Posted on 01/10/2024 5:35:44 AM PST by SJackson
At the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama said: “There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America… We are one people…”
After announcing his candidacy for president, Sen. Obama appeared on “60 Minutes”:
“60 Minutes”: “You think the country’s ready for a black president?”
Obama: “Yes.”
“60 Minutes”: “You don’t think it’s going to hold you back?”
Obama: “No. I think if I don’t win this race, it will be because of other factors. It will be because I have not shown the American people a vision for where the country needs to go that they can embrace.”
Polls offered support for Obama’s optimism. The 2008 principal primary candidates for the Republicans were Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. For Democrats, the candidates were Obama and Hillary Clinton. A 2007 Gallup poll found that 42% of Americans said they would not vote for someone of McCain’s age. Twenty-four percent said they would not vote for a Mormon, Romney’s religion. As for Clinton, 11% said they would not vote for a woman. Just 5% said they would not vote for a black person.
Shortly after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an optimistic Rev. Martin Luther King said, “Frankly, I have seen certain changes in the United States over the last two years that have surprised me.” He said, “We might be able to get a Negro president in less than forty years.”
Fast forward to 2008. Even those who voted against Obama nevertheless felt his victory made a profound statement about the country. Polls showed both blacks and whites expected “race relations” to improve. But after Obama’s eight years in office, both blacks and whites thought race relations got worse. What happened?
From the beginning of Obama’s presidency until its end, the man America’s considered a unifier played one race card after another. He enraged American law enforcement by falsely accusing a white Cambridge police officer of “acting stupidly.” He implied the officer was racially motivated when he gave to a reasonable and lawful order to a black Harvard professor, who resisted it. When black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman, Obama said, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” The jury found the defendant not guilty, and the jurors said race played no role in the encounter. But Obama, who later embraced Black Lives Matter, again advanced the false narrative of anti-black “systemic racism.” Never mind studies showing cops more reluctant, more hesitant to pull the trigger on a black suspect than a white suspect.
In an interview, the man who said he would not blame race if he lost the election said: “The legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives — you know, that casts a long shadow, and that’s still part of our DNA that’s passed on. We’re not cured of it. … Racism — we are not cured of it.” Obama invited the race-hustling Al Sharpton to the White House over 70 times.
Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder complained of America’s “pernicious racism,” giving as an example voter ID. In Obama’s second term, a black man motivated by the Obama-promoted police anti-black narrative murdered two NYPD cops as they sat in their squad car. In Baton Rouge, another black man driven by the same narrative ambushed and murdered three police officers. In Dallas, another black man influenced by this narrative ambushed and murdered five police officers.
There is a straight line between Obama’s rhetoric and the months of the deadly, costly 2020 Black Lives Matter/George Floyd protests. Never mind that the lead prosecutor, a black man, never argued the officer-defendant was racially motivated, and the officer was not charged with a hate crime.
Obama, post-presidency, still fans the flames of race and identity division. Less than two years ago, the man America hired as a uniter said: “I have little sympathy for reactionaries who cynically condemn identity politics or cancel culture when really all they’re doing is trying to preserve existing privilege or excuse entrenched injustice, or bigotry.”
Thanks, Obama.
Barry’s just one stooge.
Deep State has a lot of minions ginning up games of lets-you-and-him-fight.
Americans loyal to our former republic need to stop playing along.
We have one enemy: Deep State.
Fundamentally changed an America that didn’t want (or need) to get changed.
He was the wrong black president. Actually he was half white. There are many black men and women that I would like.
Multiculturalism.
because there are NOT equal rights for ALL!!!
only for liberals!
If you are white, straight, a Republican, a male, a US citizen, a Christian or even a Jew now. Your rights don’t matter and are not protected, but are in fact persecuted because of it!
The left has perverted government into the worst form of institutional racism against nearly everyone not far left.
The “Sage from South Central”!
Old Jug Ears takes his marching orders for Soros and all.
He isn’ smart enough on his own to come up with this BS.
He, along with Georgie Boy, should be arrested and deported.
Better yet, ship one back to Kenya and the other to Putin....LOL
I no longer know many people younger than 40, and everyone I know is reasonably educated and intelligent.
'Course, everyone I know is ALSO a MAGA Republican, so . . . .
Discontented ADULTS never learned some lessons they SHOULD have when they were younger.
democrats merely use to manipulate those government indoctrinated people.
setting one group against another is as old as history, divide and conquer.
I still remember Barack saying, during the campaign, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” and no one challenged that by asking “What do you mean by that?”
I also remember Michelle saying “For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback,”
It seems to me they are getting ready for Barack’s fourth term as President so he can finish destroying this Republic via Michelle.
Divide and conquer.
It’s all part of the plan for the destruction of America.
Is her seriously asking the question?
He is definitely one tool in the toolbox
Content of character ALERT!
Obama always has questions never answers stupidity causes it.
The black Jimmy Carter proved his lousy worth twice.
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