Actually the Mississippi is a fairly consistent brackish mud color along its navigable length, the majority of this consisting of silt. The smell is more like a swamp.
Which cities, specifically? You have suggested that most African cities are lawless.
Again, Mogadishu is probably the most notable example in the news right now. Other recent favorites of roving bandits and revolutionaries include Freetown, Monrovia, and Kinshasha.
The story about Johnson is anecdotally attributed to him,
No. Tommy Johnson was the one who often jokingly claimed he traded his soul to the devil for his guitar. Any association of it with Robert was by mistake of his shared last name with Tommy. Of course your original point was to form an analogy between Tommy Johnson and current rap lyrics about gang rape, which is an absurd comparison considering that the former was a fable he told about himself and the latter consists of graphic descriptions of a violent criminal act.
I believe the legal reasoning cited here is that it is a crime to profit from a crime.
Since most plantations were obliterated or driven to ruin during the civil war, you'll find very few people alive today who profitted from slavery. Thank you for showing your reparationist colors though.
So basically, you don't believe that people have the inalienable right to liberty.
Never said anything of the sort. I will note though that the liberty afforded to the inhabitants of an unstable region by a colonizing power is almost always greater in comparison to the liberty afforded by the third world dictators that emerge in its place. Once again your hero Robert Mugabe is a clear example of why this is so.
In other places it smells like a toxic waste dump.
Again, Mogadishu is probably the most notable example in the news right now. Other recent favorites of roving bandits and revolutionaries include Freetown, Monrovia, and Kinshasha.
You've named two West African cities.
Of course your original point was to form an analogy between Tommy Johnson and current rap lyrics about gang rape,
No, my original point referred to Robert Johnson and his songs, which go against your ridiculous claim that "Blues music transcends the brothel songs and bawdy minstrel routines that characterized its lesser forms, leaving the non-profane as its more celebrated examples today." (your #475)
the former was a fable he told about himself and the latter consists of graphic descriptions of a violent criminal act.
So ".32-20 Blues" doesn't contain "graphic descriptions of a violent criminal act"?
Since most plantations were obliterated or driven to ruin during the civil war, you'll find very few people alive today who profitted from slavery. Thank you for showing your reparationist colors though.
But many shipping and insurance companies based in the patriotic parts of America profited from slavery and were not destroyed in the War to Afford Greater Liberty to an Unstable Region.
And I'm not showing any "reparationist colors" unless you're accusing me of some thoughtcrime for mentioning the ideas that people have.
I will note though that the liberty afforded to the inhabitants of an unstable region by a colonizing power is almost always greater in comparison to the liberty afforded by the third world dictators that emerge in its place.
And I will note that it is always less than mankind's God-given rights to liberty.
Once again your hero Robert Mugabe
Unless you can provide some evidence of me praising Robert Mugabe ever, I'll advise you to stop with the personal attacks.