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Obama sees Africa's dark past at slave fortress - Yahoo! News

After outlining his bright hopes for Africa's future, President Barack Obama got a glimpse on Saturday into one of the darkest chapters of its past -- the transatlantic slave trade. » Full Story on news.yahoo.com

Please stay in Africa !!!

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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playing up the race card again! this guy is making race relations very very tense -

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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maybe they could lock him up there

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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Glad the a****** can go on our money.
Dont worry about all us that need a real job & not have to work through a temp service to pay bills.

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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Please stay concetrated on the topicis @ hand. Niether you or any of your others were slaves and lets get down to runnig a country and not your personal agenda.

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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YO! YO! Why don't You Yo get back into your English Clipper ship and sail back home? Why not ship out with Bush and Cheney. But if you did that, they would probably make you do all of the work and then cannibalize you.

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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nice trip for the family ON THE TAX PAYERS' DIME!

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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Max

Yeah, and why don't all of you haters go back to where your descendants were born. Only the native Americans can really claim this country, or at least they could before the white man stole it. Columbus who ????? You all need to burn in a special section of hell.

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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I own you and will for life. That is the way that you will survive. Eat grass for awile and i guess america is not so bad after all.

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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Max

To 'never'...the Obamas pay for all of their personal recreation themselves, they were millionaires before going the D.C....tax payers don't foot those bills, and to trish a....you probably don't own a pot to pee in or a window to throw it out of, and you can't afford me. Where were all of you haters when Bush & Cheney were running our country into the ground?

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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Dee

Africa is the cradle of civilization, what the heck happened to them?

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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He is reminded of "evil" because of seeing the site?

Then why is he still allowing the RFID chips to be intergrated into American society?

Why is he still allowing to let illegals to run rampet?

Why is he trying to give away billions to other countries when we need that money to be used here in the US?

People here in the US are starving and becoming homeless.

This shows me he cares for the US citizen not one bit.

Him not careing for his country and it's people shows me he is "evil".

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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HE WANTS TO CLAIM THIS AS PART OF HIS PAST TOO. HE IS SICKENING. AND HE HAS FAILED AMERICA EVERY DAY HE HAS BEEN IN OFFICE. DOES ANYONE READ WHAT GM IS DOING TO FRANCHISES? AND THAT HE IS OKAY WITH IT? THIS TRIP IS JUST ANOTHER WAY TO MAKE PEOPLE STOP SEEING WHAT HE IS REALLY SCREWING UP. HE HASN'T EARNED THE RIGHT TO STAND FOR BLACKS OR ANYONE ELSE

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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Maybe he should pay a visit to some of the coastal towns of England and Ireland where a lot of my old ancestors were rounded up and carted off into slavery by the Vikings. Every race in the world has been subjected to slavery at some point in history, but only one race repeatedly whines about it and tries to get mileage out of it. Personally, I no longer care. I'm freeing the slaves. Screw civil rights. I refuse to be a slave to the slaves of slavery.

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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Wonder how the white half of Obama feels or is it surpressed beyond recovery? What's he doing over there anyway?

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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It's been publicized that Obama's ancestors were not enslaved. How did it miss him? Were his ancestors on the ENSLAVING end of that commerce?

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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Well for heaven's sake, I"m so very happy to see him "stir the pot." Be sure, BO, and keep the race card alive and well -- y'all have sucked it dry, but who cares, keep stirring that pot anyway!!

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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So far he has done Zilch! Nada! Zero! for this country and it's majority population of working people.Glad he can ease his mind after laying waste to our taxpayer dollars. Where are all those jobs he promised everyone. Where is the 1000.00 per person tax rebate? He is a born liar and is still wasting every penny he can get his hands on. At least ACORN, the ACLU, and the NAACP are great. Where's the barf bag? Oh yeah Berry took her with him.

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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"As painful as it is, I think that it helps to teach all of us that we have to do what we can to fight against the kinds of evils that sadly still exist in our world, not just on this continent but in every corner of the globe," Obama said somberly at end of his visit to the compound.
THIS WAS HIS QUOTE YET HE SAID NOTHING ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON IN IRAN,HE STOOD NEXT TO CHAVEZ AND OTHER DICTATORS, WHO IS GONNA PROTECT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FROM HIM AND HIS EVIL WAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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My late friend, Lt. Col. S. Marks, U.S.M.C. Ret., said that this person needs to look at this country first. I say that since he's wanting to encourage Africa and not the United States then stay in Africa. Maybe he can become their President, since he likes to back other countries first.

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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Max and all others with such misinformed minds: the slave trade began with AFRICANS selling their own people. No Europeans or people could have purchased and particpated in the slave trade if the Africans did not sell. Yes white people bought but they did not go into the villages and drag the African people out, they were sold by their own. Read, learn something. That is the big issue with the Black Americans, never read, never learn any history but you are so ready to blame everyone else. No I am not a republican. I am a bi-racial American. An American who is fed up with my people always blaming someone else for our shortcomings. READ--LEARN. You voted this man into office and he will destroy this country as we know it. You will be standing on the corner, scratching your head, looking stupid! Can't blame good ole whitey then.

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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I'm really more interested in what can be done for our country, not countries that don't have anything to do with our well being.
You might be black, but you are supposed to be taking care of our people here in the United States, but then on the other hand, maybe being black is one of the problems, not to mention Muslem.

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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The Bush administration put us in the mess for the last eight years. You didn't complain then so don't whine now. you all voted for Bush and this is why we are in this recession. Weappons of Mass Destruction Bush and Chenney

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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I have always found it interesting that African Americans always talk about slavery as if they were the only ones enslaved in history. Every conquering warrior has enslaved the conquered. The Egyptians enslaved the Hebrews. Attila the Hun enslaved the western Europeans.The Romans, the Hittites, the mongols and the Greeks. The Africans themselves enslaved other tribes and sold them off.
Geesh! Enough already!
Geesh! Enough!

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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this is not to everyone on here but to a select few dummies you know who you are, i hope your kids are not being raised the way you were,to all the smartie pants hey im black and from what history says you had a three hundred year head start on reading and writing! my bad we caught up!never in history there has ever been so many young millionaires black or white,to all the racist people hay accept it we are all going to be the same color soon MIXED!ive never heard of a white man breeding with another color and it comes out straight white!hell thats why we are americans we all kinds of s...t! get er dun!

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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C3

If you don't remember your PAST.....you are likely to repeat it......
I think the President has done a great job at letting everyone know how this country has been run for the past 8 yrs. All of use have been living under Dictatorship from the Bush's and some of you are to Blind or too stupid to see it.
You all follow when a white man tells you to give all your money too the Banks with no questions and youblame this crap on Obama, but Obama is telling you to start living your lives right and you dispute him. You have to ask yourself, I'm I Stupid are just mad Black people can acutally think....Dont start being scared now! We have had the best teachers for all these years.
Wake Up!

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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Maybe when Oboma becomes an American citizen he will
know more about how to be an American leader, you notice I didn't say president, I didn't vote for him. I wonder how many more out there wish they didn't ether.

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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Gimmie a break, You go visit a slave monument, I thought ya'll got over that and moved on. WRONG, I guess OmonkeyBama is black when he needs to be, Muslum when it suits him, White for Polosi and Reid, Maybe we need to look at his Birth Certificate to see who he really is, Oh never mind, it's locked in a vault where his lwayers have it locked up, so the American people won't see another LIE. I hate this guy.

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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WEG

Was that the market where they took their relatives to trade away their souls like they trade crack for their souls today?

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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When you have the domestic economy problems Obama's caused, you have to mis-direct the masses. Playing the old race card (& the old "torture" card). I HOPE the general electorate can see through this garbage!!

posted Jul 11, 2009 |
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