For years, a number of black leaders have paid homage to Muammar Qaddafi and other ruthless African heads of state. They should be ashamed.
By: Jack White
It's one thing to give a pass to Beyoncé, Usher and Mariah Carey for shaking their booties in exchange for big bucks from the thuggish sons of Libyan dictator Col. Muammar Qaddafi. As my colleague Jenée Desmond-Harris points out on The Root, they aren't foreign policy experts, and some never made it through college. They may not have known any better. But you can't say that about the so-called black leaders who should have set a better moral example by steering clear of murderous despots like Qaddafi, whose malicious mischief over the years has caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Africans. Instead, some of our most prominent figures have cultivated relationships with brutish regimes in Africa, sometimes in the hope of a big payoff...[continued]
