Quote from CaptainObvious:
The uneducated and impoverished are easy marks for explotation, often by their own kind. Conspiracy theories run rampent among the black cultures, here and abroad. This too makes them easy marks. Lack of education is the root cause.
Too simple, too easy, and wrong. If you go back far enough, everyone was uneducated.... When we put books in front of black people today they do not want to, or cannot learn. It's not about just learning, it's about creating and working. The root cause is that blacks cannot or will not perform economicaly productive tasks like other races do. The opportunity is there, they won't crawl out like everyone else does or at least tries.
Abject poverty is not a choice and neither is great wealth. Both are the result of dumb luck. Everything inbetween those two extremes, we work for, but the extremes are simply luck, good or bad, but dumb f'n luck none the less.
Staying in poverty is a choice. You like anecdotes, how about Larry Ellison was adopted by his aunt and lived ina two bedroom apartment? all the countless folks risking it all to make a business run? they have been poor, the only difference is attitude.
Humility tells me I am lucky to have born here in the USA, white, had good parents, decent education, and a few breaks along the way. I had nothing to do with any of that. Pure random selection. I could have made better or worse choices along the way to enhance the direction of my life. For those choices I am responsible, but not the starting point. Nothing but luck for that.
you have penchant for anecdote, but were not really talking about that. I am humble too, but I know my values will work anywhere. Think about this- it was individuals just like you and me that made this a place of opportunity. Opportunity simply means the chance at material success, and it requires individuals working to create and make it so. Opportunity does not derive from some vague external collective notion of priviledge.
Korea in 1945 has just been occupied and basically enslaved by Japan, they lost everything, then they had another war in 1950. Talk about misfortune, but they didn't sit around feeling sorry for themselves wondering how they could escape. Now they far exceed Nigeria in material standards, even though Nigeria had every chance at besting them.
If we're going to talk in really broad strokes, I'll give you that blacks have a more violent culture. That seems to be true, at least during current times, regardless of the country.
we are talking averages, and it isn't 'seems to be', it is.
Of course it all depends on how you define violent. If it's some guy that's more likely to come up and punch you in the face for no good reason, I'd say blacks are more violent than whites. If you're talking about occupying a country, killing those that were there before you by the tens thousands, leaving them with nothing but the worst dirt you can give them, then the white man is the f'n devil. Like I said in my first post, given the right circumstances for which we can justify/rationalize our actions, we're all killers at heart. It's in our primal nature.
Really? If Africans had more technology, oh my....
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo | Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:42am EDT
(Reuters) - Authorities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo accused neighboring Rwanda on Tuesday of "invading" a volatile border area, portraying an advancing rebel insurgency as a Rwandan military operation.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/10/us-congo-democratic-rebels-idUSBRE8690XB20120710
The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 genocidal mass slaughter of an estimated 800,000 people in the East African state of Rwanda. Over the course of approximately 100 days (from the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira on April 6 through mid-July) over 500,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate.[1] Estimates of the death toll have ranged from 500,000â1,000,000,[2] or as much as 20% of the country's total population. It was the culmination of longstanding ethnic competition and tensions between the minority Tutsi, who had controlled power for centuries, and the majority Hutu peoples, who had come to power in the rebellion of 1959â62.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide
Niger just got around to outlawing slavery in 2003.
That's not a typo. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7693397.stm
white man's devil my ass
