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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (9724)	1/5/2006 7:30:01 AM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 22250

Gus > "We don't believe that human rights should stand above sovereignty," says He. "We have a different view on this, and African countries share our view." The "rights" of the black elite are more important than anything else. In fact, to the black leadership that's all that is important. Next to that the blacks, the class consciousness of the whites fades into insignificance. The whites may be racists, and a lot of that has to do with religion, but the black politicians see themselves as aristocrats -- and, indeed, try to model themselves on the English gentry. That's what Thabo Mbeki refers to as "African Renaissance" -- the rebirth of Africans as ladies and gentlemen of distinction -- but only by decree and hand-out, of course. unu.edu And good luck to you if you think you can read all that!