Looks like RFK Jr. supports affirmative action.
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On the plus side, he acknowledges that "the effects ... are self-perpetuating" or in other words black people are not going to become normal, civilized people if left on their own.
That is in fact the reality.
The only delusional part is he thinks the cause was slavery and discrimination, when the reality is it's always been self-perpetuating -- it's been self-perpetuating for the past hundred thousand years. There's no place in Africa, sub-Saharan, that's ever had a rule of law Western style civilization except when imposed on them by colonialism.
Racism and discrimination is the result, not the cause.
I supppse the question is: If negro failure is self-perpetuating, even if it is cause by muh slavery, how long will affirmative action take to fix it? 5 years? A decade? A generation? Forever?
Is there any indication that putting black people in positions they aren't qualified for has accomplished anything except having more black people unable to contribute to society in visible positions?
Yeah, and the same is true of Africa north of the Sahara, Asia, Latin America and a lot of places in Europe, including Russia.
Then I was too specific in attempting to not be too dark. There's no place sub-Saharan that had a civilization.
Just look at the wikipedia for civilization.
Pictures from Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, Greece, Persia, the Americas. Ctrl-F "Africa": 0/0.
It's not exactly dark. If this is true (I'm not sure if Nigeria and Mali count as 'civilizations'), it's but the current state of affairs at a given moment. 2000 years ago (which is the blink of an eye in world-historical terms) there was no 'pale white' place that had a civilization. One Muslim traveler wrote that the farther north you go, the paler people get, and the stupider they get. Obviously, history proved that they were not incapable of such a thing, and now they have in fact surpassed previous civilizations and most of those places are total basketcases.
The Sahara is a formidable barrier, so it's not exactly surprising that isolated people are less developed than Persians who can easily copy the civilization of Mesopotamia and then build on that. The people in the Canary Islands weren't Stone Age savages because they were white, but because they were isolated.
I'm not sure if Africa will ever be a great place. I do hope so, because in the 21st century, it will be the center of Christianity, let alone faithful Christianity. Perhaps the values that made the West great can make Africa great. I have nightmare visions of a Europe that has sunk into complete chaos and degeneracy, and we have impeccably dressed African Christians with a monocle visiting us like a safari tour, whispering to each others in a horrified manner: "they say these people castrate their own children because their priests, whom they call "scientists", tell them they should do it!"
Every place with people had writing, agriculture, buildings and the cornerstones of civilization for at least 5000 years except sub-Saharan and Australia.