Monday 14 May 2012

Sometimes

Sometimes I wonder what if we swopped continents and countries. What if Africa swopped continent with Europe. Pretty much like the exchange student program. You know the one. I come and live your life for 3 months and you go and live mine. Instead, his time unlike the period of slave trade, we actually agreed a swop program for 25 years. We literally swopped nations. Some might say its a fair equation when considering the extent of abuse, rape and pillage Africa has experienced in its time and am not talking about the whites here!!! I am talking post independent African countries.

My gut feelings,.... 
What do you think? 
My gut feelings,.... I think in less than 10 years of the 25, Africans would have decimated the European continent. There would be no infrastructures, working water, sewage, food, transportation, national health service, little or no meaningful trade with our neighbours and there would certainly be wars. 
However, on the African continent newly occupied by Europeans,...all would be In great working order. Learning from their extensive knowledge of technology,..they would implement far reaching programs that would ensure every citizen maximised their potential. 
Isn't it ironic,...Africans would be looking to sneak back into a continent they once owned but abused. The Caucasian on the other hand would eventually have all they had always desired. They could have staycations as the sun would be there,..they would harvest the sun to provide a natural heat and energy source to power their vehicles, homes and lifestyles. There may be no need to colonise Mars!!! Imagine,...all within a generation. 
Makes you think sometimes about the nature of human beings. These scenarios are not one humans need to imagine. They are here and real. As the earths natural resources face depletion, the battleground are being marked. Some call it neo colonialism,..I call it entirely something else. I prefer the term inhumanity
The scenarios I predicted are not entirely impossible. But the my question is this,... Why is it that daily over 2,000 children die simply for lack of water, food and the most basic essential that are God given,..whilst in the west we wallow in decadence and our daily battles are the Dow jones, Nasdaq,.... Where is our sense of purpose and brotherly love. The facts are,..earths natural resources are depleting in the industrialised west and stockpiling and reserves are the order of the day. Africa and other parts of the world,..i.e Afghanistan are the battlegrounds of tomorrow. Many educated people ask themselves, what is the obsession with Afghanistan. Is it really the Taliban?...Islam or Muslim extremist??? The answer lies deeper in what China/America and Great Britain are hoping to achieve in these regions. 
But I digress,..let me take you back to the swop scenarios. We haven't actually swopped and are not likely to ever do so,... But, does something sound and look familiar to you? Look around you,..what's happened to our schools, hospitals, health care, trade, infrastructures, education, energy,and respect for the elderly? Yes, right here in the UK. Where is the trade with our neighbours? Markets are daily crashing, there is disagreement on the way forward. The richer are getting richer and the governments answer to redeem the hopeless situation is: make cut backs that affect the poorest and most vulnerable. But you know something,..there isn't a single African in sight in the government of the west!!!

Remember: runningwater cannot be silenced it speaks for the unheard!
baku 150512@01:41

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