[deliriumtremens]

It makes me sick to the bone that we Africans have to blame Whites for all our self inflicted misery's. Open your eyes and look at what we truly are..,

I believe Colonization made Africa wealthier because it introduced modernity and good management to the Dark Continent. Before colonization much of sub-Saharan Africa was literally stuck in the Stone Age. The most advanced parts of Black Africa were still in the Iron Age. Africans had no written language, no concept of science or math, no multistory buildings, no calendar, nothing that would remind one of any modern society.

Prior to colonization, African's were never anywhere near as wealthy as they were during European rule. When the white powers left, African economies collapsed.

The longer a African country has been independent, the more problems it has. Haiti had been independent for 200 years. At the time when they won independence, blacks massacred all the whites and mixed-race people who did not escape the island. Today the island is the poster child of mismanagement of the economy, government, criminal justice and everything else. The only time the island and its economy were stabilized was during the several American interventions when Haitians ran their country into the ground and could not continue without foreign help.

Ethiopia is another basket-case. Images of Ethiopian children dying from starvation on the filthy streets of Addis Ababa are forever burnt into our collective memory. The country was never colonized and foreign occupation lasted only 5 years.

The wealthiest African countries got independence recently. South Africa was taken over by Africans only in 1994 after many generations of apartheid. Namibia received independence in 1990.

The longer an African country had been run by Africans, the poorer it is. As a government official from the Democratic Republic of Congo acknowledged a couple years ago, “we are moving back into the cave.”

The excuse commonly used is that colonialism was replaced by “neo-colonialism”, which is even more severe, causing greater poverty.

The claim is so ridiculous that it can’t even be backed up by any logical reason. We must state the conclusion and accept it on pseudo-religious grounds. To suggest that Africans have less power now that the colonial governors and military forces withdrew is an equivalent of saying that a man who moved out of his parents’ house, has his own job and his own family is under more influence from his parents than he was as a child when the parents could completely dominate his life.

We are told that Europeans who are now in London, Paris and Lisbon have more power over Africa than they did when they were in Brazzaville (Congo), Abuja (Nigeria) and Lusaka (Zambia). The claim is simply preposterous.

We are also told that whites who remained in Africa and kept their dominant positions are to blame. Yet, the only African countries with stable governance and economics are those that gave their whites disproportionate power. Amongst them are Kenya and South Africa. Where the white minority lost its power, the economy collapsed. The latest example of that was seen in recent years in Zimbabwe where the government confiscated by force the land of the white farmers, destroying the economy and forcing millions of the country’s blacks to eat rats or nothing at all.

Nor can we blame whites for taking natural resources out of Africa. For one, before colonization blacks did not know what to do with oil, diamonds and other resources. Without white technology and customers, the natural resources would be largely useless. More importantly, the overwhelming majority of gold, diamonds and oil in Africa were discovered either after independence or in the very last few years of colonization. Lastly, many countries without natural resources are extremely successful, including Japan.

African poverty is the fault of the African people. The myth that the “Darker the Berry, the Sweeter the Juice”, and therefore minorities are never to blame for any of their troubles, and whites are the source of all things that are wrong with the world must be rejected.