The primary reason for the lack of progress in Africa compared to Europe and Asia was due to the geography. We all began as Africans but like many other species we found life outside of our original home much easier.
However, because we evolved in Africa, it is the one place where the ecosystem evolved alongside us. For example the large African animals evolved ways of dealing with us by being either ultra-aggressive or ultra-wary. This meant that the African equivalent of the horse, the zebra, became virtually un-tamable, similarly the elephant and the wild dog. At the other end of the scale there was no shortage of bugs, worms, flies and other critters that were more than happy to use us as part of their life cycle. Thus Africa became a pretty tough place in which to survive. In fact, the 19th century Victorians call West Africa the “white man’s graveyard”.
When the ancestors of modern day Europeans, Asians and other peoples left Africa some 60,000 years ago, many found better places to live, milder climates, animals capable of domestication, and fewer things wanting to eat them either directly or from the inside out. A few found themselves in less hospitable places, such as Australia or parts of South America, but for the most the world outside of Africa was a better place.
Unlike Sub-Saharan Africa with Desert to the north and surrounded by 3 oceans, travel through Europe and Asia presented few geographic obstacles. In time, more sophisticated societies developed where they could interact, trade, and learn from their neighbors both near and far thus they advanced much faster than the Africans who remained isolated. The Romans got principals of government and art and culture from the Greeks, the Europeans copied gunpowder from the Chinese, mathematics from the Arabs. Those in Europe and Asia that were connected developed faster and faster and those that were isolated in Africa progressed slowly and became vulnerable to exploitation. It’s not that the Europeans and Asians were better than Africans, they were just able to progress faster because they were able to leave Africa.
And now that the negroes have left Africa, they lead the violent crime statistics. Explain that.
There is high correlation between poverty and crime throughout the world. Since the poverty rate among blacks is much higher that whites, one would expect higher crime rates.
So, why does Prince George's County, Maryland have high murder rates too, despite having low poverty rates, and high incomes?
There's only one thing about this county that's so different from other suburban counties, and it's the dominant Black population there.
Probably because it's part of an inner city urban conglomeration. The problem isn't about how much the average makes, the issue is how much individuals make.
If you have half the population living off crime and the other half raking in the money from politics, then the poorer inner city areas are going to be committing crime against the rich people.
Did you know that during a recession crime goes down. Why? People have less money.
The reality is people also flaunt their money less, they buy less, they go out less, so there are LESS opportunities to commit crime, and criminals are then poorer.
The primary reason for the lack of progress in Africa compared to Europe and Asia was due to the geography. We all began as Africans but like many other species we found life outside of our original home much easier.
However, because we evolved in Africa, it is the one place where the ecosystem evolved alongside us. For example the large African animals evolved ways of dealing with us by being either ultra-aggressive or ultra-wary. This meant that the African equivalent of the horse, the zebra, became virtually un-tamable, similarly the elephant and the wild dog. At the other end of the scale there was no shortage of bugs, worms, flies and other critters that were more than happy to use us as part of their life cycle. Thus Africa became a pretty tough place in which to survive. In fact, the 19th century Victorians call West Africa the “white man’s graveyard”.
When the ancestors of modern day Europeans, Asians and other peoples left Africa some 60,000 years ago, many found better places to live, milder climates, animals capable of domestication, and fewer things wanting to eat them either directly or from the inside out. A few found themselves in less hospitable places, such as Australia or parts of South America, but for the most the world outside of Africa was a better place.
Unlike Sub-Saharan Africa with Desert to the north and surrounded by 3 oceans, travel through Europe and Asia presented few geographic obstacles. In time, more sophisticated societies developed where they could interact, trade, and learn from their neighbors both near and far thus they advanced much faster than the Africans who remained isolated. The Romans got principals of government and art and culture from the Greeks, the Europeans copied gunpowder from the Chinese, mathematics from the Arabs. Those in Europe and Asia that were connected developed faster and faster and those that were isolated in Africa progressed slowly and became vulnerable to exploitation. It’s not that the Europeans and Asians were better than Africans, they were just able to progress faster because they were able to leave Africa.
And now that the negroes have left Africa, they lead the violent crime statistics. Explain that.
There is high correlation between poverty and crime throughout the world. Since the poverty rate among blacks is much higher that whites, one would expect higher crime rates.
So, why does Prince George's County, Maryland have high murder rates too, despite having low poverty rates, and high incomes?
There's only one thing about this county that's so different from other suburban counties, and it's the dominant Black population there.
Probably because it's part of an inner city urban conglomeration. The problem isn't about how much the average makes, the issue is how much individuals make.
If you have half the population living off crime and the other half raking in the money from politics, then the poorer inner city areas are going to be committing crime against the rich people.
Did you know that during a recession crime goes down. Why? People have less money.
The reality is people also flaunt their money less, they buy less, they go out less, so there are LESS opportunities to commit crime, and criminals are then poorer.
Isn't Staten Island, New York , more inner city than Prince George's County, Maryland?
It's also not as rich, and more expensive in cost of living.
Thing is Staten Island doesn't have a murder rate as high as PG County, Maryland, could it be because Staten Island has a lot less Blacks?
Potentially. But is it because they're black, or is it because a lot of what has happened in history?
When a child grows up, they remember what they did say the year before. The year after they may have forgotten what they did two years before, but they remember what they did the year before, and what they did the year before was based on what they knew at that time, which was from the year before. So while things get forgotten, they still have an impact on people's lives.
Now, in the US with slavery and segregation, such things might be half forgotten, but they still play a part in the lives of people.
So, black people don't necessarily commit more crimes because they're black. They commit more crimes because of issues of poverty and the like, but often some of these areas are the most deprived areas in the country. However the issue isn't so easy to see with statistics. Sometimes it's about mentality.
For example Wolf Point Montana is 96.4% white and the third lowest income place in the country. It has 2,800 people in an area of 2.3KM2, however it's surrounded by countryside. Its poor because there's probably not much there, it's on a reservation, but crime wise there probably isn't much around to commit crime on. The temptation just isn't there.
Prince George's County is right next to DC. The county contains many different parts, rich and poor.
Mapping America’s distressed communities, zip code by zip code
Hyattsville, school dropout rate 28%. Adults not working (officially) 28%. Now, what's that in real terms? 50% not working legally??? Poverty rate 12%. Distress score 51.8
Hillcress Heights, drop out rate 9%, Adults not work (officially) 38%. Poverty rate 8%. Distress score 50.4.
But Bowie, drop out rate 5%, Adults not working 29%, poverty rate 4%, distress score 4.9
That's much different to Hyattsville and Hillcress Heights.
Marlboro village, distress score 9.2. Again, massively different. Luke Arbor is similar.
You have rich and poor areas within these counties which skew the statistics. There are poor areas and there are rich areas.
Statten Island has a few places with high distress scores and many places with low scores.
The point here is that what we're talking about is extremely complex. There's more than just one or two statistics here. You have to put together a whole load of statistics and then try and figure out which things are causing the problems and which problems are caused by things that aren't statistics.
I did this with London and basically came out with a view that you could predict, with enough information, the crime levels of areas more or less, none of it had much to do with color.
