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As Obama heads towards the big seat, racial prejudice starts showing its face again.

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As Obama heads towards the big seat, racial prejudice starts showing its face again.

Very sad indeed.

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According to a clinton administration state department report, the northwest african nation of mauritania has up to 90,000 blacks enslaved by arabs.

As of 2000, the government of sudan, the largest country in africa, requires that everyone practice the religion of islam. The majority of people in the southern portion of sudan are black christians and animists. The sudanese government has attempted to force them into "peace camps" which offer the option of converting to islam or forced starvation.

The government of sudan has killed over 1 million of its civilians through overt violence and forced starvation. As of 1999, more people have been killed in sudan than in kosovo, bosnia, rwanda, chechnya, and somalia combined.
Government supported militias conduct raids on villages in the south where they kill the men and take women and children as slaves.
The sudanese government has denied that they condone or participate in slavery. They attribute reports of slavery to local wars between tribes in which hostages are taken. As of 1999, the sudanese government refuses to allow monitors to investigate the situation and will not allow unauthorized flights (including those carrying food) into the southern portion of the country.

In 1996, two reporters from the baltimore sun, a crew from nbc’s dateline, an official from christian solidarity international and a board member of the american anti-slavery group took a covert flight into southern sudan. They interviewed former slaves, families of enslaved people, 2 arab militia officers, and a person who travels to the northern part of the country to purchase slaves from their captors for return to their families. All of the witnesses interviewed stated that the government of sudan sponsors and supports the slave trade.

The clinton state department's 1995 human rights report on sudan states: "all the reports and information received indicates the direct and general involvement" of the sudanese army and government supported militias in "the abduction and deportation of civilians from the conflict zones to the north."
Charles jacobs, president of the american anti-slavery group, sent photos and documents about slavery in sudan to jesse jackson. Jesse jackson’s office told him they did not want to get involved because the issue sounded “anti-arab.”
In 1995, louis farrakhan visited sudan as a guest of the government. As of 1999, louis farrakhan and the nation of islam deny that slavery exists in sudan and challenged the press to find proof of it.

In january of 1999, christian solidarity international took cbs news on a covert flight into sudan where they purchased 1,000 slaves, mostly women and children, for about $50 a person. The former slaves were returned to their villages.

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