1. This argument first appeared in The United States and Africa —a History, co-authored with Duignan, Peter, N.Y., Cambridge University Press and Hoover Institution, 1984 Google Scholar, where the authors object that “No self-confessed supporter of Ian Smith or D.F. Malan could ever have aspired to an instructor’s post at instituions like Stanford, Northwestern, Columbia, Yale or UCLA” (p. 333). One wonders whether they are seriously suggesting here that US universities should hire racists as scholars.

2. Is it coincidence that this example is repeatedly raised by apologists for apartheid? It is also in a book by Mr.Gann, and Duignan, Peter, Why South Africa Will Survive —A Historical Analysis , N.Y., St. Martin’s Press, 1981, p. 21 Google Scholar. There they admit that between 1917 and 1973 South African police killed 3, 500 blacks (including those massacred at Sharpeville). They do not mention the millions of forced removals that had taken place or the untold tens of thousands of South Africans who died of malnutrition-related causes in that period. Nor do they mention, although their book appeared five years afterward, the deaths of thousands more in the uprisings at Soweto and elsewhere in 1976. Did their “values” control their selection of dates and data?