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Baraka Obama won the prize for not being George W Bush and for being the first black President of a country with a terrible history of enslaving and mistreating black people.

Side note: Democracy will not work in Egypt until the Muslim Brotherhood loses popularity and/or Islam in the region becomes more moderate. Until then, you're just going to end up with the same situation as Ethiopia and Tigray with a Brotherhood-dominated government and the Copts.

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> of a country with a terrible history of enslaving and mistreating black people.

You should really learn about the history of the 19th century and the history of other countries wrt slavery.

Does it make my statement somehow untrue?

Also, save the snarky condescension for Facebook and Reddit.

It makes your statement apply more to almost every other country on the planet more than the US. Its like complaining to Luxembourg about poverty. And I will mock ignorance (especially about history) wherever I find it.

So, it doesn’t. Got it.

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