Powerline thinks it’s time for the Oslo folks “to hang it up”. This week they awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Kenya’s Wangari Maathai. In addition to her qualifications as a world class tree planter, she’s been pretty good at watering conspiracy theories.
“Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists.
“I may not be able to say who developed the virus, but it was meant to wipe out the black race.”
She later claimed the quote was taken out of context. As Hindrocket notes, “If so, it must have been quite a context.”
“I may not be able to say who developed the virus, but it was meant to wipe out the black race.”
So Ronald Reagan is officially off the hook? Some black or gay activists in the ’80’s thought they were able to say, and did.
I guess this is progress, in a sense.