Obama Decries Rise of ‘Politics of Fear and Resentment’
- Former U.S. president honors Mandela in Johannesburg speech
- Must resist cynicism over global political shift, Obama says
Barack Obama speaks in Johannesburg on July 17.
Photographer: Themba Hadebe/AP Photo
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Former U.S. President Barack Obama decried mounting global inequality and the emergence of a political order based on fear and resentment, calling for greater efforts to foster international cooperation.
“A politics of fear, and resentment” is building, Obama said in a speech in Johannesburg on Tuesday, a day before the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s birth. “It’s on the move at a pace that would have seemed unimaginable just a few years ago.”