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Originally Posted by blazey
God help us if you think America is free of firearms, drug use and under age sex under Bush. Lots of leaders make mistakes and have bad beliefs, regardless of their colour. I think it would be quite naive to say that every black person in the world must be incapable of leadership.
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True. And in the case of Africa, we have to take into account the legacy of colonialism. If one wants to find the root of the problems in, say, the Congo, one should read the history of the brutality of Belgian colonialism. Or Conrad's "Heart of Darkness."