So noted:SPEAKS;
It’s important that we
understand just how messed up Africa is.
It’s important that any bad news from
Africa become big news.
Still, I wasn’t surprised at all to read recently how poverty
rates and child death rates have been falling steadily
across the continent while the McKinsey
Quarterly describes Africa as “among the world’s most rapidly
growing economic regions.” The reason the story that I read gave
for virtually ignoring any good news from Africa was that
many international aid companies
like the United Nations are
always on the lookout for more dough so it would be against
their own better interest to tell other truths. Maybe. I’d like to add a
couple of other potential
reasons if I might. For a long time
the wholesale colonization of Africa by European powers was
justified by the belief that Blacks, if left to our own
devices, couldn’t govern ourselves. Falling poverty rates and
rapidly growing economies kinda screws up that notion.
Also, I’ve always argued that, as far as race in
America is concerned,
"Black people are just a distraction."
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