Stop making sense, Prager. Common Sense is not too common these days.
Maybe because they’re not obsessed with race.
It’s because of the generous welfare in America.
All parasites will move to the host that offers the most freebies. Why else do illegal aliens skip through multiple countries to claim asylum in the USA? It’s for the cash welfare payments. And we are the suckers that give it to them.
Simple: the goodies.
Communists perverting our own system against us.
A lot of Jews moved to Germany between 1880 and 1933.
The CRT people will tell you that the colonial powers damaged the traditional economies and self-governance of the African people, and that they are only migrating to escape the destruction we caused, and that we are obligated to rectify the injury we inflicted.
Sort of like black Americans leaving 1950s Mississippi for Illinois. Illinois was still racist but better than Mississippi.
Certainly the West purchased kidnapped people from Africa, then colonized and imposed unnatural borders, played one group against another, sold arms, sometimes committed atrocities (Belgian Congo), profiteered baby formula and starved babies (Nestle) but the roads and factories disappear when the West leaves. I think the most disruptive and lasting influence has been modern medicine.
If all white people are racist..then I suppose it’s not a leap to claim our system is racist.
However, the Biden family,the Clinton family,and the pelosi family are excluded.
Osama is only racist on his mom’s side of the family.
And hating white people..and attempting to cancel them out doesn’t count and is in no way a systemic effort to make them less than everyone else.
The Jews went to Germany, because it appeared better than Communism.
Why do white doctors, nurses, teachers go to Africa to help the people there and blacks don’t?
One could also ask why blacks, who have the means to do so, don’t move to other countries, as did my father’s family which abandoned Berlin and Germany in 1938.
ML/NJ
Something else conveniently ignored: Nigerians are among the most successful of all immigrant groups in the United States. But how can that be? They’re black, in a nation that is (supposedly) racist to the core. Maybe it has something to do with parents and families who insist their children be achievers, and not self-described victims:
Personal anecdote: In a previous higher ed job, I made several visits a year to the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, the schoolhouse for Army special forces personnel; Green Berets, psyop specialists and civil affairs troops.
During a break on one visit, I struck up a conversation with two black men, going through the civil affairs course. Both were E-4s (Specialists). When I asked about education plans, both said they were taking a “break” from their studies; one had completed an MBA from Purdue before joining the Army; the other had earned a bachelor’s in business admin from another Big 10 school. Both were Nigerian immigrants.
As our conversation continued, I decided to ask them a pointed question: why did they come to a country that is routinely labeled as “racist,” and volunteer to serve in an Army that—supposedly—reflects those views? Both smiled an one of them began to chuckle.
“Racist?” the former MBA student replied. “America gave me a chance to study at one of your great universities and earn my MBA. Now, I’m in the Army because it will give me a fast-track to citizenship. Then, I can live my dreams as an American citizen and make the best of the opportunities available to me.” His friend nodded in agreement.
“But African-Americans born in this country would disagree,” I continued, wondering what he would say.
“First, they are not African. We were born there; many of them came to this country before white immigrants. They know nothing of the culture, the language, the tribe they once belonged to. It would be like me calling myself Italian because I like pasta.”
What about slavery? I continued?
“What about it,” the SPC replied. “It was a horrible, evil institution, but your country ended it, through a civil war. There are no more slaves in America, there is no more segregation, and very little racism. The only people still in bondage are those who put themselves in that position. And many blacks in this country forget that Africans played a prominent role in the slave trade, and slavery still continues in parts of the continent to this day. But I don’t hear any cries of protest about that.”
With that, the conversation ended; break was over and the two prospective civil affairs specialists headed back to class. That conversation took place over a decade ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday. Many Americans—of all backgrounds—could learn a lot by talking to young men like those two Nigerian soldiers, serving in the US Army.