Posted on 05/15/2005 2:55:20 PM PDT by freedom44
Chill..didn't mean to hurt your feeling.
I have NEVER told another person, you can't have this job, you are the wrong color.
But It has happened to me, because I am white, male, etc.
I don't like being screwed over any more than the next guy.
Europe still is corrupting Africa... espescially the franco-freaks and the belgium-buggers
She has to play into a certain segment of the white trade union vote with that. otherwise, they're just democrat sheep like the rest. There's more I could say about what an evil woman she is but I'm tired :-)
Get to bed, We can fght it out another day. ;)
"Africans were not living in large cities"
I guess it depends on what you mean by large.Arab travelers in the Thirteenth Century reported sizable cities in what is now Ghana and Mali.Then there was ancient Zimbabwe as well as Timbuctoo and Sankore,the latter two which were mixtures of both Arab and African.
If they had as many as 10,000 residents I would be amazed.
Who should run them is an easy question. A native black person with education,integrity, humanity, and courage.
Finding that person and keeping him alive when all around him is corruption is the hard part.
Damn, Pope Benedict XVI is doing an excellent job!
My point is this: why is Nigerians cannot create a shoe factory in Nigeria and buy Nigerian shoes? Oh. It's because they want to be just .... like .... us. (How many babies are not in the USA today b/c of legalized abortion? Oh, that doesn't count .... we don't kill each other the way Africans do. Right.)
My point in the above is this: We have indeed exported our vices far more effectively than our Christianity. And most of us are utterly asleep to the fact.
I had a college professor tell me about the influence of competing missionary groups in Uganda in the 19th Century. They succeeded in creating new lines of division among Africans, Catholic v. Protestant along with the traditional Muslim groups, that influenced politics in that country down through the Idi Amin period and afterward.
Of course no one intended that to happen, but when you introduce complex new social structures onto a society that has a different basic sense of organization, the results are unpredictable. Although it's not like there was no historical record of Catholics v. Protestants fighting for turn in Germany and France.
The lines between Hutu and Tutsi were never clear-cut and hermetically sealed until the Belgians introduced the concept of legal ethnic identity across generations--and co-opting groups who most resembled Europeans for leadership positions.
What is erroneous in this assertion is its fundamental presumption: to create a happy continent where there has never been one would require a miracle of transculturation. And for the humans to require or demand a miracle is presumptious. One could only hope and pray for one.
to create a happy continent where there has never been one would require a miracle of transculturation
The future [near future] will tell - despite its elections, un-transculturated Iraq will continue to be a tribalist and sectarian hellhole for as long as an eye can see. If they break it apart, then there might be hope for the Kurdish areas, for they have recently demonstrated ability if not for happy, then at least for a decent and orderly social existence. And the best part of it is that they did demonstrate it mostly by themselves, without Kulturtraegers.
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