Breezy Badger 5.10 CD cover!

[John]

Jongilanga Guma wrote:
> Hello All,
> I introduced my girlfriend yesterday to Ubuntu-Live CD from her Notebook 
> that was running Windows XP. I showed her what Ubuntu get do from email 
> client to office, games, Internet browsers and graphics programs etc. 
> The point I was trying to make was, she can do everything in Ubuntu, I 
> mean everything that she does on XP can be also done in Ubuntu. She was 
> very impressed until when she looked at the CD-Cover of Ubuntu Breezy . 
> "Hey there is no black person here on these people" but  your OS is 
> called Ubuntu, I said there is because I never had time to look at 
> Breezy cd cover, so there was one on Hoary and Warty. I took a CD-cover 
> had a look at it again in my surprise there was no black person there.
> 
> I know this is an African phrase "Ubuntu:" no blacktion in it what so 
> ever, it is just an  African thing, so the White, Coloured and Indian 
> are taken as Africans, in fact they are Africans but that is debatable, 
> and that if not for this list but to a political list.
> 
> So my question is directed to decision makers of Ubuntu that include the 
> Chief Whip, why did you have to remove blacks on the cover, they are 
> Africans and they understand Ubuntu better than anyone(IMHO). Can they 
> please come back in Dapper, please Mark?. I mean their Africanship is 
> not debatable(IMHO).
> 
> I am black liberal and love everyone else in my Country "South Africa", 
> I leave with people with different cultures and share with them with 
> love, so this is not a racist thing, I just wanted to know why a black 
> was removed from the cover.


I'm sure it's just a rostering thing, nothing to get upset about.

You don't just have three racial groups, do you? As I recall, the 
Afrikaans and English haven't always seen eye to eye, and I suspect 
"coloured" includes a lot more than Indians, and for sure there are lots 
of black races. I'm not especially knowledgeable regarding Africans, but 
I know our Aborigines vary enormously, in appearance and in culture.

I can say this tho, I'm glad to see South Africa at the games. And, 
watch out for those Pacific Islanders, they're quite good at Rugby.