tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6274381712003139086.post8155760967963495312..comments2024-03-19T04:19:18.871-05:00Comments on Atheism Analyzed: Oxford Caves... to DonorsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6274381712003139086.post-19467010150866927132016-01-30T09:32:53.640-06:002016-01-30T09:32:53.640-06:00" Perhaps the Africans have wised up and real...<br /><br />" Perhaps the Africans have wised up and realized that becoming 2nd class citizens in their own homelands wasn't ultimately worth what the West gave them in return, mere scraps from the silver platter Britain had loaded up for itself."<br /><br />Africa has been released to the control of the likes of Taylor, Mugabe, Mobutu, none of whom ever were redistributing wealth to the average African. Is Rhodes, Britain and western society to blame? Should they have left Africa alone, rather than intervened? Does it matter to the point that history must be wiped?<br /><br />Africa was caught in an expansionary period of western history. It happened; it's over. Rather than rewrite history to suit their taste, Africans need to decide if they are going to be western in nature, or if not, exactly what they are going to be.<br /><br />Africans have exploited each other in much the same sense (if not more brutally) as did the Europeans/British and have produced their own genocides, slavery and blood diamond greed (Taylor, Mugabe, Mobutu, etc.)<br /><br />Tribalism seems still to be Africa's biggest problem, including the Islamization issue. Making Africa and Africans into official Victims will not help.Stanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15754447145433452423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6274381712003139086.post-59157602938136770002016-01-29T15:50:19.921-06:002016-01-29T15:50:19.921-06:00Some of the conclusions in the above are bizarre, ...Some of the conclusions in the above are bizarre, such as whites brought technological and infrastructural development to Africa, so therefore Africans have no room to criticize the actions of unscrupulous white businessmen who played a part in the development of their homelands? Nonsense! Whites often took advantage of the Africans, using their relative ignorance against them, then when criticized insisted they only had the best intentions of the Africans at heart, yet denied them voting rights and treated them as a lower class of people. Perhaps the Africans have wised up and realized that becoming 2nd class citizens in their own homelands wasn't ultimately worth what the West gave them in return, mere scraps from the silver platter Britain had loaded up for itself.<br /><br /> Also, it's entirely reasonable for a people to embrace knowledge gifted by an enemy, the US (Paperclip) and the Soviet Union were both eager to acquire scientists and scavenge technological pickings from the defeated Nazis. Medical data gained through cruel experimentation by the Germans was kept rather than burned, distasteful as it was. There was clear benefit to the Allies who "inherited" Nazi science, but we still condemn the Nazis for the horrible things they did rather than praise them for the rocket programs we took as spoils. Insisting that Africans must return to a tribal lifestyle or refrain from criticizing whites and British imperialists is not much different than insisting Westerners (especially Jews, homosexuals etc.)forgo the benefits accrued from various Nazi science programs and use pre 1940s medicine and military tech or keep their mouths shut about the Holocaust. If they've so benefited why not give the Nazis their due? Talonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05200852355967804488noreply@blogger.com