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March 4, 2024

“Kill the Boer” is a wildly popular practice in majority Black South Africa.

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Decades ago, despite the unfairness of apartheid, South Africa was by many measures the most materially prosperous and safest nation on the African continent. However, since decolonization, South Africa has deteriorated by every metric imaginable, with rampant criminality, economic stagnation, dwindling life expectancy, and floor-to-ceiling political corruption.

The same story largely defines the rest of poverty-stricken postcolonial Africa. When the White man dropped his burden and left the continent, he took with him the building and sharing of knowledge and infrastructure; roads and transportation, improved farming techniques and crop yields, medicines, health care, women’s rights, science and education, and other tools of modernity.

Africa regressed quickly. Trillions of dollars in aid from Europe and North America over the ensuing decades have scarcely ameliorated Africa’s continued postcolonial slide backwards.

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The Left has made no secret of the fact that what holds for South Africa, holds for the United States as well. In modern America, Critical Race Theory holds that Whites are to be forever stigmatized as uniquely evil, with no possibility for redemption.

Thus, in the American version of Kill the Boer, when Whites are randomly murdered by Blacks by the many hundreds each year, it is dismissed as “restorative justice,” righteous retribution, youthful wilding, or some other creatively euphemistic obfuscation.

The media almost always ignore, misdirect, or mislead about Black-on-White crime, and pretend that a Black person is more at risk in a White neighborhood than vice versa. Existing while White has resulted in tens of thousands of White murder victims at the hands of Blacks over the past half century. Not even one White victim has been beatified like Michael Brown or George Floyd.

Reparations for long-ago slavery in America’s Democrat-run southern states have been paid repeatedly. Untold trillions of tax dollars have been expropriated from working taxpayers and redistributed to black Americans (with government bureaucrats taking a healthy cut for themselves) over the past half century.

Slavery remains widespread in Africa today, yet you won’t hear a single progressive voice raised in opposition. Instead, the focus is squarely on the southern plantations of a long-ago America.

Americans are constantly scolded that Black slaves built America, and this assertion is supposedly another argument in favor of reparations.