Almost 40 years ago, National Geographic Magazine had a featured article (Allan C. Fisher, Jr. and Bruce Dale, “Kenya Says Harambe,” National Geographic, Vol. 135, No. 2, February 1969) Part of which — if memory serves — described the forced ejection of the Indian population, which had lived in Kenya for many generations, and formed a substantial middle class. The ethnic Indians comprised most of the merchants, traders, and educated professionals of the country. Evidently, the xenophobia relented later, and ethnic Indians returned to participate. Ironically, history is repeating itself (¡Qué sorpresa!) as the Kikuyu and Luo tribes — which form the two dominant political parties — have been contending for power with some vicious spillover violence against ethnic Indians allied with the ruling National Unity Party of President Mwai Kibaki, by forces of the Orange Democratic Movement (i.e., Luo tribe.)
Meanwhile, the reflexive assertion of a certain mentality is that White Colonialism is solely responsible for the current behavior of native black africans butchering each other, because of the behavior of White European Colonial oppressors. Keep in mind that European colonial rule ended three or four generations back, with the exception of a few isolated countries.
Hmmm.
Couple of problems there.
(1) Black africans were busy selling other black africans into slavery — captured tribal enemies, inconvenient rivals from their own tribes, tedius mother-in-law, etc.— for many centuries before white european nations had any significant traffic with the non-Islamic parts of Africa.
(2) Actually after the collapse of Rome, it was the Islamic culture that became very well established along the north african mediterranean coast, as well as in Moorish Spain until the time of Fernando Rey y Isabela Reina, who ejected the Islamic armies and immediately sent Cristobal Colón out to find a Western route to India.
(3) If the White European Colonial Oppressor model is valid for Africa, why not for India? The British East India Company and the subsequent Colonial government bureaucrats did their share of brutality, contempt, condescenscion, coercion, etc. But India has emerged as a triumphantly robust nation, despite having hundreds of distinct subcultures, with thousands of dialects, a persistent caste system, conflicting religions.
The fact is that each region has a vast history extending back tens of thousands of years into the mists of time, that is FAR more important than a century or two of occupation by Colonial Oppressors. The manifold legacies of tribalism seem to be at the root of much of the continent’s chaos. If the rest of the world simply disappeared, the tribal conflicts would continue. Likewise for the Arab Middle East. Islam has its own birth in extreme violence; it grew and spread by extreme violence WHILE EUROPE WAS A BACKWATER OF DISCONNECTED TOWNS AND VILLAGES.
The Left’s habit of blaming European Whites for the problems of the world want everyone to believe that evil only sprang into existence with the Rise of Europe.
Morons.
