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  Posted By: Total Independence @ 07/22/2008 9:43:36 PM

  Please read the history of the Kingdom of The Great Zimbabwe first, and maybe you can have an understanding of how very developed Africa was before its was all stolen and shipped to Europe to develop these parts of the World. When the Greeks were still living in caves, Africans had already started building ships, medicines, mining and all what you know is from Africa. Those are facts, so why twist and hid the genuine history books

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  Posted By: Total Independence @ 07/22/2008 9:38:48 PM

  Its shows how little history most of the contributors know. Go to any Museum in the Western world, 90% of the artefacts is African, which dates back over a thousand years. Where are the European Artefacts that goes back 700 years at least, even the building. So when we read of such shallow talk we understand that ppeople need to know their past first to appreciate what they took from Africa. All the wealth in Europe was stolen from Africa and you gave Africa your poverty. Read an Report of 1787, Vol.1, by C.F.Volney, Race and Culture by Thomas Sowell just those two for now, and then lets debate after that.

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  Posted By: Genez @ 06/26/2008 11:19:15 PM

  As Europe went through its growing pains before, after, and during the feudal period until after WWII it will take Africa sometime to iron out the wrinkles of modern governance. Africa is too entrenched in tribal cultures to work together cooperatively, but, hopefully they will get a grip on this insane tie-back to the past. Let us not forget that the United States had to endure a bloody conflict on its own soil before it got over the obstacles that tribal, or cultural ties can gnenerate. The south versus the north is still fraught with the potential for conflict due to the fact that they interpret the same thing in different manners. Yet, when it is that the African populace grows tire of the insanity that never fails to accompany tribalism, then, they will roll up their sleves and get rid of those who profit from such madness. A. Jefferson