- Jun 24, 2007
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There came a time when the African American man had had enough – He took his eldest son and together they decided to return to Africa to find/discover their roots. Starting from the bottom up, they took a South African Airways flight directly from New York.. he’s pleased to see about half the passengers are black.. trip starts off comfortable and well..
Unfortunately.. halfway across the Atlantic.. the plane develops technical problems.. soon the pilot informs everyone that their luggage would be dropped into the ocean – as the plane must lose weight in order to make it to land…
30 minutes later – the captain again speaks.. “we’re sorry to inform you, but the plane is still too heavy – it’s a matter of life and death that we lose more weight.. so please.. anything you can find – discard”
People were chucking everything off the plane.. all the food, monitors, anything that wasn’t nailed down – and then some!
Alas.. 30 minutes later the pilot again announces that it is not enough.. “we still need to lose weight - I estimate about half of the passengers will have to sacrifice themselves.. and if noone volunteers" (and noone did, obviously) " we will choose for you - in order to be fair we'll do it.. alphabetically..."
Gasp! Horror in the cabin!! They are about to be chucked off the plane!!
“Any… African Americans on board??..”
The mans son starts to speak.. the father jabs him quiet… they wait..
“hmmm… Any.. Blacks on board?”..
Again, the son starts to speak.. the father jabs him quiet…
A little more frustrated now.. the pilot continues.. “any.. Coloureds on board??”
The son cant take it anymore and whispers to his dad – “Father –We are all those things! Why haven’t we responded?”
To which the father replied..
“As of this moment, my son, we are Zulu”
Unfortunately.. halfway across the Atlantic.. the plane develops technical problems.. soon the pilot informs everyone that their luggage would be dropped into the ocean – as the plane must lose weight in order to make it to land…
30 minutes later – the captain again speaks.. “we’re sorry to inform you, but the plane is still too heavy – it’s a matter of life and death that we lose more weight.. so please.. anything you can find – discard”
People were chucking everything off the plane.. all the food, monitors, anything that wasn’t nailed down – and then some!
Alas.. 30 minutes later the pilot again announces that it is not enough.. “we still need to lose weight - I estimate about half of the passengers will have to sacrifice themselves.. and if noone volunteers" (and noone did, obviously) " we will choose for you - in order to be fair we'll do it.. alphabetically..."
Gasp! Horror in the cabin!! They are about to be chucked off the plane!!
“Any… African Americans on board??..”
The mans son starts to speak.. the father jabs him quiet… they wait..
“hmmm… Any.. Blacks on board?”..
Again, the son starts to speak.. the father jabs him quiet…
A little more frustrated now.. the pilot continues.. “any.. Coloureds on board??”
The son cant take it anymore and whispers to his dad – “Father –We are all those things! Why haven’t we responded?”
To which the father replied..
“As of this moment, my son, we are Zulu”