Thursday, January 18, 2018

Trump is Right about Countries in Black Africa (The Shithole Papers)

 

Village in Senegal
 

By An Old Friend
 

What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa: Trump is Right

By Karin McQuillan
January 17, 2018
American Thinker

Three weeks after college, I flew to Senegal, West Africa, to run a community center in a rural town.Life was placid, with no danger, except to your health.That danger was considerable, because it was, in the words of the Peace Corps doctor, "a fecalized environment."

In plain English: s--- is everywhere. People defecate on the open ground, and the feces is blown with the dust – onto you, your clothes, your food, the water. He warned us the first day of training: do not even touch water.

Human feces carries parasites that bore through your skin and cause organ failure.

Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that a few decades later, liberals would be pushing the lie that Western civilization is no better than a third-world country. Or would teach two generations of our kids that loving your own culture and wanting to preserve it are racism.

Last time I was in Paris, I saw a beautiful African woman in a grand boubou have her child defecate on the sidewalk next to Notre Dame Cathedral. The French police officer, ten steps from her, turned his head not to see.

Senegal was not a hellhole. Very poor people can lead happy, meaningful lives in their own cultures' terms. But they are not our terms. The excrement is the least of it. Our basic ideas of human relations, right and wrong, are incompatible.

As a twenty-one-year-old starting out in the Peace Corps, I loved Senegal. In fact, I was euphoric. I quickly made friends and had an adopted family. I relished the feeling of the brotherhood of man. People were open, willing to share their lives and, after they knew you, their innermost thoughts.

 

Market in Senegal
 

The longer I lived there, the more I understood: it became blindingly obvious that the Senegalese are not the same as us. The truths we hold to be self-evident are not evident to the Senegalese. How could they be? Their reality is totally different. You can't understand anything in Senegal using American terms.

Take something as basic as family. Family was a few hundred people, extending out to second and third cousins. All the men in one generation were called "father." Senegalese are Muslim, with up to four wives. Girls had their clitorises cut off at puberty. (I witnessed this, at what I thought was going to be a nice coming-of-age ceremony, like a bat mitzvah or confirmation.) Sex, I was told, did not include kissing. Love and friendship in marriage were Western ideas. Fidelity was not a thing. Married women would have sex for a few cents to have cash for the market.

What I did witness every day was that women were worked half to death. Wives raised the food and fed their own children, did the heavy labor of walking miles to gather wood for the fire, drew water from the well or public faucet, pounded grain with heavy hand-held pestles, lived in their own huts, and had conjugal visits from their husbands on a rotating basis with their co-wives. Their husbands lazed in the shade of the trees.

Yet family was crucial to people there in a way Americans cannot comprehend.

[Examples, please?]

The Ten Commandments were not disobeyed – they were unknown. The value system was the exact opposite. You were supposed to steal everything you can to give to your own relatives. There are some Westernized Africans who try to rebel against the system. They fail.

We hear a lot about the kleptocratic elites of Africa. The kleptocracy extends through the whole society. My town had a medical clinic donated by international agencies. The medicine was stolen by the medical workers and sold to the local store. If you were sick and didn't have money, drop dead. That was normal.

So here in the States, when we discovered that my 98-year-old father's Muslim health aide from Nigeria had stolen his clothes and wasn't bathing him, I wasn't surprised. It was familiar.

In Senegal, corruption ruled, from top to bottom. Go to the post office, and the clerk would name an outrageous price for a stamp. After paying the bribe, you still didn't know it if it would be mailed or thrown out. That was normal.

One of my most vivid memories was from the clinic. One day, as the wait grew hotter in the 110-degree heat, an old woman two feet from the medical aides – who were chatting in the shade of a mango tree instead of working – collapsed to the ground. They turned their heads so as not to see her and kept talking. She lay there in the dirt. Callousness to the sick was normal.

Americans think it is a universal human instinct to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. It's not. It seems natural to us because we live in a Bible-based Judeo-Christian culture.

We think the Protestant work ethic is universal. It's not. My town was full of young men doing nothing. They were waiting for a government job. There was no private enterprise. Private business was not illegal, just impossible, given the nightmare of a third-world bureaucratic kleptocracy. It is also incompatible with Senegalese insistence on taking care of relatives.

All the little stores in Senegal were owned by Mauritanians. If a Senegalese wanted to run a little store, he'd go to another country. The reason? Your friends and relatives would ask you for stuff for free, and you would have to say yes. End of your business. You are not allowed to be a selfish individual and say no to relatives. The result: Everyone has nothing.

The more I worked there and visited government officials doing absolutely nothing, the more I realized that no one in Senegal had the idea that a job means work. A job is something given to you by a relative. It provides the place where you steal everything to give back to your family.

I couldn't wait to get home. So why would I want to bring Africa here? Non-Westerners do not magically become American by arriving on our shores with a visa.

[Sure, they do. They hit the ground, and are immediately enriched by our magic dirt.]

For the rest of my life, I enjoyed the greatest gift of the Peace Corps: I love and treasure America more than ever. I take seriously my responsibility to defend our culture and our country and pass on the American heritage to the next generation.

African problemsare made worse by our aid efforts. Senegal is full of smart, capable people. They will eventually solve their own country's problems. [Or they won’t.] They will do it on their terms, not ours. The solution is not to bring Africans here.

We are lectured by Democrats that we must privilege third-world immigration by the hundred million with chain migration. They tell us we must end America as a white, Western, Judeo-Christian, capitalist nation – to prove we are not racist. I don't need to prove a thing. Leftists want open borders because they resent whites, resent Western achievements, and hate America. They want to destroy America as we know it.

As President Trump asked, why would we do that?

We have the right to choose what kind of country to live in. I was happy to donate a year of my life as a young woman to help the poor Senegalese. I am not willing to donate my country.


7 comments:

  1. It WAS DOUBLE MURDER IN GR(#s 3 and 4 of the year)
    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A woman and her 2-year-old child grandson were killed in a shooting Wednesday in Grand Rapids.

    Police have identified the victims as 46-year-old Germaine Brown and King Talbert.
    Emergency responders were called to a residence on the 200 block of Montgomery Street SE, east of Jefferson Avenue, around 2:50 p.m. for a medical call. Upon arrival, responders found Brown and the child suffering from a gunshot wound. Brown was pronounced dead at the scene.

    Brown’s husband called 911 to report the incident, was taken in for questioning by police and was released after determining he was not a suspect. Police don’t have anyone in custody at this time.

    The child was taken to Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, where he survived until 11:30 p.m., police said.

    Police determined Brown resided at the home and was babysitting the child.

    An autopsy will take place Thursday to determine the cause and manner of death, which police said they believe to be a gunshot wound.
    GRA:Interesting case,in that who would shoot a 2 year old?
    --GR Anonymous

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    1. Could both have been caught in crossfire?

      The Gentle Grizzly

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  2. jerry pdx
    Good article by this woman, but I wonder if she'd ever draw the connection between the mass migration of almost exclusively single males to Europe (and anywhere else in the West if they can) from Africa and the Muslim world. In her snapshot of village life you can see the elements that drive these men to migrate. Muslim men have up to 4 wives, the clitoris of women are cut off at an early age, the village is filled with young men with nothing to do (women are doing all the work).

    Isn't it obvious? Well, not to a liberal, present this to them and they will give you looks of incomprehension and try to rationalize around it, but the reality is, when a few men bogart most of the females, it's a mathematical certainty that there are going to be an oversupply of wifeless, childless, rootless young men, while the young girls are held captive by their husbands, children and duties to the household. With the internet permeating every corner of the world the men discover that in the West young females aren't controlled by a cabal of older, more financially successful males, and also that these women are more beautiful and desirable than the ones at home. Not only that, they don't have their clitoris's cut off and might actually want to have sex with them for pleasure, not just for getting something in return. If anybody doesn't think that's not one of the most, if not the most, motivating forces in this migration, they're kidding themselves.

    Virtually every one of these men will spin an elaborate story about escaping from religious and political persecution, war and pestilence, blah blah.... but they've been prepped with all the standard liberal fear narratives designed to push the buttons of naïve bleeding heart westerners.

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  3. Husband (so far)cleared on double murder.Have seen that initial indication of innocence and then....
    Police are thinking this was not random.My interpretation,since this is a black area,is a possible retaliation--a hit on both.
    We'll see.
    --GRA

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  4. Wow, fabulous article. So many parallels to the black baby daddy phenomenon . Black men with multiple girlfriends feel that they have no financial responsibility for their offspring. Of course they don't. The women will do it and welfare, the government, will give them everything they needs. If not the woman, then her mother, aunt, sister, grandmother or other women friends.

    After living and experiencing Senegal, why would she let a Muslim Nigerian near her elderly father?

    This sounds like all the people employed by NYC Welfare. - Dept of Social Services and now, Dept of Homeless Services. Exactly like them. They turn their face every day to people's misery. This is a major reason why there is so much homelessness. The do nothing slobs at these agencies are supposed to be processing cases. They make doctor's appointments, have bible study, make personal calls, talk with co workers, drink and use drugs on the job and complain about the USA and their job.

    AND white people are forced out of those civil service jobs so blacks and immigrants can control the agency. It's the African way. I agree with her, the African culture has very little to do with helping others or altruism. But you don't learn that in any books or movies. You learn it after they've robbed you or screwed you over.

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  5. Another murder in Grand Rapids--the Rapids,standing for the rapidity of the murders occurring.Just got #5 of the year--an as yet,unidentified 26 yr old found shot to death in a house,at the corner of Chatham and Straight st nw.
    Believe it or not,15 lousy years ago,this area was 85% Polish.Now WOOD TV showed the people in the street,watching police do their job,and NOT ONE was white.NOT ONE.More details if interesting.
    --GR Anonymous

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