This belief is extremely hard to break and should be viewed by us as a fundamental matter of worldview for Black Africans, similar to the fundamental view of Americans on, say, freedom of speech or personal liberty. Black Africans are culturally also very reluctant to disagree with one another. Tribalism too, has a determinative effect. I’m reminded of a lecturer who spent some time in Zaire when Mobutu was in power. When he questioned a local on Mobutu’s corruption the local answered “Yes… but he looks after his tribe well.”

So, yes there are many African leaders who are shutting up because they too have or are employing brutish tactics in their own countries, but the cultural forces should not be overlooked.

Get with the program anyone who does not vote for Obama and or has the temerity to criticize any policy position by any black has already been targeted as a bigot by the overlords.

The sanctimony of the left is going to backfire though.

The end of U.S. civilization is nigh.

The African continent political trainwreck rolls on. LBJ said on tape that history has shown that Latinos make bad administrators. I think it is safe to say that Africans make bad administators too.

saiga on June 30, 2008 at 4:42 PM

that too.

I agree..we have wasted too much money trying to help this nation. They do not seem to want to help themselves.

I love how these countries all hate us, but when they need assistance who do they get the most from? The USA.

becki51758 on June 30, 2008 at 9:40 AM

Who said all African nations hate us? And as a proportion of our GDP, the US actually gives the the least amount of foreign aid among industrialized nations.

I just can’t get over the fact that “African-Americans” do little more than complain and cry racism on this side of the pond, knowing how life actually is in Africa.

bridgetown on June 30, 2008 at 9:48 AM

This is why people think Republicans are bigots. Just so ya know. Keep doin your thing though.

South Africa in particular owes its current existence to global pressure from the West against the previous apartheid government.

The ANC may have had something to do with it too….although Reagan sure didn’t help!

The AU is kind of a club for dictators, but that doesn’t mean we should cease aid to Africa. You seem to see actions to help alleviate AIDS and famine as some sort of African affirmative action. If we don’t actively help Africa millions will die as a result. The stakes are much higher in Africa than in America in regards to governmental assistance for blacks.

The AU is a joke, but then so is the UN, and for the same reasons; legitimacy is not a requirement to participate.

If we stopped letting ourselves be stymied by China and Russia and the other non-free nations of the UN, and created a United Democracy organization, with democracy being defined as much more than an ink stained finger, then we would not only be in a position to pressure Zimbabwe and it’s enablers, we could invite eligible African nations to join. We could invite ineligible nations to become so, look at what the opportunity to join the Union did for for the former territories in the US. (Utah civilizing comment deleted by author for sake of commity) Decent African nations knowing they are disempowered by a despot riddled UN and a despot dominated AU would be pleased to join a United Democracy.

Hell, call it the Justice League for all I care, all I know is the UN has failed it’s vaunted mission and only legitimizes bad actors that ought to be banned from a truly worthy club, and we limit our ability to bless other nations by accepting the shackles of the failed UN. Disengagement will only invite more bad actors, we need to new paradigm.

Why would anyone think this would bother them or even momentarily distract them from the living hell that is daily life in 98% of Africa?

Am I the only person on Earth who saw Congo?

I am more horrified that this is all happening right underneath our noses, but nobody in the U.S. cares. Not the mainstream media. Not the race hustlers. Not even Amnesty International. (Must be because they can’t blame the U.S.)

This all has shades of Rwanda. Genocide happening right before our eyes, and we don’t care.

Really, race hustlers (looking at you Sharpton and Jackson). Does it always have to be about white on black violence? Can you, for once, speak out against violence perpetrated by the same color? (No, for the same reason they pay no mind to the continuing gang war between the Hispanic and African-American gangs in L.A. Just doesn’t fit the narrative.)

They care more about what Don Imus said on the radio.

It’s really depressing.

I asked yesterday who would stand for the people of Zimbabwe against their murderous tyrant, Robert Mugabe, and argued that, ideally, the African nations themselves should take the lead. Today, those nations gave their answer: Zimbabwe can go to Hell….

It’s pretty simple, stop sending $$$$ to Africa, it almost always falls into the wrong hands.

No aid, no immigrants to US. Let them stay and sort things out.

If we need to help them, we can start by putting a .50 cal round into a dictator’s melon, or rounding up some thug gangs and making an example. That’s how you deal with the Mugabe’s of the world, not through friggin’ sanctions and diplomacy.

He smacks of an upscale class that is hard to define but it seems to project intelligence and grace.

s/

Why it has not happened to date possibly says a lot about Africans in general. Who knows, maybe they like murder and mayhem as a throwback to their revered tribal days before “evil” colonialism disrupted their daily pleasure of raiding and slave taking. Whatever. I’m at a loss to figure out the continued Hutu vs Tutsi type mentality that suffuses modern African politics.

The only thing I’m certain of is there is nothing we can do about it except occasionally shoot the most fiendish of the lot so as to let them all know there is personal responsibility beyond a certain number of body parts.

alphie

In Iraq–
justice is being done
a tyrant has been deposed
the economy is growing
the badguys are on the run
a beacon of demovcracy & freedom in a dark region of the world
–all of which still needs to happen in Zimbabwe.

You don’t understand, those deaths were necessary in order to ensure the planting of communism in those soils. As such, those deaths are to be celebrated, not mourned.

Civilization? What civilization?

I knew the left was delusional, but why do they have to go so far out of their way to prove it.

alphie

The only correct statement you made was that you won’t “lose any sleep” over the torure & murder of hundreds of innocent women & children–even babies–being ordered by Thugabe.

I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it…Africa is in better shape than Iraq.

Fabulous.

And his neighbors just smile.

USA aid and benefits from compassion for the least of these our fellow humans must only reach the intended victims of inhumanity and not supplement the thug barbaric powers.
maverick muse on June 30, 2008 at 9:47 AM

It sounds easier than it is in practice. There are real people who are undergoing real suffering under real dictators. They need our help now more than ever. That having been said, when looking towards those who we can fully entrust to properly deliver our aid money, we need only look in a mirror.

No, no no. There are a lot of people doing incredible things for the People over there….despite the pathetic governments over there. It’s a good thing.