I wrote the following a few months ago:
> I remember a time, 15-20 years ago, when I knew almost nothing
> about any African country. Well, I knew a little about Egypt,
> South Africa, Morocco, and a few other countries, but not much.
> That's why, in the last ten years, I've made a point to learn as
> much as I can about African countries. And in almost all of them,
> the story is the same -- massive corruption, massive government
> violence, ethnic and tribal violence. African leaders have been
> promising democracies, but instead we see one leader after another
> using violence to stay in power in order to protect his cronies
> who have been stealing money from the treasury, often money that
> the West provided in aid. That's why after forty years and
> billions of dollars in Western aid, ordinary African people are
> just as poor as they were forty years ago.
For African leaders, democracy is never more than a facade to scam
more money from the West for the leaders themselves to spend. Climate
change is currently the biggest of these scams. The leaders spend the
money to buy weapons to kill their tribal enemies, or to enrich their
families, friends and other cronies. The leaders never use it to
benefit ordinary people, since then ordinary people might decide to
vote for someone else in the next election.
This has nothing to do with race. It has to do with countries, of
which there are many in Africa, where the last generational crisis war
was an ethnic or tribal civil war. Exactly the same thing is true
today in non-African countries like Syria, Iran, Cambodia, Burma and
Nicaragua, to name just a few.