Posted on 12/18/2009 3:35:55 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
Leftists don’t care about Africa. As long as the honkeys are gone, that’s good enough for the Communist Black Caucus. Lots of opportunities for obuma and his Chicago thugs to dip their beaks in and steal money.
Thats it , create another Israel where the Palestinians are jealous because the Israelis could take their land make it produce and create an oasis of opportunity. Meanwhile the Palestinians cant figure out what to do.... nor how to do it unless it involves a bomb.
That's certainly one possible outcome.But the citizens of this new "black" state would have at least two advantages over the Palestinians....1)the mineral wealth of the country is enormous...2)a fair percentage (I'm not sure exactly what percentage) of them would be fluent in English...a *huge* advantage in today's world (just ask formerly poor Ireland and India).
Aw c’mon, don’t you think they rather prefer starvation, revolutions, wars and genocide?
That most certainly would not have worked. The white section would have been supremely prosperous and the black section would have gone to hell in a handcart. No matter what, the blacks and socialists worldwide would have faulted the white section for the condition of the black section. The Blacks would come into the white section looking for employment or looking to rob and loot. Gosh this sounds familiar.
ditto Rhodesia....all white property is now in the hands of the state
how can anyone claim this is better?
we have one nutty freeper I know who will?
Everywhere in the world old time racists feared what has now come to pass?
Were they wrong?
Was there a better route?
There is no question to me as a 7th generation Mississippian that exactly all the segregationists feared has happened...is this new reality in black ruled areas in the US and abroad better now?
What was worse?
Segregation or this...practically speaking the answer is obvious. One could argue the ideal I guess....it's just a big mess and everyone has gone down together in same bucket
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So when you said “Apartheid was wrong and oppressive” you didn’t really mean it, did you?
Question; What did people in Zimbabwe light their houses with before candles?
Answer; ELECTRICTY.
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You are right on that score. It makes one wonder if any country in Africa is able to govern themselves.The killing of whites and stealing their land that once fed the country is a worse kind of racism, its a racism that kills because of color...The Arabs would not be in control of all the oil if they hadn’t nationalize it after europeans found it and set up the ways to get it out of the ground....Large scale theft.......
We are headed (in a small way so far) in that direction. The ex-pat-tax passed in 1996 (or thereabouts) leaves you on the hook for U.S. taxes for 7 years -- even if you relinquish American citizenship.
The walls are slowly rising. America -- a great idea, didn't last.
But....we outnumber them, vastly. Maybe God is waiting for us to help ourselves.
So what ya going to do?
These people are so addicted to revenge taht they can’t think of anything else. Imagined or otherwise, the blacks have catalouged all the ‘sins’ of whites and also how they suffered. If they set revenge aside and work on keeping the country going, then things will be fine. But instead of GOING TO SCHOOL and learning they are simply electing dictators then letting the dictators go hogwild on the people who are actually building the economy, however they might have a different skin color.
Mandela wasn’t interested in revenge and managed to keep his revenge addicted electorate from going crazy.
Just do a poll among black Zimbabweans over 50 years old.
“Under whose leadership was Zimbabwe a better place to live as a black person?”
1/ Ian Smith
2/ Robert Mugabe
Revenge for what?
White South Africa and the former Rhodesia both were the only real civilization they ever had.
Where would Africa be now if the Whites had never come?
We fixing to find out.
A lot of South African expats liquidated their assets, bought yachts and sailed them out of the country. Then, they sold the boats.
If we object to Soviet-style expropriations, we can't easily approve of what the colonists did in what was until recently living memory.
That's not to say that Mugabe is justified in his own expropriations, but it's not hard to see what ticked the Africans off and why they wanted independence.
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