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In other places it smells like a toxic waste dump.

Not really. The swamp smell of the mississippi is pretty consistent, be it the middle of New Orleans or the middle of farm country.

You've named two West African cities.

And four African cities, seeing as I described the majority of the continent as third worldish and uncivilized. Did you not want city names after all?

No, my original point referred to Robert Johnson and his songs

"Then please explain why Robert Johnson, a man who claimed to have sold his soul to the Devil, is the "King of the Delta Blues." - zimdog, post 476

I don't see anything about songs, but I do see you misattributing Tommy Johnson's devil fable to him.

But many shipping and insurance companies based in the patriotic parts of America profited from slavery

Even so, the people who ran them when they profited from slavery are all dead. Do you plan on taxing them posthumously?

And I will note that it is always less than mankind's God-given rights to liberty.

A nice thought, except that complete unrestrained liberty does not exist in any place their is government. That makes the degree of liberty afforded the next best measure, and colonial powers in Africa afforded greater liberty than the third world dictatorships that you fawn over.

FYI - It looks as if zimdog is a closet slavery reparationist. A few posts back I pointed out the marxist political leanings of an Afrocentrism website he was quoting from approvingly (big surprise). Slavery reparations is among the leftist policies espoused on that site. When I pointed it out he began defending their position:

"I believe the legal reasoning cited here is that it is a crime to profit from a crime." - zimdog, 478

and again:

"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." - zimdog, 481

He also accused me of "cultural bigotry" in post #469 when I criticized rap music. Telltale signs of a leftist troll.

The swamp smell of the mississippi is pretty consistent, be it the middle of New Orleans or the middle of farm country.

Maybe you've only been there on good days. It's certainly not pleasant just downstream of St Louis.

And four African cities, seeing as I described the majority of the continent as third worldish and uncivilized. Did you not want city names after all?

If you don't care to address the requests made in #479 and #476, just say so. IN any case, you claimed that most African cities were lawless. You've named four.

And now you're saying that Africa is "uncivilized" as a whole. Does that mean you think that Africans are uncivilized? Or is it the expats?

I don't see anything about songs,

Well, use your common sense. One does not become "king" of a muscial genre in a lavish Westminster coronation ceremony.

but I do see you misattributing Tommy Johnson's devil fable to him.

If I am "misattributing" it to Robert Johnson, I stand in good company with Son House. Furthemore, Robert Johnson's "Crossroad Blues" and "Hellhound on My Trail" do little to dispel such doubts.

Even so, the people who ran them when they profited from slavery are all dead. Do you plan on taxing them posthumously?

I don't plan on doing anything, but corporations exist as legal entities separate from the individuals than run them.

That makes the degree of liberty afforded the next best measure, and colonial powers in Africa afforded greater liberty than the third world dictatorships that you fawn over.

It is government without consent and that is tyranny.

And again, in the absence of evidence to prove your baseless accusations, stop with the personal attacks.