The sensitivity is warranted - but that does not diminish the message.
Unfortunately, when things get “bad enough” it’s usually too late. People are remarkably good at creating normalicy out of any situation, toughing things out instead of getting out. I have missionary friends in Darfur; that he risked his own neck serving there when single was fine, but taking subsequent wife & kids there seems ill-advised ... yet the fact that they’re still breathing indicates how a way will be found even in the harshest conditions.
We do see things there thru the microscope of news: mundane existence may be the norm, but it’s the few freak events that dominate our perception thereof.
Sensitivity is warranted but perhaps Obama himself bills himself in certain ways, I don’t know. But if he is taking sides back there, it was good we found out after all. Tonight at home, I will have to go through all of the Kenya threads for the past 2 months.