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The legend of the grashopper and the RACIST ant (South African version) | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 33041776  South Africa07/22/2014 12:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 33041776 South Africa07/22/2014 01:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Original Legend Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33041776 An ant and a grasshopper live in the same field. During the summer, the ant works hard all day and night bringing in supplies for the winter and he preserves his home to keep him warm during the cold winter months ahead. Meanwhile the grasshopper hops and sings and eats all the grass he wants and procreates. Come winter, the grass dies and its bitterly cold. The ant is well fed and warm in his home, but the grasshopper has not prepared for the winter, so he dies, leaving a whole hord of little grasshoppers without food or shelter. The moral of the story is that one should work hard to ensure that you can take care of yourself. The South African version The first part is the same, but because it happens in South Africa, there are a few complications. The starving, shivering offspring of the grasshopper demand to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while right next door they are living in terrible conditions without food or proper clothing. A T.V crew shows up and broadcasts footage of the poor grasshoppers, contrasting this with footage of the ant snug in his home with plenty of food. The world wide public are stunned. So how can it be that in this beautiful field, that the little grasshoppers are allowed to suffer so, while the ant lives in the lap of luxury? In the blink of an eye, SAGU (South African Grasshoppers Union) is formed. They charge the ants with "species bias" and claim that the grasshoppers are victims of 30 million years of green oppression. They stage a protest in front of the ants house and trash the street. The T.V. Crew interview them and they all state that if their demands are not met, they will all be forced into a life of crime. Just for practice, they loot the T.V.Crew's luggage and hijack their van. The TRC (Take and Re-distribution Committee) justified ... ... more at link The TRC (Take and Re-distribution Committee) justified their behaviour saying that this is the legacy of the ants discrimination towards and oppression of the grasshoppers. They demand that the ant apologise to the grasshoppers for what he has done and that he make amends for all the ants in history who have done the same thing to the grasshopper.PAGAD (People against Grasshopper Abuse and Distress) state that they are staging a holy war against the ants. The President appears on the 8 o clock news and says that he will do everything for the grasshoppers, who have been denied the property that they deserve, by those who benefited unfairly during the summer. The government drafted the EEGAD ( Economic Equity for Greens and Disadvantaged) act retrospective to the beginning of summer. The ant is fined for failing to empoly a proportionate number of green insects and having nothing left to pay back taxes, his home is confiscated by the government for re-distribution. The story ends as we see a grasshopper finishing off the last of the ants food while the government house he's in(which just happens to be the ants old house) crumbles around him because he doesn't know how to maintain it. Showing on TV (which he and a couple of friends stole from another ant) the president is standing before a group of wildly singing and dancing grasshoppers announcing that the new era of "equality" has dawned on the field. The ant, meanwhile, is not allowed to work because he has historically benifited from the field. In his place, ten grasshoppers have been appointed to harvest the grass for winter, but the grasshoppers only work 2 hours a day and steal half of what they harvest. When winter comes again and not enough food has been harvested, they strike and demand a 150% increase so that they can buy food, which now has to be imported because the grasshoppers are not productive enough to produce enough food locally. The ant packs his things and emigrates to another field, where he starts a highly successful food company and becomes a millionaire by selling food to the field where he comes from. |
