Posted on 08/06/2018 12:37:05 AM PDT by robowombat
Uh I think you mean South America. :)
Name change but it remains the same
And, btw, if that “1910” photo with a car is really 1910, I am a Dutchman’s uncle - which I am not. What else has the DM screwed up?
And, btw, if that “1910” photo with a car is really 1910, I am a Dutchman’s uncle - which I am not. What else has the DM screwed up? The car looks post 2nd World War, about 1950.
Understand
You are entirely correct, but the racial narrative ended up overshadowing what really happened due to clever propaganda that persists to this day. The Communists ruined the country in their ZANU/PU incarnation, and it wasn't about race, it was about party. The question for both black and white farmers wasn't race, it was whether you were ZANU/PF or not, and if you weren't, having a black skin didn't save you.
It's a classic case of Marxist mismanagement hidden under self-righteous moral rhetoric. The party expropriated nearly everything, used it to enrich party members, "redistributed" the land to people who weren't farmers (often quite against their will), and waited for magic to happen. It happened, all right, if starvation can be considered magical. Economically, the same, and hyper-inflation isn't magical either. It was a perfect kleptocracy run by party people at the expense of both black people and white who happened to be non-party. Take the racial patina off it and you have Venezuela.
Do they have enough electricity to run his teleprompter? ;-)
True that.......
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