“A Bleak Ride Home for Zimbabwe Deportees” is a disturbing article, telling of the horrors of the governmental and economic problems happening in Zimbabwe. The New York Times released this story on September 23, 2003, in light of the increasing problem of Natives fleeing the country, due to the suppression of the government. Throughout this article one is captured by the suffering that Zimbabweans are enduring as their leader, President Robert Mugabe, tries to

Is what the government doing right? Carl Marx and other philosopher’s who believe in the conflict theory would believe that the Zimbabwean government, led by President Robert Mugabe, has every right to confiscate the massive land and crops owned by the white-minority groups. Looking back into the history of this conflict, one must understand that several years ago, the white settlers came in and took this rich farming land from the natives, leaving them with nothing. Although the land was going to be used to provide cash crops to finance the country, it was still acquired unfairly. Marx and other conflict theorist would therefore be on the government’s side, with the justification of equality among the blacks and the whites. Conflict theorists would view this as a racial fight, seeing that the blacks are being discriminated against. In theory it should not matter what color yours skin is, as to whether or not you can own land. They would also detect as since of the issue of social class. In Zimbabwe the white class has high social standing, and even if you take this land away and give it back to the natives, they will still have means to survive. This is due to that fact that the white-minority groups have the military power which often means that they have money. Conflict theorist would agree with the probably agree with the governments action, although it can not be denied that they probably believe there are a little bit better ways to solve this problem.

In leaving the land in the hands of the white-minority, there are several latent functions that a functionalist

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