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King Mark 06-20-2019 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by InfoGuy (Post 22487791)
If legislation for reparations passes, people claiming to be of black American ancestry will come crawling out of the woodwork.

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They already did that with the natives. Hilarious af.

Transracial :1orglaugh shit only an inbred can come up with

50 inbreds

TheSquealer 06-20-2019 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Dead Eye (Post 22487802)
They already did that with the natives. Hilarious af.

Transracial :1orglaugh shit only an inbred can come up with

Why offend muslims non stop by throwing around the insult of "inbred"?

King Mark 06-20-2019 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by TheSquealer (Post 22487808)
Why insult muslims non stop by throwing around the insult of "inbred"?

Because I'm from America. Where you guys are the inbreds: https://www.foxnews.com/story/whites...ks-study-finds

Not the muslims: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla..._United_States

I dont know where you from, but that inbred shit was a middle eastern thing out there do to not many people wanting to suffer in them deserts lol. That includes the Christian's and the Jews. Same people. Nomadic desert tribes that started all this.

And they were not mating with their siblings and offspring like American inbreds.

Google Expert 06-20-2019 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by adultinnovation (Post 22486963)
Why do Black people want reparations for slavery?

80% of blacks were being traded by Jews or Jew-owned companies. The other 20% were being sold into slavery by other blacks.

Fuck off with your white guilt already.

Google Expert 06-20-2019 10:10 PM

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King Mark 06-20-2019 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Google Expert (Post 22487817)

^nice meme, but normal people ain't fooled.

History proves when NYC was all white it was the most dangerous city in America. Spawned the original gangs of America. Etc.

And now, as soon as yall became minorities in it, its magically the safest big city in America.

That's why you, onehung, and all the rest of the redhats keep trying so hard to tarnish NYC now. Because it goes against everything yall stand for and proves that when everybody is given the opportunity, everybody prevails.

It's a prototype of the upcoming 40's. No race war, no segregation of any type, no Africa shit, no Mexico shit, no middle eastern shit, etc. Plenty of Africans, Mexicans and muslims tho. And yall hate it cause it goes against the false sense of superiority that led yall to inbreed yallselves out of power. Theres normal white people living in Harlem and Brownsville walking their dogs and jogging by the projects with no problems... places inbreds redlined.

Its America, being America without yall bullshit. Truly great again.

VRPdommy 06-22-2019 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by TheSquealer (Post 22487801)

Funny...
That is how I see the Republicans and Immigration Issues !

VRPdommy 06-22-2019 06:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Google Expert (Post 22487817)

What legit fact has to hide behind a bit url and a fake page ?
Some of you are either that stupid or you really think most everyone else is.

OneHungLo 06-22-2019 07:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Dead Eye (Post 22487827)
^nice meme, but normal people ain't fooled.

History proves when NYC was all white it was the most dangerous city in America. Spawned the original gangs of America. Etc.

And now, as soon as yall became minorities in it, its magically the safest big city in America.

Normal people know damn well every white area is safe.

And the only reason why NYC became safer was because Giuliani started locking up black and brown people for less serious offenses because they knew they were precursors for more serious felonies.

OneHungLo 06-22-2019 07:02 AM

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Originally Posted by VRPdommy (Post 22488721)
What legit fact has to hide behind a bit url and a fake page ?
Some of you are either that stupid or you really think most everyone else is.

SOURCE

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Crime and Enforcement Activity in New York City (Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2016)

NYC 2016 Crime Statistics By Race

RAPE
Black: 44.3%
Hispanic: 41.3%
White: 7.0%

Other Felony Sex Crimes:
Black: 42.3%
Hispanic: 36.2%
White: 14.9%

Murder
Black: 52.4%
Hispanic: 35.9%
White: 7.1%

Robbery
Black: 59.9%
Hispanic: 31.2%
White: 5.7%

Shootings (any crime where victim struck with bullet)
Black: 67.5%
Hispanic: 29.2%
White: 2.3%

Firearm Arrests
Black: 73.6%
Hispanic: 22.7%
White: 3.1%
Kind of amazing huh? Must be pretty bad that you thought it was fake?

VRPdommy 06-22-2019 07:36 AM

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Originally Posted by OneHungLo (Post 22488723)
SOURCE



Kind of amazing huh? Must be pretty bad that you thought it was fake?

Those numbers do not show that crime would go down if blacks did not live there or did you actually read the statement I was addressing.
Authority was given to NYPD in stating that, and they did not.
If it were not blacks, it would be some other class or race of people you did not like and want to blame for everything.
You only want to feel better blaming others for your own plight or fears.

The environment you are brought up in dictates how you respond to that which is around you. A problem you can not easily get rid of until you manage discrimination and greed.
But the fix is not getting rid of the result as it will be replaced with a new one.
You can manage the effect but only addressing the core problems bring a result that will have any effect.

OneHungLo 06-22-2019 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by VRPdommy (Post 22488735)
Those numbers do not show that crime would go down if blacks did not live there

If black and brown people commit 90+% of the rape robberies and murder, how would removing them not make the crime go down?

Give it a rest.

Bosa 06-22-2019 08:41 AM

The real horrors of the transatlantic slave trade behind Taboo and Roots

As James Delaney, the protagonist of the BBC’s hit drama Taboo, struggles with a vast assortment of enemies upon his return to London from Africa in 1814, he murmurs to his half-sister and former lover: “I have sailed to places where there is no damnation.” Although it is never clear whether he was referring to actual physical places or to some corners of his mind, it is clear that Africa – and the African slave trade – loom large in virtually every aspect of this renegade’s life.

Delaney’s haunting memories and visions relating to his involvement in the abominable commerce of human beings, means that the slave trade is almost permanently in the background as a running subplot that determines much of the subsequent action, as Delaney takes on the powerful East India Company, the British crown and America.

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The story is set at a crucial historical moment, just seven years after the British parliament abolished the transatlantic slave trade and just as the British government was starting to put pressure on all European slave-trading nations at the Congress of Vienna to end this inhumane traffic.

It is ironic, then, that the horror stories possessing Delaney’s mind in this fictional series, rather than disappearing, increased in number and frequency in the real world during the next few decades. This was especially the case after 1820, when the British navy began policing the Atlantic and courts of Mixed Commission and Vice-Admiralty began adjudicating vessels engaged in this now illegal activity.

Horror stories
The sloop Cornwallis, the fictitious vessel that haunts Delaney’s nightmares, appears to have run aground during a storm leaving the enslaved Africans to die in its hold. In the real slave trade, even if the storm could have been avoided, a combination of overcrowding, lack of drinkable water, a bad diet, deadly diseases, and maltreatment would often have led to a similar outcome. There are plenty of actual documented cases like this over the next few decades, as slave traders were forced to conduct their activities in the shadows and as the few controls put in place to improve conditions on board slave vessels in the 1790s were abandoned.

For example, in 1837, the Arrogante, a brig owned by the commercial house of Pedro Martinez & Co., based in Havana, gained sudden notoriety after being detained by a British cruiser and taken to Jamaica. There, a large number of the Africans who had been transported inside the vessel’s bowels, accused the crew of murdering one of the Africans, of eating his heart and liver, and then of slicing the man’s legs and arms into small square pieces and serving them with rice to the rest of the Africans.

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Only four years later, a small Canary Islands coaster, the Jesus Maria, was seized with more than 270 Africans crammed below deck in the most terrible conditions imaginable. Allegations of beatings, rapes and murders were soon to follow. Seasoned British officers who observed the conditions in which this group of men, women, and especially children arrived in Cuba in 1841, were left struggling for words to describe what they considered to be one of the cruellest cases of human trafficking they had ever witnessed.

Out of Africa
The accusations of unspeakable actions directed at Delaney in Taboo, including those of cannibalism, are not, therefore, totally out of order. Between 1820 and 1867 – the year of the last recorded transatlantic slave trade voyage, according to the the slave trade history site Voyages – copious and detailed references exist to brutal actions like those carried out by Delaney, or the sailors of the Arrogante and the Jesus Maria. As a matter of fact, the BBC is also currently treating us to a remake version of the classic TV series Roots, based on Alex Haley’s eponymous novel, where the horrors of the slave trade are also presented in vivid and violent detail.


Roots: a traumatic portrayal of the horrors of the slave trade. BBC/A+E
To be sure, after 1820, enslaved Africans were also forced to endure deadly diseases, piratical attacks, shipwrecks, longer voyages in always-overcrowded vessels, and hurried landings, usually at night and on locations that were hardly ideal for walking barefoot. This is perhaps Taboo’s only weak link in taking on the transatlantic slave trade: the experiences of Africans, beyond some spellbinding graphic images, are not explored in anywhere near the same depth as those of Delaney.

As a result, we can only continue to imagine the sort of memories and visions that may have haunted each and every one of them, from the moment they were seized in their homelands and marched in shackles towards the Atlantic coast, to the hour at which their eyes were closed forever.

When it comes to depicting the horrors of the slave trade, Taboo has done much better than most. Delaney’s own survival, his ghastly memories and visions, and even the beads and iron chains he finds aboard the Spanish brig he buys in a public auction, are manifest markers of a world where colonialism and modern capitalism were concocted – a world that was the result of profiting from human enslavement, displacement, suffering and death.

Bosa 06-22-2019 08:43 AM

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Unspeakable cruelty: Former slaves tell their stories in narratives Southern University put online

The stories are of unspeakable cruelty.

“I was severely punished by a board cut full of holes to raise the blisters, then I was whipped with a strap to burst the blisters, which were then salted and peppered,” Thomas Brown said. "This burned me very badly.”

The South Carolina slave had escaped and hidden in nearby woods but had been found by bloodhounds and brought back.

"And I never tried to run away again.”

His very words. His story.

Brown's powerful telling of his treatment as a slave, along with that of more than 200 other former slaves, can be found online because of the work of John B. Cade Sr. and Southern University.

When Cade was on the faculties of two historically black universities in the first half of the 20th century, he sent students to collect stories from former slaves. The narratives are in the Southern University library that is in Cade's name.

For all practical purposes, though, the stories could have been locked in a vault.

“The collection has been sitting in the library for years, and no one attempted to do anything about it,” said Angela V. Proctor, university archivist and digital librarian at the John B. Cade Library.

That changed three years ago when Southern posted the narratives online. Now, anyone with internet access can read what the slaves had to say.

That's prompted calls to Proctor from researchers in several countries interested in learning what former American slaves said about their lives.

Cade began collecting the stories after he arrived at Southern in 1929 as registrar and as principal at Southern University Lab School. He continued while on the faculty at Prairie View A&M from 1931-39 and after returning to Southern in 1939 as dean and director of extension services, Proctor said. Cade retired in 1961 and died in 1970. The collection at Southern includes interviews Cade collected while at Prairie View, Proctor said.

Part of Cade’s motivation was to counter white historians’ suggestions that slaves had not minded their status, Proctor said. Few narratives in Southern’s collection support the idea that slavery was a benign institution.

Cruelty, particularly from the overseers hired to manage slaves, is a frequent theme.

South Carolina slave Louis Bishop said that to maximize productivity, punishment for infractions would be delayed until rainy days, when the slaves wouldn’t be working.

“My master was so cruel to his slaves that they were almost crazy at times,” said Bill Collins, an Alabama slave born in 1846. “He would buckle us across a log and whip us until we were unable to walk for three days. On Sunday, we would go to the barn and pray to God to fix some way for us to be freed from our mean masters.”

The slaves made clear they had virtually no control over the most basic decisions. They needed permission to marry, a permission that some owners declined to give. In some cases, owners decided which slaves could wed and to whom. It was common for families to be broken up as some members were sold to other owners.

“My mother was sold away from me,” said Collins. “I was so lonesome without her that I would often go about my work and cry and look for her return, as I was told by some of the slaves that she would be brought back to me, but she never came back.”

Jourden Luper, born in Charleston, South Carolina, ended up in Texas with no memory of a mother or father, who were sold separately before he turned 2, his grandmother told him.

“The worst thing about slavery was selling the slaves on the auction block like they were cattle,” said William Haynes, a Virginia-born slave who was moved to Texas.

Common themes from the narratives are that most slaves lived in simple, dirt-floor cabins, wore homespun clothing and were forced to work hard — especially field slaves. They would rise well before dawn, eat, feed and milk cows, then report to the fields so they could begin work as soon as it was light enough to see.

“The women, as well as the men, had to work in the fields chopping and picking cotton," Haynes said. "The only pay was a whipping."

Some masters forbade any religious practice, forcing slaves to sneak into the woods to pray and sing or risk being caught in their quarters. Other masters took slaves with them to church.

“They would pray saying, ‘O Lord, lift the yoke of bondage of us that we may serve God under our own vine and fig tree. And, O Lord, control Ole Master’s temper so he will not be so mean to us,’” wrote Esther Lane-Thompson of her interview with Mark Slater, an Alabama-born slave who was taken to Washington County, Texas.

Word of emancipation arrived, with tragic results for a slave named Klora, who was told of it by a white boy.

Klora’s master saw her talking to the boy and asked if he’d said anything about emancipation. She denied it.

“Then, her master tied her across a barrel and whipped her until she died,” said Luper, the South Carolina slave who ended up in Texas. “The master’s girls begged for Klora, but it did no good. He then whipped the boy until he died. The white boy’s mother cried and begged for her son’s life, but it did no good. That was a very miserable crime.”

Slaves who had kind masters celebrated their emancipation.

“We were not cruelly treated,” said Jake Delaney. “But after freedom, I could see that slavery was the worst thing that a race could experience.”

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adultinnovation 06-22-2019 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Dead Eye (Post 22487827)
^nice meme, but normal people ain't fooled.

Name me one country in the world founded and run by Black people that is not a violent, war torn, poor, corrupt place.

If you put White settlers on an Island you get England.

If you put Asian settlers on an Island you get Japan.

If you put Black settlers on an Island you get Haiti.

For some strange reason Black people ( Africa ) have absolutely no idea how to properly Govern themselves or build a successful Nation.

Bosa 06-22-2019 09:03 AM

WORKED TO THE BONE Brutal reality of slavery in America revealed in shocking pics dating back to the late 1800s as US marks 153rd anniversary of abolition

Among the series of disturbing images is one depicting the horrific scars inflicted on one slave who was freed from a plantation in Louisiana

THESE shocking photographs from more than 150 years ago reveal the brutal reality suffered by slaves in America.

The disturbing snaps resurfaced today, on the 153rd anniversary of the 13th amendment abolishing slavery being signed into law by US President Abraham Lincoln.

This harrowing photograph shows the brutal raised scars inflicted on a slave who was freed from a plantation in LouisianaCredit: Media Drum World
Some of the images and clippings, which date from as far back as the late 1700s, capture pre-abolition slaves picking cotton on a plantation in Georgia.

Another harrowing snap shows the brutal scars inflicted on one slave who was freed from a plantation in Louisiana.

Further images from the collection show several newspaper clippings from the slavery era, including advertisements for the auction of slaves across the US.

One even warns African Americans that law enforcement has the power to return them to their plantations should they escape.

The thirteenth amendment to the US constitution was signed into law by Lincoln on February 1, 1865.

To this day it remains the only ratified amendment to have been signed by a sitting president.

Under the rules of the constitution Lincoln’s signature was not necessary for the passing of the bill, having already been voted on by both Congress and the Senate.

The amendment was passed after a bitter civil war which devastated the country, pitting the pro-slavery Confederate States of America, which included Texas, Louisiana and Kentucky, against the mostly anti-slavery United States of America, which included states such as New York and Illinois.

Lincoln had already signed the emancipation proclamation, freeing all slaves within the Union, in 1863.

But the thirteenth amendment widened its scope to include the whole of America.

Speaking about slavery in a speech in 1864, Lincoln remarked: “Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it is in his love of justice.”

He continued: “These principles are an eternal antagonism, and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks, and throes, and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.”

He added: “Repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.”

The US was one of the last leading Western nations to abolish slavery, and the legacy of this is still felt in the country to this day.

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This snap of two child slaves dressed in rags is among those that have resurfaced

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Many slaves endured long days and were whipped mercilessly

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Joseph Carpenter, an abolitionist who fought to free the slaves, poses with a slave girl

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A guard is pictured at a jail for slaves used by the Confederacy during the Civil War

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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/547850...-of-abolition/

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TheSquealer 06-22-2019 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by VRPdommy (Post 22488735)
You only want to feel better blaming others for your own plight or fears.


Ohhh... they're just "blamed"... not actually committing crimes?

The FBI is just a bunch of liars with their fake crime stats?

New York State are all just liars with their fake crime stats?

Innocent people being rounded up by racist police for no reason whatsoever, convicted by racist judges and prisons are full of innocent people according to you?

Got it!

Of course people like you are incredibly slow to explain why educated and successful black accountants, black doctors and black attorneys, black business owners etc etc etc etc somehow aren't "blamed" for everything. They just go about their day building a solid life and family and work hard like any other person, for some inexplicable reason.

These violent crime and murder problems (particularly black on black which constitutes the vast majority) exist in certain communities BECAUSE of people like you... not because of others. Because you can't be honest. Because you can't lay blame exactly where it belongs... with individual choices, with single parent homes, with the collapse of family values, with black fathers in inner cities abandoning their kids, with an inner city culture that praises violence and shooting and drug dealing. These problems exist BECAUSE you can't even have an honest discussion about serious violent crime issues and incarceration rates of different groups of people.

Really strange how ethnic groups who emphasise family values and education and success in life, don't seem to be raising kids who are shooting up neighborhoods and dealing drugs and who are disproportionately represented in violent crime and murder stats.


Spare me your pathetic reply... it never changes with you clowns... more "you're racist" bullshit simply because you can't reconcile your feelings and desperate need to virtue signal to peers, with actual crime statistics and facts and uncomfortable truths.

adultinnovation 06-22-2019 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Bosa (Post 22488748)
As James Delaney, the protagonist of the BBC’s hit drama Taboo

Good show. second season soon..

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Bosa 06-22-2019 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by adultinnovation (Post 22488751)
Name me one country in the world founded and run by Black people that is not a violent, war torn, poor, corrupt place.
For some strange reason Black people ( Africa ) have absolutely no idea how to properly Govern themselves or build a successful Nation.


7 Top Reasons Why Africa Is Still Poor, 2019


“While $134B flows in each year, predominantly in the form of loans, foreign investment and aid; $192B is taken out, mainly in profits made by foreign companies, tax evasion and the costs of adapting to climate change." - Health Poverty Action.

The presence of some of the world’s fastest growing economies in Africa serves as fodder for the Africa rising narrative. A walk around capital cities of Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Angola, and others, will put a stamp on the discourse that Africa is rising at a significant rate. The crane-filled skylines, construction of road networks and railway lines, multi-million dollar mansions and business malls erupting across major towns and cities, and growing technologies are just but a few indications of the continent’s ascent to prosperity.

But even as people across the globe engage in discussions about how fast the continent is growing, ironically, the other discourse that goes hand in hand with this narrative is the astounding number of people who are still grappling with deep-rooted poverty in the continent.

One can only wonder why there is still a widening gap between the rich and the poor and why Africa is still struggling with poverty despite the fact that it is home to a major percentage of raw materials that are in hot demand around the globe.

During the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, African leaders argued that powering Africa will answer the continent’s growth in future. According to them, powering Africa will create jobs, cause industrialization and business expansion.

Whereas powering Africa would contribute a lot to growth on the continent, we argue that for Africa to grow sustainably, it will need to pursue comprehensive methodologies that address all the bottlenecks to development. We contend that to understand what the areas for reform are, governments will have to first understand the reasons why Africa has been held back for so long.

Here, we have assorted the issues that Africa needs to pay attention to in order to be at par with the rest of the world in terms of prosperity.

1) Civil Wars and Terrorism
The argument that civil wars, like terrorism, contribute to poverty is a no-brainer. Wars disorient people and leave them destitute. They also disconnect businesses from their clients. Moreover, roads and communication networks are destroyed or barred which further cripples these businesses. Industries collapse, people loose jobs and investors lose confidence in the affected country thus pushing the affected region down the economic slopes.

Then, of course, there is the trail of deaths and scores of people left injured not to mention the loss of property which adds to the increase in poverty levels in areas marred by wars and terrorism.

Impact of major terrorism incidents Credit: visionofhumanity.org
According to the 2015 Global Terrorism Index, the cost of terrorism to the world was $52.9 billion in 2014. This is the highest number since 2011. 32,000 people died due to terrorism acts in the same year.

In Nigeria, the Boko Haram insurgency has led to over 100,000 deaths since it started its brutal operation six years ago.the Boko Haram insurgency has led to over 100,000 deaths since it started

These terrorist acts have not only resulted in deaths and injuries but have also affected the socio-economic divisions in the country.

Reports from the oil producing country say that business activity in regions like Kano had dropped by 80% by 2015. Apart from business disruption, the revolt has caused sporadic migration, abandonment of professions and jobs, discouraged foreign investment, food scarcity and dehumanized people. All these factors put together will attract poverty in the region.

Nigeria, which became Africa’s largest economy in 2014 is experiencing economic challenges with World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects 2016 predicting that the country’s economy will continue to slow down.

With such high economic impacts and deaths, poverty is inevitable.

2) The Unending Corruption
Dubbed ‘Kitu kidogo’ or ‘chai’ (loosely translated as ‘something small’ or ‘tea’) in Kenya, corruption has taken root in most African countries.

Corruption Across The World Visualized Credit: weforum.org
This has contributed to the plight of Africa today. Senior leaders in government and private sectors alike have resorted to taking bribes.

A survey by the Transparency International(TI) indicated that most African governments are not able to meet their citizen’s expectations due to rampant corruption.

The respondents said that corruption in the region was increasing despite the campaigns and activism by civil society and the population. The police were identified as the most corrupt group across the region.

At least in every news item, one story covered is about how a high-ranking official is under investigations over corruption allegations. While this is good news to many, the laws on corruption are lenient allowing those caught in the act an easy passage.

According to Control Risks’ annual survey ‘International attitudes towards corruption’, Africa is increasingly aware of the corruption problem and even the importance of managing it within the region.Africa is increasingly aware of the corruption problem and even the importance of managing it within the region. While the culture is strong, what is not is the political will and legislative framework to deal with corrupt cases especially those involving senior political leaders.

In an interview with Mark Doyle of BBC President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia revealed that she underestimated the level of corruption in her government when she took the leadership position.

"Maybe I should have sacked the whole government when I came to power," she said. "Africa is not poor," President Johnson-Sirleaf told the reporter, "it is poorly managed.""Africa is not poor," President Johnson-Sirleaf told the reporter, "it is poorly managed."

In some instances, acts of corruption have been used to fuel civil wars and terrorism.

3) Education and the knowledge gap
Even up to today, some African households cannot afford basic education for their children. Although some governments in the region have taken up the matter of basic education provision as a government project, many areas lack schools and even where schools are, they are sparsely located posing a challenge to the young children who would rather help at home than make the long walk to school.

Inadequate skills and knowledge cripples the economy as there is no skilled labor to drive the nation.

"[The] education that Africa needs is one that is skills-based, technologically grounded and globally competitive," Said Adejumobi, head of the governance and public administration division at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, while speaking to CNN. education that Africa needs is one that is skills-based, technologically grounded and globally competitive.

For Africa to be competitive, there is a need to invest in reinventing its education and research systems.

A majority of African youth are not employed today due to inadequacy in education and technical skills. Corruption in form of nepotism has also affected the rate of employment on the continent.

You can find more information about education in Africa and its challenges by reading some of our articles below.

Harmonizing higher education in Africa
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When going to school does not mean learning
A remedy to Africa’s Dogma-infested education system
4) Health and poverty
Health and poverty are interconnected. When a continent is not able to create quality health infrastructure and system for its own people, it risks falling into a trap where the economy remains stagnated.

Poverty is both a cause and a consequence of poor health. Poor living conditions increases the chances of poor health. In turn, poor health entraps communities in undying poverty.

One of the consequences of diseases is that it depletes individuals, households and communities’ energy to work to build their lives and that of the society. With less individuals working to make their lives better, poverty creeps and entrenches its roots.

WHO reports that approximately 1.2 billion people in the world live in extreme poverty-surviving on less than one dollar per day.

Diseases especially communicable ones spread more rapidly in communities that are poor and do not have access to basic amenities. Take for example the spread of Malaria which can easily be managed through simple yet vital but scarce utilities like mosquito nets and repellents.

HIV/AIDS, cancer among other diseases have also contributed to increased poverty levels in Africa. These diseases, apart from ‘decapitating’ the victims, leave families and communities in debt which further worsens their ability to sustain themselves.

Bosa 06-22-2019 09:21 AM

5) Geographically Disadvantaged
In this case, nothing much can be done. Being placed in a geographically disadvantaged location only calls for innovative ideas to utilize the available resources to advance lives.

A significant number of African countries suffer because they are landlocked- geographically unlucky.

A country like Switzerland is landlocked but it is surrounded by stable economies, creating a platform for trade. On the other hand, most landlocked countries in Africa are surrounded by unstable and conflict-filled countries.most landlocked countries in Africa are surrounded by unstable and conflict-filled countries. These factors injure the economy of the landlocked countries. Uganda, a landlocked country bordered by South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo stands as a good example. These neighbors feature civil wars all year.

Although Africa boasts of indigenous and numerous resources, they are poorly distributed among countries and within states/regions in those countries. Despite that, governments have not adopted strategic ways to redistribute such wealth to the citizens.

Wealth distribution is an issue, but what is even more disturbing is how great and promising resources like oil and precious minerals are exploited by foreign investors and big corporations which pay little or no taxes to the countries in which they operate. Such practices have left Africa twirling in poverty.

6) International Aid
In the recent past African leaders have been heard arguing that International Aid has curtailed Africa’s growth efforts. During the recent fourth World Government Summit in Dubai, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda said that donor support should not be relied on forever but instead be used to build institutions and the economy.

“Our vision is to make sure we are able to stand on our own feet and develop our country, attract investment and do business. There is no reason why we can’t grow intra-African Trade to the levels we see in America or Europe. What is good is not necessarily being small but good management of whatever you have, small or big,” he said."There is no reason why we can’t grow intra-African Trade to the levels we see in America or Europe."

Whereas, some non-governmental organizations have helped Africa through support in health, education, governance and in other sectors, some firms have been accused of using stories of desperate Africans to advance their own selfish goals.

The Kibera slum in Kenya is one good example. Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi and second largest urban slum in Africa is located just 5 kilometers (3.1miles) from the capital, Nairobi. The slum is filled with a sea of NGO’s which have not done so much for residents who continue to scavenge for a living in these tough economic times.

Another outlook into Africa’s failing economy is the loss that Africa is experiencing as the foreign aid-giving countries suck Africa dry of its resources. The outflow costs to Africa surpass the inflowsThe outflow costs to Africa surpass the inflows that get to the continent in form of aid. Health Poverty Action highlights that Africans are losing almost six and a half times what their countries receive in aid each year.

“While $134 billion flows into the continent each year, predominantly in the form of loans, foreign investment and aid; $192 billion is taken out, mainly in profits made by foreign companies, tax dodging and the costs of adapting to climate change. The result is that Africa suffers a net loss of $58 billion a year. As such, the idea that we are aiding Africa is flawed; it is Africa that is aiding the rest of the world,” the report argues.

Africa is also to blame when it comes to misappropriation of aid funds and corruption among the officials.

7) Unfair Trade Policies
Introducing fair trade policies for African countries to trade with nations abroad will grow Africa’s economy much faster than aid would. Unfair trade strategies have rubbished Africa’s growth exertions.

The US, the European Union are protecting key industries that Africa could compete with like agriculture, thus it has become more difficult to trade in this sector.

Poverties Organization argues that instead of the international communities protecting their benefits, they should give preferential market conditions to poor countries for export or agricultural development. This, ‘Poverties’ adds would provide them (African nations) a path to fast development, and hopefully diffuse the benefits to inner regions. This will have a direct effect in the internal market, help it to thrive and alleviate poverty in African countries that are landlocked.

The discourse on poverty in Africa is like a jig-saw puzzle: Africa as a region is rich but her people are poor.

Although Africa is rising, poverty is curtailing the continent’s growth efforts. As a region, Africa needs to address the negligence of sound economic policies. Corruption, selfish personal interests, thirst for power, religious and ethnic differences are clogging the pipeline within which development would have flowed.

Governments, regional communities and private sector should develop effective strategies based on regional needs and partner with like-minded corporations local or foreign to drive Africa’s Development wheel forward.

Africa has the potential to rise above any other continent if only it laid emphasis on shunning corruption, providing basic amenities including water, food, shelter, energy, education and security for all. If we look keenly at what is coming to Africa in terms of aid and what is going out of Africa in terms of profits, tax evasion and debt payments, Africa can be summed as wealthy. In fact, Africa is financing other continents.

Africa is a wealthy continent. Let us all strive to grow the region to live its name, ‘Africa a land of wealth!’.

Bladewire 06-22-2019 09:31 AM

Black racists like Dead eye should not be given reparations you're just feeding hate that wants to get revenge on white people.

VRPdommy 06-22-2019 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by OneHungLo (Post 22488740)
If black and brown people commit 90+% of the rape robberies and murder, how would removing them not make the crime go down?

Give it a rest.

I gave it a rest.
But you brought it up.
Stop lying. Stop misleading.

You have no grasp on the problem here and are moot to the topic.

When your foot hurts, why not amputate it, why fix it. It will only hurt again sometime.

Given the same opportunity and without the discrimination that you have for them, they would not be forced to live in areas we starve for capital investment.

In my area, crime and drugs is mostly a white problem. They are the only ones able to afford it, in the beginning anyway. But they bust the people of color for POT and give harder sentences than for white 'opioid dealers'. Justus ?
Does not seem to fix the problem unless you are looking to just lower the population of people of color so whites can feel better about it.

I don't care for or about reparations, but things need to be done to eliminate a difference in how we execute the law, if our constitution actually means anything today.
And soon the white's will be the minority. how do you want to be treated. Fairly I hope.

MFCT 07-05-2019 02:19 AM



https://youtu.be/4PRZiFzonUo

Grapesoda 07-05-2019 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by adultinnovation (Post 22486963)
Wasn't 600,000+ White Union Soldiers dying in the Civil War reparation enough?

nope guess not :2 cents:

Grapesoda 07-05-2019 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Dead Eye (Post 22487812)
Because I'm from America. Where you guys are the inbreds: https://www.foxnews.com/story/whites...ks-study-finds

Not the muslims: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla..._United_States

I dont know where you from, but that inbred shit was a middle eastern thing out there do to not many people wanting to suffer in them deserts lol. That includes the Christian's and the Jews. Same people. Nomadic desert tribes that started all this.

And they were not mating with their siblings and offspring like American inbreds.


have fun!!!
you have more stupid shit to say??

OneHungLo 07-05-2019 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by MFCT (Post 22495937)

https://i.imgur.com/Ibeoytl.gif

huey 07-05-2019 06:01 PM

Ì hope Obama,woods,Oprah,Jordan,Harris,Booker, get what's owed to them.

Just Alex 07-05-2019 09:31 PM

Send them back to Africa. Problem solved. :2 cents:

Major (Tom) 07-05-2019 10:18 PM

I’m for it. But make it an opt in tax. Watch how many white guilters dont pay. No way this would fly as mandatory, and it’s not like the gubment will pay for it. If mandatory, this is going to make many go postal. That scares me.

shimmy2 07-06-2019 07:38 AM

send my check to bangkok bank. seriously, not gonna happen in the next 40 years at least


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