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Title: Why white Africans are enjoying electoral success
Category: Political
Posted By: CommanderSock
Date: 2011-10-08 12:36:13

[GreenTiger]

Perhaps in some of the post colonial Southern Nations they have managed to move beyond the racial hate bit and look at people simply as being people.

In other nations such as Zimbabwe racial hatred is whipped up to keep the failing government in power by blaming the white honkeys.

[Unsound]

It is a bit encouraging that they're electing people based on competence. Based on this one article anyways.

[ShepherdsDog]

The black voters could also be choosing them because the whites transcend tribal politics. You pick the guy, or woman who belongs to no local tribe, to ensure no favoritism.

[BeaverFever]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

The black voters could also be choosing them because the whites transcend tribal politics. You pick the guy, or woman who belongs to no local tribe, to ensure no favoritism.

Exactly.

[DanSC]

Maybe they're judging people by the content of their character.

[ShepherdsDog]

...or maybe some are realizing white rule wasn't as bad as they thought. As bad as things were under colonial rule, in many cases they got even worse under local rule.

Many of the former British colonies seem to have done better because the blacks were educated and put in lower middle management positions, in comparison to former French and Belgian colonies where the indigenous population was left outside any and all positions of power. Even though they weren't given equality with the whites, there was still an educated and professional black middle class.

[CommanderSock]

DanSC DanSC:

Maybe they're judging people by the content of their character.

This - quoted for truth.

The article does mention that the elected white ministers were competent at their previous positions and therefore the people trusted them enough to vote them in. The general consensus seems to be "they are as African as we are, and are good at what they do, therefore, we'll vote them in".

I wouldn't go as far as saying Africans yearn for white rule however.