Where's the outrage? Is Jesse Jackson STILL in Ohio trying to gin up racial strife amid trumped up charges of election "irregularities?" If so, someone send him an S.O.S.
This story is tailor made for a liberal poseur, to grab some TV face time and express his outrage over the continued practice of slavery in the former French colony of Niger.
OOOPPS!!! My mistake, must be another example of a blogger jumping to conclusion too soon. I forgot that Niger is a state with Africans running the show. Were this the evil of white apartheid ala South Africa, Jesse and company would be all over it.
I'm sure that those enslaved are grateful that the Carter Center, Jimmy's do-gooder project, is busy sponsoring ads in Niger featuring Niger President Tandja Mamadou warning of the dreaded Guinea worm.
Well I suppose we could urge the French to do something about it... but their recent technique of cleaning up the mess their colonial administration of Africa caused is not something anyone would like to see repeated. And the U.N.? Well, they've got their hands full and their pants down in the Congo where a FRENCH UN official (seeing a trend here?) is one of those accused in the serial sexual abuse of women and children.
So I guess it's up to Jesse, Al and their pal, Kweisi Infume.
BBC NEWS Africa Niger cancels 'free-slave' event: "The government of Niger has cancelled at the last minute a special ceremony during which at least 7,000 slaves were to be granted their freedom.
A spokesman for the government's human rights commission, which had helped to organise the event, said this was because slavery did not exist.
It is not clear why the government, which was also a co-sponsor of the ceremony, changed its position.
At least 43,000 people across Niger are thought to be in slavery. "
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