Tailored Truths About South Africa

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Craig Seligman’s Bloomberg column—it’s not worth reading—is about South African “Nobelist Nadine Gordimer,” known for her impenetrable prose, having “channeled her rage” over the reality of the “Rambo Nation” in yet more obscurantist prose.

(“Rambo Nation” is the title of the Introduction to “Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa.”)

Permissible rage over the new South African mobocracy has to be a mixed-race affair. After all, you can’t tell the story of the dispossessed white minority (Afrikaner farmers), currently “being culled like springbok in a hunting safari.”

That’s a quote from “Into the Cannibal’s Pot,” a tract that tells it like it is.

This is the level of truth that tired and tiresome mainstream writers can tolerate—and are willing to transmit—about the New South Africa.

8 thoughts on “Tailored Truths About South Africa”

  1. james huggins

    I’ve said it before many times, especially on this blog. We’re not going to get the truth about South Africa or the United States either on racial matters. The leftist establishment has willfully lied about these things for so long they probably think they are telling it like it is. Beware America. Obama needs another “civil rights” movement for his election to keep the non thinking American voters from concentrating on his disastrous record. South Africa’s tragedy can easily be duplicated here.

  2. Contemplationist

    Witness the Two-Minutes Hate episode over John Derbyshire’s column, and what do you expect? The South African affair was a bipartisan folly and no one is going to accept that they were wrong. Same with the Iraq war.

  3. My RON-PAUL i

    Wealth has an absolute and a relative component – for example, a large supply of illegal immigrants lowers the cost of nannies, waiters, and landscapers (People mention how some have elderly or chronically ill people move to India to be able to have lots of servants…). Thus, one could certainly expect that an uplifting of a black economy could impact the white economy by making labor costs more expensive.

    However, this was NOT the problem that arose in South Africa from the end of Apartheid. The lawless Mobocratic Government that is supposed to protect lives and property became more an instrument of destruction than one of protection.

    Nevertheless, in “Into the Cannibals Pot”, you also pointed out what crime and economic socialism has done to screw up the black community. You can see that here in the USA in the black run cities such as Detroit (and my councilman Marion Barry now carrying on about “Asian businessmen”).

    Either for lack of political courage and/or the desire to sell books to the “politically correct”, Gordimer used the mixed race genre to make the points indirectly that you make directly. Demoting Saint Mandela off his pedestal is not a path to riches!

  4. Rebel Without a Clause

    Gordimer’s reaping what she sowed, and knows it. She may yet wind up in The Cannibal’s Pot. Literally. Not much meat on those old bones though.

  5. Robert Glisson

    Craig Seligman’s off the wall analytical third party description of a book that tries to bring in the humanity within struggle and its results, is what bothers me the most. Fiction is not an industrial construct defined by a blueprint; but, life in the raw. He clearly refuses to admit that the author could say that the situation is hopeless and quotes one line as the author’s own personal opinion. As detached as his writing is, it is clear that he doesn’t understand that in fiction, the character’s write their own story, the author merely puts it on paper. In writing my stories, none of my characters reflect me, once defined by the lead in; they go off into areas I never consciously considered and I can hardly wait to see what they will do next. By screening the book through the author, he missed the depth of the story. I would hate to read his review of, ‘A tale of two cities’ or ‘For whom the bell tolls.’

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