No view of third-world reality, however starkly presented, is sufficient to warn White westerners of the civilizational threat posed by their own fatuous, pathetically naive views of, um, culture. For the foreseeable future it's thus still Open House in all Western countries.
Consider the post-independence Democratic Republic of the Congo:
Le Blanc earns his keep sailing the tributaries of the Congo River. He's 40 years old, and his real name is Malu-Ebonga Charles — he got his nickname, and his green eyes and dark honey skin, from a German grandfather who married a Congolese woman in what was then the Belgian Congo. If Le Blanc's unconventional genealogy gave him a unique view of the Congo’s colonial past, it is his job on the river, piloting three dugouts lashed together with twine and mounted with outboards, that has informed his opinion of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s present. “The river is the artery of Congo’s economy,” he says. “When the Belgians and the Portuguese were here, there were farms and plantations — cashews, peanuts, rubber, palm oil. There was industry and factories employing 3,000 people, 5,000 people. But since independence, no Congolese has succeeded. The plantations are abandoned.” Using a French expression literally translated as “on the ground,” he adds: “Everything is par terre.”In short, complete and utter failure to take the hand off from a European nation and run with it. Utterly useless.It’s true that our journey through 643 kilometers of rainforest to where the Maringa River joins the Congo at Mbandaka, has been an exploration of decline. An abandoned tugboat here; there, a beached paddle steamer stripped of its metal sides to a rusted skeleton; several abandoned palm oil factories, their roofs caved in, their walls disappearing into the engulfing forest, their giant storage tanks empty and rusted out. The palms now grow wild and untended on the riverbanks and in the villages we pass, the people dress in rags, hawk smoked blackfish and bushmeat, and besiege us with requests for salt or soap. There are no schools here, no clinics, no electricity, no roads.
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Le Blanc isn't much concerned with that history [of Belgian rule]; he lives in the present, in a country where education is a luxury and death is everywhere. Around 45,000 people die each month in the DRC as a result of the social collapse brought on by civil war, according to a study released in January by the International Rescue Committee. It estimated the total loss of life between 1998 and April 2007 at 5.4 million. For many Congolese like Le Blanc, the difficulties of today blot out the cruelties of the past. "On this river, all that you see — the buildings, the boats — only whites did that. After the whites left, the Congolese did not work. We did not know how to. For the past 50 years, we've just declined." He pauses. "They took this country by force," he says, with more than a touch of admiration. "If they came back, this time we'd give them the country for free."[1]
Another useful comparison between civilizations: In the U.S., 3,446 blacks were lynched by whites over 86 years. That's a yearly average of 40 lynchings. In the perfidious U.S., that is. In the 9-1/4 years in which 5.4 million Congolese were killed by other (black) Congolese, extra-judicial killings took place at a rate of 583,784 per year. Which nation, judged by a commonsense, unhysterical, honest standard comes out as civilized? Or are they equal?[2]
New Year's bonus video offering: "Africa Addio" or "Africa Farewell." A lesson in multiculturalism and the African culture that must be imported into the West. If you don't understand Italian, it won't matter. The visuals need no translation.
H/t: "We Went Backwards," subsection of "Heart of Darkness," in "2.2 Come Back, Colonialism." By Karl F. Boetel, Radish, 4/12/13. Mr. Boetel offers this disclaimer regarding this list of recommended reading (of which "Africa Addio" is one recommendation): "We recommend the following resources. (We do not, however, necessarily endorse all opinions expressed in them: some are not nearly extreme enough.)"
Notes
[1] "Come Back, Colonialism, All Is Forgiven." By Alex Perry, Time, 2/14/08.
[2] For a glimpse of U.S. realities along Congolese lines (sans widespread massacre . . . so far) see "Camden: Death by Diversity."
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