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Klein states that the African Americans who support Barack Obama will sulk and stay home if Hillary Clinton is nominated [April 7]. What does he think we women feel? Although millions of us are angry that Obama couldn't wait four more years, we are not unwise enough to sulk, stay home or vote for John McCain. Cecilie K. Bodnar, CANANDAIGUA...
Grandpop took seriously his committeeman role. "I brought in the best division in the city," he would tell us, an insistent pride in his declaration. We grandkids would say that was chiefly because the old neighborhood had become almost entirely African American, already at that point the party's most reliable base. The exceptions were Grandpop and the guy next door, whom he described as "Nice fella ... Polish...
...days ago, it is clear that Mugabe’s only legacy will be a perverse system of oppression in which only his close aides benefited from his despotic regime. After the political, social, and economic devastation of the last decade, it will now be up to neighbouring African states, as well as Western powers, to create incentives for the next Zimbabwean “savior” not to end like this one. In Mugabe’s empire, Zimbabwe lives in arrested development: There is absolute official control of the public sphere, coercion of racial and cultural minorities...
When Ian Smith’s all-white Rhodesian regime ended in 1980, a British lord was appointed to oversee free general election and the disarming of revolutionary militias. Leading a coalition, Mugabe won those elections and the future of Cecil Rhodes’ once-legendary African enclave seemed democratic and prosperous. Unlike its regional neighbour, apartheid South Africa, Zimbabwe had a representative government, a concentrated but rich agro-exporting sector, and a rising mining industry. Perhaps more importantly, Mugabe inherited an equal-access educational system that was the envy of its neighbours, sending talented students to elite universities...
...increasingly authoritarian rule. The campaign was baptized “Gukurahundi,” which in the language of Mugabe’s racial majority, the Shona, means “cleansing rain.” Mugabe’s aggressive policies were not merely internal. Along with other African success stories like Angola and Libya, Zimbabwe sent troops to the Second Congo War in 1999, where Mugabe’s family had recently acquired mining contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars...