Ep. 1828 - These American Cities Are Rapidly Turning into Zimbabwe

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If you learned about South Africa or Rhodesia in school, then you learned about the alleged horrors of white minority rule, apartheid and racial injustice. The heroes of the story, according to every history teacher in the public school system, were men like Nelson Mandela or Desmond Tutu. They bravely resisted the cruelty of their white oppressors and fought for a world in which every black person living in South Africa and Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe, could finally enjoy equal rights. Now, the premise of the fairy tale was always false. What black Africans were seeking in these countries ultimately was not equality. They wanted the legal right to punish whites on the basis of their skin color. They wanted to drive white people away and seize their farms and their property, and they got exactly what they wanted, which is why both countries are now in ruins. Unemployment was 21% in South Africa in 1996
Now, it's around 40%, the highest anywhere in the world. Power outages have been common because the electricity grid is failing and nobody there knows how to fix it. Twenty-two percent of the population says they're routinely low on food. Meanwhile, Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, went from exporting food to the entire region, they were the so-called bread basket of Africa, to desperately needing international food aid for survival. Thirty-five percent of the population is in extreme poverty compared to just eight percent in 1998 Hyperinflation has destroyed the value of the currency and on and on and on. Now, one of the reasons you're never told the truth, which is that South Africa and Rhodesia were far better off under minority white rule, is that the downfall of these two countries has many very significant ramifications for the United States. South Africa and Rhodesia illustrate that when the white people are pushed out, sooner or later, things begin to fall apart. That's a very tricky thing to explain if you're a subscriber to modern racial orthodoxy. After all, how do you blame white supremacy and colonialism for all of your problems when white people left you a fully functioning, wealthy country? Then the moment the white people are gone, the power goes out and the corn stops growing and crime begins spiraling and no one can find a job. If white people are supposed to be oppressors, why exactly did the death spiral of Rhodesia and El-Babway begin as soon as the white people were forced out?
Could the problem possibly relate to the incompetence and corruption of black officials instead of white supremacy?
Now, this is a verboten question. It's a question you must never ask. Because if you start thinking along these lines, then you might have some questions about the current state of affairs in places like Gary, Indiana, population 67,000, which sits along the southern shore of Lake Michigan. Now, Gary is roughly 80% black, 10% white, and 10% Hispanic. And two weeks ago, a major storm with winds reaching 99 miles per hour hit northwest Indiana, leaving more than 300,000 people without power, including by some estimates, 30,000 residents of Gary. As of Monday evening, around 4,000 residents in Gary remained without power. On Sunday, that number was reportedly around 10,000. Now, by any measure, these outages have gone on for too long. Yes, this was a Hurricane Four storm, roughly equivalent to a Category 2 storm. Yes, storms like this can cause long-term outages, but at the same time, you generally don't expect a Category 2 storm, which hits on August 11th, that it will cause power outages as late as August 25th. It's hard to explain why it would take several weeks to restore power to thousands of people and it demands an answer as to what the issue is. Do we not have enough linemen? Is the utility company to blame? What about the local government?
Over the weekend, activists on the left came up with an answer to this question, and it's exactly what you would think they'd come up with. They are blaming, of course, white supremacy. They have concluded that in some vague and unspecified way, white people are preventing the black residents of Gary from getting their power. Here's one social media post with millions of views, for example, making this case, quote, Gary, Indiana has been without power for 11 days. Gary, Indiana is 75% black. Yet another example of environmental racism. It is so effing disgusting.