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When Mugabe Visited NYC

As reports come in about Zimbabwean voters being threatened "into voting for Robert Mugabe's" party today, the NY Times' Clyde Haberman remembers when the controversial leader was welcomed at City Hall back in 2002. City Councilman Charles Barron, who hosted Mugabe, doesn't regret the invite and tells Haberman, "Does he do things that I disagree with? Yes," but then adds, "You didn’t care about black Africans when whites were killing them in Rhodesia." [Here's the Human Rights on Zimbabwe.]

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  • sonyactivision

    C'mon, Equatorial Guinea. That's a two fer.

  • tsol

    Oops- I mean Zimbawe-on-the Hudson.

  • tsol

    "Why doesn't Charles Barron run for president of Zimbabwe?"



    He's President of Mogadishu-on-the-Hudson.

  • west side Michael

    Yes,I did care about the murder of people under

    Rhodes,How can the reverse racist Barron speak

    for me ?

    I guess he will soon be after Chris Quinn

    in the Mayoral election for being white.



    If a black makes it in this country financially

    who is the first to say they sold out to the white-man?, The Barron racists.

    Of course if you try to reason with a political

    nut be in Rush,Anne or Bill from Fox TV or Barron

    you can't reason with them you are always wrong.

  • Snoopy

    Mahatma Ghandi was Indian and he wasn't that dark skinned but he sure helped out his "people" that suffered from slavery.

  • Spear_Chucker

    Obama should pick Barron as his running mate.

  • Snoopy

    I can see why the blacks "Hate whitey" they were oppressed for so many years by them. Unfortunately the Irish trash that came over in the late 1840's due to famine in their country and the Jewish Italian scourge invasion of the late 19th century, none of the above had anything to do with oppressing the beloved African American, so knock that shit off.

  • thefacts

    Why does that fool Barron wear Nehru jackets all the time?



    Nehru was Indian, not African.



    Plus, Barron was a b.s. "east coast" Black Panther.

    The real Black Panthers from the West Coast despised the east coast upstarts because they were not true revolutionaries or socialists, just "bourgeois cultural nationalists". That is, "Hate whitey" with no real agenda.

  • Snoopy

    Why doesn't Charles Barron run for president of Zimbabwe? Or at the least move there since he thinks it's such a great place. Or any other country in Africa since most of the white presence has left and they are back to their tribal war shit again. He loves the black experience so why doesn't he live it in real time?

  • Polite New Yorker

    Mugabe has killed more black Africans than the "white supremacist" Rhodesians killed, by far, and has put his countrymen in a state of famine and violence worse than anything under apartheid. Charles Barron must be proud.

  • Kojak

    "You didn’t care about black Africans when whites were killing them in Rhodesia."



    Very True. We westerners can be very fickle in what we choose to focus our attention on, especially when it has to do with Africa. But this man single-handedly wrecked the economy of what once was one of the bright spots on the Continent, and now hes stolen another election using intimidation and violence.



    Hes the reason Zimbabwe is in dire straits. Your a fool for trying to defend him.

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