[LINK] Why is so much attention paid to white Zimbabweans?

[rfmcdonald]

Abiola Lapite at Foreign Dispatches reiterates a point worth noting about Zimbabwe: The close attention paid by the Western media to the plight of Zimbabwean whites not only overlooks the sufferings of Zimbabwean blacks (who, incidentally, outnumber white farmers by something like a thousand to one), but gives Mugabe grounds to argue that this coverage bias is proof of the outside world's racist intentions. Racism isn't Zimbabwe's problem; totalitarianism is.