The Lonious Monk
Celestial Souljah
the wealth gap getting close to whites wealth and other races
This is what I said:
Yeah, I mean I fully believe that whites are doing better on average than blacks, but I don't think the real gap is as big as some believe. We always see the average wealth numbers, but I don't know if I've ever seen one that controlled for extreme outliers. People like Bill Gates and Jeff Besos have to skew the numbers.
I didn't say anything about closing the gap. I was saying that I don't know how accurate the gap is because people don't seem to be reporting the statistics accurately.
to Europe trading iron
This is literally some shit he made up. I said they found iron deposits in England which led to the industrial revolution. I never said anything about Europe trading for iron.
to black folks all bunch up in one location which is why they have low salaries
I said this and I provided a population map to prove it. He already tapped out and said he couldn't argue against that, but he's still carrying this along as if I just put some bullshit out there and he corrected me on it.
to Europe was this thriving continent
Again, I never said this. I just said that every place in Europe was not as broke and destitute as he was making it sound. He was basically claiming that Europe was damn near on cave man status with even the royalty basically living in hovels. That's not even close to true.
At first I thought dude was just misinformed. Now I'm not sure if he's just really misinformed or a liar, but at this point he's clearly not an honest actor when it comes to this debate so I should have stopped with it long ago. That's my bad.
I'm not really sure where the topic of discussion goes from here though. Most of those African countries made bad or corrupt deals with the Chinese, and the Chinese exploited them. If the Africans want to kick the Chinese out and go another route, that's their right and it's probably the right thing to do. But they are still going to have to find a better way to handle themselves moving forward. LIke I said before, Africa could be the wealthiest continent in future, but only if they start making better moves with relationship to the international community.[/quote][/quote]