African-American Appreciation Thread - Highlighting contributions from our most productive citizens

I get what you're saying but niggers are big fans of committing traffic offenses and misdemeanors while committing felonies at the same time. What seem like run of the mill traffic stops can really be quite dangerous. So while Hardarius might not get caught immediately after pullin a strap on a nigga, it's entirely possible he'll be high as balls swerving in and out of traffic with a gat with no serial number and a pound of meth the next day.

I know I've said this before but any time someone trots out the "AH'M SKERD UV DA POLEESE" narrative, your mind should immediately gravitate to niggers telling on themselves for social media clout.
show me one other type of person who's actually afraid for their life yet continuously starts trouble with the thing they're afraid of
it's like if people with a dog phobia regularly visited the local pound and tried fistfighting the dogs, or if people scared of car crashes always sped 30 miles above the speed limit in the wrong direction without a seatbelt
 
I get what you're saying but niggers are big fans of committing traffic offenses and misdemeanors while committing felonies at the same time. What seem like run of the mill traffic stops can really be quite dangerous. So while Hardarius might not get caught immediately after pullin a strap on a nigga, it's entirely possible he'll be high as balls swerving in and out of traffic with a gat with no serial number and a pound of meth the next day.
That only works provided you're not in a wokeoid municipality and in a place that actually enforces laws on them rather than it being cops cynically taking easy bait from those who won't resist instead. I assure you it's 100% the latter.
 
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That only works provided you're not in a wokeoid municipality and in a place that actually enforces laws on them rather than it being cops cynically taking easy bait from those who won't resist instead. I assure you it's 100% the latter.
many modern 1st world countries, but especially america, are in a position where they're OBSESSED with race yet aren't permitted to notice it, except they have to notice it in order to pretend like they don't notice it, because if they were actually blind to skin color they'd judge everyone accordingly to their behavior and people would notice patterns in results that can't be explained away by prejudice

it's like a man pretending to be blind
show an actual blind man a buncha colored cards and have him guess the color, he'll shout out colors at random "blue" "green" "red" without any kinda pattern, and occasionally, maybe even often, end up right by sheer chance
now do the same to a man who's not actually blind and notice how he pretty much never 'guesses' the right color, he always sees it and then intentionally guesses the wrong choice
 
Does anyone have a link to that research paper showing how interracial children are extremely genetically distinct from their parents? The research went as far as showing that if a man has an interracial child, he is more genetically similar to any random person of his own race than he is to his own child.
Tried to find it, I think you're referencing this? I don't know the exact paper, it might be in the replies.
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Though on a related note, I have read before that multiracial children struggle to find eligible donors for bone marrow and stem cell transplants due to their genetic composition. Very sad, makes me feel it's almost selfish on behalf of the parents to have mixed-race children. A couple articles:

A 7-year-old boy needs a bone-marrow transplant. His ethnic background makes it almost impossible to find one. (Archive)

A 7-year-old boy needs a bone-marrow transplant. His ethnic background makes it almost impossible to find one.​

By Elizabeth Broadbent, March 23, 2022
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Melissa Ramirez and her son Jax. Jax is still waiting for a match for a bone-marrow donation.
  • Melissa Ramirez's son Jax has IPEX syndrome.
  • This syndrome can be cured only with a bone-marrow transplant.
  • Jax is white and Latino, which has made it difficult for his family and doctors to find a match.

Melissa Ramirez says her 7-year-old son, Jax, is happy all the time.

"He's a natural storyteller," she told Insider. When he was 3, she once found a ring of people standing spellbound as he told a tale. "I feel like he could run for the United Nations," a neighbor said.

When Jax was 2, they found out he had type 1 diabetes. It was only the beginning of his complicated medical journey.

Every cold sent Jax to the emergency room or the pediatric intensive-care unit. But Ramirez said doctors brushed off her demands for more answers, saying Jax was just unlucky. After they had a genetic panel done in fall 2021, they discovered Jax had immune dysregulation, polyendocrinopathy, enteropathy, X-linked syndrome, or IPEX.
Jax's body has an autoimmune response to attack every organ and healthy tissue in his body. Ramirez said medical personnel cried over the phone when they told her Jax's diagnosis and warned, "Don't Google."

IPEX can be cured only with human stem-cell transplants via bone-marrow donation. But Jax — whose mother is white of Slovak, German, and Irish descent and whose father, from Mexico, is Latino — has no match.

The mother of a white daughter with IPEX told Ramirez, "I think your experience is going to be a little different from ours." Her white child had 10 pages of matched donors, while Jax had none.

The bone-marrow donor pool lacks diversity​

DKMS, called "Deutsche Knochenmarkspenderdatei," or the German Bone Marrow Donor Center, which works with patients worldwide, said only 30% of patients who need human stem-cell transplants would find that match within their families. Other patients are matched through databases that compare "10 specific human leukocyte antigens," or HLAs, which play a role in the body's immune response to foreign substances. Nine out of 10 of those must match, and 10 out of 10 is best. DKMS said, "A person's ethnic background is important in predicting the likelihood of finding a match."

And nonwhite people are underrepresented in the donor pool.

The bone-marrow registry Be the Match also emphasized the role of ethnicity in the likelihood of finding a match, with white people having a 79% chance of finding a matching donor. That dropped to 60% for Native Americans and 48% for Latinos. For Black people, the chance of finding a match was 29%.

Only 4% of donors registered with Be the Match were Black.

In many cases, people unable to find a match died.

Jax's mom is fighting to find him a donor

People of multiethnic backgrounds are at an even greater disadvantage. Their HLA markers tend to be "relatively unique and therefore more difficult to match," according to Be the Match.

Be the Match calls Jax, with his multiethnic ancestry, "one in a million."

"I've never won the lottery, not so much as a scratch-off card," said Ramirez, his mother. "But this is one lottery I'm going to win."

So she's fighting hard. As of the end of March, Ramirez will have overseen 70 live swabbing events to register bone-marrow donors since November. These have included drives in Texas and Mexico. She's registered 2,900 people because of Jax. "Every time, I raise my goal by 500 people," she said.

She's also enlisted the second lady of Pennsylvania, Gisele Fetterman, in her fight to spread the word about Jax's condition and help raise awareness about the need for a more diverse donor pool, both in their home state and beyond. Fetterman is also the mom of multiracial children.

Jax needs a transplant desperately, and Fetterman believes there's hope. "This is something we have the power to change," she said.

Eight-year-old boy urgently needs mixed-race donor to save his life. (Archive)

Eight-year-old boy urgently needs mixed-race donor to save his life​

November 10, 2021
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Family of Exeter boy, Alfie, launches appeal to find a lifesaving stem cell donor with a similar British Chinese heritage.

The family of a schoolboy are making a desperate appeal for more people with Chinese and mixed ethnicity to join the Anthony Nolan stem cell register to help save their eight-year-old son, Alfie Pinckney, after he was diagnosed with severe bone marrow failure.

Maths whizz Alfie, a “gregarious and witty” child was born to Chinese-British nationals Lily, 45, and Charles, 44. He loves playing with twin sisters, Sienna and Willow, 5, getting his kicks from winding them up, in typical older brother fashion.

In March 2020, Alfie was diagnosed with aplastic anaemia, a rare and serious condition that occurs when your body stops producing enough new blood cells. Alfie depends on weekly blood and platelet transfusions to keep him alive, and doctors have said his only hope of a much-needed cure is a stem cell transplant from a matching donor.

In the UK, between 100 and 150 people are diagnosed with aplastic anaemia each year*. Unfortunately, no-one in Alfie’s family, including his sisters, are a stem cell match, so the family are relying on a life-saving stranger to help save his life. His dad, Charles, who gave up his job as a property investment manager to look after Alfie full-time, says:

‘It’s every parent’s worst nightmare finding out that this child has a life-threatening condition.Our world turned upside down. Alfie has just accepted weekly infusions are part of his life now.

‘We knew a stem cell transplant was a possible treatment, but it was devastating news none the less. As a family, we’re having these conversations that you shouldn’t have to have.’

In even more difficult news, Alfie’s parents were told that there was no matching stem cell donor. The family are aware that Alfie’s search is made harder by fact he is of mixed heritage and is unlikely to find a donor with a similar ethnicity to himself. Only 71% of transplant recipients receive the best match from a stranger, which drops dramatically to around 37% of patients from minority ethnic backgrounds.

In 2018, his parents noticed something was wrong. Alfie exhibited some worrying symptoms such as overwhelming lethargy. He would come home from school and go straight to sleep and suffered with high fevers. In March 2020, Alfie’s health took a frightening turn as he had a severe haemorrhage before being diagnosed with aplastic anaemia.

Driven by his son’s treatment and his family’s experience, Charles is throwing everything at raising awareness of the urgent need to diversify the stem cell register and get a match for Alfie. He says:

‘We’re trying to raise awareness of the need for more people, especially if they have Chinese or mixed heritage to join the Anthony Nolan stem cell register. It’s a swab of the cheek and you’re on it. Alfie knows we need to find his lifesaver and we have hope we will. This is the reality of it. It’s a brutal reality, but it’s reality.’

It is easy to join Anthony Nolan’s stem cell register. People can request a swab pack online which is delivered through the post. The potential donor swabs their cheek and sends this back to Anthony Nolan. The charity will only ask someone to donate their stem cells if they come up as a match for someone who needs them, such as Alfie.

Henny Braund MBE, Chief Executive of Anthony Nolan, says:

‘Finding his matching donor would mean the world to Alfie and his family. We’re doing all we can to support the Pinckneys and find a stem cell donor to give Alfie a second chance of life.

‘Alfie shouldn’t be at a disadvantage because of his ethnicity, but the statistics speak for themselves. If you’re aged 16-30 and in good health, you could be a lifesaver for someone like Alfie. Together we can ensure that Alfies of the future won’t need to publicly appeal, and there will be a matching donor for everyone who needs one.’
 
Never carried guns, I carried a metal flashlight as a baton and pepper spray. That being said, getting a concealed carry permit is something I should do. I don't work that job anymore and haven't for some time, but I am looking to buy a house in the next few years and the only places that aren't crazy expensive are near the hood.
Every day the police are being defunded and disgraced, the burden of law and order is being placed on the average citizen. You are now responsible for your own safety. Black criminals have remained a constant force of entropy in society and their punishment and deterrence has only decreased over time. A gun is our God Given Right. The Founding Fathers had no trust in government policing and gave each citizen the right to be their own protector. DO IT.
 
I sat here and chewed through the entire thread highlights in about 3 hours after having a little too much coffee. What I didn't see in the posts is discussion explaining the roots of the Negro behavior in civilized society.

I'll explain with the help of a few questions my observations and tautological hypotheses about the Negro that I'm afraid science will never dare to explore.

Reading in David Attenborough voice is advised, or using the AI for his voice.

Q. Why does the Negro like fat women? (let's start with the more obvious)
A. It signals resource gathering. Primal. Much like the figure of Goddess Venus (and other parallels across cultures) was reviled when not having enough food surplus by our ancestors. When we got larger scale agriculture, trade and whatnots, we dropped Venus and transitioned to Zeus. The Negro, however, having no realization of this, is still in the primal. Their brain cannot comprehend civilization and the primal urge is still present. The sexual urge comes from a subconscious of wanting to produce offspring who also may result in abundance (more on this later), its a very primal "connecting the dots" so to say.

Q. But why in specific does it seem to be the White fat women that the Negro is after?
A. For the less aware, the fairer women are selected for in Africa as well. It is usually the tribe leader who goes after the fairer Negro women. The logic for this is simple. If a fat woman is said to represent the resourcefulness, what is a fairer fat woman going to represent? The answer is, time spent outside in the sun. A fairer woman signals that she doesn't have to go outside in the heat when the work on the fields is to be done, when there are no predators abound. It signals that she can command others to collect the resources for her. Thusly, a fat white woman signals to the primal Negro mind that it is a noble woman for not only does she have a superabundance of resources but does not have to work for it either. This is similar to the reason why women started growing longer fingernails, it signaled that she didn't have to do manual labor and was of a nobler household for her fingernails were intact and didn't break off nor needed it. Later, this became a fashion. In Chinese rural areas or families from the mainland rural backgrounds even men grow out their pinky fingernails extra long to signal that they do "brain work" and not "hand work".

Q. Why does the Negro become so fat in modern western civilization?
A. Much like the answer to above questions, here again, we observe that the Negro is stuck in the prehistorical. The advantages of impulse control are apparent only in the case of a type of saving, what that means is that if we're dealing with something that perishes then it is actually disadvantageous to have the instinct to save it. To a primal, it is advantageous to consume what is in the here and now and store the energy in his body as fat than to let it perish. Not to mention, at such a stage in human development, the probability of rivalry over saved resources increases with time and the chance of an outright conflict which expends resources and might deprive you of what you have saved keeps increasing. And so, while in our civilization today we, the people who have adjusted, can forego consumption because a) we have a lot of it, it is not going anywhere, and b) we can save it from perishing because we have tools to do so such as refrigerators, the Negro brain cannot forego because the shortest neurological pathway for the Negro is to consume, the Negro brain has not yet learnt to do the hard work and contend with its own default wiring and fight it. Of course, the Negro seldom does contend with it, but it is usually at the threat of something else that promotes it which is also primal. Namely, violence.

Q. Why does the Negro prefer the "ghettoized" option of seemingly everything despite being presented objectively superior alternatives?
A. Much like the answer to the prior question, this is also rooted in the primal brain's understanding of resource utilization. You see, in the primal condition, everything exists in a rivalrous jungle, total chaos, there are no rules other than which one man makes for himself. As such, if one saves one good to acquire another good of a higher permanence and resilience, its competitive advantage is negated by the higher amount of conflict over it that it will generate. And as explained earlier, saving a resource is already risky. Essentially, when the Negro saves a sack of berries to upgrade his makeshift bow to a resilient bow with much better potential for hunting and fights, he stands to lose the bow and the berries both, including to theft (more on this later). As such, a "ghetto", makeshift bow, put together by simple materials not only will expend fewer resources but also not invite the ire of a jealous foe.

Q. Why does the Negro steal? Seemingly for no advantage at all, if not, at loss?
A. Theft is disadvantageous only when in civilization. For, what you gain momentarily is outdone by what you stand to lose by discovery of your theft. The risk of reputational costs accrued by theft are usually far greater than the value of what you may acquire. Here's a key observation, reputation. Reputation is a concept in civilization. In the primal condition, a reputation does not exist as we understand it now. A reputation only exists of violence. There is no cost of theft when it is every man for himself and nothing to lose when you can simply kill the man to make your theft righteous for might is right. You essentially stand to gain for free. You spend almost nothing to acquire the resource but you gain a lot. As our brains have been shaped by civilization, the Negro's brains have not. His is still stuck in the primal and so when the Negro sees a shiny object, his brain circuitry connects the shortest paths which inform him that the theft is good for his interest.

Q. Why does the Negro commit his theft in such violent manner even when he could simply take and leave?
A. Astute observers may have noticed that the Negro commits his thievery with unnecessary aggression, smashing things around for seemingly no reason. There is a reason for this too. Thieving naturally invites violence by the party who has been stolen from. The only chance to dissuade further conflict is to engage in a primal show of aggression which signals that you're full of energy and rage and are thus, dangerous to engage. Whether it be footage from Black Friday sales, BLM lootings, Black History Month, or even a house robbery, the Negro is very eager to destroy anything that he does not want for himself. It also helps in sending a message of what might be further ahead if the victim chooses to pursue and it signals to the Negro brain that he is destroying further resources of the victim putting him at an increased disadvantage. With even lesser resources, it is harder for the victim to pursue, in the Negro brain.

Q. Why does the Negro not comply with simple instructions by a police officer?
A. In the modern setting, the police officer is representative of a tribal leader or enforcer to the Negro brain. In the primal condition, if the Negro succeeds in outwitting or otherwise winning against the tribal leader in any other way, he becomes the new leader of the tribe. The tribe now has to pay respect to the winner who they must now give up their wives to and pay tribute. However, in the primal condition, much like written above, the tribal leader loses nothing by simply killing and taking the resources of his adversary and moving on. As you see now, the Negro brain really has no other choice. His brain must either abandon its survival instinct and choose to die or fight and live to be enriched. Naturally, when faced with such a choice, one last fight is worth a shot.

Q. Why does the Negro try to steal the gun of a police officer?
A. A rather simple answer. If the Negro takes away the weapon of the tribe leader, he has nearly ensured his victory. He must slay the leader to then assert himself as the new leader of the tribe whose leader he slayed. Now you know why stealing the cop's gun comes as such a natural and obvious choice to the Negro mind.


Q. Of all the fruits, why is it that the Negro enjoys the watermelon fruit the most?
A. Here again, we see the primal mode in which the Negro operates. I think the answer to this should be very obvious but the wool of guilt and anti-racism is too thick to be easily pulled over the eyes of the people to notice this. To the Negro, the idea of concentration is hard to grasp. You see, much like reputation, to concentrate is a civilizational concept. Even selectively breeding in order to concentrate nutrition is beyond the scope of the primal mode in which the Negro mind operates. The watermelon represents nothing but a giant fruit. Much like a giant woman, this represents an abundance of resources and energy to be gained from such a fruit. The Negro does not understand that the watermelon perhaps has a diluted quantity of sugars in it. Gram per gram, a banana contains more sugar than a watermelon. Yet, when the Negro sees the watermelon, his neurons activate equating its size with its richness. Even upon subsequent consumption of fruit with a higher concentration of nutrition such as a banana the Negro brain does not connect that it is superior to a watermelon. It denies the Negro the same enjoyment and satisfaction.

Q. Why is it that the Negro male has a hard time raising a child that he produced?
A. It is the same primal pathways responsible for theft that encourage this behavior in the Negro male. Now that you've read that, it may become immediately obvious. Of course, the Negro male has to commit no resources of his own yet gets to spread his genetic material, for which he does not really know why he must. Here again, the selection of a fat woman becomes very important, for it signals that the woman can part with some of the resources, with little cost to her own keep, to raise a child all by herself despite the absence of the male. How naturally calculated this all is, is truly amazing once you decide to take it in as observing an animal species. Were it a type of Ape we would be fascinated by its study.

Q. Why is it that the Negro never admits fault?
A. To the primal Negro brain, there is nothing to be gained from accountability and everything to lose. To the civilized mind, owning up to one's mistakes means to contrast it with future improvement for a source of self-esteem and pride of having overcome one's own destructive potential to become something greater. To the Negro, the mind is set in its ways, there is no way up, there is no way down. It is in stasis, it just is. There is no change to the Negro whether it accepts accountability or whether it doesn't. Everything remains all the same. Except, upon acceptance of fault it attracts punishment and deprives the Negro of further exploitation and so the Negro must deny, deny, deny and try and do anything to get out of any circumstance he finds himself in which is a consequence of his own actions.


Q. Why is it that the Negro sags his pants?
A. By sagging his pants the Negro signals a threat. This is counterintuitive. When the Negro sags his pants, he signals to you that he can take you on despite the impeded movement by the saggy pants. This is so, because he is equipped with a ranged weapon. To the Negro mind, he does not need to put up fists, he does not need to run, for at any opportunity he can use his gun to win any interaction.


Q. Why is it that the Negro likes menthol cigarettes?
A. It is no secret that the Negro is fond of magic. A menthol cigarette is a counterintuitive amusement to the Negro. It makes the Negro feel like he has the magical power to turn hot smoke into something that cools instead. Being from the tropical or arid origin, the coolness is a strange feeling to the Negro. As many are aware, almost all African native languages do not have an original word for ice or for snow. As such, the cold is only experienced by the Negro outside of his control, in the power of a natural breeze. To have the same power in the Negro's hands and that too from smoke, makes the Negro fancy himself a shaman. A reviled position in the tribe.

Q. Why is it that the Negro possess a larger penis?
A. The penis of the Negro developed an abnormal length due to the polygamous nature of his primal environment. To this day in Africa polygamous marriages are common where a woman has many husbands. Not only that, but infidelity is not recognized as a negative to the Negro and taken for granted. The penis' head is shaped in such a way as to displace the liquid in its path and trap it behind it, even pump it out, and deliver the sperm. Evolving an ever larger penis grants advantage in the polygamous environment where the Negro can displace the semen of a previous mate who might have engaged with the female to instead make her produce your offspring. In relation to this, circumcision provides an advantage. Indeed, the oldest example of a circumcized male can be found in Africa. By removing the skin at the penis' head, the volume of the trapped liquid, that being the other semen present in the vaginal shaft, behind the head can be increased due to the folded skin not being present anymore, giving an advantage in impregnation as more of it gets pumped out. The Negro male does not care about the sensation, for his satisfaction comes from the primal urge to impregnate.

Q. Why is it that the Negro believes in God yet is not any bit religious in his actions?
A. This bit of nuanced observation is sure to be something that puzzles any man of civilization. However, it is not so puzzling once you understand what God represents to the Negro mind. To the Negro mind, God is a device that gives without any effort. When the Negro is told of God's powers he understands of God as something or someone that can produce infinite resources. And thus, the discussion around God in Negro communities revolves less on adherence to religious tenets and more around circulating tips and tricks that worked for other Negroes in providing them resources, seemingly out of thin air, and they credit this to their particular way of worship. God is good, much like thieving is good. It is an unconditional resource machine. The lazy Negro has to do nothing but join his hands together and think of a new sentence to say in his mind that might scam God into giving him a prize. The Negro often references this in his music, a rap lyric goes, "I'm wayyyy up, I feel blessed". Here the Negro equates being blessed with having more resources, money, than others.


It is important to understand that the Negro brain does these calculations impulsively. Much like a Kingfisher knows what to do to catch the fish or how the Crow knows to solve a puzzle to get a reward. These animals don't know what to do in a stepwise fashion. They don't induce the knowledge of the solution. This understanding is pre-existing by fact of their biological necessity to be so, it is instinct.

Anyway, normal mode me here, I think this post may be fit for a thread in Deep Thoughts subforum perhaps if it's not already there? Just do National Geographic documentary style nigger observations. Say, someone posts a clip and its like two sheboons going at each other, people can write NatGeo style stuff for it. Might be too gay for effort. Any studies validating any of this crap would be great to have too. Probably my highest effort shitpost on a weekend.
 
I need to understand why so many black women go into admin or healthcare admin positions. They basically "blacked out" an entire job field. I don't inherently hate this as a career option for black women because it's not like this was a field that has deteriorated or anything but I need to know the appeal. What is it?
 
I need to understand why so many black women go into admin or healthcare admin positions. They basically "blacked out" an entire job field. I don't inherently hate this as a career option for black women because it's not like this was a field that has deteriorated or anything but I need to know the appeal. What is it?
Q. Why is it that the Negro females like administrative positions, especially in healthcare?
A. The Negro female likes to be in administrative roles primarily due to the commanding background of the Negro female. From since the days of Africa, the Negro female has been the head and central figure of its administration. You may recall learning that Africa is and always was a predominantly matriarchal society. This makes obvious the present desire of the Negro female mind to re-establish a little queendom of her own. Desiring the wise mother queen position, she thinks of herself as a care provider, but a care of guidance, of her superior wisdom. This sense of wisdom she's lulled into by all the male attention she gets. A little clan to manage and order around despite having nothing special about her but being an object of adoration for the Negro male. The Negro male likes this arrangement very much. He may try to conceal it, but it fails when it is blatant how the Negro male tries to outdo other males on projecting himself as much more masculine. It is borne of insecurity. The Negro female knows she has nothing to offer besides her uterus and learns to justify her existence in a society by using any words necessary to throw others off this fact.
 
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If you want some deep think shit, I can't recommend "Case for Colonialism" by Bruce Gilley enough. There's a free bit available online:


It is hard to overstate the pernicious effects of global anti-colonialism on domestic and international affairs since the end of World War II. Anti-colonialism ravaged countries as nationalist elites mobilized illiterate populations with appeals to destroy the market economies, pluralistic and constitutional polities, and rational policy processes of European colonizers. In our “age of apology” for atrocities, one of the many conspicuous silences has been an apology for the many atrocities visited upon Third World peoples by anti-colonial advocates.27

Few cases better illustrate this than Guinea-Bissau and its anti-colonial “hero” Amilcar Cabral. In launching a guerrilla war against Portuguese rule in 1963 Cabral insisted that it was “necessary to totally destroy, to break, to reduce to ash all aspects of the colonial state in our country in order to make everything possible for our people.” He took aim at a successful colonial state that had quadrupled rice production and initiated sustained gains in life expectancy since bringing the territory under control in 1936.28 Cabral, in his own words, was “never able to mobilize the people on the basis of the struggle against colonialism.”29 Instead, he secured training and arms from Cuba, Russia, and Czechoslovakia and economic assistance from Sweden.30 The resulting war killed fifteen thousand people (out of a population of 600,000) and at least as many civilians, and displaced another 150,000 (a quarter of the population).

Once “liberation” was achieved in 1974, a second human tragedy unfolded, costing at least 10,000 further lives as a direct result of conflict. By 1980, rice production had fallen by more than 50 percent to eighty thousand tons (from a peak of 182,000 tons under the Portuguese). Politics became a “cantankerous din of former revolutionaries” in the words of Forrest.31 Cabral’s half-brother, who became president, unleashed the secret police on the tiny opposition—five hundred bodies were found in three mass graves for dissidents in 1981.32 A tenth of the remaining population pulled up stakes for Senegal.33 The Cabralian one-party state expanded to fifteen thousand employees, ten times as big as the Portuguese administration at its peak.34 Confused Marxist scholars blamed the legacies of colonialism or the weather or Israel.35

Things have gotten worse. Guinea-Bissau has a more or less permanent UN peacekeeping force and continues to suck up millions in aid as the “continuadores de Cabral” squabble under what the World Bank calls “continuing political disarray.”36 Today, in per capita terms, rice production is still only one-third of what it was under the Portuguese despite forty years of international aid and technological advances. The health transition, meanwhile, slowed considerably after independence. By 2015, the average Guinea-Bissauan was living to just fifty-five, meaning gains of just 0.3 years of extra life per year since independence, less than half of the 0.73 extra years of life per year being gained in the late colonial period. What might have become a prosperous and humane Macau or Goa of Africa is today a cesspool of human suffering. Western and African anti-colonial scholars continue to extol Cabral’s “national liberation” ideas.37 But actually existing Guineans may be asking: when are the Portuguese coming back?

Compare the African anti-colonialist experience to, say, Singapore, a functionally first world country.
 
show me one other type of person who's actually afraid for their life yet continuously starts trouble with the thing they're afraid of
it's like if people with a dog phobia regularly visited the local pound and tried fistfighting the dogs, or if people scared of car crashes always sped 30 miles above the speed limit in the wrong direction without a seatbelt
I have said before, but it bears repeating: If black lives matter, why don't niggers teach their kids how to behave in ways that don't end up with niggers getting killed?
 
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