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   "Light on the Dark Continent"   
      
   "Eye-opening observations of an American who has lived in Africa   
   for nearly 20 years."   
      
   Racism, Guilt and Self-Deceit (Self-Published) - Gedahlia Braun, 1993,   
      
   Reviewed by Jared Taylor, September-October, 1993   
      
   Dr. Braun has lived in Africa with only brief interruptions since 1976   
   and in South Africa since 1988. This book, in the form of a   
   chronological journal, describes how contact with the dark continent   
   quickly dispelled his liberal views and led to startling but plausible   
   conclusions that most Americans--even readers of AR--are likely to   
   find surprising.   
      
   Two Theses   
      
   Dr. Braun draws on his years of intimacy with Africans to support two   
   main conclusions:   
      
   The first is that virtually all Africans take it for granted that   
   whites are smarter than blacks. They haven't the slightest illusion   
   that they could have invented computers or built airplanes, and they   
   recognize that blacks and whites differ in moral and psychological   
   characteristics as well.   
      
   What is more, Africans are not the least offended by these   
   realizations. Unlike whites, they do not see any inherent immorality   
   in acknowledging racial differences. Some clever, westernized Africans   
   have discovered--just as American blacks have--that whites are   
   terrified at the thought of racial differences, and have learned to   
   manipulate this terror to their own advantage. But they, too, Dr.   
   Braun finds, can almost always be persuaded to acknowledge the   
   inherent limitations of Africans.   
      
   Dr. Braun's second thesis follows from the first: The vast majority of   
   South African blacks do not want black rule. They know from their own   
   experiences with black policemen and black bureaucrats that when   
   Africans are in positions of power they are corrupt, despotic, and   
   oppressive. Many blacks mouth the slogans of "liberation" but have   
   unrealistic, often ludicrous notions of what "liberation" is likely to   
   mean. Some, when pressed, will even admit that although they know   
   black rule would be a catastrophe for South Africa they pretend to   
   support it because they know that is what whites expect them to do.   
      
   Ultimately, as Dr. Braun recognizes, his observations illuminate the   
   terrible flaws in the white man. Without constant urging from liberal   
   whites, virtually all Africans would be content to put their fate in   
   the hands of a race that they recognize as smarter and more fair-   
   minded than their own.   
      
   Dr. Braun puts it this way:   
      
   (1) Blacks cannot manage a modern industrial democratic society;   
      
   (2) blacks know this and would never think of denying it were it not   
   for white liberals insisting otherwise;   
      
   (3) except for those black elites who hope to take power, black rule   
   is in no one's interest, especially not blacks;   
      
   (4) blacks know this better than anyone and are terrified of black   
   rule.   
      
   On what does Dr. Braun base these heretical conclusions? After several   
   years in Africa, he began to realize that many blacks do not think the   
   way white liberals keep telling us they do. He then systematically   
   started asking Africans--even virtual strangers--what they thought   
   about racial differences and whether they were in favor of black rule.   
      
   Unlike most whites, who would be ashamed to ask such questions, Dr.   
   Braun is utterly uninhibited. He discovered that most blacks are eager   
   to talk frankly; most have never had an honest conversation with a   
   white about race and are charmed to find one who is not blinded by the   
   usual cliches. Just as interestingly, he quickly learned that even   
   whites who have lived all their lives in Africa--including journalists   
   and other liberals who claim to speak for Africans--have never had an   
   honest conversation with a black about race.   
      
   For the most part, blacks fear majority rule because they know they   
   are much more likely to be cheated, robbed or brutalized by other   
   blacks than by whites.   
      
   Many Africans believe, in so many words, that "Whites respect one   
   another but we don't."   
      
   Dr. Braun has concluded that blacks and whites differ as much morally   
   as they do mentally, and that these differences made economic   
   development impossible. He wonders whether one of the reasons large-   
   scale cooperative enterprise is nearly impossible throughout Africa is   
   that blacks do not trust each other and cannot be counted on to work   
   together for the benefit of all. He advances the provocative view that   
   Africans may not have an internalized moral sense but depend instead   
   on tribal authority to set rules of conduct:   
      
   Hence, when they were detribalized (by colonialism, etc.), these   
   external constraints disappeared; and since there never were any   
   internal constraints, we witness rampant lack of self-control amongst   
   detribalized blacks (crime, drugs, promiscuity, etc.). Where there has   
   been some substitute for tribal control--as in white-dominated South   
   Africa or the segregated American South--this behaviour was kept   
   within tolerable limits. But when such controls vanish (as in present-   
   day South Africa and in large U.S. cities), you get this phenomenon of   
   widespread unrestrained violence"   
      
   Dr. Braun has found that like American whites, most South African   
   whites are incapable of talking sensibly about race. Like American   
   whites, they now even take a perverse joy in applauding their own   
   dispossession. He describes the tempestuous enthusiasm of white   
   audiences for the anti-white South African movie "Cry Freedom," and   
   writes, "the positive joy with which they cheer their own demise is   
   quite amazing, isn't it?" He speculates that this joy stems from "a   
   fatal flaw in the white race: the capacity for self-flagellating,   
   exaggerated and unwarranted guilt and the self-hatred that seems to   
   underlie it."   
      
   This self-hatred is at the heart of the white man's increasing   
   insistence that he is a miserable racist who is to blame for the black   
   man's failures:   
      
   "Once blacks learn that whites think blacks have reason to hate them,   
   many will be happy to oblige, instinctively realizing their   
   psychological advantage as the injured party . . . . All in all a   
   tremendous con game, in which the white man is both instigator and   
   willing victim."   
      
      
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