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At first blush, some of Obama's comments do resonate. Africa has been and remains the cause of many of its problems, and Africans cannot continue to blame the West.
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All well and good.
But to mislead his daughters about slavery was a bit over the top. Sure there's a legacy to understand, one that unfortunately involves the United States. But to suggest as he seemed to be doing--by visiting an old slave dungeon--that slavery is a thing of the past is false and misleading. Sure, 150 years ago his daughters might have known a much different America. But this very day others young girls like them know that other reality in Africa, and others have been sold into sexual slavery in UN-administered refugee camps in Africa.
It's not enough to highlight corruption in Africa. It's the entire continent-wide refusal to abandon the most primitive tribal customs and vices that needs to be addressed.
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