Footage showing President Obama visiting Kenya in 1990 was released this week and shows him complaining about the discrimination against black people in the country.
He is seen observing the conditions of the land and alludes to being unhappy with how whites are treated better at that particular time. “It makes me frustrated to see that blacks in Kenya don’t have more confidence in the possibility of shaping their own fate, their own destiny,” he said. “I’m deeply saddened by a sense that whites are still superior in this country in some sense that if you sit at a restaurant, they’re served before a Kenyan is served. A white person is going to have an easier time going through customs.”
He also touched on his personal experience in the country. “I’ve experienced the Kenyan side of it. There have been times when I went without my sister too, who’s obviously Kenyan to a restaurant where we had problems getting served. The waiters would be rude,” he continued. “If you look around at Kenya you get a sense that although on the surface things are relatively tranquil, right beneath the surface things could explode at any point.” The President attributed that to the population growth and the expectations given to the country’s young people at a time when its economy wasn’t keeping up with that increase.
Source: youtube.com
