The Guardian, July 17 2021]. Which may indeed be appropriate in this case: in telling contrast to the Mostly Peaceful Protest at the U.S,.Capitol, more than 200 people have been killed and the rioters have a clear continuing political demand. South Africa has long had underreported systemic interracial violence, but this recent outbreak appears mainly black-on-black. Moral: not only do multiracial societies not work, neither do multiethnic ones least of all if they’re black.
Needless to say, this will be no surprise to VDARE.com readers. In in his book
Ethnic Conflicts, the late Tatu Vanhanen, whose work we discussed here, here and here, found a correlation of 0.66 between ethnic diversity and ethnic conflict, developing this hypothesis from other literature. Diverse societies fail, was the general conclusion.
We are angry. We are anxious.We are traumatised.
18 Jul 2021
A member of SAPS shoots rubber bullets to disperse a crowd looting outside a warehouse storing alcohol in Durban on July 16, 2021, in the midst of an ongoing alcohol ban after protestors have clashed with police following a week of unrest in South Africa. - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said that those behind the riots and violence that have shaken the country and claimed 212 lives in the past week had sought to foment an insurrection . Those behind these acts have sought to provoke a popular insurrection amongst our people, he said in a televised address. (Photo by GUILLEM SARTORIO / AFP)
Valentine Obienyem
We can hardly forget those that play critical roles in our lives. As a young Seminarian in 1988, Rev. Fr. Dr. Collins Okeke as our Auxiliary (then a Seminarian), came bubbling with philosophy, being a fresh graduate of philosophy at the time. He is intelligent and everybody knows that. He has a peculiar predilection to imparting knowledge on people.
As one desirous of acquiring knowledge, I carried a note pad and biro always to catch ideas that are in constant flight. My old, secondary school notes are full of what I then considered words of wisdom from the likes of Msgr Sylvester Mgbemful, Fr. Collins OKeke, Bishop Jonas Benson Okoye, Fr. Ekwenibe, among others. I even jotted some of their English expressions that caught my fancy. They also contain flashes from renowned philosophers and authors.
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