This tread and it's responses show why we need places like the Root on the coli because a lot of cats are making poor analogies ignorant of historical context.
@KidStranglehold the fukkery in this thread is amazing bruh
1. You got nikkas in here attempting to compare a post WW2 japan(still has industrial, agricultural, etc expertise intact) to a post colonial (insert African country here) that was only ever used to ship resources out to foreign industrial nations.
2. You got nikkas here trying to compare Singapore an island country with no oil/minerals anybody wants(free to move in whatever direction it wants) to tha fukk'n
Congo I repeat ....tha fukk'n
Congo yes the same Congo where the west assassinated the prime minister patrice lumumba
Patrice Lumumba: 50 Years Later, Remembering the U.S.-Backed Assassination of Congo's First Democratically Elected Leader
The Congo: How and why the West organised Lumumba's assassination
Review of two BBC documentaries: Who Killed Lumumba?, and Mobutu
"...Mobutu, from the BBC's
Storyville documentary series,
reveals how the Western powers put Joseph Sese Seko Mobutu in power after the death of Lumumba, keeping him there for 32 years while he systematically looted the country. Mobutu became the west's main Cold War ally in Africa, and the Congo formed the staging post for CIA operations against Soviet-backed African regimes.
The film reveals the very close personal and political relationship that existed between Mobutu and several Western leaders. We see film clips of Mobutu being embraced by Jacques Chirac (now President of France), and sitting next to the British Queen in the royal carriage. For many years, until he fell out of favour at the end of the Cold War, Mobutu remained a friend of the Belgian king, but his closest friends were President George Bush Snr. and his family....
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The Congo: How and why the West organised Lumumba's assassination - World Socialist Web Site
.....and then setup shop to extract all kinds of shyt
through collusion with Rwandan & Ugandan guerrillas culminating in the Congo wars ...
Second Congo War - Wikipedia
I'm like either I need to take my bum ass to the coli root or stay here and educate folks.... or build my arguments/positions in the root then bring over well thought out positions when occasions like this arrives
They: "Man, what I need to know about that Black history stuff for ....I'm already black
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Me: