Posted on 02/12/2015 2:38:50 PM PST by Enza Ferreri
Black rioting and looting are not caused by any conflicts between US cops and black criminals, although these can be used as a pretext. Events in South Africa show that it is in fact a far more widespread, global phenomenon.
And in this case blacks form the country's majority, targeting a powerless minority: so, who's racist and xenophobic now?
For a week, at the end of January, a mob in South Africa lynched Ethiopians, Somalis and immigrants of other nationalities living in Nelson Mandela's country, and raided and looted their stores.
At least 4 people were killed and over 160 were arrested in Soweto, during a wave of anti-immigrant protests and violence.
The Daily Mail reported:
The 19-year-old mother of an infant who died after being trampled by a mob during the looting said she was accidentally caught in the street chaos. Some witnesses, however, said the mother was herself pillaging when she was knocked down with her baby strapped to her chest...These are savages, who don't care about human and non-human lives alike.In a separate incident, a truck carrying livestock overturned on a highway in the Johannesburg area last week, and people carrying knives and buckets descended on the injured cattle and slaughtered nearly three-dozen for their meat, according to Eyewitness News, a South African media outlet. The driver alleged that people on a bridge threw objects at his vehicle, causing it to crash.
That the violence began in Soweto - the same district of Johannesburg that became the symbol of anti-apartheid protests - is particularly ironic.
The recent unrest, one of the worst in Soweto since the apartheid era, started on 19 January when a Somali national allegedly shot and killed a 14-year-boy who was among a group of people attempting to break into his shop.
That was the signal which started the crowd's rioting and targeting of immigrant-owned shops, in a repetition of what happened in the country during the episodes of xenophobic violence in 2008 that killed more than 60 people. Anti-immigrant attacks seem to occur periodically in South Africa.
The media, as usual, try to exculpate the criminals with references to "the frustration of the poor":
Such episodes reflect the predicament of South Africa, a regional hub with gleaming infrastructure projects where many people nevertheless feel marginalized by high unemployment, a lack of opportunity and a gap between rich and poor that is starkly visible in leafy, spacious suburbs, on the one hand, and the shacks and so-called "matchbox" homes of the townships where blacks were confined under apartheid.But it's evident that these attempts to find excuses are due to the mob's skin colour, and to a lack of will to admit that black proneness to violence is not the fault of whites, with their "evil racism" and apartheid, after all.Soweto came under the world's gaze in 1976 when it erupted in student-led protests. Parts of it are relatively affluent today, as malls, gyms and new homes attest. But poverty is still widespread.
Witness Phindile Shabangu said that the mother of Nqobile Majozi, the baby boy killed by the crowd, "was caught in a stampede after emerging from the shop with eggs and drinks, and that the mother didn't even notice her baby's dire state while she was trying to pick up fallen items."
Video footage showed rioters looting shops sometimes in view of police, and one clip showed an officer apparently participating in the free-for-all.
The Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa, a group representing immigrants, urged the government to approve hate crimes legislation that it said would curb a culture of "impunity."
Didn't they say that, with the end of apartheid, racism would be eradicated from South Africa?
Good heavens, South Africa has immigrants from other black nations? They already had a horrible race problem.
Women I know who grew up there will never go back to their homeland because so many white women there are raped by black men. The problem can only get worse with new ferals imported into the country.
South Africa had illegal immigration from other Africans even when Apartheid was in place.
Didn’t know that but it makes sense, since White People built industries and an actual economy in SA.
Our pastor is from South Africa and he said that today’s South Africa is not the nation he grew up in. Most whites left to either to the US, Canada or Australia.
The country is doomed; Mandela was begging whites to stay (and granted concessions related to their wealth and security) because he knew if they left then South Africa would have no professionals left. There would be nobody to maintain what the Afrikaaners built, and he could see what resulted in Kenya and Uganda from such flight years before.
It takes a maximum effort to avoid drawing generalized conclusions concerning race from everything going on these days. Lord help me.
For many years, as Zimbabwe deteriorated under the great Robert Mugabe, his people were escaping into South Africa to live in a functioning country run by whites. That was such a de facto admission of defeat for black nationalists, having them prefer to live under apartheid rather than in the independent black country to the north...
“For many years, as Zimbabwe deteriorated under the great Robert Mugabe, his people were escaping into South Africa to live in a functioning country run by whites. That was such a de facto admission of defeat for black nationalists, having them prefer to live under apartheid rather than in the independent black country to the north...”
Excellent point and one the egalitarians cannot explain away.
I hope all of the boycotters are happy with the results of their actions.
I was especially horrified at the Olympic boycott. Awful for the athletes of the time.
All that righteousness———for this chaos.
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I was just discussing South Africa last night on subway with a Scot who’s an oil rigger. He’s been everywhere all over the globe and he told me how awful South Africa is now. I expressed a fear that the whites in Jo’burg would be murdered and their properties confiscated. He agreed it was time to get out.
Thanks; the egalitarians just bury it.
Diversity is a fact of life and some groups work better together in blending than do others. God did not make Blacks in Africa or anywhere to be violent and criminal so something is wrong.
It is not poverty because poverty does not make people evil. There are too many poor people in the world who are not evil to make that a fact. In America, I think it is the thug culture that sinks black youth. I think liberal racism is poisonous to the soul just as white racism was poisonous and is poisonous to those who embrace hate, resentment and scapegoating. It is a hatred and resentment of human life and maybe that is the biggest sin we can do in life as far as consequences to ourselves go. Embracing evil makes you evil.
As somebody who works hard providing for a family I don’t want any excuse for why somebody is robbing me or my family; we have the laws to keep such people in check, I pay a lot of taxes to safeguard my property and loved ones, so turn law enforcement loose to do it.
I know why these evil people do this; they have been raised on a steady diet of hate and envy (without any work ethic or personal responsibility).
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