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12/12/13 6:36 PM

#214988 RE: F6 #214978

Erik Rush Wonders If South Africa Was Better Off Under Apartheid
https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/erik-rush-wonders-if-south

again fits perfectly this from the one you posted first ..

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For at least 100 years, the United States was a disappointment, an experiment which—by
its own standards of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness—failed miserably.

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This Western arrogance is as broad as it is insidious. There was a well-reported piece .. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/07/world/africa/disappointment-in-successors-to-revered-father-of-a-nation.html?ref=international-home .. in the Times a few days ago on the disappointment that's followed Mandela's presidency. A similar note has been sounded in seemingly every obit and article concerning Mandela's death. It's not so much that these stories shouldn't be written, it's that they shouldn't treated the subject as though a man were biting a dog. That people are shocked that South Africa, almost 20 years out of apartheid, is struggling with fairness and democracy, reflects a particular ignorance, a particular blindness, and a peculiar lack of humility, about our own struggles. .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=94895526