Slavery: 200yrs on.

[Sam Slater]

It's bollocks though. Just ask the cod fishermen in the North Atlantic !wink!

[c.j.jaxxon]

Thanx Warren Z. but I tried to make the same point to Sam but as you know people have their own minds on things. Oh well!

[Sam Slater]

Hey WZR, welcome back.

You're right in that I shouldn't have used the phrase 'worse economy'. I stumbled into seeing it from a Western, developed perspective I suppose.

I guess civilisation has changed that much over the last 400 years that it would be difficult to compare (an apples/oranges scenario), and lack of records would make any comparisons pretty inaccurate anyway.

Still, Africa is heading along the same path we ourselves trod, and they seem to want to carry on in our footsteps. If this path is the measurement of success then they are indeed better off now than ever before. Success is indeed relative I know, which makes it harder to judge.

Lets remember that population booms have worsened any times of famine, and made the passing on of disease easier. Picking up Darwinian Natural selection -if you'll forgive me- then 'any' population boom means success.

I agree that it seems a little unrealistic to theorise Africa being better off going back to the bush, and ploughing the land manually. Even if true, what African would take this advice from westerners living in the developed world? It would just be looked upon as the west trying to keep Africa down (like they think when we tell them of HIV and advising the use of sexual protection).

[one eyed jack]

If slavery was so okay back in the day why didnt they enslave other nations and sell them off to america then?

Think of an answer to that and you'll know why most countries arm themselves to the back teeth with nuclear weapons.

Africa is a prime example that shows the rest of the world to be what it is in both good and bad.

I would even be bold enough to say it may well be the conscience of the world on many different levels.

[one eyed jack]

Anyway aside from all that and to show we've (ahem, some of us folks of a darkened hue) moved with the times, lets ave a larf:

Oh yeah did you know that human means man of colour? As in hue-man?...That means even white folks...Dey be coloured too.

Have a nice day