Johannesburg
Barack Obama could have been appearing on a pop-star’s stage. Yet the message he delivered in the annual Nelson Mandela lecture was far more somber than the setting.
The elite class whose rise has been fueled by their outsized share of global riches, he said in very direct terms, needs to take care of those left behind.“For all the magnificence of the global economy, all the shining skyscrapers that have transformed the landscape around the world, entire communities, entire neighborhoods, entire cities, entire regions have been bypassed,” Obama declared. “For far too many people, the more things have changed, the […]
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