Thanks. You injected a little ACTUAL HISTORY into the discussion.I don’t remember our own post-Revolutionary leaders blaming “the Legacy o$ British Rule” when the new Republic was taking its initial steps into the 19th Century.
They’re far from being pure as the driven snow, but neither are they the complete and total ogres they’ve been depicted to be. They outlawed slavery several decades before the US did and it didn’t take a bloody civil war to do it, but they maintained a power structure that sounded uncomfortably similar to Jim Crow, to US ears.
I can’t honestly say that black South Africans are any better off now, they just have a different set of problems and a country that is destabilizing. At least it’s their people who are doing it, though, for whatever consolation that might provide.