We may never fully grasp the extent to which colonialism erased our cultures and languages. It is a shame that so few people today know how to write in such indigenous languages.
@DeathUnveiled@biscuit_roses Whoever created the space, owns it. Women should create their own thing. Y’all claim to be independent and sovereign, create your own shit.
Sex is the most intimate thing two people can do. If you can repeatedly share that intimacy with strangers and walk away without a second thought, I don't believe you have capacity for love and bonding. You basically exist as an animal. I have never understood hookups.
“Without the white man’s technology, the natural resources in Africa is just dirt under the ground..”
This is a flawed and malicious logic. And it falls apart when you examine it closely.
The logic is basically: finders keepers. You didn’t know what was beneath your feet, so someone else came along, discovered its value, and now your claim to it is somehow less legitimate. The outsider supplied the knowledge, therefore the outsider deserves the wealth and your claim to it is greedy, What exactly are you claiming when you couldn’t even make use of them?
But this miss some very important points.
First, technology is cumulative. Technology belongs to no single race, because it accumulates. China gave the world gunpowder, paper, and the compass. Indian mathematicians created the decimal system and the zero. Al-Khwarizmi, a Persian scholar in Baghdad, gave us algebra and the algorithm. Africans developed advanced ironworking, and the Haya of Tanzania made carbon steel about 2,000 years ago. Europeans built on all of it. Calling it the white man’s technology is a gross cultural erasure.
Second, it assumes that because you haven’t discovered a use for something, you never will. European societies spent centuries without knowing how to exploit many of the resources they use today. The knowledge accumulated over generations. Just because one society discovered something earlier does not mean we would never have discovered it. Nobody knows what Africans would have developed, invented or discovered had history taken a different course.
Third, the resource may have been underground, but the land was not worthless. People lived on it, farmed it, hunted on it, drew water from it and depended on its forests and ecosystems. Extracting the mineral introduces new economic possibilities, but it can also destroy existing sources of value. And then there are the environmental costs: polluted water, contaminated soil, poisoned air, displaced communities and damaged livelihoods. You cannot declare the resource worthless before extraction while ignoring everything that extraction takes away.
Fourth, and this is something people rarely consider, these resources are finite. Suppose a country has a million tonnes of coal. An outsider discovers that coal can power trains and proceeds to extract 600,000 tonnes. Decades later, the country develops its own technology and discovers a far more productive use for coal. It now has only 400,000 tonnes left. The outsider’s early discovery has depleted a resource that the country might have used more productively with knowledge it had not yet acquired.
Every tonne extracted today is a tonne unavailable for a future use. Every deposit exhausted closes off possibilities that might have become valuable as knowledge advanced. You are not doing a country a favour simply because you found a use for its resources before it did.
Finally, even if we grant that an outsider supplied the technology, capital and expertise required to extract a resource, how does that establish an exclusive or disproportionate claim to the resulting wealth? The land belongs to someone. The mineral belongs to someone. The right to extract it belongs to someone. The labour involved belongs to someone. The investor’s contribution can justify compensation and returns on investment, but it does not erase everybody else’s claim.
If discovering a technology first were sufficient to justify exclusive control, whoever developed a technology could claim disproportionate rights over every finite resource that technology made profitable, regardless of who owned the land or what the people living there stood to lose.
That is the logic hiding behind the mockery of “our resources.”
Being this hateful toward me over something that happened when I was 13 is genuinely insane. Bringing up my public humiliation every time you want to make a point is cruel. I spoke about what happened to me to bring awareness to what Black women experience at predominantly white institutions, and now those same experiences are being weaponized against me.
Taking my childhood experiences and tweets out of context to justify bullying me and sending death threats is fucking ridiculous. I was a child. My trauma is not ammunition for your arguments.
I’m not going to let my experience with one person dictate how I feel about an entire group of people. That does not mean what happened was okay, and choosing not to live with that hatred does not make my experiences any less real. You do not have to agree with me, but nothing justifies this.
No you stupid retard. People don’t want to see your nipples, & smelly vagina lips during their workout because you don’t have the personality or intelligence to garner attention without being naked. Basic fucking decency why do you need to be naked it’s disgusting & unsanitary.