South African Cardinal: Affirmative Action Is ‘Racial Discrimination’ Like
Apartheid
7 Mar 2021
South African Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier slammed preferential “Black Economic Empowerment” as “racial discrimination” Sunday, saying such favoritism smacks of apartheid.
Cardinal Napier, the archbishop of Durban, wrote on
Twitter that Affirmative Action, Black Economic Empowerment and even
Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment are all forms of racial discrimination
“on a par with apartheid policies” that also favored another group by race.
The cardinal put his assertion in the form of a
“Lenten Resolution”: to give up on trying to figure out how preferential
treatment for blacks based on skin color can be anything other than
discrimination.
Cardinal Napier has also been a vocal critic of the
Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, which he said is “committed to dismantling
the very values, structure and institutions” central to a healthy society.
The
mission statement of Black Lives Matter “indicates the movement is being
hijacked by the interests and parties committed to dismantling the very values,
structure and institutions which have over the centuries undergird the best
civilisations and cultures!” the cardinal tweeted last July.
In
his critique, Napier joined a growing group of Christian and conservative black
leaders who have denounced BLM for its rejection of the nuclear family and its
advocacy of a radical LGBT agenda, including the abolition of
“heteronormativity” and the embrace of “queer culture.”
In his appraisal of BLM’s problems, the cardinal also
said that if BLM truly cared about black lives, it would denounce the abortion
industry and its disproportionate attack on the black population.
“Another
crucial test of the authenticity of the Black Lives Matter movement will be its
stance vis a vis Planned Parenthood and the Abortion Industry!” the
cardinal stated in a
separate tweet.
In the United States, the abortion industry
disproportionately targets the black population, with black children aborted at
more than three times the rate of white children.
According
to the most recent abortion data (2018) provided by the Centers for
Disease Control (CDC), black women have the highest abortion rate in the U.S.
and white women have the lowest.
Among white women in the U.S., there are 110 abortions
for every 1000 live births, whereas among blacks, there are 335 abortions for
every 1000 births. Blacks are therefore aborted at over three times the rate of
whites and more than half of all black deaths in the U.S. are the result of
abortion.
Apartheid,
which the cardinal compared to affirmative action, was a system of
institutionalized racial segregation in South Africa that guaranteed absolute
dominion of the country by the nation’s minority white population.
Apartheid was finally overcome in the early 1990s
thanks to the courage and persistence of members of the anti-apartheid
movement.
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