Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi praisedPresident Barack Obama on Wednesday for being the first black USleader.
“We Africans are happy and proud that a son of Africa” ispresident of the United States, Gaddafi told the UN General Assembly,demanding patience from his audience because of the length of hisunprepared speech, which went long beyond the allocated 15 minutes foreach speaker. Obama addressed the 192-nation assembly beforeGaddafi and exited the UN headquarters rather than remaining to listento the Libyan leader whose first visit to the UN has promptedcontroversy.
“We are proud that Obama is a glimpse in thedarkness,” Gaddafi said, wishing that Obama would remain in the WhiteHouse for two four-year terms. Obama, the son of a Kenyan father andwhite American mother, is the country’s first African Americanpresident. “Now that we know themessengers, let’s look at the message: if individuals are surrounded bymany different races and cultures, they as individuals become morewell-rounded and knowledgeable–a blatant falsehood if there ever wasone. Being surrounded by Mandingos and Bedouins does not make one moreknowledgeable about those peoples, nor does it bestow any particularinsight. We may hear their foreign languages, see their foreignclothes, and smell their foreign fragrances, but this does little morethan inform us that they exist.
No esoteric truth orlife lesson is discovered by the man swimming in a sea of differentcultures. Such things can only be acquired from studying those culturesintensively in a library or in their native lands. As few are willingto do this, there is very little enrichment taking place.
Perhaps it would be somewhat informative if these foreigners wereall sages and learned men from their native lands, but the majorityare just average Joes who have come to the Western world for economicpurposes.” — Michael Bell The Occidental Quarterly