Posted on 03/20/2017 7:04:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
In April 2008, I was in Monrovia, Liberia to determine if the company for which I was working wanted to take on the management of the airport, Roberts Field. After 15 years of civil war, the airport – a former PanAm station where 707s and 747s stopped for fuel and food prepared by French chefs before traveling to South Africa or the Middle East – was just returning to operation. As a Space Shuttle emergency landing strip, Roberts Field had the longest runway in Africa.
During a two-week site survey, the director general of civil aviation asked our team of former pilots, a business development director, and architects and engineers to sit in on a couple of presentations to rehabilitate the old terminal building. Other former government buildings in and around Monrovia were also shells, as destitute Liberians had stripped bombed buildings for whatever they could sell to scrap yards. The two-story structure had been gutted down to the concrete floors and columns during the war.
A Nigerian firm was first. The leader took one look at the six white people sitting around the conference table and challenged the director general's choice of evaluators. "African brothers should support African brothers!" The director general ignored the none too subtle and coded racist attack with "You can either give your presentation, or you can go."
My team won the work, developed a master plan for the airport, and hired a U.S.-trained airport manager, and within a year, Delta Airlines began service between Monrovia and New York City, one of the former PanAm routes
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“African brothers should support African brothers!”
If they did, they wouldn’t be in the mess that is Africa in the first place...................
Well written article. I visited South Africa and Zimbabwe last year. The contrast and actions of the two countries were huge. South Africa had a vibrant economy and working class population. Meanwhile in Zimbabwe there was starvation and unemployment, the result of land seizure and white persecution/flight. How South Africa can look at what the land seizure and destruction of both jobs and production has caused is both foolish and unrealistic. Owning land just to be owning it does not produce wealth unless you can make it productive. Taking the land from people who have poured in the resources to make it productive and giving it to people who, without resources, will allow it to sit and lose productivity is bad for the nation’s economy.
He failed to say why the ACA was racist.
support African brothers??
Is there any country in sub Saharan Africa, which is not a basket case??? Any of those countries???
I’ve heard how Zimbabwe has forced out their white farmers. They have forcibly taken their land and given it to blacks who don’t know the first thing about farming.
Zimbabwe used to be able to feed themselves and export food products to the rest of the world. Now, in spite of having such productive farmland, they are begging for foreign aid to feed themselves.
What happened there is a good example of racism. Black nationalist government forces out whites, to give land to blacks who don’t know what they are doing. They set up a situation in which their own people go hungry, all to make a half assed black power political statement.
And the same may become the fate of South Africa in the future.
Mugabe, his family and their cronies got theirs (presumably stashed away in Switzerland or the Cayman Islands by now); that’s all these Mugabe types throughout Africa really care about.
With the passage of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, how can anyone not see that the government of President Barack Obama channeled Robert Mugabe and effectively said, “The majorities have insurance, we’re taking your insurance, and now we’re giving your insurance to minorities and even illegal aliens”? “And we are going to charge the IRS to make you pay for it whether you like it or not.” Obamacare was a racist-motivated, government-backed insurance seizure, just as if the government came into your house, cracked open your home safe, stole your insurance policy, and charged you many times what your policy used to cost.
In Zimbabwe, the government led a racially driven land grab solely for redistribution to blacks. The South African black-majority government will also lead a racially driven land grab solely for redistribution to blacks. In America, Obama led a racially driven insurance grab solely for redistribution to minorities and illegals.
Republicans in Congress should vigorously reject this racist-motivated law and repeal it with extreme prejudice.
I'm flat out amazed the racist underpinnings of Obamacare was outed...
Obamacare was a racist-motivated, government-backed insurance seizure, just as if the government came into your house, cracked open your home safe, stole your insurance policy, and charged you many times what your policy used to cost.
I'm flat out amazed the racist underpinnings of Obamacare has been outed...
It took a fair mount of reading to reach the point where the writer related healthcare to airports...
And not one Democrat who voted for this atrocity had the guts to inform their constituents the truth. On the contrary, every Democrat puppeted the Obama lie.
Give 'em a break...could be Democrats are that dumb......never figured it out.
Elected Democrats are not dumb (well, there are certain notable exceptions!), but their voters are, and they bank on it.
“Obamacare was a racist-motivated, government-backed insurance seizure, just as if the government came into your house, cracked open your home safe, stole your insurance policy, and charged you many times what your policy used to cost. “
“”The majorities have insurance, we’re taking your insurance, and now we’re giving your insurance to minorities and even illegal aliens”? “And we are going to charge the IRS to make you pay for it whether you like it or not.”
Ima stealin these two. Hello Facebook : )
“Obamacare was a racist-motivated, government-backed insurance seizure, just as if the government came into your house, cracked open your home safe, stole your insurance policy, and charged you many times what your policy used to cost. “
“”The majorities have insurance, we’re taking your insurance, and now we’re giving your insurance to minorities and even illegal aliens”? “And we are going to charge the IRS to make you pay for it whether you like it or not.”
Ima stealin these two. Hello Facebook : )
Wise governments understand that if they want to make their nation (and eventually, themselves) wealthy they have to let their most talented citizens become wealthy, also.
African politicians, just like American Democrats, want to become wealthy now by looting and crushing their potential rivals, whatever the negative impact may be on the society as a whole.
In Zimbabwe the White farmers had mainly Black workers who knew how to farm the land.
They where murdered as part of the takeover for being traitors to their race.
Botswana and Namibia are stable and economically sound. Zambia is doing better thanks to many of the white farmers who have relocated there rom Zimbabwe.
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