Killing the Boer, American Style

American Thinker ^ | 4 Mar, 2024 | Todd Gregory and Erik Gregory

[MtnClimber]

The Left is in thrall to plantation nostalgia, with an unambiguous urge to subjugate a disfavored demographic who are to be racially ostracized and mercilessly scapegoated for sins they did not commit.

“Kill the Boer” is a wildly popular practice in majority Black South Africa.

Decades ago, despite the unfairness of apartheid, South Africa was by many measures the most materially prosperous and safest nation on the African continent. However, since decolonization, South Africa has deteriorated by every metric imaginable, with rampant criminality, economic stagnation, dwindling life expectancy, and floor-to-ceiling political corruption.

The same story largely defines the rest of poverty-stricken postcolonial Africa. When the White man dropped his burden and left the continent, he took with him the building and sharing of knowledge and infrastructure; roads and transportation, improved farming techniques and crop yields, medicines, health care, women’s rights, science and education, and other tools of modernity.

Africa regressed quickly. Trillions of dollars in aid from Europe and North America over the ensuing decades have scarcely ameliorated Africa’s continued postcolonial slide backwards.

The Left has made no secret of the fact that what holds for South Africa, holds for the United States as well. In modern America, Critical Race Theory holds that Whites are to be forever stigmatized as uniquely evil, with no possibility for redemption.

Thus, in the American version of Kill the Boer, when Whites are randomly murdered by Blacks by the many hundreds each year, it is dismissed as “restorative justice,” righteous retribution, youthful wilding, or some other creatively euphemistic obfuscation.

The media almost always ignore, misdirect, or mislead about Black-on-White crime, and pretend that a Black person is more at risk in a White neighborhood than vice versa. Existing while White has resulted in tens of thousands of White murder victims at the hands of...

[NorthMountain]

Events like that made it harder for Southern whites to contemplate emancipation, because they were afraid of what might follow.

And they were right.

[Verginius Rufus]

They were wrong in the sense that no widespread violence against whites ensued in the Reconstruction period, maybe because the freedmen realized they were vastly deficient in weapons. Of course the scholars who deal with the Reconstruction period are only interested in white violence against the freedmen, but it doesn't appear that there was much black vs. white violence then.

Unfortunately the era of slavery left many blacks with a lack of respect for the system of justice and law enforcement which has persisted until the present. Every year more whites are killed by black criminals than blacks were killed by lynchings in all of American history.

[NorthMountain]

Every year more whites are killed by black criminals than blacks were killed by lynchings in all of American history.

As I said ...