{"id":68145,"date":"2015-04-29T07:23:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T15:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68145"},"modified":"2015-04-29T07:23:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T15:23:34","slug":"africa-on-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68145","title":{"rendered":"Africa On The Brink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/africa_on_the_brink_steve_sailer\/print#axzz3Yi61aDIw\">Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: These African traditions of quantity over quality in raising children are now obsolete in a world where elephants are no longer rivals. Africans now have AK-47s, so it\u2019s more likely that four billion Africans will kill off all the wild game than that the elephants will get the upper hand again.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, many people in Africa today would like to change their self-destructive old ways. But if white people keep reassuring them that they\u2019re awesome just the way they are and that any problems they have are the fault of bad white people, how can we expect Africans to develop a less catastrophic culture?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Sailer writes: These African traditions of quantity over quality in raising children are now obsolete in a world where elephants are no longer rivals. 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