Posted on 08/12/2016 9:02:25 AM PDT by jumpingcholla34
Early African-American intellectuals and cultural elites saw that the future of their race could not be advanced by endless protests or marches of “equality” or “justice.” It could only be done through the restoration of the trampled dignity of the black man. Great men like Marcus Garvey, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Malcolm X all knew that a people is only respected when it has a nation worthy of respect. A man who lives in a shack cannot expect to be treated with respect at a palace. They knew that for us to reclaim power we must first reclaim dignity and that this comes through the construction of a solid black state with a demonstrable level of development and prosperity–and which can stand as a powerful advocate for the global black.
Today, no such state exists.
Nigeria, the most populous black nation on Earth, is on the brink of collapse. The machineries that make a nation exist, let alone succeed, have all eroded. One might argue that the nation’s creation by self-seeking white imperialists engendered its failure from the beginning, as I did in my recent novel. But this is only a part of the cause. A culture of incompetence, endemic corruption, dignified ineptitude, and, chief among all, destructive selfishness and greed has played a major role in its unravelling. The same, sadly, can be said for most other African nations. States like Zimbabwe, Cameroon, and Equatorial Guinea are farcical democracies ruled by men who exclusively cater to their interests and those of their clipped circles.
Thus, it is no surprise that in the absence of any healthy black nation–in the midst of chaos, senseless wars, corrupted religiosity, violence, and economic collapse–African and Caribbean people leave home en masse.
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I take the whole book into consideration.
I also get my inforamation from anecdotal experience. 35 years in IT at 17 companies, as well as other endeavors.
This is why I asked the question.
And no black government has ever made slavery illegal.
**** “I am going from Memory and I’m getting old, but read the historical fiction The Covenant, James Michener for a pretty complete, unacademic, but engaging history” ****
I think the Covenant would make a great Movie (better Mini - Series because it is long)
Another book that should be a Movie or Mini-Series is “The Hodge” by Leon Uris
Been many years since I’ve read either and reading with my current eyesight is a pain ... Still might give “The Hodge” another shot
Do you mean ‘The Haj?’
That is the one
(Told ya.. years... beers... aagggghhhh)
Yep; mostly unpopulated, dry steppe lands, close to the American midwest (think north Texas, Oklahoma, eastern Colorado). Not much to draw primitive natives in.
On the plains the Europeans introduced cattle, sheep, and turned it into a ranching area.
In the foothills and more wet areas they introduced irrigation and farming.
Up to then it was pretty much just trash land that nobody wanted, lots of mineral resources but they hadn’t been discovered yet.
I’m sure he would not respond to the question: “Why have you become a rabid dog?” Which is really what I want to know.
The expression “apples and oranges” means that someone is asserting some sort of similarity between two classes of things when those two classes are in fact radically dissimilar.
I wasn’t asserting any similarity or comparison at all. American Blacks and African Blacks have different median IQ’s. If I was comparing them at all, I was asserting that they are different.
Good heavens.
Plenty of fodder for the all-conservatives-are-racist crowd.
You can't run a first world country with 80 IQ populations.
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