School is too expensive for many Zimbabwean families. If they are lucky they will be able to afford the equivalent of a school term for one of their children. The others will be expected to make money to support the family. South West Zimbabwe. (Guardian May 2007)
It's hard to imagine that some people actually think like this...
But, here's an assinine comment from a Robert Mugabe apologist that was posted on this blog recently:
The media reports a lot of lies designed to fool the world about events on the ground in Zimbabwe. The reason the western media is reporting lies is to protect a small white minority population of Zimbabwe who want to continue to do business the old way: The old way is complete white (Britain) domination over the country's economy and ownership of large tracts of land. This was put to an end by Mugabe. This made the British mad and now they want to destroy the country. What does this mean? Britain does not care about black people; she just wants to use them for her economical benefits. Whites stole the land in Africa from the natives and are morally wrong to condem blacks for taking it back. The land was a gift from God and African blacks have a right to take back their land. Thanks for your time---Mugabe has made a lot of mistakes but I support him 100% on the land reform program in Zimbabwe.Unreal!
How does someone like this find their way to work, pay bills, bathe themselves or know that it is time to eat?
Again I laugh at the liberal mindset...The land was a gift from God and African blacks have a right to take back their land. God can be brought in when they, the Left use His name. But the right cannot.
ReplyDeleteThese people, are in crisis, and recognizing a failure and blaming it on racism is classic. God made us all, forget the land.
Solutions...do what we did in Japan...after WWII, and retrain the people. But why can't we?? Oh that is right because America is bad and it is all the white man's fault(George Bush)
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ReplyDeletealso from previous thread..
this is truly heartwrenching.. :(
excerpt:
[Life expectancy for women is just 34
years - among the lowest in the world.]
and "we the people" gripe about what??
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ReplyDeleteTotal Chaos As Government Does U-Turn On Some Prices
excerpts:
[The report said a standard loaf of bread was now pegged at $44 000, 100% up from the Z$22,000 it was selling for earlier this week. Other increased prices listed in The Herald include:
2kg salt which is now selling at Z$184 000, 375ml peanut butter Z$172 000, 250g tea for Z$287 000 and a bar of soap is selling at Z$268 000.
Meanwhile, there were other disturbing reports that farmers in the rural areas were being forced to sell their meat products and cattle to the Cold Storage Commission (CSC) at very low prices. The CSC has been designated the sole distributor of meat products to butchers, despite having been shut down due to mismanagement, corruption and massive debts. Shaw said farmers were being stopped at roadblocks by police and soldiers who were confiscating goods, particularly maize-meal and meat. He said sometimes the officials kept the confiscated products for themselves because shortages are affecting them as well.]
yikes!! i sure hope their money rates differ from what i'm used to..
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Before being colonised, Rhodesia was all but uninhabited. When Mugabe was ushered into power, Ian Smith commented on the "one man, one vote" campaign that it would be "one man, one vote, one time". Mugabe, aided by South Africa's Mbeki has managed to turn one of the most fertile areas on earth into a desert by his own biblically corrupt mismanagement and the lunatic, racist, left wing apologists still blame Britain! As a libertarian Englishmen, I expect that if this rot were true, I should be thankful Blair, Brown et al are not doing it at home! (Oh GWB also got the blame, he does get about eh?)
ReplyDeleteAnonymous reminded me of a commentary I read by Dennis Boyles earlier this year which I recomend to one and all: A Rhodesian Correction
ReplyDeleteYes boys and girls it is yet another incident of the New York Times lying to its readers though Boyles is much more polite than I am in describing it: "Mugabe was invented by clever officeworkers on West 43rd Street in New York City"
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ReplyDeletewell, if anyone knows how to "run a plantation", it would be Carter & the Dixiecrats.. perhaps that's why he prefers the company & ideology of Dictators.. while they don't seem to have much in common on the surface.. when one peels away the love unity & peace mantra, one finds self serving power hungry control freaks..
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bg rightously notes that the Dems have a horse in this race...LOL!
ReplyDeleteConsider the following commentary now posted on American Thinker by J.R. Dunn titled, " Democide: Democrats and the Awful Truth of Genocide " and it seems to bolster bg's comment...
Note the first paragraph: "Since the first of the year, I've been working on a project dealing with the connections between liberal policies and mass mortality - the easily demonstrated (though somehow never mentioned) fact that, since at least the 1950s, liberal policies taken to their logical conclusion tend to create large piles of bodies in a process that might be called mass negligent homicide."
It's the narrative that matters, facts be damned. Mugabe took the land from the evil white Colonial oppressors. Who cares if millions have suffered and died painfully as a result? Mugabe stuck it to the white man, baby! Of course, liberals don't care that all of the people who suffered in order for Mugabe to get back at whitey are all black.
ReplyDeleteThe Duke lacrosse nonsense was the same concept. Rich whitey and poor black girl single Mom having to strip to feed her baby. Who cares if they are actually innocent? It's the narrative, man.