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David Wolosik's avatar

You traveled to Africa. My wife traveled there in the early 80's to Egypt and Kenya. She has some really great stories. It got weird after that.

I knew some about Rhodes. Thanks for the whole story. As far as the young A-holes, what else is there to expect?

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Christopher Messina's avatar

I have off and on lived and worked in Africa since 1994, mainly South Africa and Morocco. I was living in South Africa during the honeymoon period during the Government of National Unity and the Truth & Reconciliation Commission. Apartheid was an evil system, but you will notice the Western media pays NO ATTENTION to South Africa now. They can't because for them ideology and their asshole word "narrative" always matters more than, you know, reporting objective facts and letting people make up their own minds.

There are rolling blackouts - "load shedding" - in South Africa for more than 100 days every year. The economy is a shambles. The vast promises of the Communists in the African National Congress have gone the way of every promise made by Communists. Crime is rampant, corruption is endemic, poverty and economic inequality are pervasive.

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David Wolosik's avatar

I remember the world looking the other way when white farmers I believe in Rhodesia were driven off their farms and/or killed. We have a friend who has a sister who married a South African and lives there. She tells him horror stories all the time. Apartheid was bad. Yet everything worked.

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Christopher Messina's avatar

This is not past tense. White farmers are routinely murdered. The whole fucking world looks the other way as the anti-Afrikaans genocide continues.

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David Wolosik's avatar

How terrible. white is the expendable color.

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Christopher Messina's avatar

Thank you. We need to get back to a place in this country where Logic plays a role in public discourse. These howling morons trained by asshole Leftist Propagandists pretending to be professors are a disgrace.

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Mark L's avatar

Great Article

Great Points

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