@socalgolfguy,
socalgolfguy;29699 wrote:Relevant and truthful. Thank you. Fix America first.
I am amazed that a continent the size of Africa is be so corrupt. I have come to expect it from the south-of-the-border towns in Mexico but an entire continent is mind boggling.
Stems from European colonization and rape of the continent(the French, the Germans, the Dutch, the English, the Spanish, the Portugeuse, the Italians (practically, the whole of Europe)...which "balkanized" it further, and open the way for despots, and opportunists...guess it was a "white thing"...and some Africans picked up bad "white" habits.
And while I'm in agreement as to corruption on some scale, it doesn't rise to the level you suggest, and don't think it isn't a racist assumption on your part to say so.
I wouldn't even form my lips to say the words, or deliver the keystrokes knowing that there is hardly an African leader or head of state that can compare to the corruption of Bush / Cheney, both of whom should be tried as war criminals and for crimes against humanity, as they did in Nuremberg...one would need to have one's head examined, otherwise. And as I said before...it's a wonder there are scores of African nations that are thriving democracies, the chief being the Union of South Africa, who gave the world a shining example in Nelson Mandela...the "entire continent" is hardly "so corrupt"....so, if you'd kindly keep your racist sentiments to yourself. Or address the corruption going on here, on our own shores.