Musings and Migraines is not very impressed with Bush speech about slavery:
I think he missed the chaper where slavery continues long after the trans-Atlantic slave trade is over and American abolition didn’t have a huge affect in Africa.
It’s fascinating how in trying to prove how much he cares he ends up showing how little he understands. By now this is no longer surprising, but’s still disgusting. It’s not that the discussion of the slave trade has no place in how to solve the current problems, but it’s never contextualized. The standard set by the slave trade made way for colonization, which in turn made way for Cold War maneuvering, which has a lot to with what’s happening now.