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bebure (m)
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This transcends beyond African countries. If you go to Cuba, Brazil, The United States or even the UK. you find that blacks tend to fare a lot worse than all the other races economically and socially. This week in London there have been 6 stabbings majority of which where carried out by black youths. I know there a many successful black people in Nigeria, in Africa and the rest of the world but the fact is that as a whole we fair much much worse than others and no amount of personal success academically, professionally, socially or financially can make me feel great about myself until we can figure out a way to solve this problem.
I'm just going to throw this out there as well, if you've ever watched sweet 16 on mtv you'll notice that the black kids parents are almost always celebrities but the white kids, latina kids and all the other kids' parents are just wealthy unknowns. I think that the show highlights the extent of the problem in a way.
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manmustwac (m)
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at some point in time all black nations were colonized by the white nations and all black people in these nations have african origins. And black people don't like progress.
we are the ones holding ourselves back. Greed is the main reason why we're not progressing
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EXPONENT (m)
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you NEED to LEARN YOUR HISTORY. blacks have and are historically been oppressed by the YT. Dang, YOU STOOPID!  |
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bebure (m)
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you NEED to LEARN YOUR HISTORY. blacks have and are historically been oppressed by the YT. Dang, YOU STOOPID! I am very aware of the history of blacks. I am asking about the current state of things. History is in the past, we are in the now. Of course our history has been a major part of the problem (I think we are all aware of that) but surely that is not the only reason for the overall lack of success. |
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Hero (m)
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corruptive greed, lack of discipline, lack of self worth, and lack of need. Every time a black nation gets into a bit of a jam, they jump at the opportunity to accept the whit and or yellow mans help to get them out of it instead of persevering in finding their own creative ways to pull themselves out. This has incurred upon the these nations a very needy mentality, too needy to get anything productive done on their own.
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maedan (f)
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I'm just going to throw this out there as well, if you've ever watched sweet 16 on mtv you'll notice that the black kids parents are almost always celebrities but the white kids, latina kids and all the other kids' parents are just wealthy unknowns. I think that the show highlights the extent of the problem in a way.
yes, I've wondered about that issue on the show as well. But then "sweet 16s" basically a white culture, just like halloween and thanksgiving in America used to be. So long as black people want to fit into white celebrations, they may always be second place. About this African poverty: it's so true: we're no more colonised, but we still can't make our country work! Is there someone pressing buttons somewhere so that no matter how we try, Africa will always be the DARK continent? God should help us and our future generations. Amen.  |
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naijacutee (f)
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Botswana is successful - No?
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lazy (m)
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@poster
Good topic. I wish I had an answer.
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lazy (m)
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Botswana is successful - No?
I guess it is up to the poster how they define success when they thought of this topic |
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bebure (m)
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When I say successful, I mean at the same level as other nations around the world. Success to me is a situation whereby you are an economical power. Where your policies and actions affect the rest of the international community in a very significant way. You also have to look at things like life expectancy, in Botswana it is currently 51 years old for men and 49 for women (not exactly good), 37% of the population is infected with HIV. To be fair though the country has a high level of literacy (about 80%), economic growth is one of the highest in the world, the GDP per capital is about $15,000 (Nigeria's is $2000 big big shame). On a worldwide scale Botswana does quite well in some areas such as GDP/capital, economic growth and literacy but in areas such as HIV it has about the highest infection rate in the world. Overall though it fairs much better than other African countries but being the best of the worst does not make a country successful.
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lazy (m)
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When I say successful, I mean at the same level as other nations around the world. Success to me is a situation whereby you are an economical power. Where your policies and actions affect the rest of the international community in a very significant way. You also have to look at things like life expectancy, in Botswana it is currently 51 years old for men and 49 for women (not exactly good), 37% of the population is infected with HIV. To be fair though the country has a high level of literacy (about 80%), economic growth is one of the highest in the world, the GDP per capital is about $15,000 (Nigeria's is $2000 big big shame). On a worldwide scale Botswana does quite well in some areas such as GDP/capital, economic growth and literacy but in areas such as HIV it has about the highest infection rate in the world. Overall though it fairs much better than other African countries but being the best of the worst does not make a country successful.
I understand what you mean by successful now. |
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dclokz (m)
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[what are these people up to, i think these guy are al bunch of lies, there,s no money in forex tradig, it,s all bullshit, prove me wrong
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Hero (m)
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Liberia was one when the AA ran it, though when the natives took over, it all went to crap as usual. You folks have too many conflicting tribal/ethnic hang ups to get anything done right. The simplest tasks like voting turn into violent, murderous blood bath events. It triflingly ridiculous.  What kind of mindset must a people possess to go out and massacre over 3000 people with machetes and other blunt objects in a span of a few days simply because simply because some white dude in far away Europe said something negative about their faith? What kind of mindset must it take, to go out and systematically slaughter nearly 1 million people in just a few days simply because the said people were of the ethnic group of most of the leaders in your nation? Satanic is what kind as far as I'm concerned. Now, I'm not saying that this is the mindset of all on the African continent though it is so of enough to keep shit from working smoothly there. |
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