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Zimbabwe’s Racial Fight Zimbabwe is a country being torn into pieces over racial issues at this current point in time, and the suffering that these people must endure is horrific. Every day hundreds are fleeing their native land to simply find means by which to survive. Why does this happen in countries around the world? In Zimbabwe it is over racial tension, but the fight to end it is only proving to produce more suffering amongst the citizens. Is what the government doing right? Can they take this land from the white-minority that owns it? In this paper below one will view both side of the argument, that of the functionalist perspective and that of the conflict theorist perspective, ultimately deciding which side they believe to have the stronger argument. “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