Posted on 02/01/2006 11:05:03 AM PST by blam
Also, today's Black (Bantu) natives over ran South Africa around 3,000BC displacing the San Bushmen who are a completely different race.
mugabes always blight the crops.
They don't want facts to get in the way of a good sob story.
Recolonize Africa - give it to the Chinese. They're looking for elbow room and resources, and they're pretty good at feedin' themselves for communists.
"Some campaigners and academics argue that African farmers will only be able to properly feed their families and societies when Western goods stop flooding their markets."
Yeah, that will help their soil.
This is overall a very good article because it correctly places most of the blame on the African's themselves. Government corruption seemed to be the greatest factor of all in the hunger problem. Bet the South Africans wish the white farmers were back in business, life was much better for them then.
They refuse to stop having babies that they can't feed. Even when their children are literally starving to death, they go right ahead and have more. They obviously don't care, so why should I? Frankly, I'm more concerned about the fact that they're wiping out wildlife by overrunning and destroying every square inch of land they can get their hands on.
This is a perfect argument for Empire America. The US moves in, takes over these third-world misery factories. It installs an effective local government overseen by American supervisors. Through that government, food is distributed, agricultural practices are reformed, and infrastructure is improved to the point where starvation is no longer epidemic. If the locals object to the "colonization" of their precious dungheap, then they can have the starvation, the disease, and the pestilence back. If not, then maybe they can learn to be human and eventually take over for themselves.
The late Sam Kinison had the right solution to the problem.
When this is pointed out to many; however, the blame will fall squarely upon, 'centuries of colonialism,' which in all honesty represented the highest standards of living much of the continent has ever known.
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Can anyone point to black majority ruled countries that are not unmitigated disasters and dependant upon outside financial and technical support?
The new PC definition of "compassion": maximizing the number of humans who must die, as long as possible, and call it "compassion".
At the end of the day, when it is no longer possible, just say, "we mwnat well".
Yes, but their mistake was in leaving before their time. They succumbed to the pressures of "anti-colonialism" and left the rats to scurry around their own hole and make a mess of things. Certainly, they have that right. But if they do, and they CHOOSE to do so, then they have no high ground from which to demand that the rest of the world subsidize their barbarism.
In other words, we'll bail you out for humanitarian reasons. But be assured that our money DOES come with strings attached. And those strings are -- among other things -- that you can't randomly hack each other up into chum, that you can't steal the money to buy hookers and limos, that you can't even claim to be a legitimate government. You're only caretakers until we give you the green light.
For a perfect example of the decay of a de-colonized African country, look at the history of Congo/Zaire. And they were colonized by the FRENCH, for cripes' sake!
The first world sends tens of billions in direct aid and hundreds of billions in loans, on terms that rarely involve actual repayment in full with interest. They make this available to and through corrupt governments more interested in the French Riviera than in their own countryside. But access to this endless stream of free money depends on political power in Africa, and manipulation of PC world opinion. So the lesson to would be leaders is that production is utterly unnecessary, but political control is absolutely essential.
So when the farmers dislike how they are treated, who is supposed to listen? Their production in unnecessary for the local pols. Their repression is mandatory, to maintain access to the western money stream. When local conditions get so bad their produce is driven to scarcity and its value soars - natural law's way of ensuring their useful cooperative work is rewarded and maintained - the first world steps in again and floods the place with free food, driving what should be their most valuable commodities to zero.
Then first worlders pretend all of Africa's problems are domestic and they have nothing to do with it. Or worse, that they must give twice as much no-strings bakshish to the dictators, and twice as much free agricultural product to the people.
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