As it turns out, if you use the government to heap enough institutional abuse on enough people, they will eventually stop caring about race. Who knew? Apparently the NY Times, in it's (tragically) laughably myopic way, has discovered this transcendent new truth of human behavior from Robert Mugabe. I hope no one from the Whitehouse is reading this.
I'm sympathetic to the plight of Douglas Rogers, the author of this piece. But to me it seems specifically designed to subscribe to all the ridiculous biases and self congratulatory nonsense that the Times editors can't do without.
I mean think about it, Robert Mugabe seized the assets of all the most productive citizens in many cases driving them out of the country, dispatched mobs of machete wielding thugs to cut off the ears, lips, and heads of those who dare to remain, reduced the currency to an international joke through hyperinflation (which slashed the value of his citizens savings to zero, and increased the prices of basic staples beyond the reach of the poor) and through it all sustained a racial propaganda program that even Jesse Jackson would envy. He basically reduced what was once one of the most productive and stable economies on the African continent to a country with all the productivity and hope for the future as Haiti. And when it was all over and the newly destitute and starving masses were finally finished burying their dead... the people forget about race. Hooray! What a glorious transformation.
Boy... I really REALLY hope no one from the Whitehouse is reading this.
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