Posted on 10/03/2012 8:53:57 AM PDT by Qbert
In the wake of the Daily Caller’s release of President Obama cheering Rev. Wright and invoking the race card in various ways, our friend Morgen Richmond decided the time was right to release some little-known Obama video of his own. He authorized me to release the video here first.
The following clips are from 2002. Obama is speaking in a church at a 2002 Martin Luther King Jr. Day memorial service.
The full speech is here, and by and large it is a nice speech by a rising politician. Obama speaks about the need for empathy in society, about taking responsibility for our actions, and the audacity of hope. He levels barbs at the wealthy and unempathetic, but also criticizes those who blame the system for the arrest of O.J. Simpson and the crack epidemic. Although the audio quality is poor because of the echo in the church, one can tell that Obama is well spoken and articulate. Joe Biden would have been proud.
But there are a few times when the mask slips, just a little.
My favorite clip is this one, where he speaks of Dr. King’s philosophy of non-violence, and explains that it works only when there is empathy:
Transcript:
The philosophy of nonviolence only makes sense if the powerful can be made to recognize themselves in the powerless. It only makes sense if the powerless can be made to recognize themselves in the powerful. You know, the principle of empathy gives broader meaning, by the way, to Dr. King’s philosophy of nonviolence. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but rich people are all for nonviolence. Why wouldn’t they be? They’ve got what they want. They want to make sure people don’t take their stuff. But the principle of empathy recognizes that there are more subtle forms of violence to which we are answerable. The spirit of empathy condemns not only the use of firehoses and attack dogs to keep people down but also accountants and tax loopholes to keep people down. I’m not saying that what Enron executives did to their employees is the moral equivalent of what Bull Connor did to black folks, but I’ll tell you what, the employees at Enron feel violated. When a company town sees its plant closing because some distant executives made some decision despite the wage concessions, despite the tax breaks, and they see their entire economy collapsing, they feel violence . . .
And the class warfare talk never ends.
What Obama really thought about the Clinton years. Quote: “Among African American males, one third to one fourth caught up in the criminal justice system, so that the number of young men incarcerated exceeded the number enrolled in colleges and universities. Throughout the nation inequality up, trust in mutuality down . . . the evidence was there if we cared to look.”
Obama on empathy, the powerful, and the prison industrial complex. Quote: “It’s hard to imagine that the powerful in our society would tolerate the burgeoning prison industrial complex if they imagined that the black men and Latino men that are being imprisoned were something like their sons.”
Local funding of schools is “fundamentally unjust.” Quote: “And Illinois, like many states in the country, has an education system that is funded by property taxes. It is fundamentally unjust. So you have folks up in Winnetka, pupils who are getting five times as much money per student as students in the South Side of Chicago.”
The full clip on YouTube.
If you use any of these clips or transcripts, please credit Morgen, and mention that you saw them here first.
I sent it to everyone - rush, levin, breitbart, facebook, etc.
This is way worse than last night.
“Getting to know you. Getting to know all about you..”
Obama has to be so low now, he can’t see it getting worse.
Seems that the magic has died and the cover up artists can’t keep up with the information that is coming forth.
It’s almost like an orchestrated movement to release one piece of informative history every day.
Let’s hope it continues and that it can go lower for Obama.
Undiluted Marxism, straight up with a racism chaser.
The human rot of the inner cities can be laid at the feet of LBJ; Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton; etc..
The horrific waste of lives, talents and treasure is directly caused by their actions the last 50 years to keep racial hatred and blame alive.
Black Americans would be mostly like anyone else by now had these cretins not been pushing their agendas. They have fanned the hatred and giving people an excuse to be failures. Very detestable.
The whole issue just wouldn't exist.
as long and social security and medicare taxes dont count
The clip is alive and well on the link to the actual article. For late night (here in Israel) perusal.
I don't know where to pick one up, but I imagine that he's got his own "vanguard elite" card. Comes in handy in a revolution.
‘.. maybe those gov. agencies buying all those guns and ammo ...’
there is something VERY PECULIAR about various govt agencies buying a lot of ammo but no reasonable explanations and hasn’t received much coverage. Scary.
Yes... who controls it and how much people have and who gets the most.
LLS
hasn’t received much coverage
Communist media? (msm)
Do they mean white people when they say rich people?
Ya want it stopped?
Then ya better stop the tens of hundreds of thousands of government employee bureaucrats/cops/fire/city/county and federal parasites who retire in their early 50s and receive tax paid lottery style retirement benefits, and don't forget those gold plated tax paid his and hers heath benefits.
“I firmly believe we would pretty much have racial integration by now in America; if not for the race hustling poverty pimps of the last 50 years.”
If the races were integrated then where would be the “cultural diversity”?
“The human rot of the inner cities....”
It’s not rot. It’s diversity. You know. Like the Obama phone woman. I’m O.K. you’re O.k. Pay no attention to the ignorance on display. It’s culture!
“Black Americans would be mostly like anyone else by now...”
IMHO. No they wouldn’t. As a matter of fact that’s a pretty racist statement. “They” expect US to become “Them”
Getting to know you. Getting to know all about you..
More to follow I’m sure...how about some videos of Obama as a community instigator? Those would be priceless.
“It’s got electrolytes!”
He panders to those who don't want to work, but choose welfare as a career.
He fires them up by invoking violence.
Barry is a rich person that isn’t for nonviolence.
manc,
I’m with you word for word.
A ‘previous’ friend said she was Democrat all the way, believes in their values.
I asked what values.
She said they’re against abortion and gay marriage. That is worse than thinking Sarah Palin is Obamas running mate! I’ve heard that one too.
Another one (I have a lot of previous friends), whose husband ‘didn’t start his business on his own’ (ha) and is a devout Catholic, said she has to vote Democrat, even when I told her about “God” not being on their platform. Her husband doesn’t like Mormons. So I guess they would just rather shoot themselves in the foot than be for the Constitution.
Well, I should probably get down to the shooting range, after many years out of practice, and decide which Bible to tote around in purse.
I’ve decided that we have free will so God can have a laugh at Christians (rather, purportedly Christians) who freely give their will over to tyrants.
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