Posted on 06/24/2011 1:13:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
SOWETO, South Africa — Graca Machel, the wife of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela, took the pulpit of the Regina Mundi church here Wednesday to introduce Michelle Obama, the wife of America’s first black president.
“We welcome you as a daughter of African heritage, and we can call you the queen of our world,” said Machel, an advocate for women and children, noting that Regina Mundi means queen of the world in Latin.
The prickly ambivalence that South Africans often show toward the United States, which is often perceived here as an overbearing superpower, seems to have been suspended for the first lady. South Africans have embraced her with stirring emotion since she arrived Monday, and she has been hugging them back, one by one, stop after stop.
Both the choreography of her appearances, and the nationally broadcast speech she gave here Wednesday, have evoked the commonalities between the freedom struggles of black people in South Africa and the United States — an approach that has resonated with South Africans.....
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Well then, she owes it to her subjects to take her family to Africa and rule them!
Great - she can stay over there! She’ll be proud of her country.
Mandela—yo mamma’s queen.
Oddly enough Jerry Nadler was less than kind in his assessment that the president is becoming an absolute monarch.
He wasn’t talking about Obama alone so much as the office of president but I can’t find a reason to disagree with him.
She’s soo, so African, so Swahili, so Simba Ungowa...
Please keep her.
The Left’s policies are more suited to a developing country anyway.
Guess that makes two “queens” in the family.
I bet Queen Latifah has something to say about that!
Awesome! Does that mean they’ll be moving to South Africa now?
Isn’t that title reserved for the woman with the biggest butt in Zulu culture?
Michelle Obama is not indigenous to the United States.
What a relief it will be in January, 2013, when Michelle’s position and role passes into the able and grounded hands of Todd Palin!
Perhaps they confused her with Barry.
Hmmm......I wonder if Nelson’s ex wife Winnie will give her a necklace?
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