Leaders not ‘even pretending to be in charge’, says Obama
Former president Barack Obama says the coronavirus pandemic ‘spotlights the underlying inequalities and extra burdens’ faced by black communities in the US. – EPA pic, May 17, 2020.
BARACK Obama indirectly criticised his successor, Donald Trump, during a virtual graduation ceremony yesterday, in a rare public judgment from the former US president during the coronavirus pandemic. “More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing,” he told graduates from several dozen historically black colleges and universities.
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