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" It is a shame but it looks as though South Africa in a few years will return to it's aboriginal ways."

- I once spent a few weeks at the World Health Organization HQ and had a long conversation there with an official with extensive experience in Africa. He said that we Westerners don't understand the native viewpoint when it came to political corruption and cronyism. In their minds, their first loyalty is to their family, then the tribe and finally (if at all) to their country. A native African would never dream of holding an open competition for a key government post if he had a nephew or uncle who was out of work - regardless of their lack of education, experience or qualifications.
Furthermore, once you get beyond the welfare of citizens outside their particular tribe, they could care less. This helps to explain the lack of concern on the part of even a Western educated native like Kofi Annan to the massacre in Rawanda. He didn't lift a finger to help, even when he became aware of what was going on there. You can take a native out of the tribe, but you can't take the tribe out of the native.

Good point.

It seems to me that some of that argument can be expended on the disaster in New Orleans.

You hear a lot of leaders constantly screaming about racism and spewing anti-white rhetoric all across the biased MSM.

You can probably name many of these race baiting con artists such as Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, Charlie Rangel, Calypso Louie Farahkan, John Conyers and others with out much thought.

I would however have problems naming many of the wealthy blacks who are truly trying to help the poorest of their race.

I know there are some but they just do not get the notoriety as the radical Democrat extremists.

Why? Because they usually are conservative in nature or belong to the hated Republican party.

It's all about victimization and entitlement to spreading the wealth.

A native African would never dream of holding an open competition for a key government post if he had a nephew or uncle who was out of work - regardless of their lack of education, experience or qualifications.

Sounds a lot like Louisiana.