flowers to the tourists, even chanting oms while defusing bombs outside Athletic Park?

I can't but conclude that Peter Simpson's soul and his so called social consciousness, are steeped in cosmic schmaltz. I'm open hearted and open minded enough to see the advantages of having the Spring box, the football fields, etc dissolving into transparency. I could even tolerate Peter Simpson and his ideas dissolving into transparency. But I have this suspicion that despite such superlative vibrations, the blacks will go on being oppressed and exploited, and that the miasma of apartheid will not just waft away.

P. Hayes.