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.
And you can prove this how?
You requested cities and I have responded with more in almost every subsequent post.
And now you're up to 5. You're the one that claimed that most African cities were lawless hellholes. So far you've named 5, augmenting your list by one or two from time to time. You seem to be dragging your feet on this. What are you trying to hide?
You specifically chose to emphasize the misattributed devil anecdote as a basis of comparison with gang rape hip hop.
No, I asked you to explain why, if "non-profane" Blues songs comprise the genre's "more celebrated examples today", is Robert Johnson the "King of the Delta Blues." You've chosen, incorrectly, to fixate on the subordinate clause and insert it into a comparison that I never made.
Even in the best of company you're still wrong.
That's something known only to Robert Johnson, God, and the Devil. Robert Johnson is dead and you make too many mistakes to be God.
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.
Perhaps, although some of Germany's Nazi reparation funds go to religious institutions and charities in Israel.
By that measure the colonial powers win over your beloved third world dictatorships.
That's a false dichotomy and an apology for tyranny that mirrors Mugabe et al's claims that independent dictatorships are better than colonialism.
And again, since I don't support dictatorships and certainly don't consider any of them to be "beloved", you need to stop these personal attacks.