re: Swiss Investor Marc Faber: America would be like Zimbabwe if blacks were the majority

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Interesting since Timbuktu had the world's first university. Of course, that was before white occupation and taking over of places in Africa and creating a welfare state and disenfranchising its own citizens.

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And the Egyptians, Greeks and Italians (even if we call them Romans) all were the apex of western civilization and culture at one point. Just like this university you hold up as some touchstone of leading thought, though, all these are centuries in the past.

If it is heresy to suggest that Lincoln (in the 1860's) or even the Republicans that passed the VRA and CRA (in the 1960's) are emblematic of today's GOP, how does this random factoid have any bearing on the fact that virtually every African country for the last 100 years has been a basket case of corruption and poverty?