Thank you Barack!

[Dot Com]

for your testament on your visit to Senegal Mr. President , Never again will the black man be in chains.

Obama visits Senegal?s Door of No Return, historic exit point for America-bound slaves - NYPOST.com

In a powerful, symbolic moment, President Obama stepped into the frame of Senegal’s infamous Door of No Return, through which shackled slaves passed as they left Africa for North America centuries ago.

 

[Decus]

Interesting item regarding "Senegal’s infamous Door of No Return".

"However, despite the claims that millions of slaves passed through the door, its most likely use is now thought to have been for disposing of rubbish. Likewise, the waters it overlooks are too rocky and shallow for a slave ship to have used it as a loading bay."

"There are literally no historians who believe the Slave House is what they're claiming it to be, or that believe Goree was statistically significant in terms of the slave trade," said Ralph Austen, a professor at the University of Chicago who has researched the subject."

"Other slave forts along the West African coastline, such as at Cape Coast in Ghana, have much more substantial claims to being major slaving centres. However, historians who have questioned Gorée's claims have often been accused of attempting to "deny" the extent of the slave trade. Given the amount of tourist income that the island generates for a country still living in poverty, there has been little incentive in Senegal itself to put the record straight."

Did Barack Obama pick the wrong venue for anti-slavery speech? - Telegraph

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Oh for crying out loud.

That doorway has long been accepted and represented as a doorway through which many kidnapped, beaten, starved and tortured people were taken on their way to becoming slaves.

Just let President Obama visit it and they come out of the woodwork.

No, I don't mean Decus, who posted the article.

In spite of that article, the symbolism is just as heartbreaking, just as powerful.

Thank you Mr President.

 

[Dot Com]

the specific locations may vary BUT The New York Post is no Progressive bastion of a source so...

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Obama's laser like focus on the completely irrelevant

 

[Dot Com]

I got a thread for you Frank57. Coming up shortly One of your favorite Progs

 

[Two Thumbs]

for your testament on your visit to Senegal Mr. President , Never again will the black man be in chains.

Obama visits Senegal?s Door of No Return, historic exit point for America-bound slaves - NYPOST.com

In a powerful, symbolic moment, President Obama stepped into the frame of Senegal’s infamous Door of No Return, through which shackled slaves passed as they left Africa for North America centuries ago.

Dot, before you break out the knee pads, do some research

In 1981, Mauritania became the last country in the world to abolish slavery. Activists are arrested for fighting the practice. The government denies it exists.

Slavery's last stronghold


And it's still going on in Africa

 

[Two Thumbs]

Oh for crying out loud.

That doorway has long been accepted and represented as a doorway through which many kidnapped, beaten, starved and tortured people were taken on their way to becoming slaves.

Just let President Obama visit it and they come out of the woodwork.

No, I don't mean Decus, who posted the article.

In spite of that article, the symbolism is just as heartbreaking, just as powerful.

Thank you Mr President.

presented with facts that it's a load of shit, and doesn't care.

The fucking irony and constant hypocrassy is almost Two much

 

[Katzndogz]

Was this his "let me pretend I was once a slave" moment?

 

[Dot Com]

^ :facepalm:

 

[Mad Scientist]

Physical Enslaving people is so "last year". All the hip young kids are getting Degrees in Finance and becoming Bankers. It's much easier to get people (and countries) to voluntarily become debt slaves with easy credit.

People actually PAY for their own enslavement nowadays, it's brilliant!

 

[Dot Com]

Physical Enslaving people is so "last year". All the hip young kids are getting Degrees in Finance and becoming Bankers. It's much easier to get people (and countries) to voluntarily become debt slaves with easy credit.

People actually PAY for their own enslavement nowadays, it's brilliant!

and those financial institutions, along w/ their lobbyists, own the us govt

 

[Two Thumbs]

Physical Enslaving people is so "last year". All the hip young kids are getting Degrees in Finance and becoming Bankers. It's much easier to get people (and countries) to voluntarily become debt slaves with easy credit.

People actually PAY for their own enslavement nowadays, it's brilliant!

and those financial institutions, along w/ their lobbyists, own the us govt

and yet, here you are, fluffing a man you know is owned.

 

[Stephanie]

For dotty....



She's so dizzy over Barack, she's so dizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzy



Dotty is getting sweeeepy

 

[LA RAM FAN]

thank you Barack for all your hope and change.thought you said you were going to end Bushs war you called senseless? instead you expand it,Great job.

 

[Dot Com]

leave Barack alone. He's having a hard enough time cleaning-up the previous admin's colossal mess.

 

[squeeze berry]

leave Barack alone. He's having a hard enough time cleaning-up the previous admin's colossal mess.

now you need lip pads

 

[konradv]

I'm having flashbacks to the constant attacks of the Clinton years. I feel like if we get a Republican president in 2016, these days will be looked upon as the "good old days". Just like when Bush was president and so many people fondly remembered how much better it was under Clinton.

 

[Trajan]

Oh for crying out loud.

That doorway has long been accepted and represented as a doorway through which many kidnapped, beaten, starved and tortured people were taken on their way to becoming slaves.

Just let President Obama visit it and they come out of the woodwork.

No, I don't mean Decus, who posted the article.

In spite of that article, the symbolism is just as heartbreaking, just as powerful.

Thank you Mr President.

presented with facts that it's a load of shit, and doesn't care.

The fucking irony and constant hypocrassy is almost Two much

yes, the irony imho being that those folks that showed up looking for chattel bought/traded them from......._________________

 

[Trajan]

leave Barack alone. He's having a hard enough time cleaning-up the previous admin's colossal mess.

right, thats what FDR said right up until 40.....past is prologue....