Mugabe betrays African dreams

I f you've been following the sad news in Zimbabwe, you will hear the irony in the name of its capital city, Harare.

[Hew Browne]

An interesting analysis. Absent from it, is the cynical role of the West--especially Britain--and White racism. Have the courage to explore this component as well.

[politwriter]

It is refreshing to see Clarence Page exhibit some intellectual honesty in his analysis of this murderous Marxist thug.

The silence of other Western and South African liberals has been deafening.

Rhodesia was a major food exporter under President Ian Smith.

Today it is a beggar nation, with its people actually starving under Marxist Mugabe.

And all white Leftists in the West can do is rail about the horrors of a racialist colonial past.

That is very thin and watery gruel for a Black African mother in Communist Zimbabwe who cries while her baby dies in front of her for lack of nourishment.

And the Western White Leftist will sit down to his dinner of Chateaubriand and red wine, content in his fine moral superiority.

[politwriter]

Hew Browne wrote:

An interesting analysis. Absent from it, is the cynical role of the West--especially Britain--and White racism. Have the courage to explore this component as well.

While you are exploring this, people are dying in the streets of Communist Zimbabwe.

What's on the menu tonite? Chateau Briand? May I suggest an amusing little Chilean Cabernet Savignon with that?

[Spector]

Hew Browne wrote:

An interesting analysis. Absent from it, is the cynical role of the West--especially Britain--and White racism. Have the courage to explore this component as well.

Ha! Oh please, put down the violin. Those people would have been a million percent better off if they were still a British colony. Now they ard just a failed banana republic, financially bankrupt, ruled by corrupt, incompetent despots, dependent on the world's hand-outs, and, oh, seemingly skilled only in butchering each other. Gee, just like most of the other countries in the region. The poor citizens deserve a way out of this mess.

Yeah, Hew Browne, this good - colonization bad....

[Jack]

Obama will flood Africa with our tax dollars. Great, like any of these people will make a difference in the world. Its a sunk cost.

[Jake]

Hew Browne wrote:

An interesting analysis. Absent from it, is the cynical role of the West--especially Britain--and White racism. Have the courage to explore this component as well.

Sure, blame everything on the West. Don't forget the billions of dollars that the rest of the world has poured into Africa. Don't you ever wonder why other British former colonies that are doing well and not Zimbabwe? I was there when 1 US dollar was $20,000 Zim, now the exchange rate is in millions Zim dollars to 1 US dollar. Whose fault is that? If not the corrupted and idiotic Mugabe government who drove out white farmers and left the country in starvation.

[Bob]

Jack wrote:

Obama will flood Africa with our tax dollars. Great, like any of these people will make a difference in the world. Its a sunk cost.

Yes, it's very possible that Obama will send our tax dollars to Africa, especially Kenya where his father's family lives.

[joell]

C. Page is capable of a more insightful article. I suspect he knows that an objective analysis of Zimbabwe would never be authorized by his editors. So we get more of the same.

poliwriter wrote:

"people are dying in the streets of Communist Zimbabwe."

And in Iraq & other middle east and african countries as well. So why is Zimbabwe getting nearly all of the coverage?

[jeep]

Yet another post-colonial african failure. Oh well, they can always blame the old colonial powers for their misery and if that fails, blame the United States.

[David]

pretty much everyone, including even the BBC, is angry with Mugabe. If there ever was an issue with an international consensus, it is this.

[David]

Hew Browne wrote:

An interesting analysis. Absent from it, is the cynical role of the West--especially Britain--and White racism. Have the courage to explore this component as well.

I assume that you are referring to the anti-white racism that led Mugabe to expelling Zembabwei's most productive citizens, turning a nation that was a net exporter of food into one below subsistance level?

[Action Jackson]

Where were you Mr. Page?

Ever since independence was gained in 1980, Zimbabwe has been a one-party state with Mugabe long proclaiming an allegedly socialist, anti-Western message without a single bleat of protest from Britain, the United States and Europe , Britain even knighting the guy (just this week withdrawn by the ‘Queen’). So what changed?

We saw the same demonization of Myanmar (or Burma as the West chooses to continue calling it) even as major Western oil cartels continue to suck oil from the ground.

The pattern is plain for all to see: keep diverting attention away from the actions of the pirates by making a big song and dance about other countries’ when the reality is that the West doesn’t give a damn about the people of Zimbabwe, Myanmar or any country that fits the profile—allegedly anti-democratic, trashing human rights, this is after all, the current propaganda line of the West, a case of do as I say but don’t do as I do.

[Nick]

Jack wrote:

Obama will flood Africa with our tax dollars. Great, like any of these people will make a difference in the world. Its a sunk cost.

They dont even fight over money. They are fighting and cutting heads off and putting them on fence posts as scare tactics over numerous things..

Throwing money at them will solve nothing.

What kind of sadistic human cuts a guys head off puts it on a fence post and caserates that person and takes the remains and places them on the guys head like its a hat????

10 yearolds running around with surplus AK-47's ect..

[Erickson]

Mr. Page neglects to recall the protests by Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Demond Tutu when the white farmers and their families in Zimbabwe were brutalized by the Mugabe government, physically harmed, and driven off their farms just 8 short years ago. Know why? Because Obama, Jackson, Sharpton and Tutu said NOTHING! They had no problem with stealing the land from the white farmers and giving it to inexperienced people who ruined the farms and created dramatic food shortages now haunting the Zimbabwe people. Why were Obama, Jackson, Sharpton and Tutu silent? You know the reason.

[Book Recommendation]

I found this book enlightening on post-Colonial Africa:

'Fate of Africa, The' by Martin Meredith, 2005. A history of African independence from 1955 to 2005. The dissolution of the European colonial empires and the turbulent and violent years after.

[FWIW]

Book Recommendation wrote:

I found this book enlightening on post-Colonial Africa:'Fate of Africa, The' by Martin Meredith, 2005. A history of African independence from 1955 to 2005. The dissolution of the European colonial empires and the turbulent and violent years after.

http://www.amazon.com/Fate-Africa-Hopes-Freed...

[loose cannon]

:)
Clarence!
Welcome back my friend, to the show that never ends.
I've been searching high and low for you these past several weeks.
I was begining to suspect you got,... "fired".
I trust you spent some well earned quality time with your loving family.
And yes,...I have "missed" you also.
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Zimbabwe is experiencing 1600 percent inflation under Mugabe's tyranny.
Furthermore, Zimbabwe remains an ugly eyesore on the African continent. We call that a black eye in these parts.
And that gentleman tending his garden....
He was "puttering" in his garden, and you know it!

[kla228]

This is a very devastating for the people of Zimbabwe. It is also very complex. I agree with "Hew Browne", however. Unless and until we deal critically with both the historical and contemporary role and influence of all parties involved, including the Western powers, the typical surface analysis of this issue cannot be taken totally serious. Too often, these issues are written about in a vacuum, as it is in this case, so it fails to address the total picture.

Furthermore, the U.S. government is in no position to talk about atrocities given our escapades with sanctioning, bombing, and bribing its way into power, and keeping power.

[kla228]

American First wrote:

This is the very reason, the Almighty God, has put Africa and Africans in the situation they have been in for 6 or more centuries. Written by a American, who happens to be Black. This is so sickening.

Responses like this is reason why clueless Bible-bafflers should not be allowed to be in position of influence or power. Implying that God cursed Africa, while assuming that God was ok with European nations (and now also the U.S.) invading, kidnapping, but lynching, slaughtering (and now bombing) thousands means you have not only been seriously brainwashed, but also are clearly disturbed.

And just to reference a Biblical story since you brought religion up, even the people in Exodus, freed from oppression, and continued to make many wrong decisions that had them reaping the consequences, even still were shown mercy by God and redeemed.

It's time for you to be transformed by the renewing of your mind--away from oppressive religious doctrine and toward liberation of your mind by truth.

This is also spoken from an African-American man, who is also a devout Christian.

[MUGABE FOR EVER]

U WESTERNRES ARE ALWAYS SELFISH. wHOM DO U THINK DENIED AFRICANS THEIR BASIC NEED ? COLONIZERS OR MUGABE, ITS U . MUGABE IS A HERO OF AFRICA. WE WILL FIGHT U ASIDING WITH MUGABE.