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Let Them Eat Cake
by Edgar Steele
August 12, 2002
Marie Antoinette, much-reviled "last queen of France," wasn't really as bad
as so many said at the time of the French Revolution in the mid-1700s.
She never said, "Let them eat cake," in response to complaints that the
people had no bread. In fact, it was her maid who remarked that Parisians
had so little food that the scrapings from the bottom of a bread pan would
be a feast. That became twisted into the classic phrase of perfidious
indifference so well known today.
Yes, she was a wastrel and an adultress, but her husband, to whom she was
married at age 15 by her Austrian Empress mother to cement relations
between Austria and France, was both impotent and fat. Somewhat telling of
her character, when she followed her husband to the guillotine during the
French Revolution, her last words were an apology to her executioner, when
she accidentally stepped on his foot.
I bring this up merely to employ that infamous phrase with regard to the
starving people of Africa, particularly South Africa. Not because I am
insensitive, but because I wish to highlight the folly of the welfare
mentality.
Two days ago, Brian Williams, the MSNBC anchor now slated to replace Tom
Brokaw as NBC's network news anchor, penned an article entitled, "The
struggle to survive in Malawi," a small country near the southern tip of
the African continent. He attributed the rampant starvation there today to
"years of bad harvest, erratic weather and the devastation of AIDS." He
notes that these conditions are becoming typical throughout Africa.
But, as is so typical of the controlled media today, Mr. Williams neglected
to note that this famine has been self-inflicted. He didn't say a word
about how the vast farms of South Africa, in particular, which fed Africans
until now, have been lain fallow. Because it is the black Africans doing
it, you see.
White South African farmers, so productive that they had been supporting
far more than the population of their own country, have been removed from
their farms, if not killed outright, due to the racist policies of the
black South African government.
"Kill the Boer, kill the farmer," a phrase first uttered by ANC member of
Parliament Peter Mokaba, is the mantra now shouted aloft by crowds of
blacks at all manner of public meetings and demonstrations. The South
African Human Rights Commission notes that this slogan is not hate speech,
but merely a manifestation of "the constitutional rights to free speech."
More than 1,300 South African farmers and farm workers and their families
now have been murdered by roving bands of young African blacks, while
authorities have stood by and literally watched, in what is nothing more
than "ethnic cleansing," a euphemism for genocide.
The remaining white South Afrikaners are unable to leave their country
because other countries, notably the USA, erect impassable immigration
barriers to whites, while allowing a flood of nonwhites across their
borders.
You don't hear about the carnage in South Africa because it is politically
incorrect to note the murder of whites by blacks anywhere in the world
today. South African President Thabo Mbeki calls the execution of white
farm owners and workers, "the final stage of the revolution." Final
because, presumably, they are now running out of white people to slaughter.
In the article referenced above, Brian Williams states that, "donations
keep these people alive. The U.S. is the single largest donor, but there is
only enough food to feed 500,000 people, just one sixth of what they need."
Touching, indeed, but not nearly the whole story, as we see by bringing in
the South African connection.
And, of course, those TV commercials depicting the fly-ridden, emaciated
black children of Africa fail to note that these kids would be well fed if
the white South African farmers had been left alone.
Let them eat cake.
I know, those kids didn't kill the farmers and slaughter the livestock and
cut up the farms to squat on and eat the seed corn in the sheds and so on,
but there is a limit to those for whom I will feel responsible. Just now,
we have malnourished children in America, for example.
African blacks, both those in government and those in the death squads, are
responsible. They have killed their golden-egg-laying goose and have
nobody to blame but themselves for today's lack of food.
Let them eat cake.
Of course, we in America who were so instrumental in driving whites out of
political power in South Africa must shoulder some responsibility, too.
However, all the American liberals formerly so adamant about boycotting
companies doing business with South Africa have morphed into
neoconservatives and now care only about killing the enemies of Israel
(including hundreds of thousands of Arabic children). They certainly show
no concern about the murder of white children in South Africa.
Now we are expected to feed Africa, though that continent possesses the
most verdant soil in the world which, if cultivated properly, could serve
as breadbasket to the rest of the human race.
Just as we have created a welfare class in America, which will persist so
long as we continue the handouts, and which is an undeniable magnet to
hordes of illegal immigrants, now we are expected to extend that mentality
to other countries, as well. It isn't working here. It won't work there.
They wanted total self determination. Now they want all whites killed or
driven from their countries while we open our borders to them.
Let them eat cake.
EDGAR STEELE
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