Posted on 09/25/2014 5:09:32 PM PDT by blam
Hunter Walker
September 25, 2014
Ghanaian President John Mahama referenced the killing of an unarmed African-American man by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri that led to protests and a violent response from law enforcement in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly Thursday.
Mahama's speech focused on the "need to effect change in the areas of human rights and social justice, in education and health administration." He referred to the situation in Ferguson as well as other incidents where African-American men were killed by police as examples of things that might make people fear the world was regressing rather than progressing.
"Reports of police brutality in the United States against an unarmed black man takes me back to 1999 when 23-year old Guinean-born Amadou Diallo was shot 19 times by four New York City police officers. Or to 1991 when Rodney King was brutally beaten by five Los Angeles police officers," said Mahama. "Both of those incidents caused a tremendous public outcry, as has this year’s shooting to death of 18-year old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, with the singular message of 'no justice, no peace.'"
In addition to the police shootings in the US, Mahama cited "beheadings" in the Middle East and the many civilian deaths caused by Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip this summer as potential signs the world is moving backwards. However, after referencing these situations, Mahama hit an optimistic note.
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The world thinks that an innocent Black person was ambushed and killed by police in Ferguson.
He wasn’t? :>} Looks like the (p)resident of ghana-ria gets his news like the lyin’ king does. From the lsm. I’m pretty certain that human rights aren’t an issue in ghana.
Saying that Blacks are the most racist people on earth is really an understatement. A tremendous understatement.
Way to go liberals.
He’s taking his cues from hussein who equated US white cops with ISIS beheaders.
I would hope that Ghanaian President John Mahama offers asylum to any Americans who feel discriminated against. They deserve the equality found in an African $hit hole like Ghana.
I don't care if they are told we will eat them. I just want them to stay there. Maybe we need a little more bad press in Latin America too.
None of them ever mention the little store clerk who was jerked around. I suppose he is the wrong shade of brown.
Was the President of Ghana describing an example of a 'good shoot'?
Get the U.S. OUT of the U.N.! And for the love of all that’s holy, kick the U.N. out of the U.S.!!!
Say thank you to your halfrican. He is so deeply pocessed by a domestic class and race war that he certainly can’t distinguish it with foreign policy. For him the latter is nothing but extension of the first. And when you brings your intimate dirty laundry, which of course in normal situation is your own business, to the open you can’t blame passerby for catching a ball and giving you a lesson on hygiene. It is as simple. And this is just one of many examples, in this case pretty much harmless, when Obama misuses foreign policy this way.
Kind of rich having a leader from Africa tell us we are backward.
Yeah like Ghana has a clean record on anything?
Well, you’re probably correct ... just read something posted by freeper Liz on Hillary Clinton aide involved in the Benghazi coverup- Cheryl Mills? - who has holdings in Ghana... lots of money involved. Company called BlackIvyGroup.
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