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U.S. Supported White Minority-Rule in South Africa
BlackVoiceNews.com ^ | Tuesday, 24 December 2013 | George E. Curry

Posted on 12/25/2013 4:58:05 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

PRETORIA, South Africa (NNPA) – President Obama and former presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush flew to South Africa to pay their respects to Nelson Mandela, the country’s first democratically elected president who died on Dec. 5 at the age of 95.

At the height of South Africa’s campaign against the warrior for majority rule in South Africa, the U.S. government’s behavior was far from respectful as it supported a regime that oppressed more than 90 percent of its people.

Under South Africa’s rigid racial segregation system known as apartheid, Whites were only 5 to 10 percent of the population but allocated 87 percent of the land to themselves, forcing other racial groups – Black, Coloured, and Indian – to live in segregated homelands away from Whites in the central cities. Officials denied people of color citizenship while maintaining an all-White government, prohibited Blacks from traveling outside their overpopulated segregated homelands without a passbook and operated segregated, unequal education systems that tracked Whites for professional jobs and Blacks for menial employment.

In 1947, South Africa passed the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act that prohibited marriage between persons of different races. A year later, it passed the Immorality Act, which made sexual relations with a person of a different race a criminal offense. When there were Black uprisings to protest minority-rule, anti-apartheid leaders were either arrested or murdered.

Yet, the U.S., which prides itself as the world’s foremost democracy, continued to support the violent apartheid regime.

(Excerpt) Read more at blackvoicenews.com ...


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1 posted on 12/25/2013 4:58:05 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

What a bunch of crap.

They knew the consequences of just pulling the rug from out of the SA government....chaos and civil war....Constructive Engagement was the way to go.


2 posted on 12/25/2013 4:59:10 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: MinorityRepublican

I read a book around 20 years ago about the KGB.

One thing I recall was they were given 3 missions which were of great importance and which they placed most of their resources.

One of those was the takeover of South Africa. That included Angola, Mozambique, SW Africa as well as the country of South Africa.


3 posted on 12/25/2013 5:03:31 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Yes, how silly of us . . .


             

4 posted on 12/25/2013 5:03:39 PM PST by tomkat (refraining, with much difficulty, from further commentary)
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To: dfwgator

They’re just rewritting history, it just wouldn’t do
for the US to have played a honest helpful part of
the narrative. When they are done, no one will say
United States of America, without spitting.

When will we get tired of this?
I’m over it.


5 posted on 12/25/2013 5:03:47 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
I call BS.
The divestment movement started in the '60s and was enacted by the Federal Government during the Reagan administration.

Personally, I never gave a crap. Why should we support a bunch of communist murderers anyway?

6 posted on 12/25/2013 5:06:29 PM PST by stormhill
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To: MinorityRepublican
Pure ignorance!

Andrew Young was Pres.Carter's rep in the UN at that time: He was making a lot of noise about how the indigent populations should take control of their home countries (especially South Africa) and rule as democracies - complete with unicorns, fairy dust, and lots of sparkle! This was AFTER Rhodesia went down, too ....

7 posted on 12/25/2013 5:09:44 PM PST by Ken522
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To: MinorityRepublican

Well look how well its all turned out. sarc


8 posted on 12/25/2013 5:09:58 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: tomkat

I see the one on the right is ready to celebrate Kwanzaa with a Kwanzaa necklace!


9 posted on 12/25/2013 5:11:42 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: MinorityRepublican
the U.S. government’s behavior was far from respectful as it supported a regime that oppressed more than 90 percent of its people.

It was also prosperous, relatively safe and a 1st world nation. Now what you got?

10 posted on 12/25/2013 5:13:54 PM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Of course the so-called apartheid minority government
WAS the government at the time.

These same people who call us on this are the ones
that think we shouldn’t have gone in and overthrown
Saddam H.

Screw them.


11 posted on 12/25/2013 5:14:37 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Reagan met with Chief Buthelezi, and Buthelezi even warned Reagan that Sanctions would be disastrous.

Of course Mandela, who was a Xhosa, hated Zulus, especially Buthelezi.

Ahhhh, but they never tell you about how the two main black tribes in SA still hate each other, even more than they hate the Afrikaners.


12 posted on 12/25/2013 5:15:27 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: MinorityRepublican

The whites need to totally leave and let the tribes kill each other off. Period.


13 posted on 12/25/2013 5:16:37 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Concerning the author, George E. Curry:

In 1993 Curry published a bold depiction of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas with an Aunt Jemima handkerchief on his head on the front cover.

14 posted on 12/25/2013 5:21:10 PM PST by Praxeologue
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To: Altura Ct.
...it supported a regime that oppressed more than 90 percent of its people...Now what you got?

A regime that oppresses 100% of its people?
Well...it is a kind of "progress"

15 posted on 12/25/2013 5:22:17 PM PST by stormhill
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To: MinorityRepublican

I guess we were afraid it could turn into Detroit.


16 posted on 12/25/2013 5:28:54 PM PST by boycott
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To: MinorityRepublican

(((YAWN))) Another America-hating crybaby. So what else is new.


17 posted on 12/25/2013 5:29:11 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Truth Is Out There. Just don't let anyone know that you're looking for it.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
This article ignores every fact inconsistent with the theme set by its race-baiting author. For example, President Reagan took many personal, courageous actions favourable to South Africa's indigenous population, including appointing a black ambassador and personally intervening in negotiations on their behalf.

That said, South Africa was, and still is, no more ready for pure democracy than is the West Bank. The last two decades have proven that.

18 posted on 12/25/2013 5:38:48 PM PST by Praxeologue
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To: MinorityRepublican
It's almost like the New South Africa and Detroit have something in common.

The Death of Johannesburg

19 posted on 12/25/2013 5:41:19 PM PST by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: tomkat

At lest they had something to eat then.


20 posted on 12/25/2013 5:41:49 PM PST by Venturer (Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
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