What on earth is Tucker Carlson talking about? Thursday evening on Crossfire he said: “Without the American government, apartheid would still be in South Africa, just so we can get that straight.” Now, was the American government responsible for apartheid? Of course, not. Was America responsible for keeping apartheid in place? Not really. (To borrow Thomas Merton’s famous phrase, in respect to apartheid, America was mainly a guilty bystander.) But was the ‘American government’ responsible for ending apartheid? Please …
