re: Rare footage of Zimbabwe during Christmas time 1976: wow!

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They took what they wanted and bailed, and didn't give a shite about the people they fricked over.

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In the case of Zimbabwe, do yourself a favor and read about the Rhodesian Bush War.

You'll find that it had sweet frick-all to do with colonial abandonment and everything to do with the establishment of communist proxies in Africa.

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When colonizers left, they didn't do it in a way that set up their former colonies for success. They drew country boarders in ways that made no sense that led to serious ethnic tensions within individual countries. They took what they wanted and bailed, and didn't give a shite about the people they fricked over

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Incorrect

In 1965 when Ian Smith ( Rhodesian PM) declared independence from England, he and his cabinet had actually started desegregating the country and had instituted land reform that was market based. Black Africans could buy and sell land and they had access to public education just like the whites did

Mugabe just hated white people and he wanted them to pay but after the war he initially worked with the white farmers and got very rich doing so. Then his base of veterans from the Bush War started getting uneasy and wanted stuff. Then he went thug and started his 5th brigade stuff of intimidating and killing white farmers.

The white farmers left and basically said if you can farm and manage this....it's yours. Most of the farms went to Mugabe insiders who use these farms as their own personal estaes. They know nothing about farming and therefore they get crop failures and famine. They don't know how to run things so they get hyper inflation.

It's not Marxism, per se, it's Kleptocracy....and a very inept one at that

Swinging band, I must say.

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When colonizers left, they didn't do it in a way that set up their former colonies for success.

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They had the same choice as the Algerian French: a suitcase or a coffin.

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Yeah weird. It's almost like natives were still unhappy about colonialism or something.

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How are they now in a starving, tribal third world shithole? Happy or unhappy? Ambivalent, maybe?

Remind us when Africa was great?

*Hint* When it was a multicultural melting pot of people there to help better each other.

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He is the worst poster on every board he posts on

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whoa whoa whoa. let's not go overboard there. 90proof and ib are still around. let's not bury them before they're dead

I wonder if you've heard of a nation called Liberia? Founded by slaves from the US, they simply took the land from the natives, refused to allow them to participate in the governing of the new nation.

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"The Americo-Liberian settlers did not relate well to the indigenous peoples they encountered, especially those in communities of the more isolated "bush". The colonial settlements were raided by the Kru and Grebo from their inland chiefdoms. Americo-Liberians developed as a small elite that held on to political power, and the indigenous tribesmen were excluded from birthright citizenship in their own lands until 1904, in a repetition of the United States' treatment of Native Americans.[10]"

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Because of ethnocentrism and the cultural gap, the Americo-Liberians envisioned creating a western-style state to which the tribesmen should assimilate. They promoted religious organizations to set up missions and schools to educate the indigenous peoples.

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Sound familiar? Except no whites involved. Until WW2, when America basically created an infrastructure and economy for them.