Is there a cut off date for "blame the west" excuses? The year 2050 perhaps? 2100 AD? When? When does Africa accept responsibility for it's own screwed up situation? I live in Canada, others Australia, NZ, America. These were once colonies as well. South America, Asia, the Pacific, in fact just about every place on earth was a european colony at one time or another! So why is Africa a basketcase? Colonialism is an excuse everyone has, and it just doesn't wash.

I feel sorry for those poor people, but not the slightest bit guilty or ashamed. They are the one's who should be ashamed for doing nothing about the problems while famine after famine takes their friends and neighbours!

This guy says pretty much what I think.

“In as much as I agree that slavery, exploitation, and colonialism in all its forms is evil, inhumane, sinful and injurious -- we have had time to correct some of the imbalances and injustices; we have had time to map our future and our destiny; we've had time to climb the highest mountains.” We use slavery and colonialism as a cop-out. We blame the West for everything real and imagined that has ever happened to the continent and her people. This must stop!


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