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Posted on 09/06/2001 6:44:18 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen

It's Time to Say "No" to Black Racists who are Destroying African Economies

In Durban South Africa at the World Conference on Racism, now that America and Israel have left the party, the US media seems to have dropped any coverage of what's happening there. And, while most Americans probably are not really interested in the nonsense going on their anyway, there are three stories being reported in the African papers that pertain to American taxpayers.

First, a report from the Conference:from the London Independence:

Last night Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the South African Foreign Minister, called a meeting with the African consultative group to try to salvage the conference. In what one European diplomat described as a "declaration of war", the Africans had earlier said they would accept nothing less than a legally binding pledge of reparations for slavery and colonialism. European diplomats said the hardening stance of the Africans, backed by African Americans, had engendered a sense of solidarity among European Union delegates.

"The moderate stance adopted by South Africa and Senegal for an expression of "regret" and reparations in the form of debt relief and directed aid had lost out to a militant lobby led initially by Zimbabwe, but backed by an increasing number of countries including Namibia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.

"Patrick Chinamasa, the Zimbabwean Justice Minister, said in his speech to the conference on Monday that the final declaration and plan of action expected on Friday should call on former colonisers to take "full legal responsibility for their actions", acknowledge the slave trade and colonialism as crimes against humanity, and place a legal obligation on countries, individuals and corporations to pay reparations.

"One diplomat close to the camp backing Zimbabwe said the hard line had come about because the resolution from a pre-conference meeting had been "tampered with" and toned down to match South Africa's and Senegal's stance. An African American delegate said his lobby was so furious with the US, "which used Zionism to treat this conference with contempt", that it had thrown its weight behind the most hardline countries."

Then there was a Reuters report about the alarming slide in the value of the South African currency, the rand, which was approximately equivalent to a $1 back in 1985 before the US Congress decided to slap sanctions on South Africa over Reagan's veto. It was worth about 71 cents when Nelson Mandela took office in 1994. Today:

As the rand hit a new record low of R8,50 to the dollar, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said he despaired over the "contagion effect" of the Zimbabwean crisis on South Africa, and agricultural officials in Zimbabwe announced that 900 white-owned commercial farms had been closed down in the past month.

"...Collin Cloete, president of the Commercial Farmers Union, said the violent tactics used by Zanu-PF supporters in the past to drive workers and farmers off farms had been replaced by an eviction strategy carried out under cover of darkness.

"He said 25 percent out of 3 500 farms owned by CFU members had stopped operating. This was expected to worsen Zimbabwe's foreign currency crisis, which has spawned biting fuel and power shortages and is threatening industry with collapse."

The third article was in the Washington Post, entitled: "Big Rise in Hunger Projected for Africa." No where near it were the first two issues mentioned - the black racism against whites that is demanding money from the West and that is driving the most productive farms in Africa out of existence:

"Report Stresses Need for Massive Investment "A comprehensive study of whether the world will have enough to eat 20 years from now concludes that Africa, at least, probably will not.

"The report by the International Food Policy Research Institute, a Washington think tank, predicts rising hunger on the continent, which is notorious for periodic famines and struggles to feed itself even in normal times.

"The study concludes that without massive investment in irrigation, roads to take the harvest to market and crop research, Africa might have 49 million malnourished children by 2020, a rise of 50 percent. At the same time, the rest of the world, including India and China, will be better nourished than it is today, the report predicts."

Its not investment that is needed in Africa. Any white person investing in Africa in the last 6-10 years has usually lost his entire investment. Periodic droughts come with almost clockwork regularity, which is why the white people of South Africa, for example, spent millions building dams and reservoirs to provide water to the rising population of blacks over the years. Before Mugabe took control of Zimbabwe in the 1980s, those "white" farms, on which many thousands of trained black farm workers lived and worked, produced so much food that Zimbabwe was a food exporting country. Now that Mugabe's supporters are driving not only the whites off the large commercial farms, but the black workers on those farms, Zimbabwe is experiencing food shortages.

It undoubtedly WILL get worse. However, the solution is for the people of Africa, and their black American buddies, to discover that they have to change some of their racist notions that there is an unlimited supply of money awaiting them if they can just make the white folks give it to them. Those commercial farms in Zimbabwe have taken 40-50 years to carve out of the bush and make productive. With Mugabe's policies, they are being destroyed in a matter of weeks and months.

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