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Just a thought for Yawningdog, ill start off by saying I have not done all the research you have and therefore cannot directly confirm or refute the articles you referenced. I personally hope our world holds a future where all races, cultures and ethnicities are equal and no one is exploited. I doubt I'll see that in my lifetime unfortunately. It seems human nature is not yet evolved enough across the board to achieve that and where there is exploitation to be had for profits, it will happen. Moving to my point which will be weighted on Mercedes. Yes they have had a dodgy past. Yes they got rich off of the back of slavery and gross human rights violations. Many people, organisations, governments and establishments have benefited this way through the ages. What I see now is a company doing its best to put the right foot forward. The majority of the people working for and representing them now are far removed and of a different, better mind than those of the passed Mercedes. Is it right to condemn them now for the sins of their for fathers? I say this as a white male born in and living in South Africa. I was born in 1987, in the dying years of the apartheid. Apartheid started unravelling in 1990 and was completely abolished in 1994, when I was 7 years old. My first year of school I shared a class room with black kids. To me this was normal as I knew no different. Fast forward to present day, 33 year old me living in South Africa which is governed by the ANC, Africa national congress, a predominately black party. I will not get into their short comings or blunders or elaborate on how they have run the country into the ground and the people suffering the most are the millions of poor black people. The people who should have benefitted from tax payers money. Instead this money is stolen by the billions by the few connected in the ANC. It would take far too long to elaborate on that story. The reason I bring this up is as previously stated, me as a 33 year old white male form part of a population of "born free" whites that had absolutely nothing to do with apartheid yet on a constant level are blamed for the hardships of all the black people in this coutry. I am one of the lucky ones with a job. Most whites in SA my age cannot get a job due to black economic empowerment. Whites are overlooked so that less or none skilled black people can get those jobs. When anything goes wrong in the country it is blamed on us, on me. I take it personally as I fit the demographic that is being blamed even though I had no hand in what happened. I am being blamed for the sins of my forefathers as to speak. This I feel to a large extent you are doing right now to Mercedes and as someone standing in those shoes right now I wanted to share my story with you in hopes you might try and look at it from the 1000s of merc employees who like me had nothing to do with mercs previous atrocities. Think about it for a bit, if the shoe was on the other foot.24-10-2020 22:53