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What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa: Trump Is Right
American Thinker ^ | January 17,2017 | Karin McQuillan

Posted on 01/18/2018 3:36:32 PM PST by Hojczyk

Three weeks after college, I flew to Senegal, West Africa, to run a community center in a rural town. Life was placid, with no danger, except to your health. That danger was considerable, because it was, in the words of the Peace Corps doctor, "a fecalized environment."

In plain English: s--- is everywhere. People defecate on the open ground, and the feces is blown with the dust – onto you, your clothes, your food, the water. He warned us the first day of training: do not even touch water. Human feces carries parasites that bore through your skin and cause organ failure.

I worked there visited government officials doing absolutely nothing, the more I realized that no one in Senegal had the idea that a job means work. A job is something given to you by a relative. It provides the place where you steal everything to give back to your family.

I couldn't wait to get home. So why would I want to bring Africa here? Non-Westerners do not magically become American by arriving on our shores with a visa.

We are lectured by Democrats that we must privilege third-world immigration by the hundred million with chain migration. They tell us we must end America as a white, Western, Judeo-Christian, capitalist nation – to prove we are not racist. I don't need to prove a thing. Leftists want open borders because they resent whites, resent Western achievements, and hate America. They want to destroy America as we know it.

As President Trump asked, why would we do that?

We have the right to choose what kind of country to live in. I was happy to donate a year of my life as a young woman to help the poor Senegalese. I am not willing to donate my country.

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1 posted on 01/18/2018 3:36:32 PM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/01/what_i_learned_in_peace_corps_in_africa_trump_is_right.html

Worth reading


2 posted on 01/18/2018 3:37:53 PM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Already posted on FreeRepublic with lots of great comments.

3 posted on 01/18/2018 3:38:29 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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What’s fascinating is when you hear about the local townspeople in these African countries, the vast majority big Trump fans.


4 posted on 01/18/2018 3:41:12 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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Trillions have been spent on Africa. Nothing has come of it. Nothing.


5 posted on 01/18/2018 3:44:57 PM PST by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: Blue Jays

How come it does not come up when I search


6 posted on 01/18/2018 3:47:56 PM PST by Hojczyk
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Nigeria is much worse than Senegal. Which puts Africa in perspective, given Nigeria is the ‘garden of Africa’.


7 posted on 01/18/2018 3:49:56 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: Hojczyk

I have already posted this.


8 posted on 01/18/2018 3:52:01 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Hojczyk

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3623483/posts


9 posted on 01/18/2018 3:53:34 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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Here you go:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3623483/posts



10 posted on 01/18/2018 3:55:53 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: Hojczyk

Remember quite well seeing grown men crap anywhere and everywhere in Honduras. Feces everywhere


11 posted on 01/18/2018 4:04:32 PM PST by lesko
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I had considered joining Peace Corp. But after some research I said no way!


12 posted on 01/18/2018 4:09:14 PM PST by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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I have been accused of being an electronic packrat. I've had to get larger and larger network back up drives until now I'm at 15 Terabytes and growing. Anyhow, I found this from 2005 about AID to Africa, and it's still valid.
13 posted on 01/18/2018 4:27:35 PM PST by Traveler59 ( Truth is a journey, not a destination.)
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-—electronic packrat-—

Ha.... great term. Fifteen terabytes is bigtime squirreling away.


14 posted on 01/18/2018 4:30:18 PM PST by Thibodeaux (2018 is looking good)
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Rather than send all that money that went into the Swiss bank accounts of tin pot dictators, we should have sent back all their wayward sons n daughters that REALLY know how to run a country.. and killed two birds with one stone.


15 posted on 01/18/2018 4:37:26 PM PST by Segovia
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Well I’m glad you’re a pack rat of things like that.

What an awesome explanation of the unintended consequences of liberal, state sponsored charitable ideals.

Thanks for posting!


16 posted on 01/18/2018 5:03:47 PM PST by SouthParkRepublican
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“I couldn’t wait to get home. So why would I want to bring Africa here? “

I hate to break it to you but it is already here...for a couple of hundred years.


17 posted on 01/18/2018 5:07:21 PM PST by Bonemaker
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RACISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.......


18 posted on 01/18/2018 5:09:49 PM PST by gathersnomoss
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Feces parasites bore through your skin and these sh!tholers never thought to bury sewer pipes.

Halt Immigration!


20 posted on 01/18/2018 5:18:36 PM PST by TheNext
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