How's that working for you?

Anyone who's ever heard of the 20th century like totally knows that the surest way to improve the lot of poor people or people with a superb sun tan is to get rid of white people.

National liberation, black rule, universal franchise, reparations.

"The Formula."

Free everything awaits all on the right side of that little political agenda until, that is, the issues of scarcity, resource allocation, prices, and personal discipline become part of the equation. Well, actually, they're always part of the equation and they only ever enter into the consciousness of the majority of people when they're pounded in, one gram of reality at a time.

Reality intruded in Johannesburg when university authorities organized a wild melee with fatal consequences for one would-be student's mother arranged for students hoping to win a small number of yet-unfilled seats to physically gather and compete for them on a first-come-first-served-basis.

What could go wrong?

The rush at the university's gates, two days after the governing African National Congress celebrated its centennial in a lavish, weekend-long party, underscored the deep frustration many people here have with the slow pace of progress almost 18 years after the end of white minority rule.^[1]

"Ah, yes," as Chris Plante would say. That elusive "progress." Where oh where does it go? It's a mystery.

After the inevitable disaster at the university's gates had unfolded, one hopeful asked "What are we supposed to do?"

One thing would be to abandon fairy tales and leftist/racist bullshit. White South Africans who ran the old S. African government were racists but they knew S. African blacks, who are, as we speak, now cheerfully murdering white farmers at an impressive rate. Say what you will about the crimes of white S. Africa, it was an orderly society with the most productive economy in all of Africa. Black Africans at one time flocked to S. Africa for a better life after assessing the relative merits of where they were in black-ruled Africa and the white-ruled hell hole of pre-"liberation" S. Africa.

Realism will return to the world one way or another. S. Africa is turning into a third-world slum and Chinese in Zimbabwe are this very day happy to administer motivational beatings to Zim workers.

But, but, they're non-white communists who themselves have suffered under the yoke of Western Imperialism (and a smidgin of Japanese imperialism)! How can this be?

This also illustrates how getting rid of the white man is all that stands between the black man and a decent life.

Notes
^[1] "Fatal Stampede in South Africa Points Up University Crisis." By Lydia Polgreen, New York Times, 1/10/12.

H/t: View from the Right