Posted on 07/10/2009 4:41:51 PM PDT by Steelfish
Obama’s visit to fort a ‘full-circle experience’
Ghana's coastal castle was departure point for African slaves
On Saturday, President Barack Obama and his family will visit this coastal castle in Ghana that was Britain's West Africa headquarters for the shipment of millions of slaves to Europe and America.
July 10, 2009
CAPE COAST, Ghana - From the rampart of a whitewashed fort once used to ship countless slaves from Africa to the Americas, Cheryl Hardin gazed through watery eyes at the route forcibly taken across the sea by her ancestors centuries before.
"It never gets any easier," the 48-year-old pediatrician said, wiping away tears on her fourth trip to Ghana's Cape Coast Castle in two decades. "It feels the same as when I first visited — painful, incomprehensible."
On Saturday, Barack Obama and his family will follow in the footsteps of countless African-Americans who have tried to reconnect with their past on these shores. Though Obama was not descended from slaves — his father was Kenyan — he will carry the legacy of the African-American experience with him as America's first black president.
For many, the trip will be steeped in symbolism.
"The world's least powerful people were shipped off from here as slaves," Hardin said Tuesday, looking past a row of cannons pointing toward the Atlantic Ocean.
"Now Obama, an African-American, the most powerful person in the world, is going to be standing here. For us it will be a full-circle experience."
Built in the 1600s, Cape Coast Castle served as Britain's West Africa headquarters for the trans-Atlantic slave trade, which saw European powers and African chiefs export millions in shackles to Europe and the Americas.
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Funny.. His muslim relatives were the major slave traders... still are in some cases....
Bingo!
Did he speak of the Africans who trapped and sold their people for profit?
slaveholders return to scene of their family’s wealth.
did Zero take this many sightseeing juntas when he was a senator? What does it cost to fly from Russia to Africa and back?
What a taxpayer waste sending this Kenyan all over the world to sell the American people out.
African? His biological African father abandoned him at birth. They met once in an airport. Obama was also abandoned by his white American mother and was raised by his white grandparents. Full circle my ass.
Don`t foget his WHITE Momma
0bama’s father’s side were the slave-sellers and his mother’s side the salve buyers.
OOPS !!!!
0bama’s father’s side were the slave-sellers and his mother’s side the slave-buyers.
Except that Obama’s ancestors sold Africans into slavery.
Obama isn’t an African American. He isn’t descended from slaves. He is descended from the people who sold those Africans into slavery.
Just proves that, if you continually pick at any sore, you can keep it inflamed without healing -- for as long as you like...
BeeHoe is a black racist. He is intent on destroying western civilization as pay back for perceived “injustices” of the past.
Its all very simple.
What he and those of his ilk fail to appreciate is this:
Slavery was a universal institution probably begun in black Africa, and finally ended in white America.
Will the AP ever stop kissing this commie’s ass?? The press is going to destroy our country by refusing to report on who this “president” really is!!
Better.
http://www.sos-sexisme.org/English/slavery.htm
Good thing he’s not taking on slavery occurring in Ghana today, that might offend someone.
Both sides were Marxists. Marxists are more into murder and theft than outright enslavement though.
“”Though Obama was not descended from slaves “”
This is true, has always been true, will always be true but you sure didn’t hear that from mainstream media during that long, long boring presidential campaign. When did they decide he wasn’t AFRICAN AMERICAN and will they have guts enough to drop the African from now on?
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