President Bush did more for the continent than any other president in history. The election of Barack Obama won’t make Africans’ lives any easier. It won’t change anything significant for them.
I think they have their priorities wrong.
If a Jew was elected president of the United States, most Jews rooted in Judaism would not be celebrating.
Japanese-Americans seem to be doing just fine (second highest income of any ethnic group in America behind the Jews) without Japanese-American politicians to lead the way.
I wonder what V.S. Naipaul believes about the election of Barack Obama?
The joy in Africa over Obama reminds me of the bumper stickers on the beat-up car I drove behind today: "My child won the Monthly Attendance Award at Martin Luther King Elementary School."
Yippee!
Dennis Prager reports from the dark continent:
The election of a man of black African heritage as president of a predominantly white nation, and one that also happens to be the most powerful nation in the world, is taken by blacks the world over to mean that their centuries of suffering under the racist yoke of implied inferiority are coming to an end.
This is especially felt in Africa itself because Africa is largely benighted. Though many African countries have now been independent for nearly half a century, Africa remains particularly poor, particularly corrupt, and particularly violent. Africans, of course, know this, and while Barack Obama’s election will probably do nothing to end African poverty, corruption, or violence, it does seem to mark the end of the era of belief in black inferiority. Continued…
