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Thats very easy to say sitting in a developed country with the largest economy on earth that hasn't had a civil war lately. Look back to the wreck of a colony that the US was prior and after its civil war and you have some understanding of the social mechanics at work- especially when one country invades another.
In the majority of African countries the people endemic to the country where just pushed down the rung of lower class labourers as colonial powers muscled their way in. Put their own government in place to run the country and there just simply wasn't any way as a black african you could aspire anything more than at best, paid labour.
Most where kept as serfs and indentured labourers.
After the colonies pulled out, they took all their infrastructure with them from the government all the way down to the public services and in a lot of cases there is either-
A group put in place to manage and maybe do a half-ass job of it
or
A power vacuum where the strongest rule after the chaos and do a half-ass job of it
African's aren't any different to anyone else, provided they have an opportunity to work, live and survive unmolested, but they haven't. In the few quiet decades they have you do get people like my biological father's descendants who where Indian's and Malays brought over to do manual, trained labour and stayed in Africa after the colonies moved out for a multitude of reasons not wanting to go back to India. They formed a minority middle class running businesses and did fairly well for themselves in some countries on a scale comparable to anywhere else in the world.
Course if things go to hell, there is no central bank to bail them out like in the US where they'll just happily pour money on a problem of an economic melt-down, it just keeps spiralling out of control until the place tears itself apart under ethnic tensions, anti-government forces and general disenchantment with the way things are done.
So often we read here of some yank with his crotch in one hand and a gun in the other wanking on about how prepared he's going to be if the government impinges on his rights/wages/civil liberties he's gunna put a cap in someone's arse.
Are you American so different?
Yes you are, unlike in the US where guns are a showpiece, protection from each other and some kind of personal compensation, guns in Africa are used for better or worse in the support of what an individual or group has left to them when there is no other options.
Unlike in the US, they are actually used for the purpose of those options far more frequently than anyone would like but sometimes have to.
Unlike the US, who sells their surplus military weapons along with Russia and China in bulk, by the hundreds of tons every year to Africans rather than selling them tractors, power stations, telecommunications, farming implements and educational infrastructure.
Yet you sit so happy in the superpower dreamland where you'll never have to fight for anything more than a line up at an Apple store for some new ipod. And have the nerve to be so smug about having never done any harm personally?
Your schools and countries infrastructure rely on big arms sales as much as it does anything else and are used to maim and kill people in the African continent quite effectively and the less said about constant interferences over the last 6 decades by US forces the better. But lets just say, the US has its own puppets over there who it turns a blind eye to their atrocities and abuses provided they stay pro-US with extensive military training and weaponry.
Pro US, just like you.
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