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By: Africans celebrate Obama’s election « D2 route

Africans celebrate Obama’s election « D2 route — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:05:42 +0000

[...] via Oliver Willis [...]

By: jr

jr — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:20:04 +0000

When Democrats are in the White House we don’t have to pretend we’re Canadians when we go overseas

By: ed

ed — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:29:51 +0000

Where are the usual trolls to tell us how wrong we are?

By: anotherbozo

anotherbozo — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:38:23 +0000

Richard Pryor told a story about feeling all warm and fuzzy about traveling to Mother Africa, only to have his luggage stolen there. I thought this meant our identity as Americans trumped any color differences between us: a rich foreigner was a rich foreigner. By extension, presumably, our politics was our politics, no big deal for them one way or the other.

Boy, was I wrong. Not just Kenya’s, but all of Africa’s reaction to Obama’s election was the biggest surprise in all this.

Note to self: you ignorant shit, there’s a LOT you don’t know. (But now, at least, you know you don’t know…)

By: SAP

SAP — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:18:54 +0000

Well, damn.

We better not screw this up, then.