Posted on 10/17/2017 1:50:53 PM PDT by DCBryan1
Well, who then?
Anybody can make it here, they don't have to be white. But it isn't racism to say that historically, statistically they have been, and probably will continue to be.
I told a black friend from Rhodesia in the early 1980's that Zimbabwe would be a failed state by the end of the 20th century. It isn't racism to notice I was right, or to notice why.
"And with Darren's help, we'll get that chicken®," too.
Why did only Darren go away for a long, long time?
There’s the giant ball of oil!
Claire’s right underneath that thing!
Hello........
Thankfully this newer generation (y?) is proving to have some survival instinct kick in.
Sowell is a bona fide great thinker, but the fact that African elephants are wilder and never been domesticated is circumstantial evidence that the culture they come from is and has been second or third rate for millenia. How do you domesticate an animal? One at a time, one minute at a time, one day at a time. What else did they have to do, for centuries their food source did not even depend on agriculture or animal husbandry. They picked or hunted their dinner, much like the American Indians.
I share your view. I relate Sowell’s argument for discussion.
A few English colonials tried domesticating zebras in the 1880s with some limited success- they could pull carriages but remained a lot more easily spooked than horses, and more dangerous to handle. But if it had been worked at for generations before the arrival of Europeans it seems to me that Africans would have had the tsetse fly immune ‘horse’ that they lacked. And still lack for that matter.
I share your view. I relate Sowell’s argument for discussion.
A few English colonials tried domesticating zebras in the 1880s with some limited success- they could pull carriages but remained a lot more easily spooked than horses, and more dangerous to handle. But if it had been worked at for generations before the arrival of Europeans it seems to me that Africans would have had the tsetse fly immune ‘horse’ that they lacked. And still lack for that matter.
Since you didn’t live through the indoctrination of the civil rights era you can pretend all you want that boomers weren’t subjected to it.
I don’t recall him addressing it. Haiti might be the first example along those lines. They massacred the French and have been in charge since 1804. The long term result of that experiment is in. And it can’t be blamed on geography because the Dominican Republic shares half the island, for comparison.
The “white plantation owners” of Haiti were French. Or at least French citizens.
There was a large population of mulattoes on Haiti who were free citizens and some of them may have been plantation owners as well.
Sorry, treated = treating
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