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Why Mbeki had to go
BBC News ^ | Sunday, 21 September 2008 | Martin Plaut

Posted on 09/21/2008 10:16:25 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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To: padre35
It's hard to believe. After reading this article, it appears that Mbeki was not so bad after all. His economic policies were effective enough to convince 5 million Afrikaners to stay and use their skills in the economy(despite the high crime rate).

Now the question is with Zuma coming in and what would he do? If he acts like one bit similiar to Mugabe, he can kiss the productive Whites good bye and the country will turn into another Zimbabwe.

21 posted on 09/21/2008 4:50:53 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: jalisco555; Travis McGee; puroresu

lol...PC meet koolaid

yep Africa was a veritable paradise before those nasty brutish Euroracists got there...

much like the Amerindian western hemisphere was too

naked folks running around eating mangoes and having warm fuzzy moments

believe it or not colonialism was thought of as more benign than just going in and taking what you wanted and killing everyone who got in the way which was the common course of human history in the past

Christendom and white man’s burden pushed civilizing savages and teaching them salvation whether they wanted it or not.

Now they are simply reverting to their natural ways. Mass murder, rampant disease and an inability to govern themselves.

Rights?

that is a very new concept in the persuasion of conquest for land and material as practiced by every culture through out our recorded history?

why hold whites to higher standards?

are whites smarter, more accountable maybe? Why?

I’ve lived the world over including much of the 3rd one and I can tell you that anywhere the Brits laid a footprint is better off for it....maybe Hibernia is an exception but that’s debatable.


22 posted on 09/21/2008 4:58:13 PM PDT by wardaddy (Sandra Bernhard should not be allowed around livestock unsupervised.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
The ANC is and has always has been a Communist and Terrorist Organization. Mandela is nothing but the same and yet is looked at as a great leader, what Bull.
Africa was and still is in many ways very tribal and what the Western News Media never reported on was what the other Tribal Political groups thought in South Africa who were for the most part shut out there.
The political leaders in South Africa have become just as corrupt as most of the rest of the African leaders.
Africa as a whole is a vast cesspool of leaders that have great natural resources that have been squandered.
AIDS is rampant along genocide and most of the world doesn't seem to care. Frankly I doubt much can be done unless real change comes and I don't think it will. We are throwing a lot money after bad into a sinkhole.
23 posted on 09/21/2008 4:59:46 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: MinorityRepublican

btt


24 posted on 09/21/2008 5:01:53 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: jalisco555
Well there is a lot you say that is true. But if the White Man had never come to Africa then it would as it was before. Absolutely Tribal. There would no progress just the same as they had lived for thousands of years. Without any outside stimulus of ideas they would living in the blissful ignorance they were before the Europeans came.
25 posted on 09/21/2008 5:03:04 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: MinorityRepublican

LOL....again the evil whites destroyed the place.

Hell, the only civlization these places ever knew was Euro or Arab.

You guys have been taught too much PC crap.

and so you think Asia and China and Thailand are like cool or something?

compared to what?

Liberia?

again you expect more from whites than you do others...and you don’t find that racist in itself?

I lived in Sierra Leone, those savages were quite capable of killing one another with no help from the dreaded all powerful white man.

I often wonder how naive politically correct revisionist notions like your’s and Guadalajara’s find their way on to a right wing board.

To blame Africa’s cliff dive on whites and not blacks themselves who are destroying their own sub continent is precisely soft bigotry.


26 posted on 09/21/2008 5:03:50 PM PDT by wardaddy (Sandra Bernhard should not be allowed around livestock unsupervised.)
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To: wardaddy
No matter how beneficial Apartheid was, it was inherently an immoral system.

I agree with you, things were much better in South Africa when the Whites were in charge but that does not make it right.

Remember in this age, if South Africa continued Apartheid indefinitely, the regime would had been overthrown through a civil war or outside intervention.

27 posted on 09/21/2008 5:24:42 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

I wasn’t talking about morality but to be frank, sometimes morality has it’s shortcomings when viewed pragmatically.

I fear the consequences of the geographic isolation of sub Saharan Africa after the Sahara went dry will be with us for a very long time.


28 posted on 09/21/2008 5:27:41 PM PDT by wardaddy (Sandra Bernhard should not be allowed around livestock unsupervised.)
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To: wardaddy
That is what the Afrikaners probasbly figured out. I can see why they did the things they did in the past hundred years or so but what killed them at the end is their dependence on cheap labor.

They would had been better off if they had a great wall of South Africa dividing the Afrikaners from the African tribal lands.

In reality, if that had happened, South Africa would had been divided into five or more countries, and one country could continue under Afrikaner rule.

29 posted on 09/21/2008 5:57:06 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: wardaddy
If the European nations had decided not to bother with sub-Saharan Africa, and if no one else (Arabs, Indians, Chinese...) had filled the void, that region would still be as it was a thousand years ago.

It's absolutely amazing. Europeans can go into the most backward, brutish lands on earth, places that are impoverished beyond human imagination. Places where they have never had a written language or invented the wheel. Places where every form of brutality is practiced routinely. Those Europeans immediately raise the standard of living there, but we're told that this is evil because there's an income gap between the Europeans and the natives. The Europeans bring stable government, suppressing the endless genocidal tribal feuding, slavery, and cannibalism, and we're told this is evil because the government doesn't include a quota of natives in office. The Europeans bring in technology the locals never dreamed of, and we're told this is evil because the amount of this technology is less than exists back in Europe.

I still recall Carter's UN ambassador Andrew Young whining 30 years ago that European homes were far more likely to have electricity, running water, and telephones than African homes, and he blamed this on Europeans. Apparently he forgot that there would be none of those things in sub-Saharan Africa at all without those hated Europeans.

Then, when the Europeans get fed up with the mess and leave, the place degenerates back to the way it was before they arrived, and we're told this is the Europeans’ fault.

This is just the usual liberal routine of blaming whitey for every failure of non-whites everywhere.

30 posted on 09/22/2008 6:38:25 AM PDT by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: MinorityRepublican

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31 posted on 09/22/2008 6:39:07 AM PDT by VOA
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To: MinorityRepublican

There’s no comparison between the East Asian nations and Africa before the arrival of Europeans. Marco Polo found a civilization so advanced in China that he was accused of lying when he told of it. And that civilization was countless centuries old when Polo visited it. Nothing even close to that was found in sub-Saharan Africa by the early European explorers. The idea that those places would be comparable today to Japan or South Korea if only Europeans hadn’t “raped” them is a difficult argument to maintain.


32 posted on 09/22/2008 6:49:27 AM PDT by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: VOA

Bump back at ya!


33 posted on 09/22/2008 8:40:00 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

bttt


34 posted on 09/23/2008 6:03:32 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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