[Question_Assumptions]

You need to travel to Haiti and Jamaica and observe.

You'll notice that there is a substantial difference between conditions in Haiti and Jamaica. Those differences are largely cultural.

[wardaddy]

I have lived and worked in dozens of "black countries" around the globe. Poverty, serial illegitimacy, tolerated polygamy, rampant crime,inability to self govern, etc are endemic in all of them....sans Bermuda and the Cayman Islands (which is mostly mulatto)...and perhaps a few other heavy tourist spots(some of the Windwards). Zim and SA are soon to follow. Is this strictly cultural, racial or is it simply that most of these countries(and cultures) are playing catch-up civilization-wise? I think it is a bit of all of it and a result of one aspect affecting the other and so on.

[wardaddy]

Jamaica outside of the touristy areas is mired in serious poverty and crime (even though guns are nearly outlawed). Haiti would be Sierra Leone or Liberia were it not so close to the US or shared it's island with the Dom Rep which btw is no poster child for posterity but benefits Haiti to a degree.