Tweet of the Day: China Build’s Africa’s First Electrified Railway

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Redwhitedude
Redwhitedude
10 years ago

Was this built with local labor?

johnnyboy
johnnyboy
10 years ago

LOL. Wouldn’t it be something if they imported a lot of Chinese to work on the railroad?

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
10 years ago

“TWEET OF THE DAY: CHINA BUILD’S AFRICA’S FIRST ELECTRIFIED RAILWAY”

Who is China Build?

…and why do they possess Africa’s first electrified railway?

setnaffa
setnaffa
10 years ago

Didn’t Chinese “coolies” build America’s railroads? And how much of the decline of rail travel/transport in North America was due to not keeping them around?

johnnyboy
johnnyboy
10 years ago
setnaffa
setnaffa
Reply to  johnnyboy
10 years ago

Yeah, that’s the Hollywood version of it, to a tee… They also worked in lumber, mining, and other manual labor jobs…

But it wasn’t all fun and games and Mel Brooks and so on…
http://chineseexpulsionhumboldt.weebly.com/the-expulsion.html

setnaffa
setnaffa
Reply to  setnaffa
10 years ago

What if things were different and we’d built up an army of 2,000,000+ Chinese descendants with American values and a desire to go back and knock over Mao like we did the Nazis and Japanese? How would the world have changed if China was a capitalist nation friendly to the West in 1945? Somebody oughta write a book…

setnaffa
setnaffa
Reply to  setnaffa
10 years ago

Instead, we kicked out the hard-working intelligent folks and built up massive capacity in other so-called “races”, then poisoned them to buy votes for Democrats.

C’est la vie.

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