Looks like RFK Jr. supports affirmative action.
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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.
I think you're getting your facts wrong there. The Germanic peoples of Europe certainly did not have writing 5000 years ago. Hell, the Greeks did not have writing 2800 years ago - they had to re-invent (actually copy it from the Phoenicians) it after the Iron Age collapse. Almost no one had writing 5000 years ago.
It's always going to come down to what definition you want to use. Is it writing, or proto-writing, is it cave painting - but whatever standard you want to use everywhere had it in spades compared to sub-Saharan and Aus.
Proto-writing for example:
7000 BC Eastern Europe and China
4000 BC India
3500 BC Mesopotamia
500 AD Nigeria
Not to leave out the Americas, here's a 10000 BC frieze. Sure looks like they're telling a story of some kind.
Here's a sword from 3000 years ago in Germany. Absolutely gorgeous even after having been in the ground for all that time. You need civilization to make something like this - they didn't just wake up one day and make this - and consequently there's nothing even remotely like this from Africa proper.
It seems to me that you moved the goalposts to something that you think Africa won't satisfy.
Here as well. Suddenly metallurgy is the standard for civilization? And of course, these things move about a lot. Was this actually produced in Germany? Even in late Roman times, 'Germany' was not 'civilized', but tribal. Why do you think there was such movement of peoples?
Well, 5000 years ago there were no Romans. The traditional founding date for Rome is 753 BC. I'm not sure at what point they copied their alphabet from the Etruscans, but it was after that date.