Africa - ILANA MERCER

“In the Afro-American society, particularism and tribalism are forcibly replaced with state-approved national identities. So, the ANC is indisputable king in the dominant-party state that is South Africa—just as the Democratic Party will soon command and control the burgeoning dominant-party state that the USA is fast becoming.”—ILANA MERCER, “South Africa Shames U.S. Democrats By Uniting Against Criminality,” July 16, 2021
“South Africa is an Afro-American multicultural society, united by an affinity for MacDonald’s and mobile phones and a strict enforcement of progressive ‘thinking,’ attendant speech codes and cancel culture. South Africa has been made over in the image of America, and the outcomes are not good.”—ILANA MERCER, “South Africa Shames U.S. Democrats By Uniting Against Criminality,” July 16, 2021
“It should be news to no one that American refugee policies favor the Bantu peoples of Africa over its Boers.”—ILANA MERCER, “Obama Ignores Possible Genocide In South Africa,” Townhall.com, August 10, 2018.
“The only potential immigrants who still have that frontier spirit are South-African farmers. But American and European elites are uninterested in refugees who are ACTUALLY and actively being killed-off. That would be too much like preserving ‘white privilege.'”—ILANA MERCER, “Trashing Populism: Dim-Bulb Academic Vs. Deplorables,” Townhall.com, April 18, 2018.
“South Africa’s Constitution is descriptive, not prescriptive—full of pitch-perfect verbal obesities that provide little by way of recourse for those whose natural, individual rights are violated. As a protector of individual rights to life, liberty and property, it’s worse than useless—a wordy and worthless document.”—ILANA MERCER, “South Africa Land Theft: Constitution All But Allows It,” Townhall.com, March 11, 2018.
“The African National Congress (Mandela’s party) has always, not suddenly, disregarded the importance of private property, public order and the remedial value of punitive justice.”—ILANA MERCER, “South Africa Land Theft: Constitution All But Allows It,” Townhall.com, March 11, 2018.
“How did the mythical land of Saint Nelson Mandela turn into Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’? How did that country’s ‘vaunted’ constitution yield to ‘the horror, the horror’ of land theft? Easily, even seamlessly …”—ILANA MERCER, “South Africa Land Theft: Constitution All But Allows It,” Townhall.com, March 11, 2018.
“Corruption invariably flows from state to society.”—ILANA MERCER, “A New Party Boss In South Africa Is No Reason To Party,” Townhall.com, December 28, 2017.
“Why have the leaders of the most powerful country on the African continent (Mandela, Mbeki and Zuma) succored the leader of the most corrupt (Mugabe)? These South African strongmen were, in a manner, saluting the Alpha Male Mugabe by implementing a slow-motion version of his program. When he socked it to the whites, Mugabe cemented his status as hero to black activists and their sycophants across South Africa.”—ILANA MERCER, “Why All Three South-African Presidents Supported Robert Mugabe,” Townhall.com, November 30, 2017.
“The dominant-party state that is South Africa is steeped not in an African creed but in an American one. Post-apartheid South Africa is very much a creature of the Anglosphere. In the U.S., centrally planned and enforced multiculturalism is twinned with open borders for Third-World peoples.”—ILANA MERCER, “Little America At The Tip Of Africa,” July 25, 2014.
“Human action is the ultimate adjudicator of a human being’s worth; the aggregate action of many human beings acting in concert makes or breaks a society. Overall, American society is superior to assorted African and Arab societies because America is still inhabited by the kind of individuals who make possible a thriving civil society.”—ILANA, Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa (2011) Chapter 5: “Africa BC/AC (Before and After Colonialism),” p. 160.
“From their plush apartments, over groaning dinner tables, pseudo-intellectuals have the luxury of depicting squalor and sickness as idyllic, primordially peaceful and harmonious.”—ILANA, Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa (2011) Chapter 5: “Africa BC/AC (Before and After Colonialism),” p. 160.
“Grievance-based explanations have a way of evolving. Before independence, Africa’s backwardness was attributed to colonialism. After independence, neocolonialism replaced colonialism as the excuse du jour for the failure of African leaders to ameliorate their people’s plight. Neocolonialism encompasses any unhappy condition that can no longer be attributed to colonialism.”—ILANA, Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa (2011) Chapter 5: “Africa BC/AC (Before and After Colonialism),” p. 160.
“Ultimately, the rights to life, liberty and private property will forever be imperiled in a country (South Africa) whose constitution has a clause devoted to ‘Limitation of Rights,’ and where redistributive ‘justice’ is a constitutional article of faith.”—ILANA (December 20, 2103)
“Apartheid is a necessary explanatory variable in the black dysfunction equation, but never a sufficient one.”—ILANA (December 20, 2013)
“There goes the promiscuous use of the apartheid pejorative again. It is as ignorant as it is glib. Like antibiotics that lose their potency through over dosage – yelling ‘apartheid’ at people just because they are richer and more educated than you makes you look ridiculous. At least it ought to make you look ridiculous.”—ILANA (May 11, 2013)
“It is futile to expect Americans, Republican or Democrat, to grasp the magnitude of the demise of South Africa. Like Esau did, Americans have squandered the birthright bequeathed to them by their philosophical forefathers. Having frittered away their philosophic inheritance for a mess of pottage, my countrymen are incapable of comprehending the loss of South Africa.”—ILANA (October 26, 2012)
“Why have some people produced Confucian and Anglo-Protestant ethics—with their mutual emphasis on graft and delayed gratification—while others have midwived Islamic and animistic values, emphasizing conformity, consensus, and control? Why have certain patterns of thought and action come to typify certain people in the first place? Such an investigation political correctness prohibits.”—ILANA (Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa, August, 2011)
“Bad leaders or bad weather patterns are not what shackle backward peoples. … the values and cultural influences which people (and peoples) bring to the polity cannot be tweaked out of existence like some unsightly nose-hair.”—ILANA (Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa, August, 2011)
“By staving off crime and communism, the apartheid regime, a vast repressive apparatus though it was, saved black South Africans from an even worse moral and material fate.”—ILANA (Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa, August, 2011)
“The apartheid libel is fast replacing the Nazi and fascist ones, which have been mocked out of meaning.”—ILANA (March 14, 2008)
Hollywood and Africa: “If colonialism was our original sin; capitalism is our cardinal sin. Our voracious system of production, Hollywood do-gooders typically claim, is a zero-sum game. To wit, the standards of living we enjoy come at the expense of Africa’s poor.”—ILANA (June 10, 2007)
“The commentariat hasn’t protested the evils of property confiscation [in Zimbabwe] so much as it has bemoaned the fact that the land ended up in the hands of Mugabe’s cronies, rather than being redistributed ‘fairly’ to all black Zimbabweans.—ILANA (March 30, 2007)
“In democratic South Africa, dispossession is nine-tenths of the law.”—ILANA (January 19, 2007)
“Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now its dust bowl.”—ILANA (January 19, 2007)
“The Catholic Church’s consecration of condoms will have the same overall effect on African AIDS infection rates as its condemnation of sex outside marriage.”—ILANA (April 29, 2005)
“Unlike the equally nonsensical Holocaust denial, which immediately raises establishment and media ire, Afrocentrism, which is remedial revisionism, has been met with little objection.”—ILANA Mercer, “Safari Scholarship Reinvents History,” March 1, 2001
According to the mythistory called Afrocentrism, Africans—who invented everything from Judaism, to engineering, to astronomy, including dialectical materialism—have an ineffable claim against Europeans. For how does one put a price on the mugging of a civilization?”—ILANA Mercer, “Safari Scholarship Reinvents History,” March 1, 2001
“Casting fact and objective truth as no more than a perspective is a handy bit of egalitarianism: If nothing is immutably true, then all positions are but a matter of preference and can claim equal validity. This vortex is the scaffolding for Afrocentrism; the public school system its perfect foil.”—ILANA Mercer, “Safari Scholarship Reinvents History,” March 1, 2001

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