You Shall Overcome, But Not Me May 19, 2008
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Anti-foreigner violence spreads in South Africa
A wave of xenophobic attacks spread through South African townships on Monday and mobs beat foreigners and set some ablaze in scenes reminiscent of apartheid era violence.
Two people were killed and more than two dozen shacks were torched in the Tembisa township near Johannesburg, the South African Broadcasting Corp. said. Police, struggling to restore order, said at least 13 people were killed over the weekend.
Immigrants from African neighbors are accused by many in the townships, among South Africa’s poorest areas, of taking jobs and fuelling the high rate of violent crime. Local media report about 20 dead since trouble broke out a week ago.
So, black immigrants into a black-run country are being harassed and attacked by black natives. Remember, these are the same black natives that couldn’t wait to get rid of apartheid and the white minority government that enforced it.
Remember this writer’s thesis: Blacks will complain about white racialist policies like segregation, Jim Crow and apartheid, but then enact it themselves and far more brutally, against their own people, once they get power.
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