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Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu says that President Barack Obama’s background and race will help him influence African leaders.

The anti-apartheid icon says Obama would be freer to make demands on African politicians because he can tell them: “Look here you guys, I am one of you, don’t let me down.”

“They can’t accuse him of being a neocolonialist,” Tutu said during a visit to London Thursday. “Complexion helps.”

Tutu was speaking at the launch of a report on the Group of Eight’s aid commitments to sub-Saharan Africa. As the discussion turned to the issue of African leadership, Tutu said Obama would be in a good position to influence Africa’s ruling class.

Obama plans to attend the G-8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy, from July 8-10 and is following the meeting with a visit to Accra, Ghana _ his first presidential stop in Africa.

Obama, America’s first black president, has roots in Kenya.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shango24/ shango24

    yeah if he means because true afrakans wit the faical features and ocmplexion of keith sweat michal jordan and flyod mayweather and myself types who have infeiority complexes when it comes to half breeds then yes he is correct

    afrakans as a race we have yet to check the half breed problem which is why so many self hating and dark brown skin and brown skin self hating afrakans r created everyday

    and like the nigerian tribune said

    barrack obama is not an afrakan period

    he is a half breed

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/1Divine_soul/ 1Divine_soul

    Ahhh this article makes me smile…. yeeeeeaaa…. Well who care about a friking nose shape or skin color…blk is blk..dang..ppl are ppl…you find every race in africa cuz it all started from over there..my mom is jet black and a wide nose and she is beautiful…blk ppl stop hating yourselfs and embrace my dik in yall mouth…OBAMAAAAAA WOOOOOOOOO

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/C4pricorn/ C4pricorn

    really Mr. TUTU?
    u think the name BARACK might help him a little in Africa too?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Naji11/ Naji11

    Hey Guys and Gals,

    I want to share an experience with you,

    I once met a chick who was very dark, so as I admired her I got her back to my place, but forgetting my initial 5 questions rule: Do you want to have black children, 2. have u allowed urslf to be dishonored by our enemies? 3. Do u have two black parants? 4. Do u have atleast 1-2family connections that could be tracked to Africa? & 5Who is the greatest race of people on earth?. So when we’re havng dinner I ask her the above. She then says I am going to marry another race. as I questioned her, she came up with the usual bull ‘Not enough elligible black men’ but her reasons crumbled as I followed up with ‘really now why/’ and she finally broke down and said, I hate myself, I hate what I see in the mirror everyday, I don’t like my dark skin and I can’t fit in with wites.

    As I held her, crying sobing teary eyed realization that it wasn’t us men she hated but her own image in the mirror she coulnd’t ocme to grips with. I then assigned this notion to most of the reasons why black women make the mistakes that they do. They think we want to see them shake it up in the hood day and night, but then wonder why we marry her more quieter and modest friend. Sure that is fun, but we don’t want an amusement park for a wife?/??? pay the fare and anybody can get there. Those are fighting words to us.

    Well, the following morning as I went to the gas station I met her at, I said to the attendant and owner, ‘DO NOT MESS WITH ANY OF OUR WOMEN OR ELSE’ they said ok, ok, after all it was in my own neighborhood and they were I want a black gas station anyway, but to take advantage of a person with low self esteem to use them for sex is a low class individual, and also I don’t seek to use their women like that though I am envited, thats another story. I think that if when we sift through the bull we will be able to find a good women who is still worth her wait in gold.

    PS. I think Desmond is trying to give an encouragement to Obama to get all that he has, then he will flip him off ! behind the back and say. ‘Damn half breed’ ‘well its not his fault’ grruuummble.

    I don’t think that Obama feels very welcome in his own skin because of his ambiguity and always being asked to prove himself.

    I would not want my kid to have to go through that one.

    We say we don’t like this we don’t like that; but how many of us African Americans are willing to put our STAND where our mouth is???

    I make a stand every day, I make a point to not date any women who allows herself to be used by some other race trying to get an easy lay and mock us on our potential wives.

    If a women can be honest and admit the truth that she luvs herself, she luvs her men, she luvs her father & Mother, Brothers all of us who have the same blessed melanine and pigmant, then I will date her, & maybe marry her. but I don’t have the time to speak with any half hearted women who says I have allowed myself to be mocked by your enemy so when is the wedding. HAHA in your dreams Ms. Dumbass, you win that pagiont hands down.

    No, women who have character and foxiness won’t allow fools to mock her father, I mean can you imagine, Daddy, I’m going to bring a half breed here, this is (whoever) you can’t meet his parants and that smirk he glares at u with is just coz I sed a joke(what a lie?. can you imagine when you meet that chick in passing in the mall or whereever. After she’s been dumped, One ask’s Who’s father of that baby is that a black man’s? If she says No, keep on stepping.

    How is a person worth your golden heart when they allowed a people who could careless to s**t on them, laugh at you, what? now she’s worthy of somebodies hand in marraige or dating??????? Not! when she made herself a Judas to us, that is what she is. Nothing changes over time but the weather. Our time is valuable, She is still a sell out, to be dissed and dismmissed.

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