Hussein O :Slave site reminds him of world 'evil'

AP ^ | 7.11.2009

[libh8er]

CAPE COAST, Ghana (AP) — President Barack Obama says a slave site reminds him of humanity's potential for "great evil" but also gives him a reason for hope, given the progress African-Americans have made since leaving the castle as slaves.

Obama toured a seaside fortress that the British used as slave dungeons during the 17th century. Obama said the site reminded him of a recent trip to a Nazi concentration camp in Germany.

[libh8er]

Wonder if he would associate the word 'evil' with anything else.

[Venturer]

He needs to enjoy the trip and close his yap.

[STONEWALLS]

...surprised he didn’t start apologising all over the place and give them some of our money.

[TCats]

An evil that was perpetrated in large part by fellow Blacks who collected the Slaves for sale to the Traders. Blacks were as complicit as Whites in the Slave trade and the Institution of Slavery, a fact conveniently ignored by most.

[jessduntno]

Has he ever thanked the American people and the half million lost in the fight to defeat the Slavery brought to this country before it became the US? When I was at the March in DC with my boys, we took this picture in the Lincoln Memorial;

The Gettysburg address.

[freekitty]

What a liar. He is willing to put millions in slavery.

[DJ MacWoW]

Was it mentioned what African tribes sold fellow Africans to the British I wonder? Wasn’t one of those tribes the Luo?

[jessduntno]

"Blacks were as complicit as Whites in the Slave trade and the Institution of Slavery, a fact conveniently ignored by most." They were in fact far worse; they did nothing to end it.

The gathering storm...

[litehaus]

An evil that was perpetrated in large part by fellow Blacks who collected the Slaves for sale to the Traders. Blacks were as complicit as Whites in the Slave trade and the Institution of Slavery, a fact conveniently ignored by most......................................................................

.........Don't recall hearing that fact mentioned much lately---LATELY ? Hells Bells---decades in public or on public airways...

[Neoliberalnot]

Ah, the race-baiter in command of his community of illiterates. Let him ponder the great continent of Africa and all of the accomplished natives—not even a written language. The decedents of slaves brought to the US have amassed great wealth compared to Africans left on the continent. Just a thought.

[hkp123]

Can someone tell us how many trips 0bama has taken since 1/20/09? Also, how many days were spent in D.C.? I can’t keep track of it anymore. Where to next week? Isn’t it time for another pizza party or date night? Just asking. Have a great depression.

[Dallas59]

Slavery for thee...but not for me.

[worst-case scenario]

Did Obama say it was White evil, or just evil?

[exist]

"slave site"

I thought he was talking about him and HuffPo.

[csvset]

Islam allows for slavery.

[Don Corleone]

Well let’s see...ancestry shows that his family were slave owners/sellers not slaves. Hmmmm?

[WKUHilltopper]

“Obama said the site reminded him of a recent trip to a Nazi concentration camp in Germany.”

You mean like the one his uncle helped liberate on the eastern front?

[JillValentine]

Obama’s trying to make whitey feel guilty about slavery. Well, it won’t work on me. I have never owned a slave. My ancestors didn’t own slaves either. In fact, my great-great grandfather was a Union Army veteran and was wounded at Chickamauga.

No guilt here, Zero. Bite me.

Race relations will only improve in this country when we focus on what we have in common, not what makes us different. Obama is going to set race relations in America back 150 years.

[Question_Assumptions]

A different take on visiting a slave debarkation point in Africa (Goree Island, off Senegal) by Keith Richburg, a Washington Post reporter who visited the place only after being stationed in Africa for a while:

Somewhere, sometime, maybe 400 years ago, an ancestor of mine whose name I'll never know was shackled in leg irons, kept in a dark pit, possibly at Goree Island off the coast of Senegal, and then put with thousands of other Africans into the crowded, filthy cargo hold of a ship for the long and treacherous journey across the Atlantic. Many of them died along the way, of disease, of hunger. But my ancestor survived, maybe because he was strong, maybe stubborn enough to want to live, or maybe just lucky. He was ripped away from his country and his family, forced into slavery somewhere in the Caribbean. Then one of his descendants somehow made it up to South Carolina, and one of those descendants, my father, made it to Detroit during the Second World War, and there I was born, 36 years ago. And if that original ancestor hadn't been forced to make that horrific voyage, I would not have been standing there that day on the Rusumo Falls bridge, a journalist -- a mere spectator -- watching the bodies glide past me like river logs. No, I might have instead been one of them -- or have met some similarly anonymous fate in any one of the countless ongoing civil wars or tribal clashes on this brutal continent. And so I thank God my ancestor made that voyage.

Comments from his Washington Post article "American in Africa" (Part 1 and Part 2). He describes his experiences in more detail in his book-length treatment of his experiences titled Out of America : A Black Man Confronts Africa.

[lilylangtree]

You stated a fact that’s conveniently hidden.