Plz come back, whitey.

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[–]pablopicante 21 insightful - 7 fun21 insightful - 6 fun22 insightful - 7 fun -  (3 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.

[–]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.