Posted on 03/08/2025 7:45:41 AM PST by Starman417
If you spend any time online (particularly after Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show) you’ll come across memes that say that America was built by blacks or that Shakespeare’s work was written by a black woman or that black Africans built western civilization. I’m not convinced.
To put it bluntly, has black Africa ever given the world anything of consequence since humans originated there? Has black Africa ever had a civilization worthy of comparison to the great civilizations we’re all familiar with? Is there a reason why Africa has the lowest IQs on the planet? That almost every country in Africa is poor while the continent has a majority of the world’s gold, cobalt, diamonds, and platinum? Is it any coincidence that 8 of the 10 most violent countries in the world is either in Africa or is majority black? Ditto for wars? Is it any coincidence that black Americans are 600% more likely to commit murder than whites?
We’ve been told that white racism is the driver behind all of that. If that were true we would expect black Africa before Europeans arrived to be a thriving continent bustling with advanced civilizations. But is that the case?
Some claim it is, and indeed there were a number of large civilizations in Sub-Saharan history. There was the Mali Empire that dates back to the 13th century and was once led by Mansa Musa, said to have been the richest man in history. There’s the Great Zimbabwe Empire also from the 13th century and the Songhai Empire which dates to the 15th. Then there was the Kingdom of Aksum which operated as a trading center between Europe, North Africa, and Asia and lasted 1,000 years from about 200 BC to 800 AD.
Those and others were undoubtedly complex societies that traded, warred, and lasted for centuries but somehow managed to not become particularly advanced. Compare the intact ruins of the 13th century Zimbabwe Empire to Paris’s Sainte-Chapelle, also from 13th century or the 11th century Dogon Cliffs in Mali to Britain’s 11th century Windsor Castle. The word that comes to mind is primitive. And most of sub-Saharan Africa never really advanced much from there. While it’s likely that when the Portuguese began exploring the continent in the early 15th century they encountered numerous population centers of significant size, most would not be what we might call advanced. Compare sculptures from 15th century West Africa to what was being produced in Europe at the same time.
While we’re constantly told that the condition of Africans in the 21st century is the result of European imperialism, the reality is, that Africa south of the Sahara was barely out of the stone age when the Europeans arrived in the 15th century.
What about black Africans today? Sadly, while from afar the continent is covered with beautiful modern cities, upon closer look virtually every country is economically distressed and many are wracked with violence and war. What about blacks whose ancestors left Africa, what has become of them? Well, sadly the picture’s not much different. Whole countries, like Haiti, which freed itself from European rule in 1806 – coerced to sign a suffocating indemnity with France that would take more than a century to repay – is one of the poorest and most dysfunctional nations in the world. Here in the United States black communities are wracked with a spectrum of problems from violence to unwed motherhood to illiteracy to drugs and economic stagnation. Indeed, in some black communities the murder rates are among the highest in the world.
So what does all of that mean? Lower IQs, lack of civilizational development, extraordinary levels of violence? Are blacks genetically coded to be inferior to everyone else?
No, I don’t think so. The hardest-working and kindest man I’ve ever known was black. Thomas Sowell is arguably the greatest economist of the last half-century. We’ve all seen Hidden Figures, the true story about how Katherine Johnson and her team played a critical role in sending the astronauts to the moon. Madame CJ Walker was America’s first self-made female millionaire, overcoming actual, real racism and creating a company that employed 20,000 women at the beginning of the 20th century. There are countless more examples of why DNA can’t be the cause. So then what is it?
Dr. Sowell argues compellingly in his cultures trilogy that sub-Saharan Africa was backward (my word not his) because with its dearth of navigable rivers, deep water ports, and lack of trade and the exchange of ideas with the world beyond. By the 16th century Europeans had been fighting, trading with, and learning from one another as well as Asia and North Africa for thousands of years. European advancement, like most, came as a result of man’s natural competitive forces being honed in the crucible of conflict and war taking place within a geography capable of facilitating the efficient exchange of goods, information, and ideas over a large area. They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and the interactions between the different peoples fueled their development. By the 16th century those interactions had produced Shakespeare, Monteverdi, Galileo, Columbus and DaVinci, Michaelangelo, and many more. Black Africa had nothing comparable.
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Chris Rock explained it all. There are two kinds of black people.
Truth may suddenly be cancelled by the rearguard of wokeness.
The author, Vince, nails it: Culture matters. Black people raised in a responsible culture which values honesty, hard work, and productivity, tend to thrive and prosper.
Author wrote “European advancement, like most, came as a result of man’s natural competitive forces being honed in the crucible of conflict and war taking place within a geography capable of facilitating the efficient exchange of goods, information, and ideas over a large area. They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and the interactions between the different peoples fueled their development.”
The author never once mentioned Christianity as the prime directive for the incredible advancements that took place in Europe and England.
For a few years I immersed myself into black history, books from the militant 50s and 60s and early 70s, it was a mistake, it was basically book after book making making the same repetitive inflated claims over and over until you could see that they don’t really have any history to speak of at all, then new books making them the most important and dynamic people of the world like this guy mentions started coming out, I bought those mostly for fun, it was a kick to read all the nutty stuff making the black race out as almost like superior space aliens providing intelligence and creativity to the lessor peoples of the world such as the Europeans, Americans, and Asians, but it continued the unintended effect of revealing the black race as an unaccomplished race.
We got rap music.
That's not true. That link does in fact say 635% higher.
You know..... Everything between blacks and whites would be just sunshine and rainbows if we just sent trillions of dollars in reparations to our black neighbors.
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“The author never once mentioned Christianity as the prime directive for the incredible advancements that took place in Europe and England.”
His subject was the prime directive.
Paganism held Africa back for millennia.
Christianity and Puritanism led to the great advancements in arts, literature, the spreading of knowledge, culture, political systems, education, univrersities, science, technology, exploration and colonialization, the conquest of the earth, and cultural uniformity (largely). The driver of those great advancements did not exist in Africa.
Europe had Aristotle and Jesus to, among other things, provide societal organization that led to progress. East Asia had Confucius and Buddha with similar effect. Africa south of the Sahel had neither an effective social philosophy or metaphysical philosophy.
Good point. I wish blacks would just accept equality and get out the wagon and help push it forward.
“the true story about how Katherine Johnson and her team”
NASA would still have achieved the goal without her. It may have taken longer but the result was inevitable. It wasn’t her “blackness” that made her great; it was her mind.
Among many black family units there exist a breakdown, children are not socialized when they’re infants in a loving home. The lack of socialization leads to them being wildlings. Aka a menace to society.
Gangs serve as their “Family”.
The lack of socialization leads to them being wildlings.
All children are born wild animals which have to be instructed to follow morals and ethics. The 10 commandments are a good start.
As a percentage,the black population in this country has never reached higher than the teens. How the hell was America built on the backs of blacks for the other 80-90% of the population? Total retardation.
We wuz kangs
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