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Barack Obama: I think the way it has to be thought about, the reason it's relevant is because whether it's what's happening in Darfur…

On the recordJuly 17, 2009
I think the way it has to be thought about, the reason it's relevant is because whether it's what's happening in Darfur or what's happening in the Congo or what's happening in too many places around the world, you know, the capacity for cruelty still exists, the capacity for discrimination still exists, the capacity to think about people who are different not just on the basis of race but on the basis of religion or the basis of sexual orientation or gender still exists.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama discusses the ongoing relevance of the experience of slavery in relation to current global issues of discrimination and cruelty.

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