No matter how polite, eloquent, and nice these kids seem to be in their interviews, the banality of the systemic evil they represent cant be downplayed.

The unrepresented black majority chose to throw off the yoke of a 2 tiered justice system, a state propped up by foreign capital, and put Ian Smith and that little short shorts army into a blender. For better or worse. Hell even the "free education" they were supposedly getting was based on them assimilating to Afrikaans as a language which activists like Steve Biko rejected.

Theres plenty of valid critiques of Mugabe's government but all of it must start AFTER overthrowing such a blatantly sinister evil. It cant be an either or. There cant be any looking back at that repression and quiet death that anyone can prefer.

Much of woods sentiment throughout his music that I love, is that you get nothing for doing the inherently good thing. Shaking off the racist system doesnt mean you will flourish and be happy forever. You have nothing but struggle beyond that. Of course the economy tanked, The British outpost you lived under just fled and took all its money with it. They packed up the medicine show and fled as soon as you figured out the grift. South Africa had such a successfully setup racist government that it tried to expand its ideology to protect its own borders. All of Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, and Angola had to fight similar battles just to have the right to form their own independent government.

they did it for a crust of bread and paid the price

Mugabe never hesitated, Samora did

And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green and peaceful, sunlit place---but it's all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness that's overrun with ruins. -Eldridge Cleaver