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Outgoing head of African Union slams US for 'taking Africans as slaves but not as refugees'
International Business Times ^ | 01/31/2017 | Fiona Keating

Posted on 01/31/2017 5:39:09 AM PST by Kid Shelleen

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the outgoing head of the African Union (AU), has hit out at Donald Trump's controversial immigration order at a summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

She said: "The very country to which many of our people were taken as slaves during the transatlantic slave trade has now decided to ban refugees from some of our countries." --SNIP-- Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary-general, contrasted the different stance of African countries compared to the US. He said: "African nations are among the world's largest and most generous hosts of refugees.

(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africans; antonioguterres; europeanunion; liar; portugal; refugees; untiedstates; zuma
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Fine. you gonna be that way then I’m sending them ALL back!


41 posted on 01/31/2017 6:37:46 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: HomerBohn
If you like your slaves you can keep your slaves.

Another one of Lincoln's lies! Can you believe anything he said?

42 posted on 01/31/2017 6:37:50 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: JPJones

Yes it was. Blaming the USA for something that started 150 years before the USA even formed has never made sense to me.


43 posted on 01/31/2017 7:18:01 AM PST by lafroste (Look at my profile page. Thanks.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

It’s called, “learning from your mistakes”.


44 posted on 01/31/2017 7:18:58 AM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: oh8eleven

For real. Third world sh*t hole Sudan thinks it’s going to dictate that the US has to take its human detritus?


45 posted on 01/31/2017 7:20:36 AM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ViLaLuz

Sure. I’d bet that the white farmers of Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) and the whites of South Africa have a quite dfferent POV.


46 posted on 01/31/2017 7:22:58 AM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Pretty funny statement since Africans take other Africans as slaves in this modern age and takes in no refugees.


47 posted on 01/31/2017 7:31:36 AM PST by Pilated (.)
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To: mrsmel
Third world sh*t hole Sudan ...
Any country bad mouthing America, but especially third world sh*t holes, should have their foreign aid cut to zero.
In fact, President Trump should cut foreign aid to ALL countries. Period. I'm tired of being the world's babysitter.
48 posted on 01/31/2017 7:33:08 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven

You and me both. They want our money, they want free access to our country, but they want Africa for Africans (and Chinese who use them as slave labor). The former Rhodesia has seen how well that works out, and South Africa is descending to the natural level of African countries.


49 posted on 01/31/2017 7:38:27 AM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

The slaves were slaves but at least they were productive. The refugees aren’t refugees, they’re virulent, freeloading, passive aggressive, hijraing young males bringing the unassimiliating cultural conditions that led to the destruction of their home countries along with them into our country. We are not food for the devil. We do not provide sanctuary to animals with rabies. We will not be emotionally shamed into committing suicidal pacifism.


50 posted on 01/31/2017 7:42:09 AM PST by conservativeimage (NEWS (it might not be true))
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To: Kid Shelleen

His ancestors sold fellow Africans to slave traders from all around the world. The US has long since freed the slaves but Africa hasn’t. Until there is no more slavery in Africa, he needs to shut up.


51 posted on 01/31/2017 8:07:29 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: TigersEye
When will Africa end its slave trade? We stopped in 1865.

Congress ended the slave trade in 1808.

52 posted on 01/31/2017 8:25:52 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: ETL
The Price in Blood Casualties in the Civil War

It is misleading to imply that the intent of the civil war was to end slavery. The intent of the civil war was to insure that Washington D.C. would control the economic power of the South, and nothing else.

It had the unintended consequence of ending slavery, but when it began, and for several years while it was being fought, the Union had no intention of ending slavery.

53 posted on 01/31/2017 8:29:21 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Army Air Corps
The majority of slaves were sold to South America, the Caribbean, and Central America. Why don’t you wag your finger at countries in those areas of the Americas?

And to punctuate that point:


54 posted on 01/31/2017 8:32:19 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Kid Shelleen

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/01/30/key-facts-about-refugees-to-the-u-s/

This person’s moronic statement ignores the fact that the second highest number of refugees entering USA in 2016 were Congolese. Trump has not changed anything wrt that.


55 posted on 01/31/2017 9:01:14 AM PST by Chaguito
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To: Kid Shelleen

Africans should be ashamed for having sold their own people to Arab slave traders in the first place.


56 posted on 01/31/2017 9:04:59 AM PST by euram
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To: Kid Shelleen

Africa is the biggest slave holders. Always has been.


57 posted on 01/31/2017 9:07:13 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Thank you for posting that illustration.


58 posted on 01/31/2017 9:07:26 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

You’re welcome. People don’t realize just how small was the US involvement in the slave trade compared to everyone else.


59 posted on 01/31/2017 9:16:09 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Fair enough but not the practice of slavery, which is what I meant, and was the point I intended to make by linking to info on modern African slavery.


60 posted on 01/31/2017 10:21:29 AM PST by TigersEye (Winning. Winning winning winning every day!!!)
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