“Let’s establish and fund a truth and reconciliation program to better understand and address the historical harms of racism in our city. . .”
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The Black majority government in South Africa established a Truth Commission to explore and resolve issues of historical abuse of power by whites. The upshot is that South Africa now is seizing white-owned farms to compensate the Blacks who were subjected to discrimination. I don’t think that program is working well for South Africa. White farmers and business owners are fleeing, Cape Town has run out of fresh water, and soon the country will have to import food to feed its population. An American version of a Truth Commission, which likely will spawn a demand for reparations, will not work any better in Wilmington, NC than it has in South Africa.
I agree; South Africa will end up naming whites as scapegoats just as Zimbabwe did - instead of just realizing that throwing out the white man just leaves them where they would have been if whites never showed up.