fyi & why you need Black history month, go learn about the history and duration of African kingdoms that endured longer than our democracy seems poised to do thanks in part to industrialist racist colonialist thinking that hold that commerce and product are more important than people.

There are other ways to measure “success” & value than “industrialists.” Industrialist comment ignores benefits of community, ritual, artistic practices, connection to nature & things that capitalist industrial culture erases & devalues. Colonialism stripped countries of traditional societal makeup