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[–]pablopicante 21 insightful - 7 fun21 insightful - 6 fun22 insightful - 7 fun -  (23 children)

imagine having a continent all to yourself with access to vast untold riches: gold, diamonds, the best farmland on the planet, iron mines, easy access to the orient and europe, clean water, plentiful jungle (wood, wildlife), a perfect set up to operate as a trading hub for the developing world, i could just go on and on, and these people haven't figured out how to grow vegetables yet.

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    [–]SNCA_Furweeb 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

    Lol. This "colonization" is similar to what they are doing in America.

    [–]jet199 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

    But we're told it's much better than colonialism because the Chinese don't look down on African leaders like the Europeans do. The Chinese don't tell them they have to end slavery, FGM or tell them they can't bribe officials or steal all their countries' money.

    [–]noice 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    Except I feel it is much worse, since Africa is lacking in a ton of infrastructure and China has the opportunity to lend them money and sell them infrustructure that China controls

    [–]SNCA_Furweeb 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    Then they will just loot and riot when they don't get their way.

    [–]Lostcarkeys 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Then China can kill them in job-lots to protect their investments.

    [–][deleted] 7 insightful - 6 fun7 insightful - 5 fun8 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

    being a farmer isn't so easy, can't over farm the soil, any farmer has to have high IQ and not be lazy. Aka not african.

    [–]galaxybrain 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

    They started with an OP buff to everything, and then proceeded to shit the bed

    [–]Anatolia 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

    imagine having a continent all to yourself with access to vast untold riches: gold, diamonds, the best farmland on the planet, iron mines, easy access to the orient and europe, clean water, plentiful jungle (wood, wildlife), a perfect set up to operate as a trading hub for the developing world, i could just go on and on, and these people haven't figured out how to grow vegetables yet.

    imagine not knowing that literally all the gold, farms, mines, are controlled by transnational corporations. read about shell in nigeria, read about who owns the mines in central africa, come on now.

    [–]Lostcarkeys 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    The entire reason foreign powers control all that wealth is because the locals never developed it on their own. White traders got to Africa and found tribesmen living in mudhuts using pointy sticks for weapons and eating whatever grew on the ground or they could get with the sticks. There were no domestic animals, no roads, no cultivation of ground, no water distribution, no privies, no tended herds, no harvesting of forest woods, no wheel, no buildings or permanent structures. All the development that made gold and diamond mines, oil and timber, growing of crops and herds of domestic food animals possible is entirely due to whites spending a few hundred years fixing the place up.

    [–]ethiopia 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Ahhh the benevolent whitey argument.

    Imagine not knowing that copper, iron working, textiles had existed in 'Africa' (a huge place with lots of diversity, complex and not complex cultures)

    Imagine not knowing about the Mali, Songhai, or Ghanan empires.

    Imagine not knowing that cattle, sheep, goats, agriculture existed since 2500bce in Africa. (Research the Dhar Tichitt site)

    Imagine not knowing the most "primitive" of African empires/kingdom the Kingdom of Kongo had textiles, copper mining, for example, King Alphonso of the Kongo sent a bunch of copper bracelets to try to secure an alliance with the Portuguese. Additionally, in 1536 the king of Kongo didn't allow Portuguese and Dutch traders to travel to their copper mines, afraid they would take them.

    Even if you take the most primitive of African nation's (Kingdom of Kongo) you find your assertion of: no agriculture, no domesticated animals, no mining, is false and lacks research.

    You need to research and study more, your IQ is showing.

    [–]TiredJustTired[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Those natural resources and their availability/accessibility could be the reason why they never developed technologies to utilize them, though, and there also weren't environmental stressors to adapt to such as in harsher places like Europe, Asia, North America, etc. Maybe the reason why they never learned agriculture is because they never had a need for it? I don't know, honestly.

    [–]Lostcarkeys 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Nailed it. Regions that never freeze don't cause local populations to learn smart skills like planning for winter and working together to grow, gather and store food.

    [–]SNCA_Furweeb 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

    I will make a counter argument. Why didn't whitey discover the minerals for us, and taught us how to extract them so they could buy it from us later, instead of discovering it, keeping it for themselves, and pillaging the land from tribes?

    [–]EuropeanAwakening 18 insightful - 2 fun18 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

    Because it isn't White peoples job to teach non Whites how to do things. It is White peoples job to do what is in our interest, the samr way every race does. You only hold Whites to this standard, anyway.

    [–]SNCA_Furweeb 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

    Damn whitey your right, but I would rather migrate to your country and loot because that is how my race succeeds.

    [–]TiredJustTired[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    It wasn't in white people's long-term, best interests to colonize Africa, the Americas, Australia and the rest of the world, though. White people should've remained in their homeland of Europe where they belong, and that's where they should return before they become hated minorities and either killed or expelled from the foreign lands they colonized. It would be one thing if whites were willing to defend themselves and the lands they colonized, but that doesn't seem to be the case and it's time to face reality.

    [–]MrZak 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Its not white people's fault if your people never invented the wheel.

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      [–]SNCA_Furweeb 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

      Because they avoided black areas on purpose! The verdict is whitey racist!

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        [–]Dragonerne 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        That's actually a fun way to put it.

        [–]Lostcarkeys 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

        Whitey has been trying to teach blacks how to take care of themselves for centuries. It simply hasn't worked.