O-BUMMER: Even South Africans Want NOTHING To Do With Barack Hussein O.

Sucks to be you, bro.

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Thanks to an invitation from the Nelson Mandela Foundation, former President Barack Hussein Obama is slated to travel to South Africa next month to deliver a speech to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the anti-apartheid revolutionary’s birth.

There’s just one problem: Some South Africans want nothing to do with him because of his administration’s “War on Terror.”

In an open letter sent earlier this month, the Cage Africa advocacy organization accused Obama of being a warmonger whose administration oversaw the “torture, arbitrary imprisonment and rendition, and extrajudicial killings through indiscriminate drone and air attacks” of “thousands of innocent” Africans.

“Giving this man a platform would be tantamount to condoning the commission of the
international crimes linked to him and his administration,” the organization wrote.

“Obama himself has even conceded that he took the lives of innocents and yet neither
he nor his administration has taken a step to apologise or compensate the victims of his
army’s killing sprees, torture programme or rendition networks. None of them have been
held accountable. Such arrogance is reminiscent of our apartheid abusers, and your
Foundation surely cannot condone this.”

Obama arrogant!? What you talkin’ ’bout, Willis!?

Cage Africa Letter To Nelson Mandela Foundation About Barack Obama by Vivek Saxena on Scribd

Oumar Ba, a professor of international relations in Atlanta, told the media that Obama would be remembered for “the militarization of US foreign policy on the African continent, his use of drones, his immigration policy and his disastrous intervention in Libya.”

And also for having the tendency to lecture the African people, according to Al Jazeera:

In a 2015 speech at the African Union headquarters in Ethiopia, Obama called on some of the continent’s elder statesmen to step down. But critics said the president of the US had “no moral right to lecture Africans”, dismissing what they said appeared to be a tone-deaf message given his country’s continued support for some of the continent’s autocratic leaders.

“Obama pursued the same predatory and criminal policies that provoked international anger and hatred under his predecessor George W Bush,” Ibrahim Vawda, of the South Africa-based Media Review Network, said in a statement also calling the Nelson Mandela Foundation to withdraw its invitation.

“His stated theme of promoting ‘democracy’ in Africa was absurd and hypocritical.”

Na’eem Jeenah, the director of the Johannesburg-based Afro-Middle East Centre (AMEC), told Al Jazeera that he expects the opposition to Obama’s speech to grow as July approaches.

“The argument is that Obama, through his actions as president, most certainly does not represent Mandela’s legacy … [and] the past decade of Obama’s life does not suggest to us that he has the credentials to talk about renewing Mandela’s legacy or that he has been active in promoting active citizenship — either in his own country or abroad,” he said.

“At the very least, they [critics] believe that the speaker, especially on Mandela’s 100th birthday, should be someone who actually does represent Mandela’s legacy, and it should preferably be an African,” he added.

H/T The_Donald