Via comment by
Sioux on
Zimbabwe: Go Back to England, Mugabe Tells Whites
Black Africans never owned any land. Any form of formal ownership is a
Western concept. You cannot take something from somebody WHO NEVER HAD
IT. In fact, what is it that white people, specifically white men, are
supposed to “give back” to black people?
LAND:
Black Africans NEVER owned any land. Any form of formal ownership is a
Western concept. The ‘black’ tribes of the mid 19th century haphazardly
SETTLED in an ad hoc manner – effectively governed by tribal savagery,
in other words, the most savage ruled the land (a bit like Hillbrow
today). They simply ran away until they could not run anymore – not
having ANY grasp of the concept of a horizon or for that matter any
measure of finite land mass – eg the boundaries – that is the
fundamental concept of ownership.
Who “disadvantaged” the ‘black’ people of the interior in Southern
Africa before the (supposed) belligerent ‘white’ settlers moved inland
in the mid 19th century..? As certainly, what the ‘settlers’ found was
not a hugely advanced infrastructure, deep mines, airports, vast
libraries of written works, grandiose institutions of learning, etc. No,
as little as 170 years ago they found masses of black people
(indigenous to the Southern tip of Africa, The San) living on the
fringes of the stone age.
Beings in skins, wielding sticks, living
primitive dwellings, dragging and carrying things around, who had not
even invented the wheel yet.
