k so what part of this am I getting wrong? It looks to me like Obama's being blamed for destabilizing Libya leading to this awful slave trade situation in Libya right now. OK, cool. I need to research more, but I follow you.
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and then Obama's ALSO being blamed for extending the CIA's secret drone war into Africa and dropping some horrible number of bombs on Africa. Again, okay yeah, need to research but I can follow this for sure too.
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but THEN I find out that the black folks who are being enslaved include a heavy contingent of Nigerian folks fleeing Boko Haram. And I ALSO find out that many/most of those bombs dropped targeted Boko Haram.
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so... I just... idk if I can follow you on blaming Obama for this thing that he did that had this horrible unintended consequence and ALSO blaming Obama for this thing he tried to do to stop one of the main root causes of this horrible thing.
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and again, I won't claim to be the most decolonial negro in the whole world but I understand that ALL of these problems are the result of the rapaciousness of colonialism, right?
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I just... just SPECIFICALLY with regard to blaming Obama... I feel like... either I'm missing something or I will have to gon ahead and commit to being A Liberal about this and feeling like we need more nuance in this critique.
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