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Silence on Sudan Reveals World’s Racism
The world continues to devalue Black people
Most of us older than 40, when asked if we liked Bill Clinton as president, give a similar answer.
He was a super, mostly effective, charismatic president, and we were disgusted with his personal behavior toward women.
We all know if a male professor at a major university got caught having sex with one of his students, he’d likely be fired.
But there’s another reason to be disappointed in our former president; he failed to intervene in an African genocide (We’ll save his three -strikes-and-your-out law for another day).
In 1999, Clinton oversaw a U.S.-led NATO force to end Serbia’s violent crackdown on Kosovar civilians that had already killed nearly 10,000. This ultimately led several years later to an independent Kosovo. Clinton is a hero in that part of the world. He’s a giant reason there’s peace in the Balkans.
In 1994, when faced with a different violent crackdown in Rwanda, Clinton sat on the sidelines.
Hutu militias began a bloody campaign to mass slaughter the minority Tutsis. In the end, upwards of 800,000 were massacred—many with machetes.
