How Does The Usa Block Africa's Sucess

If we could just exterminate the concept of owning land and just be called the world and work as a whole planet instead of a planet divided against each others, we would be a peaceful collective.

Not to sound entirley barbaric, though absolutly completely realistic. I would still kill and fight my way to the top in this "one world order" and so would million. By accepting the policies you dream of, you would be weak and worthless and easily over run and destroyed.

You cannot beat human nature.

"i am a person" no.. sorry, your from what ever nation you come from, you are your color, you are your size, you are you religion, you are your orientation, you are your wealth class.

Human grouping is as old as our species.

It will never end.

Don't count on it happening.

Why is the article focusing on the United States?? It's the major corporations that are keeping the continent down. De Beers for example is not a U.S. corporation.

Western interests are keeping the continent down, and I find it extremely ignorant for one person to say that their lifestyle is more important than that of an African. As if you deserve to have more depending on where you were born and raised.

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The problem isn't that they don't know they can be independent. It's that the people that have are doing everything they can to ensure that they keep what they have, even if that means keeping everyone else down. They are the ones that are keeping the continent down. They're doing everything they can to ensure they keep their lifestyle, and their private jets, and everything they have.

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And as TheBandit said, so many of these companies that are said to be keeping Africa in slavery AREN'T EVEN AMERICAN. The author of this article pointed to the United States as being this giant evil entity, but yet, to use an example, with the diamond industry most of these companies aren't American at all. They may sell diamonds in America, but they're not American companies. Probably 90% of the weapons used in their wars aren't American, but yet somehow it's become the Evil American Corporations that are making slaves of Africans.

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the countries mentioned in the article which it says are rich in natural resources are rich in diamonds and thats about it. and the company that handles these diamond transaction debeers is not in AMERICA in case u did not know. if anyone is to blame for the suppresion of these countries its the greed of the diamond dealers. the transfer of diamonds is marred by problems through the entire chain of distribution and this is the reason these countries are in the position they are. if these countries were not rich in diamonds the would most likely be in better shape then they are now.

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During the Cold War the USSR was trying to spread Communism globally, Africa was no exception. The US (through the CIA) was trying to stop the spread of communism in Africa Angola/Congo, in my mind that was a good thing. Look at countries that were influenced by communism, North Korea, China, Cuba, Vietnam. Look at countries America protected from communism, South Korea, Japan, Germany.

Islamic extremist groups also cause a lot of problems in Africa Algeria/Sudan. But in my mind the biggest problem comes from corruption and bad leadership Sierra-Leone/Zimbabwe.

P.S sorry all my references are from wiki, not much spare time.

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The United States has very little to do with Africa's problems. First and foremost internal discord and tribal disputes are to blame paired with the legacy of European colonialism that exacerbated such problems by carving out colonial areas (which are now states) without respect to the native tribal groups.



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Originally posted by selfless
There will always be actions taken to make sure the real truth about these situations does not surface, it's propaganda.

It's mind control, it's consciousness altering.

Nothing anyone in here says can change that but you can think for your self, that's all you can do.

To each his own right.

no offense selfless but when ur only response to post with solid informed points is that its mind control and propoganda u pretty much lose all credibility. now i know no matter what people say its not going to change ur mind but my point is in order to get people to listen to ur point of view u need to do more then spout the same lines about conspiracys when the other side has been making clear and informed posts.

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Instead of giving people the benefit of the doubt of having actually RESEARCHED this, you'd rather just yell about how the Evil United States is keeping Africa as slaves, and ignore everyone who disagrees with you?

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Dear selfless,

I am not in the habit of quoting the Bible at people, but the following applies strongly to this discussion.

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

- Matthew 7: 3-5

Africa is a continent full of thieving, corrupt, vicious leaders, of pervasive, brutal racism and sexism, of women mutilated for religious reasons, of slaves and slavers, of ignorance and superstition, of ancient tribal feuds transmogrified into modern civil wars, of men who believe they can cure their HIV infection by having sex with infants, of other men who kidnap small children, brutalize them, drug them and make them fight wars, and... well, you and I both know that I could go on and on.

These are Africa's problems. They are the result of African actions. Before blaming anyone else, Africans should accept that they (and not anyone else) are responsible for themselves and their societies, and do something about it.

I agree that, historically speaking, the West is in large measure to blame for the state of Africa today. To anyone who doubts that, I recommend a close reading of The Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham or a study of the career of Henry Morton Stanley. But all that is history now; and it was Europe, not America that did the damage (albeit Stanley was of American origin). Moreover, it must be said that the West has accepted much blame, and done much to atone, for what it did in Africa.

The point is this: for Africans to blame outsiders for their troubles is for Africans to reject responsibility for themselves and their own societies and peoples just the way fools, criminals and spoilt, delinquent children do.

Africa and Africans will never develop and move forward until they learn to do so themselves. It isn't America or the CIA that holds Africa back, so much as the Africans themselves.

By the way, I am neither African nor American; I am from Asia, a citizen of a third world country that also likes to blame the West for its troubles. Many so-called 'nationalists' in my country make statements very much like your posts on this thread. My response to them is my response to you: take a cue from the Gospel of St. Matthew, get off your backsides and be the change you want to see.

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