Comments on: Barack Obama and Tribalism in America http://theleoafricanus.com/2008/08/14/nobody-cares-about-circumcision-in-hawaii-cambridge-or-chicago/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:43:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The weird world of Roger Cohen « Africa is a Country http://theleoafricanus.com/2008/08/14/nobody-cares-about-circumcision-in-hawaii-cambridge-or-chicago/#comment-1124 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:22:29 +0000 http://leoafricanus.wordpress.com/?p=1232#comment-1124 [...] swear. Cohen often comes up with the wierdest arguments, by the [...]

]]> By: daniel.waweru http://theleoafricanus.com/2008/08/14/nobody-cares-about-circumcision-in-hawaii-cambridge-or-chicago/#comment-644 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:45:41 +0000 http://leoafricanus.wordpress.com/?p=1232#comment-644 I’ll bite. Cohen is quite correct in his rejection of Auma Obama’s description of the violence as not ethnic. It’s pretty clear that victims were selected by ethnicity, and that the killers justified their murders on ethnic grounds.

Explanation which attempt to obscure the independent force of ethnicity are, as I argued here simply mistaken – and obviously so.

]]> By: Lara Pawson http://theleoafricanus.com/2008/08/14/nobody-cares-about-circumcision-in-hawaii-cambridge-or-chicago/#comment-637 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:15:54 +0000 http://leoafricanus.wordpress.com/?p=1232#comment-637 Come come Sean. We all know you made that up.

Cohen, er, should be, er, shot. That’s what I want to say – though I know I shouldn’t really say nasty things in this nice world.

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