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Sounds like you're the one who's the idiot. If you didn't believe that you hold some connection to your "illustrious forebearers" then the idea of "a people" getting their act together would be in direct conflict with the way you percieve "racial heritage".
1,000 years lacks excuse.
200 years lacks excuse.
However, it hasn't been either of these. Blacks in America recieved rights in the 60's or 70's depending on when a state decided to get with the program. Aparthied ended in the 80's and the great-great-great-great grandchildren of those colonizers are enjoying the fruits of that laber while sowing new seeds of their own through US foreign policy. This is indefensible and your ability to constantly repeat "they need to get their shit together" is nothing more than acute skill in disregarding history and how that has effected the current geo-political landscape of the world.
What I'm seeing on these boards is a basic disregard for history and a disregard for the actuality of any situation. It took Japan 200 years (almost exactly) to "get thier shit together". It took China longer. I don't understand the propensity to believe that any other race of people should have this done in under 50 years especially given the POS/Pay-to-play nature of establishing ones country as a 1st world or 2nd world power.
Life isn't like the Civ sims you nerds play at home.