Is Political Correctness Deadly to Africa?
by Kyle Mills, Author of Lords of Corruption First of all, I don’t want to be misunderstood here. I have nothing against a healthy amount of sensitively with regard to the subject of race. In the U.S., increased empathy has gone a long way to clearing out the obnoxious and destructive behavior left over from a time that is thankfully becoming history. In fact, I’d never given the PC movement much thought at all until I moved to Africa to research a book. In many ways, political correctness is just another luxury made possible by America’s wealth and stability. Obsessive self-censoring and blinding ideology is little more than an inconvenience to most Americans, with no potential to cause a child to starve, die of disease, or be killed in an endless civil war. Of course, the reluctance of the media and organizations like the NAACP to frankly discuss the problems plaguing African-Americans may contribute to the persistence of those problems, but that’s another article. Africa is in troub
