Posted on 12/15/2022 6:16:31 AM PST by bitt
Joe Biden on Wednesday hosted most of Africa's leaders in Washington for the first time since 2014, reviving a summit begun by Barack Obama
Biden said his country and Africa were united by America's 'original sin', and the 'stolen men and women and children brought to our shores in chains'
Rattled by China's massive investment in Africa, Biden on Wednesday announced $55 billion to be spent on health, climate change and trade
Paul Kagame, Rwanda's president, was asked before Biden's speech whether anything has come from the 2014 summit, and said they had achieved little
Joe Biden on Wednesday apologized for the 'unimaginable cruelty' of slavery, which he referred to as America's 'original sin', and pledged $55 billion in investment to the continent.
Speaking during a gathering of almost all African leaders in Washington DC - the first since Barack Obama convened a summit in 2014 - Biden expressed regret for the past, but insisted: 'The United States is all in on Africa's future.'
During a White House dinner honoring African leaders and their spouses, Biden addressed what he called America's 'original sin' - the enslavement of millions of people - and honored their descendants and the broader African diaspora community in the United States.
'Our people lie at the heart of the deep and profound connection that forever binds Africa and the United States together,' he said.
'We remember the stolen men and women and children were brought to our shores in chains, subjected to unimaginable cruelty.'
Singer Gladys Knight later serenaded Biden and the visiting leaders with a performance in the White House State Dining Room.
The White House announced that $55 billion was being directed to Africa in the areas of health, climate change, trade and women's initiatives - but the money was met with scorn by
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Why not $500-billion?
I know Biden is old but did he own slaves ?
Insanity.
Biden want to give billions of AMERICAN TAXPAYERS’ MONEY to the folks who sold their captives into slavery?
What’s wrong with this picture?
It’s just constant virtue signaling theater with these people.
The sellers were Arabs and other black Africans. The DEA goes after the big dealers. But in slavery we only blame the buyers.
Ashley felt like a slave in the shower…
give them washinton dc They can probably find a better use for it ……
All these third-world nations are watching the United States slowly self-destruct before their very eyes. They cannot believe their good fortune.
It is not his GD money!!!!!!!
White men did NOT go into Africa looking for slaves. They piced them up at the market - sold by fellow blacks.
Biden needs to get real.
Next he’ll be telling them to come on over because the democrats needs new slave voters
White men did NOT go into Africa looking for slaves. They picked them up at the market - sold by fellow blacks.
Biden needs to get real.
If slavery is our original sin ... and if slavery in America goes back to 1619 ... then is Christopher Columbus off the hook? Is he a Good Guy again?
That bastard doesn’t speak for me. He’s a demented pedophile. He can kiss your asses but I’ve never owned an African slave, so excuse me if I pass.
Every day is a new outrage and a new insult to America and it’s history.
Imagine if Rwanda was where Mexico is. How pourus do you think the border would be? So tired of the uni-party swamp.
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