Jack Kerwick Nov 09, 2013
At long last, the conservative movement is taking a long, hard look at itself.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama and his fellow ideologues barrel full steam ahead in
their quest to “fundamentally transform” the country. The
time is now to read to Ilana Mercer’s, Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for
America from Post-Apartheid South Africa.
Mercer, the daughter of a rabbi and former anti-apartheid activist, was raised,
first in Israel, and then South Africa. Though this classical liberal and
self-professed “paleo-libertarian” has never been any sort of friend to either
apartheid or any other racially-based institutional arrangement, Mercer is at
great pains to note the ugly fact that, by any standard, life in “the New South
Africa” is dramatically worse than was life in the old.
And this is why she fled her home to forge a new existence in America.
The first chapter of Cannibal is a gripping—and grisly—account of the scourge
that crime has become in post-apartheid South Africa. Refusing to reduce the
victims of barbarism to a bunch of bloodless statistics, Mercer introduces
readers to people like twelve year-old Emily Williams, who was shot to death
when she stumbled upon an armed robbery in progress at a friend’s house while
walking to school. Her heart broken parents subsequently decided that their
country had become an intolerable place to remain. They have since relocated to
the United Kingdom…..To Read More….
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