Posted on 04/23/2018 9:10:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
... Mr. Obama is inaugurating his most significant international project as an ex-president, with an announcement on Monday that the Obama Foundation plans to convene 200 young people this July in Johannesburg for five days of meetings, workshops and technical training.
At the same time, Mr. Obama will deliver a lecture to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nelson Mandela, whom he eulogized after his death five years ago by saying he makes me want to be a better man.
The choice of Mandela and South Africa are freighted with symbolism for Mr. Obama at a time when his political legacy is being dismantled by his successor, President Trump, who crudely disparaged African countries and complained about laws that would protect immigrants from those places.
It gives him an opportunity to lift up a message of tolerance, inclusivity and democracy at a time when there are obviously challenges to Mandelas legacy around the world, said Benjamin J. Rhodes, a former speechwriter for Mr. Obama who still advises him.
Mandela, he added, endured far darker times than anything were enduring today.
Mr. Obama does not plan to take on Mr. Trump directly, in keeping with his practice of not publicly criticizing his successor. But Mr. Rhodes said he would not shrink from confronting the divisive issues raised by the Trump presidency.
Mr. Obama, he said, views this as the most important speech he has given since leaving the White House, one that will set the tone for his post-presidency. Mandela was a beacon to Mr. Obama, inspiring what he once said was his first act of political activism a speech he gave as a student at Occidental College for the anti-apartheid movement.
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If you like your farm...
You can keep your farm..
Unless you’re white
Same backhanded stoking of racial tensions while preaching "tolerance".
On a certain level, I hope that QAnon and this guy are right:
Churchmouse Campanologist
Obama and his fellow travelers are scum.
So, he’s going to lecture the communist thugs running South
Africa and tell them its intolerant to steal the land of white farmers?
Obama must be a PHD thug Mafia style lying criminal, thats all he knows enough about to teach
The Kenyan should stay there forever...withhis butt-mate Reggie.
Oh, Lordy, like the meeting’s conclusions and recommendations aren’t already preordained, so we will be hearing his “deeply thoughtful” remarks and the press fawning over them for weeks.
The Kill Whitey Tolerance Speech???
Tolerate them there ‘Crackers’.
Why can’t we yank his passport?
“Tolerance” = Zuck white men.
Never forget it.
Lolol.
“who crudely disparaged African countries and complained about laws that would protect immigrants from those places”
When NYT and journalists like Mark Landler stir up racial animosity that leads to riots and deaths, statements like these become blood libel.
If anyone is harmed by angry anti-Trump mobs, Mark Landler should be treated as if he was holding the weapons. NYT should be treated as the headquarters for a terrorist organization.
“Let’s invite these White farmers to settle in the US.”
Arm the Boers the way Obama, Holder, and Hillary armed drug cartels and Islamic militants.
In this case it will actually serve the purpose of freedom and equality.
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