Hopper

It looks like the early Europeans who conducted ethnographic studies of Africans were correct: (1) In 1670 the Scottish cartographer John Ogilby observed that Africans everywhere had an urge to steal, especially from Whites who were trying to educate them. He observed that Africans would boast about stealing as an achievement. He concluded this was innate to Africans. (2) John Duncan, in his book Travels in Western Africa (1845) concluded that the predominant passion of Africans was theft, among their many other "depravities". (3) William Reade, in Savage Africa (1864), wrote: "The Africans are all of them thieves. They have no sense of honor in that respect." (4) Mungo Park concluded that stealing was the most prominent defect in the character of Africans: "We found the people thieves to a man." (5) Thomas Hutchinson wrote (in his 1858 book Impressions of Western Africa): "Show me a Black man, and I will show you a thief". (6) The Swedish explorer Charles Andersson believed that no one in Africa, from the king to the slave, would have second thoughts about stealing the shirt off his back if he could get away with it. -----Or do you think that if Whites spend another trillion dollars educating Blacks they will eventually give up this African custom?