Slavery, Darfur, and the Congo. What do these things have in common?

12. July 2009 by Satire V.

The Obamination displayed his worrisome level of all things America again in his recent CNN interview while in Ghana, reported by Fox News here.   Linking America’s past slavery issues with the genocide happening in Darfur and the Congo is only possible for someone completely unfamiliar with the facts of the institution in this country, or a person with a conspiracy theorist level of paranoia and logic mangling.

America gave up slavery a long time ago, due in some part to a civil war but largely due to the earnest efforts of dedicated people that recognized how evil it was (the Republican Party).   That period of our history has no connection to the atrocities that are being committed in these distant countries.   The horrors that are happening there are all about political power.  Murders, rapes, beatings, burnings, and many other terrible things are not being done because people were held in cruel bondage here hundreds of years ago.  These acts are committed for the purpose of gaining and maintaining political power.

The only common thread tying these events together is the willingness of people to harm those who are most like themselves.
Many of the slaves that were brought to America were members of African tribes captured by other rival African tribes and sold to slave traders.  The idea that white European slavers went into the jungle to capture blacks is not inaccurate, but is certainly not the whole story.  Often, they simply went shopping on the beach and were brought captured enemies by the capturing tribes.
Today, the genocidal activities in these African countries consists almost entirely of blacks killing, maiming, and raping other blacks based on tribal, political, and religious affiliations.  This time, white European involvement is even less significant.

It isn’t clear from the story who Obama believes needs the lesson in slavery as it relates to these other events.  It is my guess that he thinks this is needed for our schools.  American schools already dedicate a significant portion of available time to slavery in our Country.  I saw the entire Roots miniseries in class in 1977 or 1978.  Spending more time trying to make a tenuous and inaccurate connection to these other tragedies is neither helpful nor educational.

The ignoramus in chief has shown that regarding slavery, the Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he lacks experience or credibility.

Just like in everything else.

Satire V

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