Originally Posted by
Quarterpoundher
It’s given us…
Humanity itself
The very economies of the US and UK “TODAY” were founded on the backs of people wrenched from all they knew and shipped in agony across to the new world.
Sub Saharan civilizations and city’s that pre date the pyramids and anything in Europe.
The most respected Man in the world today, Nelson Mandela.
Haile Selassie, who was the only independent ruler of an African country in the 1930’s and when invaded by Mussolini was ignored when he asked at the league of Nations that the right for his nation to exist be respected, the very same principal that the entire world went to war over just a few years later when the same thing was done to Poland.
Via the Slavery experience, probably the most impressive Man ever to have lived, the Freed Slave and self educated anti slavery campaigner Fredrick Douglas who traveled Ireland in the 1840's and said the we had it WORSE then his own people back in America.
Some of the greatest middle and long distance runners ever
Vast Mineral wealth plundered by the West.
What have we given it ?
Borders draw by Colonial powers, imposed with no thought to the preexisting tribal boundaries which has lead to countless wars.
Britain and France when desperate for Manpower and resources to fuel there war with Germany promised there respective colonies independence, but dragged out that process till the 60’s in most cases and insured that most countries would tear themselves apart upon independence, which lead to countless dictatorships similar to the one they needed manpower to fight for their own Democracy’s in the first place.
Belgium committed some of the worst crimes against Humanity in the Congo in order to exploit the vast fortune to be made from rubber trees to make tyres when the car became popular, the entire country was the personnel property of King Leopold of Belgium and as such, no laws as we understand them applied to anyone there. The atrocity’s committed there within living memory have been overshadowed by history, but deserve just as much mention as that of the holocaust, but don’t, why?…..because it happened in Africa.
The Rwandan massacre of the 90’s stemmed partially from old enmities between the two tribes as one side was favored more then the other by the ruling colonial power during that period of their history and was a contributing factor in the bloodshed.
The U.S. in its wisdom decided following the emancipation of the slaves after the civil war, instead of doing the decent thing and offering a piece of the American dream to them, cynically set up the state of Liberia in West Africa and paid former slaves who had nothing to leave and be transported back to a continent they again knew nothing about.
Used various parts of the continent to play out proxy wars during the cold war.
Left it with crippling debts that they can never repay and as a result are in a vicious cycle.
Apartheid.
Famine’s exacerbated by there lack of resources due to having to service foreign creditors.
Dumping ground for the worlds worse hazardous industrial waste
You’d do well to read Alex Haleys book titled, Roots, and then come back and comment on Africa, Dr. Roy
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