Last week, I devoted my column to tracing the shared roots of "woke" destruction in South Africa and the U.S.

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2021/07/16/blue-state-blues-burning-books-in-america-burning-cities-in-south-africa/

I even wrote an ebook on that theme: "How Not to Be a Sh!thole Country: Lessons from South Africa."

https://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Be-thole-Country-ebook/dp/B08SCK2S16

But no one writes as well about this topic as Iran Malan, who has an absolutely incredible article in the New York Post about it: "How ‘equity’ ideology plunged South Africa into inequality and chaos."

A short quote:

"But this is just part of the picture. The overarching truth is that an idea pushed South Africa to the brink. You guys know this idea, because it animates the sermons of critical race theorists trying to force you to take the knee and atone for your supposed sins. I am going to call it the Beautiful Idea, because it is beautiful in a way — but also dangerous.

"The Beautiful Idea holds that all humans are born with identical gifts and should turn out to be clones of one another in a just society. Conversely, any situation in which disparity survives is in itself proof of injustice. This is the line promoted by CRT pundit Ibram X. Kendi, who blames all racial disparities on racist policies.

...

"Investment dried up. Brains drained. The economy stagnated, causing unemployment to surge to 11.4 million today, from 3.3 million in l994. The upshot: utter misery for the underclass, doomed to sit in tin shacks, half-starved, watching the black elite grow fat on the pickings of equity laws and rampant corruption.

"Former South African President Jacob Zuma sentenced to 15 months in prison
This was an especially bitter experience for young black people, 63 percent of whom are now jobless, too broke even for booze and drugs to dull the pain. Last week, it proved easy for Zuma and his acolytes to tempt them onto the streets with the promise of loot."

Read the whole thing here: https://nypost.com/2021/07/19/how-equity-ideology-plunged-south-africa-into-inequality-and-chaos/