{"id":66551,"date":"2018-04-12T07:47:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T12:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66551"},"modified":"2018-04-12T07:47:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T12:47:57","slug":"forward-to-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66551","title":{"rendered":"Forward To The Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

When I was in college, my PoliSci pro confidently assured me that land reforms in Rhodesia would lead to utopia.\u00a0 13 years ago, Blacks living in Zimbabwe admitted it didn’t work out as planned, and were wishing they had White Men in charge again<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today, Blacks in South Africa are dead-set on repeating their neighbor\u2019s mistakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whatever we do, America must NOT send any aid.\u00a0 That would be imperialist aggression.\u00a0 It would be interfering in their chosen culture.\u00a0 Zimbabwean Blacks wanted out from under the White Man\u2019s thumb, wanted to be independent and stand on their own.\u00a0 They insisted they were ready to manage their own affairs, learn from their mistakes.\u00a0 Who are we to judge the results?<\/p>\n

Similarly, if South African Blacks want to take back their country and run it themselves – without any outside interference – then we ought to be fully supportive.\u00a0 Go right ahead.\u00a0 You\u2019re on your own.<\/p>\n

As for the White farmers who are losing their lands, well, I hear it’s nice in Australia.\u00a0 Might want to move before the necklacing begins.<\/p>\n

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m tempted to say the same thing whenever I heard about “Democratically”-elected governments destroying their own nations – see Venezuela and Bolivia along with Zimbabwe and South Africa.<\/p>\n

We warned you – but you did it anyway.\u00a0 Fix it yourselves.\u00a0 Still feel good, sticking it to the\u00a0Yanqui<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: When I was in college, my PoliSci pro confidently assured me that land reforms in Rhodesia would lead to utopia.\u00a0 13 years ago, Blacks living in Zimbabwe admitted it didn’t work out as planned, and were wishing they had White Men in charge again. Today, Blacks in South Africa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66552,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66551\/revisions\/66552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}