“Whites Steal African Resources!”

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  1. StillBlue

    StillBlue Well-Known Member

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    Look up American Rubber company and it's history in the Congo.
     
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    If you say, "look up" what you mean is you don't know either, you just want me to do your research for you. In any case, the Congo was colonized by Belgium.
     
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    Oh I'm very well versed in Congolese history. I had hoped to pique your curiosity.
     
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    Then why are you trying to pretend that the United States was a colonial power in Africa?
     
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    jcarlilesiu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Do you feel the same about your home?
     
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    bricklayer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Is there any way to deal fairly with a continent of people who have an average IQ of 86?
     
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    Which pretty much ended 75 years ago with the invention of synthetic rubber. Nigeria is one of the wealthiest countries in Africa because of the western consumption of oil.
     
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    Imagine that. You got some "likes." Amazing.
     
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    How does a rubber company equal colonization?
     
  10. StillBlue

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    It was in reply to America not doing any colonization. While the US government did not you had companies like the American Rubber Company as the defacto law in large swaths of countries in Africa and central and south america. As such they were what most would consider colonists.
     
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    Which would make them all a great deal smarter than the average criminal IMPOTUS supporter who believes that bovine excrement about them.
     
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    IQ tests are notoriously inaccurate which is why some states ban them in schools. If you want proof my lowest score growing up was 145 with a high of 172. Most Congolese speak a minimum of 3 languages and being multi-lingual is common throughout Africa. I also have a former student that finishes his masters in IT at a large US University this year and is weighing offers to do his PhD at Harvard or the University of Chicago on full boat scholarships. Not bad for a kid that grew up in a house made of mud bricks with a dirt floor. Opportunity is the key factor. I opened a door for him and he ran through.
     
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  13. StillBlue

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    PS. I've told him he needs to bring his new talents back here and reminded him that I don't need a visa to go to the states and hunt him down.
    He will and this young man is a natural teacher.
     
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    The British African Colonies were much better off than the po' Africans are now.
     
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    That's what you're going with? It's the test? What an intelligent argument.
     
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    Like democrats, they poop in the street.
     
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    Most? I don't think so. I think you consider it colonialism even though it doesn't meet the definition.
     
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    So you want to destroy what people with intelligence created.

    There have always been folks like you. Who destroy what others work hard to create . Idealism birthed from ignorance and a lack of common sense. Thanks to modern civ these people survive and pass on their genes whereas before civ. they died or were culled out before passing on their genes.
     
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    Beats the heck out of your melanin determines intelligence argument. Africans are no smarter nor dumber than anyone else.
    The people on the continent have suffered horrendous governments more so than most. First the slave traders exploiting the greed of the powerful then the colonists who had guns at their back to exploit the labor. Finally after gaining independence the more strategic countries to the powers had puppet governments installed by the Soviets or the US and Europe. A good example of all this is the history of the Congo. Slavery? Check. First a personal property of King Leopold II of Belgium and exploited by European and American companies. Next taken over by the Belgian government for "humanitarian reasons" to reestablish law and order to address the excesses of those companies. Things like cutting off children's hands and feet if their parents didn't collect their rubber quota for the day. The native population decreased by 40-70% during this time. Finally independence but the West wasn't finished with the Congo. They didn't like the freely elected Lumumba and backed Mobutu in a coup and then assassinated Lumumba so he couldn't reappear. Mobutu was not a nice man despite being called a good Christian by Diamond Pat Robertson who lobbied for him. The Congo was important to them because it has mineral resources out the yin yang and borders 9 countries. Only now is the Congo and other countries emerging from their histories.
     
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    Do you know what drove European innovation? War. Because they were so constantly at war they developed the tools of the trade and then chose to use them on people who didn't. Trump just visited the Taj Mahal. Europeans called the Indians heathen brutes that built that. Why?
     
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    Melanin? That's it, melanin? That's the only difference, melanin? Shallow. Skin deep.
     
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    Wait...@Stillblue doesn't believe in IQ tests?

    Talk about a science denier.
     
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    Only the science that backs an agenda.

    The rest is to be dismissed.
     
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    Well morons would, and as I said the practice died for economic reasons shortly after WWII. No rebellion was needed as the company simply pulled up stakes and left. Leaving economic devestation in it's wake.That devestation no doubt played a role in the rebellion that eventually drove the Belgians out of the country. Note at the time the country was called the Belgian Congo not the Dupont Congo

    Sadly, in spite of the Congo being one of the most mineral rich countries in the world, the people are poorer now than they were in the days of Dupont as various factions and war lords continue to war over ever diminishing spoils.
     
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  25. ToughTalk

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    Nope. Borders define countries, which are separated through culture, law, religion, policy.

    Migration needs to be controlled so that if you are a piece of ****, we will discover that through immigration and kick your ass back out.
     
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