Posted on 07/15/2003 11:03:20 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
President Bush's current five-nation tour of Africa seems an appropriate occasion to laud him for doing more to benefit black people than any other leader in our history, including the so-called, "first black president," Bill Clinton.
During the Clinton administration, AIDS tore through the sub-Saharan continent, infecting an estimated 35 percent of the adults. Only a fraction had access to life-extending drugs. The rest had to simply wait and die. Despite the ballooning toll in human life and suffering in Africa, the U.S. budget for total nonmilitary aid, including the funding of AIDS prevention and literacy programs, health care, etc.- remained stuck during the Clinton years at $10 billion. Get it? Despite nice sound bites about how "Africa matters," Clinton barley lifted a finger to help the impoverished and war-torn continent.
President Bush, on the other hand, has tripled what our government previously expended on nonmilitary aid to Africa. Sadly, our civil rights leaders have steadfastly refused to praise the president's commitment to combat the African holocaust. In fact, an adviser to the Congressional Black Caucus tells me that the group convinced former South African President, Nelson Mandela, to snub Bush on his tour. The former South African president has since praised President Bush for dramatically increasing funding for AIDS research and treatment and moving "the debate from hundreds of millions of dollars to tens of billions."
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Africa is full of africans, despite their uncontrolled sexual disease predation, mass murders, and gangland style forms of tribalism.
Famine after famine. Watermellons' Earth Day? PETA? If we give them anything it should be luggage. But who would have them. Arabs don't want blacks. Only the French want arabs. Centuries or millinia of failure. These africans are a lesson to us all. With natural wealth beyond imagination, we witness pathetic misery generation after 15 year breeding generation. What is going on and on and on and on?
Do they want dependence by continually taking from whitie, or do they want independence which means independence? After 140 years, you'd think that the USA's blame is history. My family has yet to thanked by American-africans for their freedom.
Or do they simply want the UN to extort money from the USA for all time? Enriching the likes of Kofies everywhere.
Africans make me sick. The more they blame whitie the more I don't care. The more flies they don't swat, the more I don't care. The longer they don't produce their own DDT, the more I don't care. The less they do to help themselves, the less I care. Give them a shovel to dig their own wells. Geezzzz. You'd think it was rocket science to drink water which stinks less than you do. $15 billion to tell guys that raping infants and little girl virgins does not cure AIDS?
I suggest that instead of perpetually giving to one charity or another to feed the children beyond as far as the eye can see, perhaps we should each buy an african to do work for us. Owned lock stock, and barrel. Market economy. At least that way, we can evaluate our african on the basis of clear accountability. Work hard; eat well. Work productively; live productively. Go native. Die native.
Failed countries full of people are proving just that. Failures. What is wrong with those people?
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