Posted on 07/17/2009 9:40:38 AM PDT by NewMediaJournal
If we accept the principle that a half truth is not the truth, we then need to consider that the Africa policy of the U.S. Administration is dramatically incomplete in its essence.
This is the first lesson we would draw from President Barack Obama's speech delivered in front of the Ghana Parliament on July 11. Hence it is necessary to dissect its policy components making the needed distinctions between abstract principles, applicable anywhere on the planet, and a host of dramatic African realities, so far ignored by Washington's "new direction."
There is no doubt that American ideals continue to inspire people around the world and in Africa in particular. Simply because these values, as Obama has reconfirmed after Presidents Clinton and Bush had before him, are part of the international body of democratic ideals. There are no reasons to be shy about principles declared by an American revolution that has inspired sister uprisings in Europe and around the world, centuries before the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Hence, when American presidents visit Africa, they should be comfortable in calling for more freedoms and liberties. Obama's additional contribution to symbolism towards Africa is naturally his ancestral link to the continent. Even though he doesn't descend directly from African-Americans who actually were enslaved, and that he is only part African and half European, the story of his father, a goat herder turned student who sought education in America, is very compelling. Along with his beautiful first family he can surely personalize the story of an American’s support for the liberation of Africa.
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Presently, Obama does not have to do ANYTHING he does not want to do — including obeying the law.
“Along with his beautiful first family he can surely personalize the story of an American’s support for the liberation of Africa.”
So since when did it happen that blacks are the only ones that have ever had hardships?
Heck, I'm still waiting for him to decry the nuke missles Russia just dragged into Ukraine.
Since he is pro African American genocide (pro-abortion), why would anyone expect him to decry African genocide?
Obama only cares about such things when he can use it to attack an opponent. Otherwise his position is “the U.S. shouldn’t meddle in the internal affairs of another country.”
That’s true, and the current horrendous state of most African countries are still successfully blamed on whites and what Western Civilization “did” to them! As the black population in our own country, they will forever be able to blame the Whites, and not take responsibility for their own future and current destinies. Geez, the Jews don’t do that, and they certainly had a horrendous past and even present and certainly future!
I would be willing to bet that more “whites” have served under slavery or indentured servitude than blacks ever have. Think Roman Empire and move forward to the present. Now I have nothing to back this up, but its just a theory I have.
Who cares?
People seem to think that the USA is somehow naturally immune from the coups, dictatorships and corruption that is Africa. Why would that be? We may very well be heading that way ourselves, and who will decry the state of affairs when it happens here?
I don’t care one whit about Africa. I am worried about my own country.
Or else, what? Africans will keep killing one another? Does the author really think they'll stop if Zero "decries"?
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