- Moral crusaders have the habit of heading off to their
next crusade without bothering to see whether anything went wrong on their
last one. During the '80s, TransAfrica, NAACP, Black Congressional Caucus,
Hollywood glitterati, college students - and other groups - held massive
protests on college campuses and at the South African Embassy, built shanty
towns and called for disinvestment and sanctions against South Africa for
its racist apartheid system.
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- There's no longer apartheid and there's black rule in
South Africa, but what's the story there now? Andrew Kenny writes about
it in his article, "Black People Aren't Animals." The article
appears in the Dec. 15 issue of the British magazine The Spectator, the
world's oldest continuously published English language magazine (est. 1838).
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- Each South African day sees an average of 59 murders,
145 rapes and 752 serious assaults out of its 42 million population. The
new crime is the rape of babies - some AIDS-infected African men believe
that having sex with a virgin is a cure. Twelve percent of South Africa's
population is HIV-positive, but President Mbeki says that HIV cannot cause
AIDS.
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- In response to growing violence, South Africa's minister
of safety and security, Steve Tshwete, says: "We can't police this;
there's nothing more we can do. South Africa's currency, the rand, has
fallen about 70 percent since the African National Congress came to power
in 1994. Emigration from South Africa (mainly of skilled people) is now
at its highest level ever."
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- Kenny asks, "Is South Africa doomed to follow the
rest of Africa into oblivion?" He says no, but I'm not as optimistic
because of the pattern nearly everywhere else in sub-Saharan Africa. The
tragic fact of business is that ordinary Africans were better off under
colonialism. Colonial masters never committed anything near the murder
and genocide seen under black rule in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Nigeria,
Mozambique, Somalia and other countries, where millions of blacks have
been slaughtered in unspeakable ways, which include: hacking to death,
boiling in oil, setting on fire and dismemberment. If as many elephants,
zebras and lions had been as ruthlessly slaughtered, the world's leftists
would be in a tizzy.
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- When Zimbabwe, then Southern Rhodesia, was under white
rule, the ANC demanded the ouster of Prime Minister Ian Smith and the installation
of black rule. Today, Zimbabwe's Minister Robert Mugabe commits gross violations
of black and white human rights. With the help of lawless thugs, Mugabe
has undertaken a land-confiscation program from white farmers. Instead
of condemning Zimbabwe human-rights abuses, the South African government
has given Mugabe its unqualified support.
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- Kenny says that whites treat blacks like animals. When
a dog misbehaves, we don't blame the dog - we blame the owner for improper
training. In Africa, when blacks behave badly, Kenny says colonialism,
imperialism, apartheid, globalization or multi-nationalism is blamed for
not bringing up blacks properly. Liberals saw South Africa's apartheid
and other human-rights abuses as unjust because blacks were suffering at
the hands of whites. They hold whites accountable to civilized standards
of behavior. Blacks are not held to civilized standards of behavior. From
the liberal's point of view, it might even be racist to expect blacks to
adhere to civilized standards of behavior.
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- During South Africa's apartheid era, I visited several
times and lectured at just about every university. In a 1987 syndicated
column, I wrote: "Africa's past experience should give Western anti-apartheid
activists some pause for thought. Wouldn't it be the supreme tragedy if
South African blacks might ponder at some future date, like the animals
of Jones' Manor (George Orwell's Animal Farm), whether they were better
off under apartheid? That's why blacks must answer what's to come after
apartheid? Black rule alone is no guarantee for black freedom." ___
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- WorldNetDaily contributor Walter E. Williams is the John
M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University
in Fairfax, Va.
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