WHITE SUPREMACY IN BLACK AFRICA: MARC FABER AND RACE RELATIONS IN POST-COLONIAL ZIMBABWE
In this blog post, I analyse Marc Faber’s racist remarks from a Zimbabwean post-colonial perspective and explain why there is tacit local acceptance of his racist premise. Hong Kong based Swiss financier Marc Faber In October 2017, it was reported that a Hong Kong based Swiss financier published a claim that American success was due to the racial superiority of its occupiers: Thank God white people populated America, and not the blacks. Otherwise, the U.S. would look like Zimbabwe [1] This is consistent with white supremacists’ fixation with the economic deterioration in Zimbabwe as evidence that black people are inherently unfit to govern. [2] It also explains why the American responsible for the Charleston Church shooting Dylann Roof, who himself had never been to Zimbabwe, was pictured donning both the colonial era flags of Zimbabwe and South Africa. [3] Yet the underlying claim of supremacy of white, and white colonial, rule seems to be a shared sent...
