Yes, there must be black economic power as well as black political power but not in the corrupt way it is occurring in too many instances. There is no entitlement for shakedowns and payoffs. There is no license to steal. No one is owed a living. Accountability and transparency are values that demand respect in practice, not just in rhetoric. The new dispensation in South Africa must not be allowed to degenerate into emulating the old one.
This is a moral issue as well as a political one.
There is also no excuse for me to stand by and take refuge in the touchy-feely good vibes of the past without speaking out about some very disgraceful practices in the present that are being justified often by so-called leaders and party aparatchiks in defensive, demagogic and even racist terms. This leads to divisiveness, racial polarization and promotes cynicism. Who is going to tell a certain "youth leader" to shut up!
I think I know why some of this is happening--many who were deprived in the past say its their time now, that they deserve opportunities they were deprived of, and that they didn't fight or go to prison to be monks or to live in shacks.
I understand that--but what I don't understand is why more of the ANC's base is not speaking out against what Archbishop Tutu has called "The Gravy Train?," the looting of public funds and what the country says it stands for.
I can't speak out against crime on Wall Street and ignore fraud and similar crimes in another country I came to love.
How did some of these "leaders" suddenly become millionaires, and why have they traded their sense of mission for a Mercedes.
We need to discuss this.
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