The White Tribe of Africa Speech
Ξ September 14th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Old School Papers |
Speech Written in June 2002
Introduction
Just before I immigrated to the United States, I saw a headline in the Johannesburg Star which read “Death Rate to Exceed Birth Rate by 2003”. Now for a European country, this might not seem so unusual, but this was Africa. It took a few days for the headline to fully sink in: This was not an announcement of success in birth control programs or positive in any way, but rather the fact that AID’s had finally been able to kill faster than South Africa’s expediential growth had been able to create. It is my experience that people around the world generally do not understand Africa and especially South Africa. They pass off the problems as part of the African experience, but know nothing about the place themselves. So to give you an understanding of country I lived in for 20 years, I will need to explain something of its past, its present and its future. (more…)