Let's talk about Ireland.
In the 19th century, the British considered the Irish to be racially inferior.
This was not fringe opinion.
It appeared in newspapers, in scientific publications, in parliamentary speeches. Caricatures depicted the Irish as ape-like. Their poverty was attributed to innate characteristics: laziness, irrationality, incapacity for self-governance.
During the Famine of 1845 to 1852, approximately one million Irish people died of starvation and disease, and another million emigrated.
This happened in a country that was still exporting food to Britain because the market demanded it.
Irish immigrants to the United States in the mid-19th century scored at the bottom of every social metric.
They were poor, they were diseased, they were associated with crime, they had low educational attainment, they were considered, in the "scientific" language of the time, to be "cognitively inferior" to Anglo-Saxon Protestants.
Today Ireland has one of the highest GDP per capita figures in the world and Irish-Americans are among the most educationally and economically successful ethnic groups in the United States.
The biology did not change.
The conditions changed.
If you want to argue that the Irish example is different, that there is something specific about African populations that makes their outcomes resistant to the improvements that changed Irish outcomes, you need to explain what that thing is without using the conclusion as the evidence.
Nobody has managed to do that.
I want Lewis to win his 8th wdc (again) because he’s capable of it, destined it. Because it would be a historic feat.
I need him to win because there’s nothing the Italian media want less.
And the more they root against him, the more confident I become that he’ll win it.
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Funny how some teams get asked about football… and others get asked to explain the world.
Shoutout to the Iran team for carrying that weight.
#WorldCup#Iran
Here is the most important thing to understand about the argument you are making.
It is not new.
Every generation of people who have benefited from the extraction of African wealth has produced a version of your argument to explain why the extraction is not the explanation.
In the 18th century it was: they are heathens, without Christian civilization they are nothing.
In the 19th century it was: they are savages, the white man's burden is to civilize them.
In the early 20th century it was: they are childlike, they need colonial administration to function.
In the mid 20th century it was: they are not ready for self-governance, independence is premature.
In the late 20th century it was: their cultures are incompatible with development, corruption is intrinsic.
In the 21st century it is: they choose not to educate themselves, they are savage toward the volunteers who try to help, look at the IQ map.
The conclusion is always the same: the people being extracted from are the explanation for their own condition.
The mechanism changes every generation.
The conclusion does not.
Because the conclusion is not the result of the analysis.
The conclusion is what the analysis is constructed to protect.
You are not making an observation about Africa.
You are participating in a long, self-serving, continuously updated tradition of providing intellectual cover for an arrangement that has worked very well for some people and very badly for others.
An arrangement that requires, in every generation, a new vocabulary for the same old story.
The story is old.
The vocabulary is yours.
But the function is identical.
This is what happens when a so called millionaire businessman masquerades as a servant of the people. To a capitalist, the marginalized majority will always be "those people" external consumers rather than the core of the struggle. He almost treated his own constituents like a target market.
March and March say it will be peaceful march. Does Jacinta knows what she has created? 😂😂
Please give this one jail uniform form to fill up her sizes. Because that's where she will be heading!