Just Ew

This makes me sick.

Despite Zuma's removal as deputy president of South Africa after fraud charges two years ago, and subsequent corruption and rape charges, the [African National Congress] announced this week that the party will support his candidacy for the national presidency.

During his rape trial, Zuma took a "short skirt" excuse, claiming it was his duty as a Zulu warrior to have sex with a woman if she wore a short kanga (an African wrap), and that he could not leave her "unfulfilled."

Zuma told the court that he knew the woman was "clearly aroused" by the fact that her kanga was "quite short" — meaning knee-length.

"In the Zulu culture, you cannot just leave a woman if she is ready," he explained.

According to his defense team, Zulu men have sexual primacy over women. Therefore, he could not be guilty.

"To deny her sex, that would have been tantamount to rape," Zuma claimed.

Good grief. This is a prime example of the horrible software that some people are running.

Yes, the white-run regime of Apartheid was unfair to blacks. Brutal, prejudiced, and whatnot. It was premised on the idea of separation--whites were supposed to do their thing, and blacks were supposed to do theirs.

Nelson Mandela's appeal, like Martin Luther King Jr. in the United States, was to break through first appearances and say to the white people that the black peoples' software was compatible, and please judge them by their software rather than their black-skinned hardware. By doing so, both Mandela and King called into question the racist regimes, eventually forcing the world to see racism as fundamentally immoral.

But now the so-called "liberators" of the black South African people are applying even worse oppression to their own mothers, sisters and daughters. They are squandering the Mandela's legacy. Frankly, I am disgusted by the ANC for letting someone like this represent them. They have lost all moral superiority in my mind, even over the historically white oppressors they supplanted.

Given the software that too many Africans are apparently running, it's hard to argue against Kim du Toit's modest proposal to Let Africa Sink.