And then they looked at what remained and called it proof that Africa could not govern itself.
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They took the gold.
They took the diamonds.
They took the rubber.
They took the ivory.
They took the palm oil.
They took the copper.
They took the uranium, including the uranium used in the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which came from the Belgian Congo.
They took the labor, for centuries, in chains, across an ocean, in the largest forced migration in human history.
They took the land.
They took the governance structures and replaced them with administrative systems designed to serve extraction.
They took the educated class and either exiled, imprisoned, or assassinated those who resisted.
They took Patrice Lumumba and had him killed.
They took Thomas Sankara and had him killed.
They took the future these men represented and replaced it with regimes that served the extraction.
And then they looked at what remained and called it proof that Africa could not govern itself.
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