zboy1 wrote:What I don't understand is why Blacks continue to suffer racism in Anglo countries (USA, England), yet, continue to pour into those countries, en masse, from African and Black Caribbean countries. If racism is so bad, leave those countries like I did (and I'm not even Black, I'm Asian).
Don't think that blacks are richer in USA or Europe because Whites have been kinder to them than Africans would be.
Wrong -
Blacks are richer in America or Europe because America and Europe is richer.
The pie is so big in America and Europe that even when it is divided unjustly, as it is, it still leaves most people with more pie than any ordinary person some (Not all) parts of Africa. Poverty can be worse than racism. But that does not excuse racism.
You suffer in the area of perception, it's limited to what other people you respect have told you as opposed to finding your own knowledge and understanding. Your information concentrates on the end result and my observations speculate on the cause. I'll use a sport anology to break it down even further...You're like a ref who catches the end of the play and call the foul based on what you saw. I on the other hand have seen the play develop and saw the first elbow thrown.
The reason that blacks have not been able to prosper with indepedence in Africa lays with the fact that the European metropoles do not view these countries as equals, they still view them as former colonies which are ripe for exploitation. White Europeans own controlling interests in many of the natural resources in Africa. Africans have never seen any of the profits.
Under apartheid and colonialism Africans faced generations of generations of lost of vital skill banks. So while Europeans were getting access to qualifications and then acquiring years of experience and special knowledge in nation building sectors, these opportunities were denied to African people. So whites were ruling over the continent subjugating the people, all the while sucking out the natural resources then leaving them in a shambles. And now they want to point the finger at generations of people and say “Why don’t you run your country better ?” As if all it takes is to one day say “Go free !! And BAM !!” Those people are able to catch up.
But now the world bank gives out credits to African countries for building up their infrastructures for the sole purpose of insuring the interests of the multinationals and their Western resource junkies.
The resource rich African countries are held hostage by the West through debt. The payback is done by even more resources at ridiculously low prices. The higher the debt the tougher the negotiation basis and the least favourable for the producing country. Those countries are drawn into handcuff contracts of globally or regionally exclusive authorisations to exploit certain local resources.
The USA alone (5% of the world population) consume 30% of produced African natural resources which they purchase at bargain prices or for virtually nothing as debt payback. In contrast, local infrastructures are crumbling, social programmes and local developments are cut because of the paybacks of interests and the debt itself. Corruption does the rest.
The so-called debt relief by Western powers is demonstrative and self-indulgent. Those ‘alleviations’ always come with a price. The resource producing countries have to sell everything for a special discount price which opens the doors to all sorts of speculations from foreign investors demanding high returns. Another byproduct the West is expecting from their ‘generous gestures’ is to get some more positive votes at the next UN assembly. Then there are the investors who move offshore the astronomical profits they have made at the end of the chain in their Western economies, not least in order to let them disappear off the grip of their own tax authorities, expecting fairly certain high returns overseas. In case of non-compliance to their conditions, they threaten the local authorities to pull their funds out or threaten them to initiate another ‘government turnover’. Democratically of course…
Education doesn't equal intelligence, intelligence doesn't equal knowledge, knowledge doesn't equal understanding, and understanding doesn't equal wisdom. Observe, find you own understanding outside the books, or even other people. Calling me radical is the ultimate compliment, cause that means I'm blazing my own path, long as I keep moving, its all good.
