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The long and ugly tradition of treating Africa as a dirty, diseased place (Triple Bagger)
Washington Post ^ | 25 Aug 14 | By Laura Seay and Kim Yi Dionne

Posted on 10/16/2014 7:46:06 AM PDT by SkyPilot

Edited on 10/17/2014 2:38:28 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Vivian Koshefobamu, a 45-year-old vendor, speaks in front of dried meat, at the Ajegunle-Ikorodu market in Lagos on August 13, 2014.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: africa; anticolonialism; antiwesternism; barkingmoonbat; bushmeat; disease; ebola; obama; obola; pc; washingtonpost
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To: SkyPilot

The long and ugly tradition of treating water as wet in its liquid form.


41 posted on 10/16/2014 8:06:29 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: SkyPilot

“Africa is a dirty diseased place”

Why yes it is.


42 posted on 10/16/2014 8:07:59 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: SkyPilot

Well, at least they chose the appropriate photo.


43 posted on 10/16/2014 8:09:08 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: dead

That’s flat offensive. Water can, if it chooses be one of 52 states of being. Call it “Purple Penguins” or something so it doesn’t feel bad about it’s properties at a given time.

Freaking hater....


44 posted on 10/16/2014 8:09:19 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
FWIW, my daughter taught English in a provincial town in China in 2008. She said that street vendors would set up stalls across a wide street from their apartment which included butchering live chickens and ducks.

What wasn't sold to be eaten was left in the street in any kind of weather. But at least an old man with a cart, broom, rake, shovel and hand-pulled cart would show up a day or so later to clean up and haul the refuse away.

If the Chinese were permitted to colonize them, they could potentially reach that level of civilization.

45 posted on 10/16/2014 8:10:39 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: arderkrag

Selling dried monkeys in an open marketplace is a sure sign of an advanced society that we would do well to make part of the American culture.


46 posted on 10/16/2014 8:11:45 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Vigilanteman

We have a president who denies the reality of evil and calls it good. Until that injustice is rectified there will be no hope of overcoming human tragedy.


47 posted on 10/16/2014 8:13:19 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: MrB

Dude, look...all cultures are equal. Read the memo. Dried monkeys are totally on par with space flight and quantum thermodynamics.

Freaking haters....


48 posted on 10/16/2014 8:13:27 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Black Agnes

When I was in Africa and you looked in the frozen section of what we would call a grocery store, the paws were still on the selection so you would know exactly what it was.


49 posted on 10/16/2014 8:13:55 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Think Caps are no longer being issued in elementary school.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

When we lived there 40+ years ago we never ate any meat except what came in cans from Europe. Canned hams from Denmark were most of our meat consumption. It was just too risky to buy meat in a meat market. Even in a grocery store (they had several, run by Greeks). You just never knew what it had done in its previous life...hop, crawl, fly, slither, pull a cart, swing from trees...


50 posted on 10/16/2014 8:16:13 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: SkyPilot

“I cannot believe that liberalism is so far gone mentally that they cannot allow themselves to acknowledge reality.”

Liberalism is a mental disease that prevents them from acknowledging reality.


51 posted on 10/16/2014 8:17:18 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: SkyPilot
I cannot believe that liberalism is so far gone mentally that they cannot allow themselves to acknowledge reality.

Believe it - this is the same crew that decries any mention of American exceptionalism and pulls the race card out to trump any reasoned argument. This is no different.

52 posted on 10/16/2014 8:17:23 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: SkyPilot
The long and ugly tradition of treating Africa as a dirty, diseased place

It's called "accurate reporting".

53 posted on 10/16/2014 8:18:26 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Black Agnes

“You just never knew what it had done in its previous life...hop, crawl, fly, slither, pull a cart, swing from trees...”

Got elected twice...


54 posted on 10/16/2014 8:18:34 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: SkyPilot

Libtards believe in cultural relativism and cultural equivalence.That is the way they can deny American superiority and consider it politically incorrect.If America is not objectively superior to other cultures, then their idea of submerging American sovereignty into a one world government becomes one step closer to realization.


55 posted on 10/16/2014 8:21:04 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Louis Foxwell

Isaiah 5:20

20 ¶Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

They say Isaiah was prophesying about our day.

56 posted on 10/16/2014 8:23:19 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: SkyPilot

Remember Richard Burton, the British explorer, not the actor. He had the same comments about Africa as you do. He talked about the despots who became kings, emperors and rulers who ruled with a heavy, cruel hand.

Reading about it was eye opening.


57 posted on 10/16/2014 8:24:58 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: mjp

All completely true. But I believe that they also believe to their core that visualization = Reality. thats why think songs can stop wars and get combatants to haZ huggies.

they picture it in their minds ergo their wish becomes manifest. If it does not, it is only because some purist right winger messed something up and it as almost there until that happened.

Just look at their belief in AGW and the real. They believe a thing is real ergo it is.


59 posted on 10/16/2014 8:25:45 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Grampa Dave
Apparently preparing and eating Bush meat can infect one with ebola and kill them and others.

Bush's Fault!

60 posted on 10/16/2014 8:26:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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