Why are the 10 Poorest Cities in the World all From Black Africa???

[dannyboys]

We've heard lots of reasons why African nations aren't prosperous or highly productive. Everyone seems to have someone to blame. Some claim that Africa had a "thriving" civilization at one point (a point that archaeology doesn't support). It's the fault of Imperialists. It's the fault of slave traders (including the African tribes that sold their brothers). It's the fault of Democrats. Blame - blame -blame. All the while ignoring the one thing we all agree on -- African nations aren't prosperous or very productive!

Perhaps the reason is so simple it's slapping us in the face. Perhaps it just isn't important to Africans to develop thriving, over-sized, highly regulated civilizations.

If the reason is because of lack of contact with the Western World then we're left with places like Detroit that are run by African-Americans and yet don't thrive. But we might be able to blame Socialist Liberals. However, if we're going to blame Socialist-Liberalism then we're forced to consider China which is a Socialist-Liberal regime that IS thriving, producing, and prospering (thanks to their embracing the free market). If the reason is due to Imperialism then we have to consider nations that were very recently subject to USSR Imperialism but jumped right back on their feet the moment they were free to operate as independent governments. If the reason is because Africans are hunter/gatherers then we need to consider Ireland (a rather bleak and desolate landscape in many respects) where the inhabitants began as hunter/gatherers but turned their landscape into a productive and modern nation.

So, the bottom line (for me anyway) is that Africans are perfectly happy living in a tribal manner as hunter/gatherers. There's really nothing wrong with that. I've often wished that I could leave the city life and find a place deep in the woods and live off of the land. There's a PBS show called "Alone In The Wilderness" (I think that's the name) where an old dude leaves civilization and builds a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness and lives there until he dies. He did so by choice -- not because of Democrats, Imperialism, or the slave trade.

You've got 'Dick's' story pretty much accurate. In the last fifteen years of his life he spent his winters near Seattle. Where he died. In these latter years he was flown in with all the supplies he needed. And then some. He often invited hunters travelling on the lake in for coffee and biscuits. (And a little 'belt').

 

[Nutz]

[ Then a country like South Africa that was give a HUGE head start (first world infrastructure, society, rule of law etc) has become a crime ridden basket-case hopelessly spiraling into poverty and decay.

Same thing happened with zimbabwe (former Rhodesia). Whites built it into a first world country and then in 1980 blacks stole it from the whites and now it has per capita GDP of $500.

It all comes down to the fact that blacks are mentally inferior and can't do technology. They sing and dance and play sports but they don't become engineers and businessmen and scientists. True in both africa and america. Difference is in america, blacks are a minority and can live off the whites.

Pussy

 

[Tank]

Who expects dumb people to be rich?

Just Sayin

 

[MrMax]

China had to go to Africa and show them how to grow food on a large scale because white folks are fed up with trying to help Africans who are simply too dumb to get ahead.

 

[dannyboys]

China had to go to Africa and show them how to grow food on a large scale because white folks are fed up with trying to help Africans who are simply too dumb to get ahead.

The Chinese basically own 100% of Africa's mineral resources. Never fired a shot. Just handed the local tribal chiefs/politicians a small briefcase of US thousand dollar bills. Now the Blacks are basically slaves owned by the Chinese business men.
Africa is China's satellite country now. No more overcrowding in China. Any Chinese who wants to go work for a Chinese mining company is given a free ticket.
The most important point: Every Chinese who goes to work in Africa displaces a Black.
In Chinese culture dogs are considered more important than Blacks.
Think the Chinese are going to start welfare and unemployment programs for displaced Blacks? Not likely. In a couple of decades any Black who can not survive on their own productivity will be shipped off to 'camps' to basically starve to death.
Did I mention that already Chinese mine owners are targeting Black employees who are having more than one kid? "You are now making enough money to feed yourself, your wife and one child. Have another child and your hourly wage is reduced by the amount the mine owner must pay to provide food and housing for that child. Break a leg or something and you and your lovely family are out of here on the next bus. Where you go is your problem".
Did I mention that the mine owners feed/cloth/house their employees 'on-sight'?
Sounds sort of like the cotton mill owners in the South doesn't it?

 

[ShootSpeeders]

China had to go to Africa and show them how to grow food on a large scale because white folks are fed up with trying to help Africans who are simply too dumb to get ahead.

And china will fail too. Africans can do subsistence "farming" where they have a small garden or something like that. But to run a 500 acre farm requires technical skills and africans don't have that.

Africa is hopeless and always will be because blacks are mentally inferior.

 

[dannyboys]

China had to go to Africa and show them how to grow food on a large scale because white folks are fed up with trying to help Africans who are simply too dumb to get ahead.

And china will fail too. Africans can do subsistence "farming" where they have a small garden or something like that. But to run a 500 acre farm requires technical skills and africans don't have that.

Africa is hopeless and always will be because blacks are mentally inferior.

Every chinese who moves to Africa to work for a mining company is allotted a small amount of company owned land to grow a garden. Some go together to form large market gardens where the wives work while the kids are attending the company run school.
The Black's who used to habit this land are now living in scanty villages where they 'get the day in' committing violent crimes against each other and 'making babies'.
Now that the Chinese own this land there is no way as long as man lives on the earth that the Black's will ever get the land back.
In a couple of decades the Blacks will be living in scanty towns amide squalor and crime/drug infested areas the size of Maine.
Oh ya I forgot. The chinese who came to work in the mining camps will employ Black servants AKA slaves to clean the toilets in the chinese mansions while the chinese are at their offices making multi-millions.