African-Americans have roots to brag about.

Congo rebels make roadblock out of bodies

KILIMANYOKA, Congo - The road that leads into rebel-controlled Congo begins with a makeshift roadblock made from the corpses of ………………

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27682399/

TerryRC wrote:It isn't as if they live in a vacuum.

Remember, we, the US, backed and propped up a very unpopular Mobutu Sésé Seko against those commies that surrounded Zaire.

The US helped set the stage for this.

Also, since when are all african-americans claiming descent from the Congolese? Can the !Kung living in the US be proud of their ancestors?

Sam, don't let a little reality influence your prejudices. We like your ranting.

Stephanie wrote:Yet further proof the US needs a humble foreign policy and needs to end the practive of choosing sides and installing regimes and propping up dictators.

TerryRC wrote:It isn't as if they live in a vacuum.

Remember, we, the US, backed and propped up a very unpopular Mobutu Sésé Seko against those commies that surrounded Zaire.

The US helped set the stage for this.

Also, since when are all african-americans claiming descent from the Congolese? Can the !Kung living in the US be proud of their ancestors?

Sam, don't let a little reality influence your prejudices. We like your ranting.

Liberian Conflict
By the late 1980s Liberia had effectively ceased to exist as a state. For 133 years after independence, the Republic of Liberia was a one-party state ruled by the Americo-Liberian dominated True Whig Party (TWP). The True Whig Party dominated all sectors of Liberia f

The rituals involved have been reported in some cases to entail eating body parts, and the underlying religious beliefs may be related to incidents during the civil war in which faction leaders sometimes ate (and in which one faction leader had himself filmed eating) body parts of former leaders of rival factions. Removal of body parts for use in traditional rituals is believed to be the motive for ritual killings, rather than an abuse incidental to killings committed for other motives. Ritual murders for the purpose of obtaining body parts traditionally were committed by religious group members called "heart men"; however, since the civil war, common criminals inured to killing also may sell body parts.

There continued to be reports during 2001 of attacks by fighters based in Liberia on Guinean border towns, which caused numerous deaths. These attacks generally were perpetuated by a combination of government security forces, Revolutionary Front United (RUF) rebels from Sierra Leone, and some Guinean rebels; however, some attacks also were launched by armed Liberian dissidents based in Guinea. In January there was at least one attack reported on a Guinean town close to the Sierra Leonean border.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/liberia.htm

By the late 1980s Liberia had effectively ceased to exist as a state.

To see how ridiculous the situation is, we can compare the figures: in 2001, tiny Bahamas had a fleet of 45.4 million tons, while the United States had only 11.4 million tons. The record is held by Panama, with 169.3 million tons, then Liberia with 76.7 million tons, compared with the great powers like Japan, with 18.5 million tons; Germany, 7.9 million; and France, 6.8 million. In fact all the ships flying the flag of the Bahamas, Liberia, Panama, Malta, etc., belong in reality to the big capitalists, especially those of the United States, Germany or France.

http://www.the-spark.net/np692404.html

TerryRC wrote:So, Sam changes the subject when someone call him out.

How surprising.

TerryRC wrote:So, Sam changes the subject when someone call him out.

How surprising.

TerryRC wrote:Also, since when are all african-americans claiming descent from the Congolese?

TerryRC wrote:Then why paint all african-americans with the same brush, as you clearly did?

TerryRC wrote:Sam the title of your post was "African-Americans" have roots to brag about". Not "Some African-Americans...". Not "Congolese-Americans".

TerryRC wrote:And our role in the issues in the Congo? Should we be proud along with the "african-americans"?

Sam, it is obvious that you are no fan of the brothers. You were trying to count coup and you got pwned.

You will get over it.

Sure TRC, sure nuff. America didn't give them Congolese enough Food Stamps, ADC and clothing vouchers nor provided them with free and adequate housing ...... so they went on a murdering and killing spree.

Sure TRC, sure nuff. America didn't give them Congolese enough Food Stamps, ADC and clothing vouchers nor provided them with free and adequate housing ...... so they went on a murdering and killing spree.

Aaron wrote:Would you have rather Europeans not conquered America Ziggy?