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Obama gets personal about race and manhood in Morehouse speech ["I'm a black man"]
Washington Post ^ | 5/19/13 | Philip Rucker

Posted on 05/19/2013 2:07:23 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

...Obama on Sunday summoned the graduates of historically black Morehouse College to “transform the way we think about manhood,” urging the young men to avoid the temptation to make excuses and to take responsibility for their families and their communities...

acknowledged that “the bitter legacies of slavery and segregation” have not vanished, that discrimination still exists.

“As Morehouse men, many of you know what it’s like to be an outsider, to be marginalized, to feel the sting of discrimination. That’s an experience that a lot of Americans share,” Obama said.

Hispanic Americans, Obama lamented, are told to “go back” home while strangers pass judgment on the parenting skills of gay men and lesbians or stare at Muslim Americans with suspicion.

Obama said that too many young black men make “bad choices.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bigot; halfwhite; obamaracecard; obamaspeech; race; racism
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1 posted on 05/19/2013 2:07:23 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Doing what he does best......... divide, divide, divide.


2 posted on 05/19/2013 2:09:31 PM PDT by hillarys cankles
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To: SoFloFreeper

He’s not even black..


3 posted on 05/19/2013 2:10:34 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Skip impeachment and move straight to deportation..)
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To: cardinal4

Nor is he a man.


4 posted on 05/19/2013 2:11:40 PM PDT by Truth2012
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To: SoFloFreeper
acknowledged that “the bitter legacies of slavery and segregation” have not vanished, that discrimination still exists.

In all seriousness, where in the United States could a black man see a more pervasive atmosphere of divisiveness and encouragement of racial segregation than at the modern college campus?

5 posted on 05/19/2013 2:13:53 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: hillarys cankles

Sorry 0, too many people have put on their big boy pants and figured you out including many of your own race. And a large segment of the population has learned to judge people on their own merits excluing race and made friends across the aisles. Oh and guess what? We’re joining together to kick your sorry excuse of a human being out of office that has nothing to do with race but your ani-American and anti-Christian ideals.


6 posted on 05/19/2013 2:18:10 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: jiggyboy
In all seriousness, where in the United States could a black man see a more pervasive atmosphere of divisiveness and encouragement of racial segregation than at the modern college campus?

In all seriousness, where in the United States could a black WHITE man see a more pervasive atmosphere of divisiveness and encouragement of racial segregation than at the modern college campus WHITE HOUSE?


7 posted on 05/19/2013 2:19:03 PM PDT by WVKayaker ("...once a bell is rung by a biased media, it's impossible to un-ring it."-Sarah Palin 11/7/12)
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To: SoFloFreeper

uh, no . . . You are a half-rican Kenyan . . .


8 posted on 05/19/2013 2:20:23 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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9 posted on 05/19/2013 2:20:33 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: SoFloFreeper
As Morehouse men, many of you know what it’s like to be an outsider ...

Why would black men feel like "outsiders" at a black university?

10 posted on 05/19/2013 2:23:49 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Sarah is right.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Yet another day in which Obama proves he’s unfit to be a pResident.....


11 posted on 05/19/2013 2:25:23 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~ I drink good wine, listen to good music and dream good dreams.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
“the bitter legacies of slavery and segregation” have not vanished, that discrimination still exists.

The sad thing is that America's first black President sees absolutely nothing wrong with fanning the flames of racial division by making such a comment.

And by the way, Slim Jim, those Hispanics that are being told to "go home" are here illegally. No one is telling legal Hispanic immigrants to go back from whence they came.

Is this guy obtuse or just plain dumb?
12 posted on 05/19/2013 2:26:48 PM PDT by SuzyQueIN
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To: SoFloFreeper
Statement: "Obama gets personal about race and manhood in Morehouse speech ["I'm a black man"]

Response: Of course he said this. All one has to do is listen to the black.

Comment: It is only the white American that is so stupid-(or degenerate, "takes yer choice!") so as to not realize race is the single most important issue of our time. No other race is deceived as to the "game" being "played!" It is for all the marbles and we are losing.

13 posted on 05/19/2013 2:29:51 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: cardinal4
he's not even black

Are we the only to people to bring that up? He's half midwestern white, and I doubt he would've gotten very far at all if he acknowedged that he was brought up primarily in that culture, except when he was Indonesian. Heck, he's not even the descendent of slaves, so there's no reason for the preferential treatment he's lavished in whenever it's convenient.

14 posted on 05/19/2013 2:30:21 PM PDT by grania
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To: SoFloFreeper
We should have expected this after Sissy Matthews spewed his vile "White Supremacy" B.S. last week.

The White House owns NBC and is cable network MSNBC.

15 posted on 05/19/2013 2:33:56 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: SoFloFreeper

He is doing this as a set-up, a prelude for the coming scandal defense that people are only targeting him because he is black. Coming this week. You heard it here first.


17 posted on 05/19/2013 2:38:44 PM PDT by Thane_Banquo ( Walker 2016)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The part I like is where he urges them to take responsibility

This from the CS’er who never takes responsibility for anything.


18 posted on 05/19/2013 2:39:02 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: SoFloFreeper

Such inspirations from the Fraud-in-Cheat that the graduates should be aware of their victim status. Always dividing America along class warfare, gender, racial and ethnic differences. What a petty tasbard phony baloney flim flam self-aggrandizing egoist.


19 posted on 05/19/2013 2:39:31 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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