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Rhodesians Never Die, but Rhodesia is Dead and Gone

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The White nations of Africa cannot be saved. But the people can be.

by Goy Rogers

The coup that isn’t a coup in Zimbabwe against Robert Mugabe’s person has prompted a lot of discussion in Alt Right circles about the southern part of Africa and, more importantly to us, the standing of White people therein. Perhaps the most LARPy thing that I have encountered is that since Mugabe is prevaricating about stepping down, intervention would be justified and a re-establishment of a White minority government. Charles Manson’s plot of a White-led Reconquista after Black-led collapse applied to Africa. This. Is. Absurd. Full Stop. Put away the short shorts and put down your FAL FN. Rhodesia is not coming back and it never will.

While it is true that there are many older Blacks in Zimbabwe who fondly remember the days of Ian Smith, and even those who wish that the White farmers would return to the country, it is foolish to think that this coup means anything positive for the White population of Zimbabwe or a change in the fortunes of White Africa. The elements of Zimbabwe’s army which are putting the screws to Mugabe have said that the land belongs to the “veterans” (read: floppies who got butchered in the Bush wars and/or Mugabe’s own death squads). Something tells me that the land in question will not come from the Blacks it was given to by the previous regime, if indeed Mugabe even leaves, which is far from a given, as we’ve seen this song and dance before. His resignation was submitted on 11/21, but I’ll believe he’s gone when his plane touches down in South Africa or his corpse gets dragged through the streets of Harare.

I’ll allow for the possibility that my cynicism is completely unfounded. Maybe Mugabe actually follows through on his resignation, or better yet gets the Gaddafi treatment. Then a new ZANU government comes in and not only affirms the property rights of the 30,000 White people still living in Zimbabwe (unlikely due to their communism), but encourages Rhodies living abroad to come back. These freedoms realized, Zimbabwe then becomes like Botswana or Namibia, and with increased White influence, the economy starts to recover. If all these things happen, we are still talking about a pause in the general decline in the situation of whites in Africa. The intellectual disparity between Blacks and Whites will not go away. The Blacks will never be as successful as the Rhodies thanks to a thirty-point IQ differential. Marxism is categorically a failure, but the Afro-centric Marxism of Southern Africa has shown itself to be an even greater failure, something few people who had seen the USSR and Mao’s China had thought possible. When the problems associated with Afrocentric Marxism inevitably crop up (pun intended, because Blacks cannot farm, literally not even to save their own lives), we all know who gets blamed and who gets their property and lives taken.

What does the coup really mean for White Africans? Most likely nothing or possibly even a negative development. Most of the remaining farmers in Zimbabwe are small-holders, with the large scale commercial farmers stripped of their property, and laws exist which prevent the establishment of new White-owned corporate farms. The best way to fix the economy and the endemic famine problem would be to permit the White farmers to once again commercialize. That’s not an endorsement of capitalism, mind you, just a recognition of African reality, given the Black man’s patent inability to produce enough food to feed himself. Without the White man’s excess production, the Black man has nothing to parasite off, save his own body. The new government would do well to undo the Mugabe efforts to destroy the White farmers. But they’re just as likely to keep the status quo or enact laws which cause further harm to Whites.

Let’s pretend for a second that Afrocentric communists are not 70 IQ Marxists and a pro-White path is taken. This does not change the fact that the White minority is the eternal scapegoat for any African regime. The next time something goes wrong, or if the Rhodies become too successful again, expropriation lurks right around the corner. The Negroes do not understand the ideology of Marx. Their desires are those of a toddler. White man has thing. Black man wants thing. Allowing the Whites to prosper once more in Zimbabwe will only renew this animalistic urge.

This is a reality that applies beyond Zimbabwe. South Africa’s ANC, another anti-White communist regime, has been accelerating calls for taking the property of Whites and giving it to Blacks. Perhaps the gravest danger comes not in the guise of collectivism nor economic redistribution to the lowly Black, but in the form of the roving death squads attacking the White farmers in SA. These attacks have increased almost every year since Nelson Mandela was finally removed. The ANC government cannot or will not do anything to stop the murders and maiming. And in the cruelest twist of fate, from an American perspective, the ANC will not permit the farmers to defend themselves. Private gun ownership has been greatly curtailed in South Africa and the penalties for injury or death inflicted in the act of self-defense are severe.

South African Whites face the direst peril at present, given that the Rhodies have already been put through the wringer. South Africa is in the process of failing as a state and the calls to strip the Whites of their property will only get louder. The violence will only get worse. This is catastrophic given the sheer number of our people living there. But even governments such as those of Botswana or Namibia, which are openly friendly to White farmers at present, do not represent a permanent situation. A change in head of state or a bad harvest and all the sudden the Whites in those countries could be staring down the same barrel as the men and women in Rhodesia once did and the men and women of South Africa have pointed at them at present.

Which brings me back around to my central premise: there is not going to be any grand reclamation of White Africa. The Whites are far too few and too thoroughly disarmed to mount a stand in Zimbabwe (28,000), Angola (220,000), or Namibia (154,000). Animosity between Anglo and Boer in South Africa have prevented a White consolidation of a kind which could have at least guaranteed rule in local government, thanks to Boer refusal to move to Cape Town. Fighting is out. Political solutions in Africa are at best transitory due to the rapaciousness of the Negro population. The only option which remains is to get them the hell out and to either Europe or the United States. Preferably the latter from this writer’s perspective. They would be useful allies in our struggle against the Jewish plot to destroy us, as they have seen firsthand how that goes. Schlomo was integral in ending Apartheid, domestically and internationally. And they know only too well what being a White minority in a sea of mud truly entails.

I ask you to stop with the LARPing. Quit it with the pipe dreams of a Crusade against Black rule. We are not going to waltz over there with our semi-automatic rifles and put down 40 million Blacks. It is a regrettable situation, because as we all know, the Whites built these countries into civilized, prosperous entities from nothing. The Blacks now living there had not even come to Southern Africa before the White man. The White man has a better claim to it than the black. The Bushmen were the only humans present when Whites first arrived 400 years ago, and given their 54 IQ are even less capable than the regular Blacks.

It is not fair. It is not right. But White Africa is gone. We must save those who remain before it is too late. Contact your Representatives and your Senators. Make this problem known. Many White Africans have tried and failed in their attempts to get an amnesty visa. A sick and twisted irony as the governments of Europe have plenty of room for Blacks and Muslims, but none for their own people. We cannot save their countries. We can save them.

If there’s a silver lining in this call for evacuation it is that the Blacks will get exactly what they deserve. They will long for the days of White rule when either starvation inflicted by their own ineptitude or total domination at the hands of the Chinese is the new African reality. On that day, somewhere years from now, we can point and laugh at them when they beg for our help. This is the future they chose.

Editor’s note: this article was originally published on identitydixie.com.

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tortuga-aak · 7 years

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No 'golf diplomacy' allowed: How one rule shaped Trump's visit to China

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Golf diplomacy is the regular practice of country leaders playing golf together, which can help bolster ties between countries.

Japan has been very successful at exercising golf diplomacy with US President Donald Trump.

But in China, golf is politically taboo and effectively banned for party officials.

Instead, Trump's visit to China involved a lot of military flair and pomp, rather than golf.

For all the pageantry and pomp on US President Donald Trump's recent trip to China, the itinerary missed one thing: golf.

Country leaders golf together so often the practice has been dubbed "golf diplomacy."And considering Trump's passion for the sport — the president has visited golf clubs more than 70 times since his inauguration, including several games with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — the absence of the sport in China might have seem like a mistake.

But that's not the case. Golf is controversial in China and party officials are essentially banned from playing.

As CNN reported in 2015, cadres are prohibited from accepting golf club memberships as gifts or using public funds to purchase them. But club fees cost far more than most officials' incomes so "the rule effectively amounts to a ban," CNN noted.

Since Mao Zedong called golf a "sport for millionaires,"it has occupied a moral grey area in a Communist country trying to operate a capitalist economy. And though Xi could probably afford a golf club membership, the sport remains politically taboo, even for the country's leader.

So with China unable to repeat Japan's success with Trump on the links, Xi instead used military parades, fancy state dinners and elaborate performances to win Trump's praise.

Golf diplomacy humanizes world leaders

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Golf diplomacy is popular between leaders because it encompasses critical aspects of traditional diplomacy — having open communication and strengthening ties between leaders — in a relaxed, low-pressure environment.

Ahead of a game with Abe earlier this year, Trump said “that’s the one thing about golf; you get to know somebody better on a golf course than you will over lunch.”

Diplomacy experts agree.

"Any personal contact between leaders — including golf, but assuming players enjoy the serenity of the course and count their strokes accurately — can potentially show the human side of a negotiating partner," Geoffrey Wiseman, the director of Australian National University's Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, told Business Insider.

It's possible that Beijing's approach to golf could have in fact harmed their international relations.

"Golf is popular throughout many parts of Asia and President Trump’s affection for the game suggests that China’s soft-power diplomacy may have overlooked golf diplomacy," Wiseman said.

Despite being banned, golf thrives in China

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Golf has a tumultuous history in China, having first been banned by Mao in 1949.

The country's first course was built in 1984, but another ban — targeting the construction of new courses in order to protect land and water resources — went into effect in 2004.

Still, golf began to thrive.

Over the last decade China has built more golf courses than any other country. In 2004, there were 174 golf courses in China, and 10 years later there was reported to be more than 1,000.

"One developer likened golf in China to prostitution. 'That’s illegal, too,' he said. 'But there are still prostitutes everywhere in this country,'" wrote author Dan Washburn in his book "The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream."

"People unfamiliar with the way China works often express confusion as to how a country can experience a golf course boom during a moratorium on golf course construction," Washburn said. "Those who’ve spent more than five minutes in China do not suffer from such confusion."

"In fact, the Chinese have several sayings for the disconnect that often exists between Beijing’s best intentions and how they’re interpreted — or simply ignored — out in the provinces," he said.

One of those sayings is, "Where there are policies from above, there are counter-policies from below."

Local governments blatantly ignored the Communist Party's golf course crackdown. Instead local officials encouraged the building of golf clubs to raise profits from selling land, driving tourism, and benefiting from the golf courses' 23.5% tax rate.

Some golf courses applied for approval by using other euphemisms, such as "parks," "green space," "leisure facility," and "health facility," or were converted into golf clubs once plans were approved.

But the use of natural resources, and golf as a symbol of wealth in a communist country, weren't the only worries.

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Amidst an anti-corruption crackdown, Xi's party was concerned that exorbitant golf fees could be used to corrupt, or give the image of corrupt, officials.

As a result, politicians began registering at golf clubs under fake names.

But earlier this year, in one province where cadres are banned from playing golf during work hours, party officials have been performing unannounced spot-checks at golf clubs.

One club manager told NPR:"They'll say, 'On this day, was this person was here?' They actually look through your computers. Then they start checking day by day, how much he spends, who [he] is playing with, all that."

CNN asked Washburn earlier this year whether it was at all possible for Xi to play golf with Trump, and his answer was decisive.

"For Xi, golf is just such a touchy topic back home, saddled with so much baggage — the optics would be awful, with or without Trump," he said. "It represents a lot of the things he has spent much of his presidency fighting, so it's hard to envision the government embracing the game any time soon — at least publicly."

It has been more than 25 years since a member of China's elite was pictured holding a golf club.

Japan has found success in golfing with Trump

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Japan's leader has put great effort into building a relationship with Trump, and using golf has been key to that effort.

Shortly after the US election, Abe visited the president-elect in Trump tower and gifted him a gold $3,755 golf club. Abe received a golf shirt from Trump in return.

Less than two weeks after Trump's January inauguration Abe again visited the US and played 18 holes with Trump — one of the first times the president had played since taking office.

And on Trump's recent visit to Japan, Abe organized for the two to play nine holes with Japan's Hideki Matsuyama, the world's No. 4 golf player, before gifting Trump with a golf cap emblazoned with the two leaders' names.

Abe even described his actions as golf diplomacy during Trump's visit.

"Yesterday's diplomacy between Donald and me attracted so much attention, and we actually made everything public, except for the score. When you play golf with someone not just once, but for two times, the person must be your favorite guy," said Abe.

Importantly, he used Trump's first name — a rare signal of friendship that Trump reciprocated back to Abe, the only leader he referred to by their first name during his Asia tour.

The closeness of the two leaders is also evident in the frequency of their communications. Aside from the two visits and games of golf, Abe has spoken to Trump 13 times on the phone — more than he did with Obama during his second term in office.

While there are some concerns in Japan that golf diplomacy skirts the norms of keeping records of diplomatic exchanges, Trump continues to praise Abe and their time golfing together: "Playing golf with Prime Minister Abe and Hideki Matsuyama, two wonderful people," Trump boasted earlier this month.

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