(01-12-2010 11:38 AM)playa_with_a_passport Wrote: Quote:I apologise to the mods upfront for this, but this will not do. This is unacceptable.
This has to be the biggest load of fuckin horseshit I have ever heard. You go there as a spectator and try to pass western judgment on people and countries you have no understanding of at all. You have no idea why those people are the way they are. You are an ignorant prick.
Wow, Now you can tell me how you really feel, keyboard gangster. LOL. Be easy dude is not that serious. If you don't agree with me that's fine, no need to go on a diatribe like a $2 hoe on PMS.
No fuck that. You cannot make generalised statements about an entire group of people because your own perception is fvcked. You are ignorant to the extreme and think a one week holiday in Namibia qualifies you as an expert on the region?
Double standards. Learn to see one when you live one mate.
Quote:There are areas off limits to whites too. Its about 80% of Africa unless you are under armed guard. Hell, even in developed "democratic" countries like South Africa and Botswana, there are parts of cities that are off limits to whites. This is not the USA bro. Western ideology dies the minute you touch down in Africa.
Quote:I am going to have to call you out on that buddy. This is just not true. This statement says more about you than it does about me. Townships are off limits to ANYONE unless a local takes you there or you live there. This falls under "Common Sense 101." There are guettos all around the world and they are generally off limits to tourist. Shit, even in the good, US of motherfucking A, I can't just walk into any housing project I want.
80% of Africa dude? Are you for real or you just failed elementary math? Now as you so eloquently wrote before, this is a "load of horseshit." Countries like Sudan, Congo, Somalia, Chad, Zimbawe or some others I mentioned are off limits to pretty much everyone unless you already live there. You really think those rebels in Dafur are just going to let me go there and fuck their women because I am a Black man?
Ya, the difference is that while you go on holiday to the place, I LIVED THERE. I was born and raised in South Africa, spent a lot of time working throughout Africa too. Congo, Rwanda, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia. I speak two African languages. There are places you simply cannot go without an armed escort. Many of the major cities, if you are a white, make you target number 1. Because you are white. Hell, even in South Africa, the level of brutality we have seen against whites over the last 20 years has led to an exodus of almost 30% of the white population. Dont fucking lecture me on what you felt was white on black racism when it goes both ways. You read about the history. I lived it.
Racism in Africa goes both ways. In many cases, its transcends race and goes fucking tribal. The audacity to attack a white minority in one area of Namibia while you ignore the bigger picture speaks volumes. Any excuse to cry racism and you jump on it, yet its your own ignorance and perception that creates the problem in the first place.
This is not acceptable. Its a double standard. Maybe in your neck of the woods where everyone has to be politically correct all the time no one ever calls you on your shit. Dont accuse people of being racist and then make ignorant, racist statements yourself.
Quote:There is no tiered pricing system in Namibia based on race either you fuckin moron. Get that chip off your shoulder. Its just that there is so much poverty the levels between rich and poor are huge. They make the differences in places like Brazil and Colombia seem closer to Sweden or Norway in economic parity. People are excluded because they dont have money, not because they are black. You were charged more because you are a foreigner. Not because you are a black man. Those places that were "sold out"? Probably were you tosspot. Those areas are busy certain times of the year with people traveling from all over to stay there.
Quote:Ok. I was just going to skip over this because I only debate people on my level, everybody else I teach. But fuck it. Ill take the bait. you took my statement without putting it in the proper historical context. Apartheid ended not that long ago, in February 1990 to be exact, which was basically about the same time that Namibia gained its Independence from South Africa. Thus, until 20 years ago, Namibia and South Africa were ruled by racist fascist. I will not bored you with the details but this is not in dispute; Black people were not allowed to hold certain jobs, could only go to certain substandard schools(separate but equal is an oxymoron "dude"), and could only own property in Townships. Therefore,The stastement "People are excluded because they dont have money, not because they are black." just does not hold water knowing everything that I know about Apartheid. This will only be true if Blacks and Whites had the same chance at economic parity in Namibian society from the get go. Even a Stormfront poster such as yourself, has to admit that this just isn't the case. The reason why those white Merchants were charging such high prices is because They don't want the local blacks to go in there is that plain and simple. In the case of a Black person can afford to pay those prices, they used the "we are close" excuses.
Again, you dont know enough about the history of the country or the region. In your fucking ignorance you see it as an example of white supremacy gone nuts when that really was not the case. It was a political and economic policy, BASED ON RACE, because Africans were predisposed to certain political views.
South Africa was one of the largest gold producers in the world. The problem was that Russia came to power and communism came to the fore. Africans in South Africa (and if you knew the history, you would have known this) were trade unionists and communists. The ruling party of South Africa for the last 15 years has a COMMUNIST HISTORY.
If South Africa went to a democratic vote, the country would have gone to the communist party. The worlds largest producer of gold, the very thing our entire western economy was built on, would have fallen under communist leadership. South Africa would have been in Russia's corner, not the UK and USA. Why do you think we had the support of the yanks and Brits during that period? It was only when the world moved away from the gold standard that pressure was brought to bare. FFS, we were fighting Russians up in Angola during the 80's still, trying to keep them out of Namibia.
Was it right? No, it was not. The unfortunate truth about it though was that it was necessary. If not for that, the ruling party would never have inherited the infrastructure and systems that they did when they came to power in the first place.
You accuse me of acting like a stormfront member when you yourself come across as a black panther wannabe. You try to lecture on the history of the region and use that as a justification for YOUR RACISM when the reality is that whites in Africa are a lot more tolerant than you are suggesting. The level of violence perpetrated against whites is almost overwhelming in comparison.
You know NOTHING of the region or its history and I am sick to death of fucking African Americans thinking that the colour of their skin makes them an expert of some sort.
You are a racist cunt. End of story.
Quote:Frikken hell, you think they cant tell the difference between a realAfrican and black American? They dont classify you as African. They classify you as American. Hell, those white racists you cant seem to understand are more African than you are. You think your black skin makes you African in Africa? Give me a break. Your entire point of view, highlighted by your ignorant post dripping with resentment for a situation and history you dont understand, just goes to show how far removed from Africa you are.
Quote:As opposed to you? What's there to understand? I am sorry, this might come as a surprise to you but I really do not think that the White Man is god and that everything that he touches turns into gold. You are basically propagating the myth of White Supremacy. Are you a Na'vi? does your White skin in Africa gives you special powers were you are able to read what's going on inside a Black African minds?
No, but being an African I actually have an understanding of the culture and the countries. I know the sad history of the place and I also know the real history of the place. While you sit and read about this shit in Time magazine or they try and educate you in your African studies classes we actually live this shit.
The white man brought strife to this place. Ill never dispute that. But he also brought literacy, currency, infrastructure and systems of production here. My family lived in South Africa for over 400 years. Thats longer than your slave ancestors were in the USA. Makes me more African than it does you American.
Maybe I should do a crash course in American history and then try to use that as a justification for, oh, I dunno, how the white man loves the black man? After all, an entire country went to war to free the black man. The North vs the South. White boys dying in the thousands so the African American could vote and ride at the front of the bus.
See what I did there?
Quote:As for the stares of hatred? Not because you are black mate. They grow up with black people around them. They are the minority there yet still prosper. Most can probably speak an African language or two and have more respect for the local African culture than you do.
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LOL, I am no sure if you are being serious. "They are the minority there yet still prosper." I guess the fact they run the economy, run the military, and They used military might and own 99% of the capital has nothing to do with it? You making it sound as White Africans were like Jews or Asians in America. Your remind me of some White Americans, who have benefited greatly from "White Privilege" and institutional racism, yet they feel that there's no racism in America because they don't see it.
Institutionalized racism. Man, I love that shin dig. You talk about racism as if its only something a black man has to suffer. Again, utterly clueless. In South Africa, whites have to
1 - Give 26% ownership of their business to blacks
2 - Ensure 50% of management is African
3 - Have racial quotas for sports. Certain sports have to have x amount of players of colour, regardless of ability
4 - Public service contracts only go to companies with African ownership
5 - Whites pay the majority of tax in South Africa
5 small examples of legal racism whites endure in South Africa. LEGAL. I got one up on your "institutionalised" You remind me of every fucking African American who comes to South Africa so he can visit his motherland when he really orginates from frikken Nigeria or Ghana. Its like a candian calling himself a Mexican.
Like I say, you are a racist. You see colour everywhere when in many cases its not even a racial issue. You dont know what racism is. You have never experienced it to the point where you have seen people in your family gang raped because of the colour of their skin. You have never had to bury someone because they got shot for their farm. Do some proper research into black on white racism in Africa before you shout your frikken mouth off about white on black racism.
In South Africa, where the white people VOTED for democratic change, white farmers have now been added to Genocide Watch because they are being wiped out in such large numbers. They looked at you funny in Namibia? Shame, poor you.
Seriously man. You dont have a clue, and your attempts to educate are beyond disgusting.
Quote:No one in Africa exploits Africans more than the Africans themselves. As a visitor from a first world country, and being black on top of it, you probably find that hard to accept. Go live there for a while to experience the real Africa. If you live to tell the tale, you might be a better man for it. You would certainly be a lot less ignorant than you are.
Quote:Ok. Africans they do some evil shit. There are some apologist out there that start talking about root causes as soon as you say anything negative about Africans i.e. European Colonialism. However, I am not one of them. What Africans do to other Africans is disgusting and inexcusable. Nevertheless, it took centuries for Europeans to stop slaughtering one another. The top two mass murderers of all time were White men(Hitler, Stalin) Therefore, Africans need to be held to the same standard and be given some time to get their shit together. Most of them gained independence in 1960's. Rome was not built in a day, neither will Africa.
No, but Rome never inherited the infrastructure Africans did either. They were never given a helping hand by anyone. They were never given reparations or aid. They were never given the promise that a stronger power would never invade. They were never given loans they could not pay.
Africa is one big hand out and the result has been the steady erosion of the quality of life the people lead. South Africa, based on the United Nations human development index, has regressed to the point where it has dropped almost 40 places on its charts within 20 years. Zim was the breadbasket of Africa and is now facing famine. Africa has gone backwards under African rule.
Hitler/Stalin were evil fucks. Using that as a justification for black on black violence in Africa is ridiculous. You know whats sad about Africa? In Europe, it was rarely civilian on civilian. It was normally militairy on civilian. In Africa? Its civilian on civilian.
Again, being an AMERICAN, you would not have been exposed to this much would you.
Quote:Is this suppose to be your kumbaya paragraph? I was not aware that Lagos had bands of Racist blacks that chase and beat
White men because they are White. There is nothing to "understand" about racism and White Supremacy. Lets stop with the moral relativity here. I did not know this board was going to be so philosophical. Silly me, I thought this board was about bitches and hoes and how to fuck them. I was not condemning any cultures, I simply wrote about my experience from my perspective. There are several Black or Minority posters that might have found my post informative. Not because they want to go to South Africa and change that shit hole but because women racial attitudes is totally relevant when it comes to pu$$y. For example, I would not have went to Nazi Germany or Russia for that matter looking for some ass.
You dont need to go to Lagos. Go to parts of Cape Town or Johannesburg. Plenty of racist black gangs there mate. There is much you need to learn about racism affecting people of all creeds and colour, not just people of one colour.
As for you stating the reason for you post is that you are trying to educate your fellow brothers on what to expect? Thats exactly why you got the response you did. Its bullshit, and its based on bullshit you dont even understand. Dont try find the moral high ground here. You attack people because of the colour of their skin, then have the audacity to pass this off a fact based on your limited understanding of the history?
Im done with this shit. You took a vacation to a place you know little about a reported bullshit as fact. You are so fucking arrogant you think you are in a position to lecture on racism because you are black, as if racism is something only blacks have to endure. You generalise and attack an entire group of people, label them and shame them, when you yourself know nothing of the place or the reasons for the attitudes the people have.
In short, you sum up the typical American the rest of the world has come to hate. Arrogant, ignorant and obnoxious in the extreme. American, not African American. You are about as African as I am jewish.