Clearly, you weren't paying attention in your white-guilt indoctrination sessions. Africa is poor and backward because Whitey has been oppressing them and keeping them down, pretty much forever (just ask Louis Farrakhan). You see, Europe and America aren't successful because of anything like laws, property rights, morality, etc. No, it is only because we've taken everything from Africa, leaving them with nothing.
We did the same thing in the American southwest. Look at all that we took from the Mexicans. All the roads, the power grid, arable land, sanitation... Wait, what? The southwest was an empty desert before Europeans got there?! Now I'm confused.
WTF?
You meannnn....Whitey, erh, Crackuh made regular and equal laws of personal and property rights as well enabling commerce to exist and thrive as a matter personal choice and no restraint?
That, that’s disgusting. ..