Racism returns to South Africa?
That's deep.
White farmers who own 90% .. make that
NINETY PERCENT of the fertile superior farmland, land that was dispossessed, stolen, and sometimes murderously and brutally taken away from the native people of the land, feel that don't have to sell any of it back because it's theirs.
Racism stole the land, but it "racist" to demand they give it back?
What kind of warped sense of logic supports that bullshit?
Did you know that black farmers right here in the land of the free suffered the same fate and had their farms and property stolen from them? The mechanism here wasn't apartheid it was the USDA.
In 1982 the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights found that systematic racism implemented by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) was a major cause of land loss amongst Black farmers. Namely it was discovered that USDA employees routinely denied Black farmers credit and information about USDA programs readily accessible to White farmers. The findings were so drastic the Commission noted that, absent change, by 2000 there would be (0) black-owned farms in America
After years of having their USDA loan applications systematically denied or delayed, Black farmers joined together and filed a Class Action Lawsuit (Pigford vs. Glickman) against the USDA. Daniel Glickman was the Secretary of Agriculture under the Clinton administration. In April 1999 the USDA and Black farmers reached a settlement that declared: All African American farmers who farmed, or attempted to farm, between January 1, 1981 and December 31, 1996 and applied to the USDA during that same period for participation in a federal farm credit or benefit program who believed they were discriminated against on the basis of race in USDA’s response to their application and filed a discrimination complaint on or before July 1, 1997 as well as anyone who otherwise satisfied the criteria for membership in the class action but who did not file a discrimination complaint until after July 1, 1997, shall be entitled to relief under the Consent Decree
I'm sure that libertarians would call the lawsuit and settlement "racism"
Probably doesn't matter that the South African Constitution demands this redistribution of land. Under the willing buyer/willing seller land redistribution scheme, white farmers were to give up their farms voluntarily which would be purchased for black Africans by the government at market rates.
Under the post apartheid constitution the government of South Africa has the right to enforce sales of white owned farms to speed up the process of land redistribution.
The Commission on the Restitution of Land Rights announced that the 25,200 hectare farm located in the Northern Cape Province was seized on January 26. Four hundred and seventy one local families, including former farm workers have claimed the land and will be eligible for government loans to purchase it.
Americans have no understanding of a collective society. We believe that capitalism is the only course and one size fits all. It's why many hate Chavez, becuse he's using his countries asset to benefit the collective society, not simply the rich.
To most Americans, property is more important than people. Sure white farmers stole the land enforced by a racist system and government, but it's "racist" to take steps to correct that and do what is in the best interests of people.
"It takes knowledge to run a farm" .. and everyone knows that black South Africans are stupid. Everyone knows that only whites know how to farm. .. Any idea that this is an oportunity for American farmers, who are themselves hurting, to assist and teach black South Africans farming .. well that would be downright socialist .. even though American farmers would be paid for their services and would extend goodwill outside our borders, something America badly needs.
American black farmers are already there and plan to involve themselves even more as the apartheid farmers move out. There are also some white Americans farmers there with them so it's not about race, it's about character. I know, been working with them for years on this.
Sometimes it boggles the mind listening to the American psyche'.
