i do see a parallel between thugs rising to the top as corrupt governments in africa or cultural superstars in the states. a hard scrabble existence makes people violent. you fight to survive.

It's been said that "a people without power must use deception and guile." Africans who are unable to enter the mainstream economy turn to the underground economy. Unfortunately, these overlap so often that companies, corrupted leaders, and militias have figured out they can profit from all sides. The result is the visible conflict we see. But when we look closer--beyond the superfluous notion of skin color--their problems are rooted deep in colonization and its cousin, neo-colonialism, and the social pathologies that grew out of the relationship between oppressed and oppressor over the last 500 years.

The extreme violence didn't appear in a vacuum. SaintAtheist is playing Africans for rubes when the the flip side to "native" violence occurs in proximity to and manipulation by "foreign" players in their neighborhoods. Read: Europeans, Americans, Middle Easterners, and Chinese. America has NO business expanding military operations in Africa. Yet Africom is set to feed our empire. Haven't this government done enough to Africa? Now, this. The National Conference of Black Lawyers said,

In a memorandum (attached) NCBL has detailed a history of crimes committed by the U.S. in Africa. These crimes have included, among others: mercenary attacks, the [SC: violent] overthrow of democratic governments, and complicity in assassinations.

Nevermind the violent enslavement of millions of Africans or the complicit support of apartheid. These actions don't represent the ideals and actions of a people who are non-violent nor superior to Africans by any measure.

i do see a parallel between thugs rising to the top as corrupt governments in africa or cultural superstars in the states. a hard scrabble existence makes people violent. you fight to survive.

It's been said that "a people without power must use deception and guile." Africans who are unable to enter the mainstream economy turn to the underground economy. Unfortunately, these overlap so often that companies, corrupted leaders, and militias have figured out they can profit from all sides. The result is the visible conflict we see. But when we look closer--beyond the superfluous notion of skin color--their problems are rooted deep in colonization and its cousin, neo-colonialism, and the social pathologies that grew out of the relationship between oppressed and oppressor over the last 500 years.

The extreme violence didn't appear in a vacuum. SaintAtheist is playing Africans for rubes when the the flip side to "native" violence occurs in proximity to and manipulation by "foreign" players in their neighborhoods. Read: Europeans, Americans, Middle Easterners, and Chinese. America has NO business expanding military operations in Africa. Yet Africom is set to feed our empire. Haven't this government done enough to Africa? Now, this. The National Conference of Black Lawyers said,

In a memorandum (attached) NCBL has detailed a history of crimes committed by the U.S. in Africa. These crimes have included, among others: mercenary attacks, the [SC: violent] overthrow of democratic governments, and complicity in assassinations.

Nevermind the violent enslavement of millions of Africans or the complicit support of apartheid. These actions don't represent the ideals and actions of a people who are non-violent nor superior to Africans by any measure.