THE CAPITALIST NIGER
today, who do you think would win? If our readiness to defend ourselves from this ever happening again
wasn’t so tragic, it would be funny. Have we effectively stamped out slavery in Africa, of course not.
Right now, there are hundreds of thousands of slaves in the Sudan. Neither the continental African nor
the African-American leadership has declared their resolve to stamp out slavery in that part of the
world. They are all afraid that the little handout the Sudanese Arabs are giving them will be cut off. They
are all toothless bulldogs. They go in reverse gear when it is time to move forward. We must attack the
impediment to our progress.
I recently watched the great PBS program on Africa created and produced by Prof. Louis Gates, Jr. of
Harvard University. I was nevertheless disgusted by the childish whining of Prof. Gates about Africans
selling his ancestors into slavery. I say to you Prof. Gates, this is the time to right the wrong done to your
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