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November 22, 2008 10:04:40 CST



Mugabe's Horrors Transcend Race

Posted Jun 14, 08 4:22 PM CDT in Opinion World 

(Newser) – Once, Westerners cared about southern Africa. In the late 20th century, outraged Americans of all stripes spoke out against apartheid, an outpouring that ultimately helped liberate both South Africa and Zimbabwe. Now, Zimbabwe is under the thumb of another murderous tyrant—this time a black one—and the West remains strangely and disgracefully silent, writes Cythia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Robert Mugabe’s long regime began with promise, and some insist America shouldn’t “demonize” him. But "Mugabe has become a demon," Tucker writes. "His followers maim and murder their opponents and starve children, but few black Americans notice. Why?" she asks. "Why do we ignore the transgressions of black African tyrants while assailing those of white tyrants?"

Source Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe delivers his speech at the burial of Norbert Chingombe a former army general in Harare, Saturday, June, 14, 2008.   (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
President Robert Mugabe at the burial of Norbert Chingombe a former army general in Harare, Saturday, June, 14, 2008.   (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, beneath a portrait of himself, addresses youth members of his ruling ZANU PF party in Harare, Friday June 13, 2008.   (AP Photo)
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