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Thread #101088   Message #2263232
Posted By: Amos
15-Feb-08 - 12:41 PM
Thread Name: BS: Popular Views on Obama
Subject: RE: BS: Popular Views on Obama
Interesting dialogue, LH!!! :D

A correspondent from Zimbabwe wrote in to a blog editor:

"About three weeks ago, I was in the eastern highlands of Zimbabwe, having dinner with about a dozen Zimbabweans, all black, and they were fully informed about Obama and their excitement was incredible. These were educated people -- some of the few professionals left in that part of Zim in the wake of the Mugabe-induced economic and political meltdown -- and they were grilling me on how it could be that a man of African ancestry could be elected....

When I told them that to almost all Americans under 40, a candidate's race wasn't of any consequence, they nodded in agreement -- "what a great country," one said "that can ignore such things as race and prosper."   These were all people, though, who have learned the bitter lesson of the consequences of reverse racism -- Mugabe's seizure of white-owned farms and businesses that has led to Zim's collapse, and to widespread hunger in the formerly most prosperous African country. One thing Mugabe has done in Zim- he has made whites and blacks all brothers, united in hatred of bad government. "


Seems Bush and Mugabe are kindred souls under their skins...


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