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Last in Line: Africa Doesn't Rate in U.S. Foreign Relations
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At the end of 2002, President George W. Bush had a choice to make: go to Africa or prepare to go to war.
In December, while trying to distance itself from racist remarks made by then-Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott (R-Miss.), the White House cited the planned trip to Africa as evidence of the president's and Republicans' concern for Black issues. But as soon as Lott stepped down from his leadership post, Bush canceled the week-long tour scheduled for January 2003 for reasons described only as unnamed "domestic and international considerations."
Bush's Africa trip would have been his first official visit to the continent and was to include stops in Senegal, Nigeria, …
