South Africa begins seizing land from white farmers

We have a crew do our harvest that mainly consists of South Africans. Last fall one of them had written “Pray for South African Farmers” on the side of his trailer with duct tape. They were telling stories of the blacks going on to white farms, drowning the kids in the bath tubs, raping the women, castrating the men, and then killing them. They would then take over the farm and live in the house as if it were their own.

Sounds like the government would look the other way, and often actually encourage them to do this. Its just sick, and funny how you hear nothing about it.

The thing with South Africa is that it is probably the only country in the world that has a more complicated history of Whites & Blacks than our own. I'm not excusing what has been done to whites in South Africa since apartheid, but Apartheid was sick. Check out Trevor Noah's story. His birth was a crime. Paul Simon's most successful album ever, Graceland, was recorded in South Africa during Apartheid & the hoops he had to jump through compare nothing to the hoops that the black musicians on the album had to jump through. When you oppress & suppress a group of people systematically, you've got to expect violent disturbing repercussions for years to come (often centuries). And its not limited to race. Read A Tale of Two Cities or Les Miserables. We're astounded at the atrocities committed in Africa, but European history is every bit as disturbing when you delve into it. The longer & stronger the oppression, the more explosive & violent the turnaround.

Atrocities happen when a group feels they are 1 - Justified in exacting retribution on a class of people because of wrongs done to them by others in that class, or 2 - Justified in keeping an "inferior" class of people beneath them based on some kind of perverse divine right. Both are sick, and both feed into a vicious cycle.

Every war if you ask me can be traced to these two basic premises.