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The long and ugly tradition of treating Africa as a dirty, diseased place (Triple Bagger)
Washington Post ^ | 25 Aug 14 | By Laura Seay and Kim Yi Dionne

Posted on 10/16/2014 7:46:06 AM PDT by SkyPilot

Edited on 10/17/2014 2:38:28 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Vivian Koshefobamu, a 45-year-old vendor, speaks in front of dried meat, at the Ajegunle-Ikorodu market in Lagos on August 13, 2014.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: africa; anticolonialism; antiwesternism; barkingmoonbat; bushmeat; disease; ebola; obama; obola; pc; washingtonpost
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To: dfwgator

Well the media served him up on a plate, chewed him up and spit him out, so yea...makes sense.


61 posted on 10/16/2014 8:28:16 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: SkyPilot

good cartoon and comments.

I’d just add that I don’t care where ebola is coming from. If it was England or Australia or anywhere else I would be infavor of quarantining America off from it by banning incoming flights from those countries.

Granted liberals have been doing this for a long time but now it’s utterly pervasive. Whenever they are faced with a sound argument that rebuts their insanity they just holler “racist, sexist, homophobe” and declare victory.


63 posted on 10/16/2014 8:31:06 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (The ferguson rioters, looters and arsonists are DOMESTIC LEFT WING TERRORISTS)
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To: SkyPilot

Amen to what you say!
Anyone who has studied the history of Africa knows just how sad the whole situation there has been. It has been the patronizing attitudes in recent times of those better off than Africa which have kept that continent from progressing like the rest of the world.
Case in point: the 1984 “Live Aid” concert which raised tons of money for African hunger. The dirty secret is that most of that money was absconded by the war lords and most of the food was left rotting on the quays due to lack of distribution...even Geldof eventually admitted it.
Keep ‘em poor, stupid, hungry and sick ....sound familiar?


64 posted on 10/16/2014 8:32:59 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
Are those dried bats that lady is selling?

I don't know what that mystery meat is but you better be willing to eat it or you are a racist, sexist, homophobe!

65 posted on 10/16/2014 8:33:05 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (The ferguson rioters, looters and arsonists are DOMESTIC LEFT WING TERRORISTS)
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To: Grampa Dave

There was a WaPo article back in Aug of this year, explaining why, even during an Ebola outbreak, locals never abandoned their ‘traditions’ of bushmeat and burial practices.

To their logic, they have practiced such traditions for multiple generations, and blame the “people in white coats bringing diseases (any disease, not just Ebola) from the outside”.


66 posted on 10/16/2014 8:34:20 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: dfwgator
Thanks for raising our awareness and the root cause of the problem!

Apparently preparing and eating Bush meat can infect one with ebola and kill them and others.

Bush's Fault!

67 posted on 10/16/2014 8:34:52 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (I, Barrack E Obolabama support the left wing's war on Ebola. Fox News & Republicans will fight me.)
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To: Grampa Dave

D’oh! Never mind.

Should have click and read the article first.


68 posted on 10/16/2014 8:35:42 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: BunnySlippers

Oh Bunny! Great citing...
Fascinating guy, Burton...love the movie “Mountains of the Moon” so read up on Burton awhile back. A true adventurer who, though British, did not suffer from Brit arrogance and condescension. Big into sex, too, from what I’ve read...
(That ought to get some attention here.)


69 posted on 10/16/2014 8:41:27 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: SkyPilot

Exactly

I would like to know how many of the people commenting on Africa have really traveled there. I mean travelled, not flew in and stayed at a fancy resort or hotel for a few days and got ferried around in private cars or buses to a few sightseeing places?

Go there. Spend at least 6 months travelling around in the way the locals do. Stay with the locals. Wander in their cities and villages. Do all of this before you are allowed to report on Africa (or any other place).

Africa is a beautiful continent with so much potential it hurts to think about it. But the reality of how most people really live there is heartbreaking.


71 posted on 10/16/2014 8:42:24 AM PDT by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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To: matginzac
Yes, he wrote extensively about sex although his very proper English wife burned all of his writings when he was very ill.

The book about him is highly recommended.

When he died, his wife did have his tomb constructed to look like a tent:


72 posted on 10/16/2014 8:46:25 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Lurker
"complete denial"

I took an anthropology class in college a long time ago, and the the prof. was careful to maintain that all the world's cultures are roughly equal. They truth is, they're not. Some cultures are way behind other cultures. Most African countries cultures are WAYYYYYYY behind western countries.

Some people are too obtuse to admit it. Like Muhammad Ali said after his fight with George Foreman in the Congo in 1975 "thank God my granddaddy got on that boat."

73 posted on 10/16/2014 8:48:05 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: Lorianne

Agreed.

I have not been but a long, extensive look at the photographs and reading about it is shattering. It’s almost hell on earth.


74 posted on 10/16/2014 8:48:10 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: BunnySlippers
I was listening to the classical music station on the way to work this morning, and they played one of the most beautiful compositions. It was from the 15th century, singing in Latin. It sounded angelic, and from heaven.

Western art, architecture, music, mathematics, exploration, engineering - we are told again and again that this culture was "inferior" while those who were slaughtering and torturing one another, writhing in paganism and the occult, were "superior."

75 posted on 10/16/2014 8:48:18 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Norm Lenhart
My Ebola has a first name It’s B A R R Y! My Ebola has a second name But I’m too sick to try.. I regurgitate it every day And if you ask me why I’ll say!!!! That Barry-O sure has a way with “B O L O G and A”

LOL!

76 posted on 10/16/2014 8:48:51 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

“If you like your Ebola, you can keep your Ebola.”


77 posted on 10/16/2014 8:49:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: Vigilanteman

The Chinese are colonizing much of sub-Saharan Africa.
They need the arable land to fee their people. So they are putting in infrastructure (dams, irrigation systems, roads) to that end.


78 posted on 10/16/2014 8:50:07 AM PDT by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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To: BunnySlippers

Yep, have seen the same photo of his tomb. She was interesting too.


79 posted on 10/16/2014 8:52:00 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: SkyPilot

US bushmeat isn’t riddled with disease like African bushmeat. Yet.


80 posted on 10/16/2014 8:52:25 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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