DeepInYourMind
Elder Lister
Funny how you take my point and then make it sound like I'm pro mzungu and anti African? That I somehow despise my fellow Africans because I expect much higher standards? When will people move beyond skin color to actual content of character.The real enemy isn’t white or black landowners; it’s the elite class, across races, who put profit over people. How you end up despising Africans in this matter vs the pink man is ummmm interesting.
Now where did I say that colonialism wasn't so bad. Worse, romanticizing it? I only highlighted that the race and tribe mongering politicians after so many decades have proved themselves worse than colonialists. They would rather kill and maim rather than let their own people prosper.As for the “colonialism wasn’t so bad” argument.. let’s be real. Many African leaders have failed their people in many ways, but romanticizing colonialism is revisionist at best.
You are the one romanticizing things here now. Many of these African politicians that became wealthy through corruption, not free enterprise, and have been ruining the continent for decades have suddenly realized that they need to please their people? They have realized that there's no stopping the coming wave.The idea that land reform in South Africa will automatically turn farms into wastelands is the same fear-mongering we saw before Zimbabwe’s land reforms. Yes, Zimbabwe mishandled it, but South Africa isn’t Zimbabwe. The reality is that, decades after apartheid, white farmers still control a disproportionate amount of arable land. Ignoring that and acting like land redistribution is some kind of economic suicide ignores the very real inequality that needs addressing.