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Is the ethnic violence in South Africa Xenophobia or Something Else?  This blog post is a follow up to a report done by Aljazeera today.  Last year poor Black South Africans began to attack African immigrants from other countries, Zimbabweans in particular.  While many vilified the indigenous South Africans for their actions I had a different take on the situation. 

South Africa has been a tinder box for quite some time.  Ever since the end of Apartheid, the riches of the nation have been slow to trickle down to the average South African.  It is a violent place, ripe with kidnappings, murder and just all around violence.  This happens when you have a large impoverished population living side by side with wealthy neighbors.  Just look at Brazil.

While watching my daily guilty pleasure Worldstarhiphop I was thinking about how the ignorance that is displayed on the site and how it bothers me at times, yet I still watch it. Sometimes the ignorance is too much. When I see people on camera talking about robberies, brandishing guns, burning money and a lot of other nonsense that I've witness a chill goes through my body and I wonder is this setting the black race back a few years. But the answer is no. There will always be ignorance in the world by all races and creeds. That is one small piece of the black race that is represented. We still have the blacks that are representing the positive.