Nicholas Kristof, U.S. Foreign Policy and Consistently It Lets Black People Die

The globe trotting NY Times Nicholas Kristof  recently tried to make the point in response to critics of the seeming inconsistency of U.S. Foreign Policy .That even if U.S. Foreign Policy is inconsistent as it intervenes in Libyan internal politics and Civil War while indifferent to slaughter in Darfur and the Ivory Coast.  The seeming inconsistency (and we paraphrase) is correct, appropriate and fair because lives are being saved in Libya.

The problem is Nicholas Kristof is wrong.  The polemic presented by Nicholas Kristof is an affront and insult to the lives lost, lives destroyed, lives stymied by U.S. Foreign Policy.

U.S. Foreign Policy contrary to the apologies by Nicholas Kristof is not inconsistent.  U.S. Foreign Policy has since the inception of the nation been consistently simple: It Lets Black People Die.  We challenge Nicholas Kristof to prove otherwise.  From the slaughter of Black People in South Africa during the terror of Apartheid, through Genocide in Rwanda, to the continuing destruction of Black lives in the Congo, Uganda, Darfur, Chad, Mauritania and now Ivory Coast.  What all these crime scenes have in common is U.S. Foreign Policy was indifferent and the victims are Black People, not Caucasoid Libyan Berbers.

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