re: The continent that invented everything still doesn't know how to get water

You could just acknowledge that he's doing good charity. If you were born in Africa you wouldn't be shite either.

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American blacks have no idea how fortunate they are because their ancestor(s) were sold into slavery and shipped to North America

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A lot of other native born people should also show gratitude for being born here. But a lot of average arse people try to act superior to those born into less fortunate situations. I'd say almost all native born Americans would struggle greatly if they were born into a 3rd world country. They aren't responsible for the success of our nation but pretend they are.

If one goes to that link you can look at their last financial audit. Half of their money goes to staff. Half.

That seems to be the case with most charities these days, they grow beyond their initial mission and it ends up in an advertising for money to pay staff loop.

Never see any charitable agency come out and say “we accomplished what we started out to do and are shutting down”.

Most in US and elsewhere are all money grabbers and use your donation to pad their pockets first.

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Bedouins in the Sahara have been digging wells for a long as time.

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I agree with your point that giving fish isn’t the same as teaching to fish, but they are not talking about Bedouins nor the Sahara. You can materially improve the conditions for a locale in Sub-Saharan Africa but it will just degenerate over the years without a change in culture.

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It is in our interest to see developing nations succeed imo. That's something that China has figured out that we haven't.

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What? I think we not only figured it out, we invented the concept and have been its exemplar. What was The Marshall Plan? What was USAID initially?

I agree that we want everyone to catch up. Where you and I might disagree is on the ability of all ethnic groups to do so. The Sub-Saharan Africans are civilizationally retarded, and there are only two ways to catch them up; one is to give them a couple of thousand years and the other is to breed with them

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Ive lived and worked in the 3rd world for decades and here is the issue westerners dont understand. Leaders are corrupt and steal. If you agree to build them a water system or a power plant.....that just frees up more of their own money to steal.

There was a country in africa where the govt was stealing UN food aid and reselling to its population. The UN said if it didnt stop, they would stop donating food. So the govt said fine, the people started to starve, and the UN said, okay we will supply....but only to women and children. Uh if you couldnt control it in the first place, how are you not only going to control it but make certain it only goes to women and children??????

Agreed. Lets get these folks some community assistance and programs.

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Ive lived and worked in the 3rd world for decades and here is the issue westerners dont understand. Leaders are corrupt and steal. If you agree to build them a water system or a power plant.....that just frees up more of their own money to steal.

There was a country in africa where the govt was stealing UN food aid and reselling to its population. The UN said if it didnt stop, they would stop donating food. So the govt said fine, the people started to starve, and the UN said, okay we will supply....but only to women and children. Uh if you couldnt control it in the first place, how are you not only going to control it but make certain it only goes to women and children??????

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This is what most don't understand. If they think our government has failed us, they should see how bad the good everyday people in Africa get the shaft. We are pretty well kept here, but there it is the difference in life and death whether some of the aid ever makes it.

Not only does my aunt have to pay expensive "facilitation fees" (15k +) to the local government, just to basically come help their people in Uganda, she has to bribe people just to get her containers through port, the medical supplies, etc. And she wasn't part of any late night tv infomercial organization with sad music playing on the tv, she did all this out of her own pocket. She goes to Uganda every year to check on things, and even pays for flights for villagers to travel back to Frisco so the people in her church can meet, touch, feel, hug and smile with the people they are helping. The idea of racism is foreign to these people...because it is their own race of people that keep them back and don't give a shite if they die. Sad but true.

There is one important thing people need to unlearn: the cultural differences between the current "we wuz kangs" US black population, and the villagers in these impoverished areas, is as vast as the ocean that separates the two continents. The "kangz" are the warlords, politicians, gatekeepers to ports, etc. The actual people these Texans are helping are some of the most polite, friendly, happy people you could ever meet. It's sad how much their own black government fricks them, but the silver lining is the people live for the day, see what is only right in front of them, and have a common sense via humility that is lost on a ton of our culture brothers. American black culture, overall, has definitely lost its way. The good news is there are some really salt of the earth, winning black people in the south that pick up the slack for the losers.

I've got a cousin that does that. She's been numerous times and she's basically a living saint. But I have a hard time talking to her about Africans because she's got it in her head that it's everyone's fault but theirs that they have no impulse control, no thoughts of consequences and no concept of maintenance. You talk to anyone that's been involved in Africa trying to help and it's the same story every time. Doesn't matter where in Africa they are, the problems are identical and all projects end the same way once the whites leave.

Right back to the stone age.

Every time.