It is reported that the owner of a bar in an inner London borough has spoken out about violent disorder which apparently has driven several bars in the area out of business. The bar owner in question is a black woman, and she has claimed that the absolute majority of people who have disrupted these venues are black men and increasingly some black women.
Some people might think that the area in question is increasingly inhabited by non-whites, and that therefore it is only to be expected that trouble-makers will tend to be non-white. But of course a lot of older people in the area can recall a time when it was far less violent.
Before I continue, please watch three clips from the 1962 film How The West Was Won, starring (among others) Debbie Reynolds and Gregory Peck.
An early scene
The Sacramento river
The ending
This film tells how white people built a great civilisation where little more than open country existed before. Black people and Chinese people had a hand in the process, but it was predominantly a white entreprise.
Four hundred years ago, North America was poor, as were Africa and Australia. Europe was also poor by present day standards, but was nevertheless highly advanced by the standards of the time. Today the USA and Canada are rich, as too are Australia and New Zealand, and their prosperity is the consequence of colonisation by white Europeans. By contrast, Africa largely remains poor.
Zimbabwe, which was ruled by a white minority as recently as the 1970s, is impoverished even by the standards of Africa - and yet this country was known as the breadbasket of Africa when it was under white rule.
So far I have merely observed facts. I invite the reader to draw appropriate conclusions.
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