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Africa is a continent that the Western, mostly-white-run world has an incredibly troublesome history with. I suspect this is giving us (in the US) internal fits

Africa is a continent that the Western, mostly-white-run world has an incredibly troublesome history with. I suspect this is giving us (in the US) internal fits when we try to decide what to do. Almost anything short of sending direct aid makes it look like we are abandoning them and sending direct aid looks suspiciously like a military invasion (because we'll be sending armed troops). We haven't even figured out how to "deal with" black people here in the US and those guys over there, well, they're foreign black people.

awakened 12y ago
You wrote: "We haven't even figured out how to 'deal with' black people here in the US..." That's an absurd statement. The US has an African American president. He was elected twice by a large majority.
- duaneb 12y ago
  Ok, so we dealt with a single black person—now what about the community?
- Nux 12y ago
  I doubt mr Obama is at all African, he was born in Honolulu for crying out loud. All this crap with African-American is annoying and needs to stop. You don't call white citizens European-American, do you?
  - cbennett 12y ago
    “I doubt mr Obama is at all African” <Baracks> father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Kenya http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
kaonashi 12y ago
A somewhat insightful take on that: http://www.ianwelsh.net/why-africa-cant-handle-ebola-the-destruction-of-the-3rd-world/ http://www.ianwelsh.net/why-africa-cant-handle-ebola-the-des...
- innguest 12y ago
  That post speaks the truth. Kudos to Mr. Welsh for understanding and clearly communicating the core of the issue - I'll have to read more from him.
  - PhantomGremlin 12y ago
    I hate saying "me too", but I'll say it anyway. Me too. Everyone should read the linked post. It's short, it's to the point. It's depressing. I'm glad you highlighted it, because otherwise I would have skipped it.
- drivingmenuts 12y ago
  I was wrong. We do know how to deal with Africa. By consuming the bounty and leaving them scraps.

awakened 12y ago

You wrote: "We haven't even figured out how to 'deal with' black people here in the US..." That's an absurd statement. The US has an African American president. He was elected twice by a large majority.

duaneb 12y ago
Ok, so we dealt with a single black person—now what about the community?
Nux 12y ago
I doubt mr Obama is at all African, he was born in Honolulu for crying out loud. All this crap with African-American is annoying and needs to stop. You don't call white citizens European-American, do you?
- cbennett 12y ago
  “I doubt mr Obama is at all African” <Baracks> father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Kenya http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

kaonashi 12y ago

A somewhat insightful take on that: http://www.ianwelsh.net/why-africa-cant-handle-ebola-the-destruction-of-the-3rd-world/ http://www.ianwelsh.net/why-africa-cant-handle-ebola-the-des...

innguest 12y ago
That post speaks the truth. Kudos to Mr. Welsh for understanding and clearly communicating the core of the issue - I'll have to read more from him.
- PhantomGremlin 12y ago
  I hate saying "me too", but I'll say it anyway. Me too. Everyone should read the linked post. It's short, it's to the point. It's depressing. I'm glad you highlighted it, because otherwise I would have skipped it.
drivingmenuts 12y ago
I was wrong. We do know how to deal with Africa. By consuming the bounty and leaving them scraps.