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Corruption, incompetence, lawlessness, and the spectre of racial retribution are driving South Africa into the same dysfunctional shithole where Zimbabwe has been festering for the past 30 years. I have lamented this fateful symmetry in many commentaries, most notably in “South Africa ‘Betraying Its Values’,” May 13, 2011, “Zuma Doing to South Africa What Mugabe… Read more.
Almost four years ago, President Obama announced a provisional agreement to settle longstanding claims of institutional racism, which Black (and Indian) farmers filed against the federal government. This announcement made me as proud of Obama as I was pleased for the farmers. Here, in part, is how I commented in “Government Finally Settles Billion-Dollar Discrimination… Read more.
Far too few Americans, especially Black ones, are aware of the almost 30-year legal battle Black farmers launched in 1983 against the U.S. government. They claimed that, for decades, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) denied them loans and technical assistance, which it routinely offered to White farmers. Well, here is how President Obama hailed the settlement… Read more.
