For some reason this made me laugh………

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA……………

Without making any excuses for past horrific colonialism, "White" in Africa does not automatically = "evil, they had it coming to them".

Can Cord Jefferson go away? He's dominating Mollygood and Stereohyped. I'm sick of it. His male overbearingly humongous ego is eating the blogs up of their personality.

That's right. You heard me.

I don't understand the laughter…

How does he claim to be saving his country? He's destroying Zimbabwe.

Now I don't feel so bad… I wasn't the only one laughing. Lmao!

"All we were doing was growing food for the country…"

That line was priceless.

Ironic, sure. Funny? Nothing about Zimbabwe amuses me in the slightest these days - at all.

@Cord
How nice of you to always see the bigger picture. What would those white people do without you.

They should be thankful for the free plane ticket out of there because the s–t has yet to hit the fan really.

While my concept of owning land by African standards essentially makes me not feel for them, I still think that Mugabe is starving his countrymen thanks to a desire to go back to "native" farming techniques. Obviously, those techniques have been lost. People in that land survives for God-knows-how-long. Trust me. They weren't treating huge farms like one would treat their little vegetable garden.

Zimbabwe used to be an exporter of food. Now it imports food and people are starving.

There's a difference between land reform and cronyism that destroys a country!

Robert Mugabe is brutal, murderous dictator who lost all moral authority years ago.

Anyone who defends Mugabe is either a fool, immoral, crooked, or just plain stupid. Mugabe did not turnover white run farms to people who know how to farm. He gave farm land as bribes to his political backers, former soldiers, and other who have no idea how to run a modern farm.

The consequence of this policy have led to hyperinflation and starvation.

If you want to take a whack at Cord for pointing out the truth, then you should stick your head in a paper bag because that's how much you care about seeing the stark reality of life in Zimbabwe! Read a frackin' newspaper. Elections overturned. Political murders. Ruinous economy.

Because someone is a black African political does not make him a great leader fighting for the oppressed. Africa is screwed up not only because of colonialism and post-colonial misadventures by non-natives but also with a big hand by corrupt and evil Africans, also. Rwanda's genocide was led by Africans. Uganda's civil war is fought by Africans. The massive scale of rape as a tool of war is not a European instigated practice.

There's nothing funny about it and Cord is NOT standing up for white people. Clearly by the comments of a couple of you - you don't even know what's going on there. Mugabe takes land away and gives it to those in his cabinet not to the people of Zimbabwe. He isn't doing a damn thing for the people of Zimbabwe…black, white or other. He is filling his coffers and defying the will of his own people.

Black corruption is not better than white corruption. Some might even argue that it is worse b/c the black government should be standing up for the black people - not burying them alive.

Evil is evil is evil, ya dig? And, if we let it proliferate, we will pay the cost. All of us.

History is full of examples of a foundering majority turning its wrath on a relatively prosperous minority. Here in the U.S., successful blacks have often borne the brunt of this kind of thuggery at the hands of poor whites, so we might be tempted to see some sort of pleasing cosmic justice in this. But come one, people: For all we know, this white farmer could be completely innocent of colonial atrocities and racism. He's 37, so he was just a kid when Zimbabwe got its independence, and from the article, it appears that he was born and grew up in Zimbabwe. So are we saying he's entitled to less sympathy because, although he is a native-born citizen, his ancestors come from somewhere else? (I hope we're not saying that!)

I'll concede that I'm less inclined to feel bad when people who were born rich lose their inherited stuff (and this guy was definitely born rich), but let's not be so shortsighted as to say that his whiteness and/or the sins of white people who came before him justify this treatment.

It's curious to me how ALL of Zimbabwe's white farmers are treated as decendants of racist colonialists. Some of those farms were legally purchased and government registered AFTER the war of independence. Mugabe preached peace, fairness and reconsiliation. Imagine starting and maintaining a business in another country only to have your dreams shattered by beatings and looting by thugs incited by an immoral government.

Some of those evicted white farmers are not the decendants of racist colonialists. They legally purchased their farms AFTER the war of independence when Mugabe came to power. None of that matters to a criminal leader intent of plundering the country's wealth for himself and his cronies.