by Jack
Those of us, who are evenly remotely paying attention surely have reasoned that President Obama has quite a bit of racial bias and it’s manifested itself in some strange and unexpected ways. Which we’ll get into a moment, but Obama is a good democrat and many of today’s democrats hold some pretty racially charged notions too. (Birds of a feather)
Racism and liberalism are both based in a lot of emotion wrapped in utopian idealism. How else can you explain liberal support for so many foolish things that have been tried, failed, repackaged and tried again, and again, and again?
What better example could there be than socialism? There’s a world class failure! Obama and a disturbing number of dems have embraced socialist “reforms” and none were more costly than ObamaCare. Socialism = Paying MORE and getting less and it follows that Obamacare = paying more and getting less because its socialism to the core! But, I digress.
Oh, I could trot out a list longer than you might care to read of all the racist things Obama has done over the last 7 years. But, let me cite just one, Trayvon Martin. Have you ever seen a president insert himself faster on a low level crime and then pronounce judgement any quicker than since the bad old days of the KKK?
You can say that’s old news, but there’s a lot of similar events just like that doosey and when they are all taken as whole, they add up to one thing, we’ve got a racist in the White House.
Ferguson, Mo. Baltimore, PA, Cambridge, Mass. Chicago, Ill., Sanford, Fl., they all have something in common…victims of the great divider and they strong opinions about Mr. Obama’s racist bias. And his wife in right in there with him. Liberals are the ones that claim conservatives are racists. But what must they think of First lady Michelle Obama who spoke at an event hosted by Black Entertainment Television (BET), proclaiming “Black girls rock!” Turn that around and imagine Laura Bush on Fox News saying, “White girls rock!” How offensive would that be?
“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society’s stifling conventions. We weren’t indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated.
But this strategy alone couldn’t provide the distance I wanted, from Joyce or my past. After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerant. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.” — Barack Obama
Ben Stein claims Barack Obama is the most racist president in our history. “What the White House is trying to do is racialize all politics and they’re especially trying to tell the African-American voter that the GOP is against letting them have a chance at a good life in this economy, and that’s just a complete lie,” the conservative author said on Fox News’
Being emotional and saying things we regret is a human condition. We’ve all been there, but few of us outside the circles of say “black militants” have been there as often as President Obama. Barrack Obama is an eloquent and well rehearsed speaker. So, its hard to excuse him for saying things that smack of racial bias. He knew what (emotional) buttons to push during his election and now as president he continues to do it, again it to his own personal advantage, even though its divided the nation. And what good has come from any of it?
His twisted perception of racism has caused him to proclaim our entire criminal justice system need fixing because too many blacks are being incarcerated! Okay, blacks are overrepresented by four to five hundred percent in various categories of crime, so the first conclusion must be is the system is broke? This has caused major row between Obama and American police officers, including the FBI and DOJ.
However, this was an easy to sell to black voters because there is no personal accountability here, it’s the systems fault, period. Somehow all their ill are all connected to white racism. To a liberal this sounds about right. Heck, look at the history of black oppression, we’ve got several hundred years of it. Black slavery goes back to our very foundation, so why shouldn’t racism play a large part in black incarceration? A fair question too.
The widely held assumption by Obama and his liberal followers is blacks are over represented in the system because they were, (pick one or more): Falsely accused, couldn’t get a fair trial, jurors were racist, judges were racists, cops were racists, etc…. and therefore the system was and is stacked against blacks! And if you need more ammunition to support this conspiracy charge, black defendants often have little or no financial clout. So, the assumption is they rarely get a fair trial like wealthier whites defendants. But, hey, hey, hey, when they do, well, they turn the system upside down like they did in the O. J. Simpson trial! Allegedly, that trial exposed a corrupt and racist LAPD, but what it really exposed is how deep racism can run, even among jurors.
There are a few other areas worth the president’s attention, but oddly he never mentioned them. A quick glance thru social service statistics suggests blacks might be overrepresented in the criminal justice system because they are caught up in epidemic substance abuse, teen pregnancies, child abuse, absentee fathers, and reckless life choices. Now add that stuff to Obama’s side and you’re getting closer to the truth. Maybe the system needs tweaking, but its far from being broke!
Unfortunately for us, it’s far easier to sell racism than responsibility and accountability and who better to do the selling than Barack Obama. He was just the wrong guy at the wrong time to become president. But, we’re a resilient people and we’ll recover… in time.
Brilliant. Truthful. Agonizing.
The most disgusting thing this president has done is create division and rancor in our society, most of it based on lies and misrepresentation of facts. The American people are not systemically bigoted and police officers are not killing blacks indiscriminately. The poor and middle classes are not economically challenged because rich people have too much of the pie. This is a great deceit used to gain personal power.
Agonizing indeed. How can people be so incredibly blind to the obvious nature of this man?
Jack: “Oh, I could trot out a list longer than you might care to read of all the racist things Obama has done over the last 7 years. But, let me cite just one, Trayvon Martin. Have you ever seen a president insert himself faster on a low level crime and pronounce judgement any quicker, since the days of the KKK?”
Obama did NOT “pronounce judgement” in the Trayvon Martin case. He raised the idea that the shooting *may* have been racially motivated–an idea that everyone had, at that point, already been discussing–but he never made any statement about whether Zimmerman was guilty or innocent in his mind.
You already know this. What you are doing here is called lying, Jack. And it’s wrong. It also hurts your entire article; the very first example of “racism” by Obama you bring up never actually happened, so why should anyone believe the rest of what you wrote?
It was hardly improper of Obama to raise the idea that the shooting may have been racially motivated. According to the FBI, anti-black hate crimes make up nearly a third of all hate crimes, at 2,371 victims reported in 2013. No other group even comes close to that number.
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2013/tables/1tabledatadecpdf/table_1_incidents_offenses_victims_and_known_offenders_by_bias_motivation_2013.xls
“And his wife in right in there with him. Liberals are the ones that claim conservatives are racists. But what must they think of First lady Michelle Obama who spoke at an event hosted by Black Entertainment Television (BET), proclaiming “Black girls rock!” Turn that around and imagine Laura Bush on Fox News saying, “White girls rock!” How offensive would that be?”
This analogy pretends that historical context doesn’t exist.
In America, black people as a group have been put down, shamed, and deemed inferior for who they are. This has not happened with white people. Yelling “Black pride” has a very different contextual meaning than yelling “White pride.” This is obvious. Everyone knows this, and everyone knows why; sometimes some white people pretend not to know why, in order to be willfully obtuse, the same way they sometimes pretend to think that “Why isn’t there a white history month?” and “Why aren’t there straight pride parades?” are valid questions that they don’t already know the answers to perfectly well.
Why do people pretend this way? Well, because they see racial strife as a political game, not a real thing that effects real people. Because it’s never affected them, and their primary experience of racism is hearing about it from the media, not encountering it in daily life. And because they’re privileged enough not to have to experience it, they think it’s made up, and only brought up for attention, and they’re tired of hearing about it. So sometimes they engage in the game and claim anti-white racism whenever anti-black racism is brought up.
You know, just like you did in this article.
RE: Your quote from Obama’s autobiography: I wish I could sit you down in my eighth grade classroom and teach you about tone. Obama is clearly criticizing his past beliefs in that passage, not articulating his current beliefs. This is made more clear by the surrounding context, which you took out to make him look like a racist, but it’s still pretty clear to any critical reader of that passage. But you’re not reading critically, you’re reading looking for things to misconstrue and attack. You’re being politically correct, in other words.
“Ben Stein claims Barack Obama is the most racist president in our history.”
Then Ben Stein is an idiot. More racist than Andrew Jackson? More racist than Wilson? Hell, more racist than any president who owned actual slaves?
Stein might mean that Obama is the most anti-white racist (which is also ridiculous), but if that’s what he meant, than he’s saying anti-white racism is the only type of racism that matters. Which seems to be the position of too many conservatives these days.
“He knew what (emotional) buttons to push during his election and now as president he continues to do it, again it to his own personal advantage, even though its divided the nation. And what good has come from any of it?”
Police in many states are seriously considering body cams. Police brutality and mistreatment of minority communities has been investigated and exposed in many communities, including Ferguson. Even conservatives are talking about ending the drug war. These are good things.
Obama’s words pointing out racism has not divided the country. Actual racism divides the country. Your argument amounts to “If we don’t talk about it, it can’t hurt us.” Well, sure; it can’t hurt you, because your only experience of racism is hearing about it from the media. It effects minorities every single day in this country. You just don’t like hearing about it.
“There are a few other areas worth the president’s attention, but oddly he never mentioned them. A quick glance thru social service statistics suggests blacks might be overrepresented in the criminal justice system because they are caught up in epidemic substance abuse, teen pregnancies, child abuse, absentee fathers, and reckless life choices.”
Obama has discussed literally every single one of these issues, and has called for the black community to take responsibility for them. You don’t listen.
Re : “Even conservatives are talking about ending the drug war. These are good things.”
So says the drug addled stooge.
Out of everything, that’s what you chose to respond to? And you chose to respond to it in that way?
You could do so much better, Pie.
The real secret of Bernie Sanders’ success
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/6/monica-crowley-the-secret-of-bernie-sanders-succes/#.VwaWioHWdGw.twitter
Just pick from what works?
Good advice if you can see what works. Obama doesn’t. And he’s too stubbornly tied to his roots, his ideology and his biases to learn.
Remember all the garbage thrown at Bush before the surge? He was stubborn and wouldn’t change course. Has anyone in seven and a half years asked the same of Obama? Not that I’ve heard…not on the war, not on the economy. In fact he isn’t really challenged seriously at all.
Good article. Saw Monica on Fox Business this AM…glad you shared!
Required reading —
This will help you to understand Chris.
Celebrating a Century of Advocacy Masquerading as Education Research
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433744/education-research-radical-politics
Sorry Pie, I don’t do “advocacy” in the classroom. My kids are taught to think for themselves. They had a debate on the minimum wage today; the con side won.
I’m not sure why you assume that the way I argue politics with adults on a political blog would be the same way I talk to students in a classroom. I don’t assume that you’re this much of a belligerent jerk in your real life, so can you stop making assumptions about mine?
Surprise, surprise, police officers go into dangerous neighborhoods where black people are killing each other and committing crimes…when resisted, sometimes in life threatening ways by people who are filled with attitude, drunk or drug addled, they meet force with force to contain the situation! How incredibly brutish!
Liberals are ridiculous.
The President spoke after the Trayvon Martin verdict. He said things that were positive. But for every positive point a caveat hung in the air. His position is that black people can’t move on:
Whenever we see dysfunction excuses are poison to overcoming that dysfunction. Obama teaches that black people are entitled to hold a grudge in perpetuity and the rest of us just have to understand that. In other words white people living today who had nothing to do with the past, have to take whatever black people dish out.
Not only does this context create division, it creates division that can never be resolved. It also conveniently denies certain historical truths that if considered would do a lot to create healing and unity. Black history is not all that clean and lily white.
Wikipedia, White Slave Trade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade“>wikipedia, Barbary Salve Trade
Black people should never think they are alone, special or separate. They should know the full history and not just the history that supports a sense of victim-hood. And they definitely need strong men and women in their neighborhoods who can put the family and discipline and morals and respect for authority back into the community. That’s something they’ve lost and it hasn’t served them at all.
Tina: “Whenever we see dysfunction excuses are poison to overcoming that dysfunction. Obama teaches that black people are entitled to hold a grudge in perpetuity and the rest of us just have to understand that. In other words white people living today who had nothing to do with the past, have to take whatever black people dish out.”
That’s an extremely inaccurate, self-centered reading of the quote you cited.
Amazing Pie.
seriously?
Epic Fail!
This tired old Spin is a waste of time.
Try real issues …..
Dewey, my position is as serious as a heart attack. The left is murdering all real opportunity for black people, feeding into the community problems they have, and pretending to be their saviors. It’s the ugliest thing I’ve ever witnessed in my years following politics. So bug off, Dewey!
Thanks for sharing Chris.