Former US President Jimmy Carter has opted for hospice care at his home in Georgia. John Stremlau writes that his enduring commitment to non-racialism and human rights at home shaped his interest and engagement in Africa.
is the biggest of the peace programmes; election observation and support claim the greatest amount of resources and personnel.Motivations for Carter’s interest in Africa are deeply personal. A brief address at a staff celebration of his
revealed his own reckoning with race at home. This, I believe, may have driven his long involvement in Africa.Completely surrounded by African-American children, with whom I played and worked in the fields and hunted and fished in the woods. And I got to know, eventually and slowly, the difference between a privileged group and the ones around us who were not permitted to vote, or to serve on a jury, or to go to a decent school.
Carter, as I discovered, can be a hard man to work for. He holds himself and those around him to extremely high moral and ethical standards. As president, he kept the peace, told the truth, and obeyed the law. Carter also promised never to profit from the presidency – a pledge, from my observation, that he has scrupulously honoured.
His record should remind all democrats, including those in Africa, to hold leaders accountable to similar standards. For as he declared during hisThe bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. God gives us the capacity for choice.
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