The victims of apartheid in South Africa today are essentially interested in remuneration and not reconciliation. Our people must seek compensation from the oppressors. America, too, has a lot to face up to. There are an estimated 5,000 white supremacists gangsters in Texan prisons. The state's prison population of some 140,000 is 90 per cent African American and Hispanic.
Racial violence is endemic in Texas prisons.
Militant African American groups, meanwhile, are literally up in arms. Quonell X said that he had come to Jasper with a truck-load of guns which he warned will be distributed among the town's black community. African Americans as a group are America's poorest and least healthy community, with the highest infant mortality rate and the shortest average life span. Health, social welfare and education issues in America are inextricably intertwined with the race question. America prides itself of being among the world's most democratic nations.