If it was annexed and brought into the union, sure. As an independent nation, no. It has no real resources, was founded on a caste system that would never be able to stay in control forever, and was surrounded by colonies that it was only excluded from joining only because of American influence. Liberia cannot stand on its own. It simply has too many things going against its favor.
Despite it's rough start it was able to stabilize and maintain the baboon hoard for more than hundred years despite being less than 1% of the population, it was consider next to Ethiopia as a model for decolonized African states and was gradually improving the lively hood of the natives til they wanted full independence from america, so CIA destroy it.
The fact it last longer than alot of white newly establish countries with even less to work with and outnumber and died from heat and disease is nothing short of impressive.
> it was consider next to Ethiopia as a model for decolonized African states
That's moronic. Liberia followed the colonial power structure model to the letter, the only difference was the the colonizer ruling and owning class was also black.
Considering how most Africoon states prop up that way today the point stands.
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Not really, most african countries are your bog standard 3rd world corrupt """free""" market economies. Liberia was essentially a quasi-slave state to the late 1930s and an apartheid state until the 1980s civil war.
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>most african countries are your bog standard 3rd world corrupt """free""" market economie
Essentially one tribe favor by Europeans to prop as middle man.
>Liberia was essentially a quasi-slave state
Like all African states?
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>Essentially one tribe favor by Europeans to prop as middle man.
Way too simplified and not really applicable in many African countries today outside issues like generational wealth. >Like all African states?
Under colonialism, mostly. During post-colonial conflicts, some. Today, not really.
The Americo-Liberians proved that they were capable of making it a success. The problem was the masses of native African savages that they had to work with.
Absolutely. My recommendation: if you're going to use white european systems of governance, hire a white man. They needed an elite cadre of white city planners, architects, engineers and soldiers to found a proper chud colonizer state. The gimmick of using all black talent was an unaffordable luxury.
No.
“Shipping them back to Africa” is funny and all but you have to realize African Americans basically know nothing about their ancestral culture due to it being suppressed for centuries. The idea a bunch of Black folks from South Carolina would get along with interior jungle tribes they had never met was ridiculous.
No, Liberia was largely seen as an attempt by slaveowners to weaken the abolitionist movement by sending free blacks away from America. Few blacks and white abolitionists wanted blacks to move to Liberia, especially after the Civil War, when the focus was on integrating former black slaves into American society.
provided it got funding from the us, it could have been a decent livable country, not up to euro standards though
Liberais shittyness is caused by its native african population on the Amerikang caste.
If it was annexed and brought into the union, sure. As an independent nation, no. It has no real resources, was founded on a caste system that would never be able to stay in control forever, and was surrounded by colonies that it was only excluded from joining only because of American influence. Liberia cannot stand on its own. It simply has too many things going against its favor.
Despite it's rough start it was able to stabilize and maintain the baboon hoard for more than hundred years despite being less than 1% of the population, it was consider next to Ethiopia as a model for decolonized African states and was gradually improving the lively hood of the natives til they wanted full independence from america, so CIA destroy it.
The fact it last longer than alot of white newly establish countries with even less to work with and outnumber and died from heat and disease is nothing short of impressive.
> it was consider next to Ethiopia as a model for decolonized African states
That's moronic. Liberia followed the colonial power structure model to the letter, the only difference was the the colonizer ruling and owning class was also black.
Considering how most Africoon states prop up that way today the point stands.
Not really, most african countries are your bog standard 3rd world corrupt """free""" market economies. Liberia was essentially a quasi-slave state to the late 1930s and an apartheid state until the 1980s civil war.
>most african countries are your bog standard 3rd world corrupt """free""" market economie
Essentially one tribe favor by Europeans to prop as middle man.
>Liberia was essentially a quasi-slave state
Like all African states?
>Essentially one tribe favor by Europeans to prop as middle man.
Way too simplified and not really applicable in many African countries today outside issues like generational wealth.
>Like all African states?
Under colonialism, mostly. During post-colonial conflicts, some. Today, not really.
The Americo-Liberians proved that they were capable of making it a success. The problem was the masses of native African savages that they had to work with.
Absolutely. My recommendation: if you're going to use white european systems of governance, hire a white man. They needed an elite cadre of white city planners, architects, engineers and soldiers to found a proper chud colonizer state. The gimmick of using all black talent was an unaffordable luxury.
Yes, they only had to expel all the native and recieve more blacks from the US.
Blacks.
idk but I dig that dude's mustache
He won an election with 250k votes, even though only 25k people voted in total.
It was doomed from the start. Newly-emancipated slaves with little to no education do not make good statesmen
No.
“Shipping them back to Africa” is funny and all but you have to realize African Americans basically know nothing about their ancestral culture due to it being suppressed for centuries. The idea a bunch of Black folks from South Carolina would get along with interior jungle tribes they had never met was ridiculous.
If it wasn't inhabited by Liberians, then yes.
No, Liberia was largely seen as an attempt by slaveowners to weaken the abolitionist movement by sending free blacks away from America. Few blacks and white abolitionists wanted blacks to move to Liberia, especially after the Civil War, when the focus was on integrating former black slaves into American society.