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Media coverage of Ukraine shows it's time to rethink what we know about Africa
CNN ^ | March 4, 2022 | Moky Makura

Posted on 03/04/2022 11:01:09 AM PST by Trump20162020

"It's very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed." These were the words of Ukraine's Deputy Chief Prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze, during a recent BBC interview about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

It wasn't so much what he said, it was more what was implied; that not all lives have equal value. And that idea -- the belief that some races are superior to others -- is a fundamental principle of racism. It's alarming to me that Sakvarelidze was left unchallenged during his interview.

ITV News correspondent Lucy Watson on ITV reporting back to the studio summed up the collective hypocrisy and underlying narrative that the Ukrainian war has exposed when she said: "The unthinkable has happened...this is not a developing, third-world nation; this is Europe!"

In Africa, it's the stories of conflict in Ethiopia, insurgency in Mozambique, election violence in Uganda, and the recent coups in Mali, Chad, Guinea, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Guinea Bissau. But it's clear that far too many are not paying attention to them because the people in these stories are not rich or from the Global North.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: fakeheadline; ukraine
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1 posted on 03/04/2022 11:01:09 AM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

F her.


2 posted on 03/04/2022 11:02:31 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Trump20162020

If that’s a woman I don’t know what Moky is.


3 posted on 03/04/2022 11:03:01 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Trump20162020

https://babylonbee.com/news/whoopi—goldberg-says-america-should-ignore-war-in-ukraine-as-its-just-two-groups-of-white-people-fighting


4 posted on 03/04/2022 11:03:12 AM PST by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: Trump20162020

Since you know what’s going on there, then you know what’s going on there through some media source.


5 posted on 03/04/2022 11:03:31 AM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: Trump20162020

I hear blacks say things like this, referring to inner city violence, all of the time.


6 posted on 03/04/2022 11:03:34 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Trump20162020

But that would entail talking about inflation and how it continues to rise, etc., etc., etc.

Nah, they will continue to vomit Ukraine 24/7.


7 posted on 03/04/2022 11:03:35 AM PST by cranked
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To: Trump20162020

That is so sad, why is racism being brought into everything.


8 posted on 03/04/2022 11:04:16 AM PST by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: Williams

Yep


9 posted on 03/04/2022 11:04:27 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Trump20162020

I’m starting to get ticked off at blacks whining all the time. FYI, blacks are not the only ones who suffer. Your skin color won’t get a free pass from me, no matter what it is.


10 posted on 03/04/2022 11:04:51 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: Trump20162020

We’re all battle hardened about African politics. Savile Row suits for the leaders, starvation for the rest, and a bullet as the instrument of regime change. It’s not racism...it’s observation.

Maybe what’s needed is more critical thinking and less critical race theory?


11 posted on 03/04/2022 11:05:40 AM PST by Jhadur ("You are not ready for immortality.")
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To: Trump20162020

His remarks were not ‘racist’, they were empathetic.
If an African nation were being slaughtered and taken over, she would likely feel the same way. People who look and live like she does are being steamrolled by the power mad.


12 posted on 03/04/2022 11:06:20 AM PST by lee martell
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Uppity, chip on her shoulder black woman.

Is she a Hutu or a Tutsi?


13 posted on 03/04/2022 11:06:23 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: Trump20162020

I call myself American! This woman calls herself African-American and yet she sits comfy here unwilling to fight for her homeland.


14 posted on 03/04/2022 11:06:36 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: Trump20162020
"It's very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed." These were the words of Ukraine's Deputy Chief Prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze...

Racist azzhole.

15 posted on 03/04/2022 11:07:03 AM PST by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: Trump20162020

“In Africa, it’s the stories of conflict in Ethiopia, insurgency in Mozambique, election violence in Uganda, and the recent coups in Mali, Chad, Guinea, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Guinea Bissau.”

Well if you feel that strongly about it quit bitchin’ and get your ass over there and help out.


16 posted on 03/04/2022 11:07:05 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Williams

Not with your “Little Richard”.


17 posted on 03/04/2022 11:07:08 AM PST by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: Williams

Yup

She sadly is unfixable.


18 posted on 03/04/2022 11:07:45 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: V_TWIN

I notice she conveniently left out the black on black slavery that to this day still exists in the Sudan.


19 posted on 03/04/2022 11:09:42 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Trump20162020
By 2050, Nigeria will overtake the United States as the world's third-most-populous country with a population of 400 million people.

The Globalists may consider to move them to Ukraine. By 2050, through war, abortion, alcoholism, feminism - the place should be thoroughly depopulated by then.

20 posted on 03/04/2022 11:10:10 AM PST by PGR88
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