Walter Williams on Mandela-Day: Blacks were better off Under Apartheid; Africans were better off Under Colonialism...

Walter Williams on Mandela-Day: Blacks were better off Under Apartheid; Africans were better off Under Colonialism...

Were blacks better off under apartheid? 

The tragic fact of business is that ordinary Africans were better off under colonialism. Colonial masters never committed anything near the murder and genocide seen under black rule in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Nigeria, Mozambique, Somalia and other countries, where millions of blacks have been slaughtered in unspeakable ways, which include: hacking to death, boiling in oil, setting on fire and dismemberment. If as many elephants, zebras and lions had been as ruthlessly slaughtered, the world's leftists would be in a tizzy.

During South Africa's apartheid era, I visited several times and lectured at just about every university. Read on...