This is depressing. To give the black leadership a pass while doing things that would not be tolerated with white leadership is racist. We don't care if blacks mess up their own society as long as whites aren't doing it? It doesn't matter who is doing it, it matters what is being done. Dignity is defined by the recipient, not the giver.

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: A Morsel of Goat Meat: "Binga, Zimbabwe -- The hungry children and the families dying of AIDS here are gut-wrenching, but somehow what I find even more depressing is this: Many, many ordinary black Zimbabweans wish that they could get back the white racist government that oppressed them in the 1970's."