Writes our brilliant Afrikaner friend (and I never use the word “brilliant” in vain), Dan Roodt: “South Africa is today an insane society, modeled upon an Ayn Rand nightmare where the looters govern and the producers, entrepreneurs and taxpayers are constantly harassed for handing over more of their wealth. Out of a total population of 46 million people, 12 million South Africans now receive so-called government ‘grants.’ They and their dependents – who amount to probably more than 20 million people or half the population – survive on these government handouts. They do not work, yet receive childcare allowances, pensions, free housing, water, electricity, healthcare and schooling.” …
“South Africa is headed for another racial census, a.k.a. an ‘election’ on 22 April – with the predictable outcome of returning another ANC government to power. Given that South African blacks represent 80% of the population, there is absolutely no way in which the ANC could lose.” …
“Instead of dissipating over time amid the constant din of South African liberals who believe that the country has ‘finally transcended race’ or is on its way to doing so, race and identity remain at the core of South African politics. No less a man than Harvard political scientist Samual Huntington once observed that South Africa was one of those countries condemned to a ‘conflict of civilizations,’ with a formerly white-dominated Western country currently being Africanised by the demographically dominant black population and its Afrocentric leadership.” …
Update III: Attorney General Eric Holder demanded an honest conversation about race. He got it from the intrepid Pat Buchanan. The thing is, Holder doesn’t really want a two-way exchange. What he wants is a one-way “conversation,” where brothers like him talk AT the errant American people. The kind of “conversation” one might have with G-d. Pat Buchanan was having none of it. Watch Pat have that frank discussion against the protestations of his interlocutor.
Feb. 18: For electing a black president, you get called “a nation of cowards on issues involving race.”
So hissed the newly appointed Attorney General Eric Holder, as he promised to lead the nation to “to the new birth of freedom so long ago promised by our greatest president”:
“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial, we have always been, and we, I believe, continue to be, in too many ways, a nation of cowards,” Holder said in remarks to his staff in honor of Black History Month. His comments appear on a transcript provided by the Justice Department.
“Even as we fight a war against terrorism; deal with the reality of electing an African-American, for the first time, as the president of the United States; and deal with other significant issues of the day, the need to confront our racial past and to understand our racial present, and to understand the history of African people in this country — that all endures,” the attorney general added.
“Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.”
Holder said that the Department of Justice, in particular, bears a singular responsibility.
“And we, in this room, bear a special responsibility,” he said. “Through its work and through its example, the Department of Justice — this Department of Justice — as long as I’m here, must and will leave [sic] the nation to the new birth of freedom so long ago promised by our greatest president. This is our duty, this is our solemn responsibility.”
Holder said that the country is now a “fundamentally different” place than it used to be, but that the nation “still had not come to grips with its racial past, nor has it been willing to contemplate, in a truly meaningful way, the diverse future it is fated to have.”
“To our detriment, this is typical of the way in which this nation deals with issues of race,” he said.
As I said, “Non-stop, relentless propaganda, enforced by the tyranny of political correctness, helps explain why most Americans, who harbor no racial animus, believe racism saturates their society. As they see it, in electing Barack Obama, they’ve begun to atone for their original sin.”
To get an inkling of what’s in store, read about Obama’s “Uncivil Agenda.”
This might edify too (that’s right; expect nothing from the GOP):
Update II (Feb. 19): Is she playing “Did you know?” Or is she playing at increasing the racial hostility and entitlement, also the hallmarks of black identity?
“‘Did you know that African American slaves helped to build this house?’ First Lady Michelle Obama asked a group 6th and 7th graders on a visit to the White House Wednesday, an event celebrating African American History Month.”
The First Lady would help her constituency more if she okayed a few internships mowing the White House lawns.
Update III: Attorney General Eric Holder demanded an honest conversation about race. He got it from the intrepid Pat Buchanan. The thing is, Holder doesn’t really want a two-way exchange. What he wants is a one-way “conversation,” where brothers like him talk AT the errant American people. The kind of “conversation” one might have with G-d. Pat Buchanan was having none of it. Watch Pat have that frank discussion against the protestations of his interlocutor.
Feb. 18: For electing a black president, you get called “a nation of cowards on issues involving race.”
So hissed the newly appointed Attorney General Eric Holder, as he promised to lead the nation to “to the new birth of freedom so long ago promised by our greatest president”:
“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial, we have always been, and we, I believe, continue to be, in too many ways, a nation of cowards,” Holder said in remarks to his staff in honor of Black History Month. His comments appear on a transcript provided by the Justice Department.
“Even as we fight a war against terrorism; deal with the reality of electing an African-American, for the first time, as the president of the United States; and deal with other significant issues of the day, the need to confront our racial past and to understand our racial present, and to understand the history of African people in this country — that all endures,” the attorney general added.
“Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.”
Holder said that the Department of Justice, in particular, bears a singular responsibility.
“And we, in this room, bear a special responsibility,” he said. “Through its work and through its example, the Department of Justice — this Department of Justice — as long as I’m here, must and will leave [sic] the nation to the new birth of freedom so long ago promised by our greatest president. This is our duty, this is our solemn responsibility.”
Holder said that the country is now a “fundamentally different” place than it used to be, but that the nation “still had not come to grips with its racial past, nor has it been willing to contemplate, in a truly meaningful way, the diverse future it is fated to have.”
“To our detriment, this is typical of the way in which this nation deals with issues of race,” he said.
As I said, “Non-stop, relentless propaganda, enforced by the tyranny of political correctness, helps explain why most Americans, who harbor no racial animus, believe racism saturates their society. As they see it, in electing Barack Obama, they’ve begun to atone for their original sin.”
To get an inkling of what’s in store, read about Obama’s “Uncivil Agenda.”
This might edify too (that’s right; expect nothing from the GOP):
Update II (Feb. 19): Is she playing “Did you know?” Or is she playing at increasing the racial hostility and entitlement, also the hallmarks of black identity?
“‘Did you know that African American slaves helped to build this house?’ First Lady Michelle Obama asked a group 6th and 7th graders on a visit to the White House Wednesday, an event celebrating African American History Month.”
The First Lady would help her constituency more if she okayed a few internships mowing the White House lawns.
“Allow me to put forth a simple proposition. The election of Obama is no racial milestone; it’s not that whites have come to their senses. But rather that African-Americans have finally done what’s right (to paraphrase the childish, churlish prose of one Rev. Lowery).
For the first time in a long time, the black community has put forward a candidate of caliber, a candidate the American people were only too willing to consider for the highest office in the land.
Until Barack, the black community had disgorged the likes of Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton. Be they black, brown, yellow or red (Rev. Lowery’s classification) – no sane American would elect those two phonies to serve on their local PTA board, much less in the Oval Office.” …
