You may not have been aware, but Liberia (west Africa) heads into presidential run-off elections today. The candidates are GeorgeWeah, former international soccer star and…someone else. The link is to his official website but be warned, it has an embedded campaign ad video on the front page. Narrated by Denzel Washington, no less! If my ears do not deceive me.
The other candidate is Liberia’s former finance minister, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. So you have a popular football player, and an old-school, upper-crust, Western-educated member of the elite. In the old days the opposition candidate would have been a communist, representing the ‘people’. The educated upper class would have consequently been supported by the CIA, and much oppression would result. I guess a populist ‘people’s man’ isn’t so threatening when he’s a sportsman. Still, I’m sure the Liberian elite can’t believe they’re about to lose their grasp on power to an uneducated jock.
In the words of ‘King’ George Weah,
I challenge all Liberians to be the best in all their endeavors, to exhaust the fullness of their potential and to build a society defined by a new sense of mission, a country we all will be proud to leave with posterity.
Long live the king. And no, I’m not linking to Ellen because I haven’t searched on her. So sue me.
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