They mastered computers and space going rockets thousands of years ago! If only they could master boats...
Since we are now on the subject, what your ancestors were doing when the nubians were building pyramids or those guys in Timbuktu were collecting one of the biggest library in the world, or those guys in present day Zimbabwe were trading with gold and silver and building castles from stone ?
You do know that most of the whites who escaped or were sent by force, were slaves or prisoners or just ran out from Europe because they could not make it there, could not even read, right ? You know that at that time the English men bathed perhaps once or twice a year, right ?
You do know that the perfume industry was created to cover up the rampant diseases in the court of the Sun Kig of France back in the late 1600′s because the smell of rottening felsh, infections, and other of such since they did not have a single toilet in Versailles nor used baths ? Never mind that Africans had have their perfumes for centuries by then and washed almost daily were ever water was available.
You do know that in 1700′s absolute majority of the white Europeans could not read or write ? Majority of the white Europeans could not read or write in first half of the next century either.
You do know that there were massive famines in Europe in 1800′s ?
You do know that it was only in 1800′s that the white Europeans realised that it could be a good idea to wash hands before helping at child birth or surgical operations or at all ?.
You do know that the Great White Man had no say so in most parts of Africa until 1800′s? The funniest thing is that they died in there and could not live there because they had no idea how to survive there. The crucial point came when they realised that perhaps we should learn something from the natives, like kinine, the only working medicine against malaria, which by the way, the Africans had used and known for centuries by then. And this happened in late 1800′s, not before.
Now I wonder, if Africans and Africa had been lagging all trough the history, why on earth the white man did not take over before that ? Why white men did not invade Africa before 1800′s ? According to you, the place was a mess and lagging already.
Why didn't the Vikings just row their boats up the Nile or Kongo and kick the butts of those black semi-animals and steal their ivory and gold ?
You may tell yourself that white people are intellectually superior, but who are the geniuses arguing with people you consider below them day after day ?