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.
I suspect there's a lot of boat traffic there. You may also be encountering air pollution that doesn't stay with the river water. "Swampy" is more or less the permanent smell of the Mississippi. By contrast, "public restroom" is more or less the permanent smell of the Niger.
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.
You requested cities and I have responded with more in almost every subsequent post. Do you have a problem with that other than the fact that each is an example of a typical reality in third world cities that you would rather not acknowledge? Heck, let's make it 5: Abidjan in Ivory Coast.
And now you're saying that Africa is "uncivilized" as a whole.
Well, it's politics are in a mess, it has more rebellions and riots and civil wars going on than any other region in the world, it's technologically backwards, its environment is a disaster, its economy is a mess, it's an epidemiologist's nightmare, most of its governments are in debt to somebody, many of its people are starving, corruption is rampant, and it regularly depends upon the rest of the world to bail it out from all of its internal problems. So yes, I'd say that the continent of Africa is for the most part an uncivilized disaster right now.
Does that mean you think that Africans are uncivilized?
As i've said many times, I'm sure there are plenty of good, decent, civilized people from Africa. The people who run the place tend not to be though as evidenced by their basket case economies and political systems.
One does not become "king" of a muscial genre in a lavish Westminster coronation ceremony.
Don't backtrack, zim. You specifically chose to emphasize the misattributed devil anecdote as a basis of comparison with gang rape hip hop.
If I am "misattributing" it to Robert Johnson, I stand in good company with Son House.
Even in the best of company you're still wrong.
I don't plan on doing anything, but corporations exist as legal entities separate from the individuals than run them.
Even assuming that's a basis for grievance (which is dubious considering that very few corporations that old are still making the same things today that they did in 1820), the legal case is nonexistant for two reasons. Any governing statute of limitations on civil suit would have expired a century ago, and the suit itself would be moot as the aggrieved parties (i.e. the slaves) are also dead and thus cannot be compensated.
It is government without consent and that is tyranny.
There's not a government on earth today that exists by true consent. People are governed by whatever their born under, and their's no choice in that...which puts us back at my original point - in the absence of true and complete liberty, the choice is finding the greatest degree of liberty permitted. By that measure the colonial powers win over your beloved third world dictatorships.