The Hard Truth

RE: Africa is Giving Nothing to Anyone — Apart From AIDS

This is a tough article. No holds barred. It’s bound to offend a lot of people. But is the author speaking the truth? The truth, whether we deem to acknowledge it or not, remains. The truth has an annoying habit of outliving the lies. It is there, like it or not. The truth of Africa is indeed a bitter truth. A hard pill to swallow. Since the self-inflicted defeat and departure of the colonial empires what has happened to the Dark Continent? Has the future for Africans under black rule become brighter? Or has the Dark Continent descended even deeper into that wretched darkness of violence and anarchy? Has the spear merely been replaced by an AK-47?

Are we being racists to comment on this catastrophic downfall? Is discussing this subject just automatically taboo? Obviously, for some it is.

I wonder, am I becoming that quintessential xenophobic racist? Am I becoming just another embittered old man, resentful of progress and change, distrustful of anything new, deeply suspicious of the Other? Am I allowing myself to buy into that simplistic Us versus Them mentality?

Perhaps. I know that since that awful day in September 2001 I have become harder. And the more I’ve studied the issues that confront us, the enemies that confront us, the harder I’ve become. I’m not sure that I buy into the <em>Us versus Them</em> paradigm quite yet. But I do believe that it has become Them versus Us. They have made this quite clear. It is They, after all, who have defined the terms of this universal Clash of Civilizations, not I.

Who, then, are They?

They are all of those disgruntled peoples of this planet who have declared war on the Christian world of Western Civilization. They are all of those who blame their every misery on the white man and the white man’s world. They are the professional victims and professional haters, those who lust after blood and booty and revenge. They are all of the miserable failed, and failing, societies around the world who hate us because we are successful, because we have been doing it right.

The truth is hard, but it won’t go away just because we refuse to look at it. Africa is a failed/failing continent. Almost the entire Middle East (with the exception of brave little Israel) is a failed/failing region (and without oil it is a virtual goner), Islam is a failed/failing religion (cult). American Black Separatism is a failed/failing movement. Communism and fascism are failed social systems, which have brought nothing but emptiness and disaster to all who embraced them. Sorry, but that’s the truth.

The city of my youth is gone, the black people moved in and destroyed it. Sorry, but that’s what happened. Africa is going, going, gone. Sorry, but that’s what happened. Islam has destroyed every civilization it has conquered. Sorry, but that’s what happened.

Am I a racist? Maybe I am. I’m not even sure what that word means anymore. But I am sure of this: I will not allow myself to be intimidated by that word any longer. I will not be forced to look away from the truth out of fear of being called names. I will no longer pretend not to see it.

We are facing an array of formidable enemies, from both within and without, who are utterly determined to destroy us. Truth is our only sure ally. We must learn to see the truth and to speak the truth once again. We must have the courage of our convictions. We must learn to believe in ourselves once again, to believe that we really deserve to win this war, this veritable Clash of Civilizations. To survive, we must have to courage to face this world as it really is, not as we would wish it to be. – rg

2008-07-14