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To: blam

I know it’s their land, but I’m surprised they were still there. I guess the Zimbabweans aren’t too efficient in their ethnic cleansing.

They can come to our country. Think of all the preferential treatment they will be entitled to as “African-Americans!”


7 posted on 06/03/2008 6:20:57 PM PDT by henkster (Obama '08: A 3rd world state, here & now!)
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To: henkster

During the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, many of the white citizens fled the country, but the farmers stayed and tried to “make a go of it”. It worked for about 20 years until Mugabe needed a scapegoat for political purposes, then he started his “land reform” (forced sales and/or confiscations of white-owned farms) back about 2001.

It has been downhill, of course, since then. Before Mugabe’s communistic rampage, Zimbabwe was able to feed itself and sell food to surrounding nations.

One could perhaps make an argument that the land was “taken” from natives by an earlier generation of white settlers, but as we know, two wrongs do not make a right.

Besides, when a nation has a successful farming system, it is national suicide to destroy it. But then Marxists, such as Mugabe, were never long on common sense.


41 posted on 06/05/2008 4:15:26 AM PDT by on-the-rocks2
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