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South Africa under the Afrikaners was a European-style nation-state; under the ANC it has adopted “American radicalism which aims at abolishing the nation state and replacing it with a kind of global corporatism and welfarism.” Like successive American governments, the “progressive,” lax-on-law-and-order ANC government is indifferent to immigration enforcement

“Jews,” he avers, “do, however, appeal to Christian guilt when they are living as a minority in Western societies. They may even take advantage, in the way Nietzsche once described, of the special inclination of Christians toward social guilt. But this is mostly tactical, in the same way that patriarchal Hindus in the U.S. support the Democratic Party, as the more leftist and therefore less nativist of the two partie

The paucity of planning and future preparation in African life Etounga-Manguelle puts down to a suspended sense of time. The reverence for the “strongman of the moment” he roots in the sincerely held belief that these men harbor magical powers. Magic wins out over reason; community over individual; communal ownership over private property; force and coercion over rights

“The slave trade between Africa and the Middle East antedated the Atlantic slave trade by centuries, and far outlasted it.” “Tens of millions of Africans were carried away—north through the Sahara, and from East Africa, by Arab and Muslim slave traders, well before Europeans took up the trade from West Africa.”