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At the Young African Leaders Initiative summit in Washington D.C., President Obama was asked about the
killing of Albinos in Africa and the harvesting of their body parts for ritual purposes."
“Persons with Albinism in Africa are being killed and their body parts harvested for ritual purposes,” a woman in the audience said. “My request to you is to raise this issue with heads of state of African countries to bring these atrocities to an end.”
Obama condemned the practice as “foolish traditions.”
“When I was in Africa, I said, there are important traditions and folkways that need to be respected that’s part of who each culture is -- each country is -- but there’s also foolish traditions and old ways of doing business,” Obama said.
The president focused on the issue as one of discrimination.
“The notion that any African would discriminate against somebody because of the color of their skin, after what black people around the world have gone through - is crazy.”
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A good response by POTUS to a touchy question.
Sure, everything can be framed as racial victimization, the first and only line of thought pursued for a reasonable response to a question about albinism and shamanistic superstition. Let's see, how can this be answered in terms of appealing to racial victimization. Yeah, that's the ticket. Racial victimization works so well in the U.S. surely its success can be generalized in a 100% black population, don't they see how the entire race of this country is victimized by the world? Sure they do. See, it works.
So it's a black/albinos lives matter... unless they are for medical research or something.
So killing Africans is wrong, even if they're white. The More You Know.
Thanks, Obama.
This type of hypocrisy is completely allowable by the radical Marxist leftist mind. It is self delusion which allows someone like Obama to make contradictory statement like this in the face of what happens in abortion clinics. You are dealing with people who have embraced evil as a means of political ideology because leftism is evil in total. Obama is leftist, therefore he is intrinsically evil and he proves that every single time he opens his mouth.
Foolish, huh?
Like the Baaston cops were stupid.
Yeah, this guy learned a lot about other people living in Indonesia when he was 6.
One might assume he'd learned you show some respect and a little understanding if you want to show people that something they believe is a bad idea.
Apparently, he's the same dullard and ignoramus we've all thought he was.
“The notion that any African would discriminate against somebody because of the color of their skin, after what black people around the world have gone through - is crazy.”
Bwahahahaha. I laugh because there's just no fixing this mess of a person. So sheltered and/or wilfully blind to all facts which do not serve him. So incurious about human reality since his entire world view is based on the assumption some humans (including himself, OF COURSE) are better than others. And so willing to lecture these other, lesser mortals about their wrongheaded "folkways." Feh.
Amartel,
Clearly Obama never hung out in any black neighborhoods because you know, Indonesia, and Hawaii, and the lily white portion of Chicago, but he clearly missed the parts in black culture about the clear discriminations that blacks impose on other blacks for the lightness or darkness of their skin within those communities. The idea that he hasn't seen that or gets that is in itself, crazy. But I guess when you are a zebra that is more chocolate than vanilla, you will say stupid shit like this and expect that people will not laugh in your fucking face.
Meth-It's not just here, it's everywhere. The notion that Africans and people of African descent don't or shouldn't discriminate based on skin color because they, more than any "race" are somehow more attuned to that sort of discrimination, is utterly ludicrous. It's just so typical of Obama to think that, though.
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