Did Barack Obama pick the wrong venue for anti-slavery speech?

The Telegraph ^ | 28 June, 2013 | Colin Freeman

[JSteff]

Just so I can read your quote in the right context... what do you feel/think about global warming, area 51, and/or the dropping of the A-bomb on Japan?

[Michael.SF.]

the visit had allowed him to "fully appreciate the magnitude of the slave trade",

Guess he did not watch 'Roots'.

[Gator113]

I couldn’t agree with you more. I am sick of all the crying and lying.

[DustyMoment]

Ok, all together now; “JUMP, JUMP, JUMP, JUMP.....”

How'd you know that's what I was thinking???

[BenLurkin]

Who practices slavery today — other than Muslims?

[Gator113]

LOL... great minds....

[elpadre]

As I recall there was an article before 2008 pointing out that Obama’s father was from a particular tribe in Africa that was known to have captured Africans and sold them to slave traders selling slaves to the American continent and to Arabs in the north who came south buying.

[ansel12]

Historians keep messing with Obama, some of them claimed that he may have been making up his story about the 1965 Selma March resulting in his parents deciding to marry and bear him.

According to the anti-Obama historians, a 1965 event cannot result in giving your parents the hope to bear you, if you were already born back in 1961.

[Conserev1]

Prob the Bush side of his relatives 0 gets a pass on that!

[BerryDingle]

The island is too small and that facility is too small to sustain that many extra people for longer than a few days. The island is a favorite tourist site though. Beautiful church and 2 or 3 good restaurants. Abundant souvenir markets. Bush, Clinton, even the Pope stopped in.

[Regulator]

What does it have to do with him?

He has no slaves in his ancestry. On the contrary, the Dunhams probably had a slave or two in their past.

His legacy is one of slave traders and owners, as we all know about his father’s family (well, who we think is his father).

Guilt trip yourself, clown. My family shot at each other at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg over the issue. Your people weren’t even in the fight.

[Venturer]

If it was used for shipping slaves, Obama relatives were there shipping them.

It’s like old home week for the Bama boy.

[Soul of the South]

“What difference does it make?”

Truth is of no importance when you are intent on keeping the wounds of slavery and segregation alive in order to justify an eternal affirmative action society.

[Chaguito]

The lack of evidence is more than compensated for by the seriousness of the charge.

[Lonely Bull]

Obama could have covered many more centuries of the slave trade which involved many more slaves in east Africa where some slavery is still practiced.

Please tell us some details, and then we can rally against those evil WHITE plantation owners who are still operating in east Africa!

...oh, wait, what? There aren't...but how could you have slavery without evil white people?

...OK, forget it, I'll just go back to putting the finishing touches on my Justice for Trayvon memorial hoodie. Forward!

[PieterCasparzen]

Just so I can read your quote in the right context... what do you feel/think about global warming, area 51, and/or the dropping of the A-bomb on Japan?

Global warming is a fake crisis, I don't know anything about area 51, a-bomb drop I take in context of WWII, i.e., the big thing about 20th century wars is that globalists set them up, that is to say, obviously the war was the big deal.

As far as 19th century slave trade, most people's attention is focused on all white Americans during that time. First, mostly it was wealthy landholders who used most of slaves. Globalism always favors industry consolidation to get rid of the competition of small operators. They seek ways to get all of them financed by globalism in one fell swoop, which is why they try to nationalize or at least regulate industries on a national level. And, if you zoom out and look at the big picture, i.e., include banking and foreign trade, you see the the American large landholders were a cog in the wheel that was global trade at the time.

No one focuses on powerful financial interests based largely in the UK during that time and their hand in American capital markets and global trade, and the profits they made during all the escapades of 19th century America.

George Peabody was a key player.

A) he was a front man for the house of Rothschild, unknown at the time, but now acknowledged

B) his philanthropy aimed at controlling key aspects of society and was the model for Rockefeller philanthropy

C) the present-day direct heir of his firm is a firm called JPMorgan

D) he was instrumental in creating financial panics and using them to increase his/Rothschild holdings and used other classic globalist tactics

[Gator113]

That’s for sure.

He finds a new way to make me pi$$ed off, each and every day.

[HIDEK6]

You know, slavery is so bad in the USA right now, that we ought to make a law against it.

[Errant]

First abolish the law that made it legal again i.e., the 16th amendment which takes over half of our income.

[kneehurts]

State’s rights not slavery. Study some history.