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Africa Subsaharan
The African crucible – Cold Fury
2018-01-02
BLUF:
You see, Africa is the example that counters everything our Progressive rulers believe about the world. If the blank slate is true, then Africans should have made great strides in closing the gap with the white world. If things like “institutional racism” were real things, Africa should be racing toward modernity now. If colonialism was the reason these places were so backward, a half century of freedom should have gone a long way toward curing the effects of the white man. Instead. everywhere Africa is worse than a half century ago.
"Blank slate" meaning at least 60,000 years of human existence.
The response from our Progressive rulers is to just ignore Africa. You see it in this National Review article on the end of Mugabe’s rule. The authoress is young, so she was poached in the warm liquids of multiculturalism her whole life. Her struggle to explain the decline of Rhodesia into Zimbabwe reads like a person trying to disarm a bomb while blindfolded. She not only avoids the elephant in the room, which is race, she leaves the reader with the impression that there is no such thing as elephants. Race does not exist.

That’s why Africa stopped being important to our Progressive rulers. It’s why the efforts of George Bush to do something about AIDS in Africa was largely ignored. You can’t talk about Africa without talking about race and race realism. Those are taboo subjects, so the whole continent may as well not exist. Bring up the subject in a room full of Progressives and watch their reaction. You won’t see fear. It will be confusion. The subject has been purged from the catechism, so it no longer exists. Africa is not cool anymore.

That’s why Africa should be a central topic on this side of the river. It is the easiest way for the normie on the other side to begin his journey. It’s a topic where the facts are so stark, it is easy to understand the basics of human bio-diversity, evolution and the cognitive differences between groups of humans. The group characteristics on display in Africa, also look like what Americans see on their televisions. There’s also the great divide between East and West. The Dark Continent is a living museum of human evolution.

Africa is also a useful lever against Lefty. Most of what our Progressive rulers say is some sort of moral posturing. Talking about the most important graph in the world is a good way to turn that against them. A good rule of life is to always focus on what Lefty is trying to ignore. It usually means they fear the topic. Africa is the biggest elephant in the room right now, in terms of demographics. Lefty wants you to believe there are no elephants, so it is a good time to fall in love with the elephants.
My emphasis added
Posted by:newc

#6  The article is written well to convey and illustrate what we do face in Africa, with a snark.
Posted by: newc   2018-01-02 22:50  

#5  There was a Babylonian empire. There was a Nebuchadnezzar II and a seven-tiered ziggurat. There was a scattering or separation of the tribes. One might even guess the reasoning, but I digress.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-01-02 12:42  

#4  Google “iq of the world countries”. Now consider the implications to the US because of its different racial groups.
Posted by: CC   2018-01-02 12:31  

#3  most of the continent fell back on tribalism

Predation, it's what they do.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-01-02 08:03  

#2  Marx - old white man. You'd think they'd come up with an alternative that was less 'racist' (and a system that wasn't basically one big plantation).
Posted by: P2kontheroad   2018-01-02 07:51  

#1  Except after colonialism the world told Africans Marxism was the way to go. Sure, most of the continent fell back on tribalism, but so did the Balkans.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2018-01-02 07:13  

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