So Africa is a Shithole huh?

@frequentlyme I have done it in the beginning. But now I can't bear all those misanthropy anymore.

I have blocked today altogether 10 people - so much normally I block in 3 months. And today I've blocked them in one day!! 🤦

@Jibby NO! He's just brain dead.

@thedarkside he actually looks like a nice guy the kind of guy that would go into town get two blowjobs come back and give you one

@Doomflower Scary thing is that his supporters still think he's the greatest person alive. I'm so glad that he's at a 54% disapproval rating. I hope the rating goes lower. That shows signs that he wont get in a second time 😂

@NickiHijab He isn't bright enough to know the difference between a continent and a country... sad, but true.

@frequentlyme we lump them all together because it's basically the same s*** hole

@FelixLegion And just for the hell of it, the effects of colonization and how Africa was BEFORE:

http://abolition.e2bn.org/slavery_41.html

[quote]Many Europeans thought that Africa's history was not important. They argued that Africans were inferior to Europeans and they used this to help justify slavery. However, the reality was very different. A study of African history shows that Africa was by no means inferior to Europe. As you can see below, the people who suffered the most from the Transatlantic Slave Trade were civilized, organised and technologically advanced peoples, long before the arrival of European slavers, trying to suggest they were backward peoples.

Egypt was the first of many great African civilisations. It lasted thousands of years and achieved many magnificent and incredible things in the fields of science, mathematics, medicine, technology and the arts. Egyptian civilisation was already over 2000 years old by the time the city of Rome was built.[/quote]

http://revealinghistories.org.uk/africa-the-arrival-of-europeans-and-the-transatlantic-slave-trade/articles/the-underdevelopment-of-africa-by-europe.html

[quote]What caused Africa’s underdevelopment is a complex issue. Europe’s past (and present) exploitation of Africa [b][c=#BF0000]played a significant[/c][/b] part. Before the Europeans arrived in Africa, Africa had vibrant economic, social and political structures. These were severely disrupted by Europeans to create wealth for themselves.

European dominance over most of Africa through the transatlantic slave trade lasted 440 years, from 1444 to 1885.[/quote]

[quote]The Europeans’ demand for slaves made raiding for captives more profitable than gold mining. The transatlantic slave trade [b]encouraged Africans to wage war against one another[/b] and conduct raids, instead of building more peaceful links.

Europeans used their superior shipping and skills and military power (primarily their guns) to dominate trade to and from Africa. Europeans became the leading traders of Asian and African consumer goods. This was particularly striking in the early centuries of trade. Europeans relied heavily on Indian cloths for resale in Africa. They also purchased cloths from several parts of the west African coast for resale elsewhere. Morocco, Mauritania, Senegambia, Ivory Coast, Benin, Yorubaland and Loango were all exporters to other parts of Africa – through European middlemen.

By the time that Africa had escaped the shackles of the slave trade and entered the colonial era, its main export was raw cotton. Yet its main import was manufactured cotton cloth. This remarkable irony points not only to technological advance in Europe but also, and most importantly, to the stagnation of technology in Africa owing to the trade with Europe. Europeans did not want African states to develop their own technology. They did not want them to be able to make their own manufactured goods[/quote]

[quote]Exploitation did not end with the ending of the transatlantic slave trade. Britain began to ban the trade in slaves from 1807, and it was not until 1957 that the Gold Coast – now Ghana – finally became the first African country south of the Sahara to become independent from European rulers. This period of time was filled with long, bitter colonial conflicts. These conflicts were not always wars in the usual way with armies and guns.

For 150 years after 1807, Europe tried to control Africa and its wealth. They used brutal massacres as well as treachery, for example involving the bribing of African chiefs, and betrayal of their treaties and agreements, such as with Queen Nzinga of the area now called Angola, in their attempts to do this. Africans would use all their available resources to defend their people and territories. They would fight back against the Europeans with guerrilla tactics, sabotage, non cooperation and by the destruction of those crops and businesses based in Africa that benefited the Europeans.

Many Africans fought and worked to gain political independence from Europe, often inspired by the 5th Pan African Congress held in Manchester in 1945. African countries did eventually gain formal political independence from the Europeans. However, Europeans still exerted a huge amount of influence on how African countries developed. Their natural resources were still mainly owned and managed by European investors. Europeans still owned much African land. Europeans were still the main buyers of African crops and minerals. Africans had to cope with these issues as well as many other legacies of the European controlling presence in Africa.

In addition to all of these developments, Africa also had to deal with some key events including the dividing up of Africa into distinct countries by the European powers that took place at the Berlin Africa Conference (1884-1885), and the impact of two world wars.

Ongoing exploitation:

Some would argue that Africa has never freed itself from domination by the west. In the late twentieth century and in the twenty first century, the relationship between the west and Africa has been primarily one of exploitation. International trading agreements with Africa have been unfair on African countries. These agreements have been overly influenced by western big businesses. Such unfair agreements and relationships have allowed individual African officials to get rich while the region sells itself cheaply and develops no infrastructure.[/quote]

@FelixLegion There's real cause and effect from slavery NOW and you're more than welcome to prove me wrong.

I never said it excuses any bad behavior but it doesn't excuse the bad behavior of the willingness to exploit their resources and child labor (then deny them right to be in America) and then also thinking that doesn't leave any lasting consequences is either naive, biased, or just the willingness to ignore systematic problems in society.

@SW-User Trump2020 !!!

@Jibby

@SW-User nope it's good to be in America with the economy jumping... glad I'm alive to be part of it and I hope it stays that way for another 7 years

it is one of the many shames that humans carry-

@Mondayschild I know.

@Mondayschild Oh that I totally agree with.

@JustLikeGreta yeah he might have been a little rough on that one but I'll be God damned if he doesn't stick true to what he says no apologies.

@Bean17 Unprofessional is not even the correct term.

Well there are many more terms that apply but unprofessional is definitely one of them!@iMystery

@thedarkside I am South African...

@iMysteryThen stay their.

@thedarkside Never planned to leave.

@Jibby Well said!

@thedarkside thanks Darkside...

@Jibby That don't count. 😂

@thedarkside 🍴 Eaty A-man

@Pianist1234 I live in the U.S. and if I was influenced by media, I'd believe the far right fringe groups on Facebook in which posts about things that never happened in far away towns.

But I also understand that there's people on this site and elsewhere that want to deeply believe those groups above even if you dumped the evidence into their laps.

@MethDozer yes it's a good thing nobody here one a one week trip to Rwanda on The Price is Right a few years back

@Bean17 yes that's nice what you just said plus $4.50 will get you a Metro ticket for the New York Subway system

❤💛💚💙💜🖤@Jibby

@Bean17 as far as Obama or Oprah just remember Orange is the New Black