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Edwird -> RE: Fossil fuels help prevent sexual assault in Africa (11/5/2017 3:45:56 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri
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ORIGINAL: Edwird
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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri
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ORIGINAL: JVoV
I don't disagree with bringing Africa into the 21st century. Further, I believe it would be a debt the US owes to the continent.
Why does the US owe Africa anything?
Might it occur to you that JVoV is perhaps better read in history than you are?
That said, it's hard for me to believe that any American educated person is completely oblivious to the institution of slavery as existed ~ 150 years ago.
And, if digging the least bit in to it, the economic benefit to the few obtained thereby.
Perhaps you need to read up on that, too. It was Africans who sold their fellow Africans into slavery. Regardless, how does that result in the US owing African anything?
Right. So it was Africans pestering Europe to by these slaves, then. Not the buyers coming ashore and demanding product, directing the capturers as to what was demanded. Well, if that makes you feel better . . .
And yes it was Europe and not the US, which didn't exist at the time, who instituted the Western version of the slave trade and practice. So I don't agree with the assertion that the US "owes" Africa for that, being as that was standard practice at the time and instituted else where to begin with. But I agree with the point made in any case because the US and Europe have devastated that continent for centuries.
There is still the fact, though, that what started as somewhat more harsh terms of financial bondage or indentured servitude eventually got whittled down to outright chattel slavery in the US, by way of various new laws, one or two steps at a time. It eventually worked out that no African slave could fulfill the contract during his/her lifetime, so could only start buying freedom after they died. Neat.
But what is mind-boggling stupid is the notion that those who directed the whole operation are exonerated from any blame if they find any among the victims to provide some complicity. I suppose you're one of those who considers that the company is not liable for a death when the truck was doing 60 MPH in a 35 zone, if the person killed wasn't at a crosswalk when crossing the street.
Some few Jews ran companies who provided for the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, at least for awhile, so all Jews deserved to get machine-gunned and gassed, right?
So how come executives of Ford and GM and IBM and Std. Oil NJ et al. weren't machine-gunned and gassed for doing the same thing?
By your estimation, "No apology needed" for gassing every living thing in the US from that.
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