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So you are saying they would be better off we we still ruled over Africa and exploited the continent?
I wasn't making any reference to your posts, though not quite certain why my name deserves quotation marks.
Hmmm, now lets see your evidence for Africans starving BEFORE colonialism and neo-colonialism ....................
you erm, won't find it here
or here
or here
Can you explain what problems you are talking about? Exactly.
WHY is it everyone`s responsibility ?
seeker
Can someone be more important "objectively" ? (Important to whom ?)
seeker
Well, yeah. Most folks morality is based on geography etc. You behave differently in a hospital than you would in a pub for ex. The "govt" are having this knee-jerk reaction because they feel threatened and want to be safe. As usual they sell it as being in everybody elses interests rather than just their own.
As every single human is entirley self interested and bothered only about their own feelings we should always be mindful of that fact.
You going to give us a point too, or are you just a moron?
honestly I've never really understood posts like this (or conversations that head this direction). We all know that there is a great deal of violence in other parts of the world, violence far greater than events in our homes countries. And in all cases, at home and abroad, the loss of life is a sad thing. And it's obvious that no one wants to belittle the death in any of the cases. So why try to compare? Is it to point out the unfair media coverage?
More people will have died in one afternoon in Africa than died in the bombings. And that is every single day. And that is just as preventable as a terrorist attack.
Idiot.
A lot of Africa's problems are as a result of British colonialism, so it is our fault in a way.
Oh dear :banghead:
I think you'll find it has ever been thus and its not a race issue. White lads do it, asian lads do it, black lads do it. It was similar when I was a teenager in the 80's, except then we called chavs "townies".
I don't honestly know how anybody can deny responsibility for what's going on. If you call yourself a patriot then you're a part of this, if you buy a lot of products and use certain banks you're a part of this...
We were the ones who hurt Africa in the first place... We took them as slaves and beat and tortured them, we went out and then took over their country, our pollution is making farming harder and floods that cause the spread of water born diseases, they are in dept and our big companies are forcing Africa to become dependent on them by offering loans on the condition that Africa open trade barriers.
Yes the bombing was horrible, but that's gone and is in the past, but Africa isn't. We can't bring the dead people of London back to life, but we can all stand together to make right what the bigger Western countries have done to that continent.
I cannot imagine if it were my child starving and malnurished... And being in the position where I couldn't even give her a safe drink of water.
have to agree with you for once, we can do something positive and good about africa
Far better off with us though.
I'm sure the black Africans would much prefer it was the British herding them into squalid concentration camps :rolleyes:
That could sort of be argued for South Africa where the gap between rich and poor has widened and the lot of the poor has got worse since Apartide finished. But, well I dont think many South African blacks would want that back, the beatings, dissapearances etc. werent really worth it.
As for the lot of other African nations, I suggest you look at the Common Agricultural Policy and its similar law in the US and then suggest we are good for Africa.
I get called lots of things,but "patriot" isn`t one of them.......yet.And I don`t call myself one either.I may if I knew what the hell a "patriot" was :chin:
Liability denied.I don`t know who the "we" refers to,but I swear that I`ve never done any of those things that you accused "we" of doing.
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You can't blame me for something people did in the past in my country now can you.
Did I blame you personally? No.
Can we blame you for what the British state and British corporations are doing now?
Whose fault is it?
Can we blame you?