Black Démolition
Part of my series of classic AR re-publishing, and re-posts. https://www.amren.com/news/2006/04/black_dmolition/ Bruno Gheerbrant, American Renaissance, June 2005 Congolese Belgians Like the rest of Europe, Belgium is in the process of transforming itself. In Brussels, the symbol of this transformation is a neighborhood not far from a big downtown intersection called Porte de Namur. Long ago, the neighborhood had a Belgian name, which no one can remember. Now it is known as Matongé, a street name in Kinshasa, in the Congo. Over the last several decades, Africans have gradually taken over. Until the early 1990s, Matongé was a pleasant place to visit. African students — mostly from the former Belgian...