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President Obama's Disasterous Record on Race

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Every time an officer of any race used lethal force against a black suspect, most of them ruled justifiable, Black Lives Matter cast it as another example of privilege and white supremacy. BLM harassed bewildered customers at malls and brunches, and regularly blocked traffic on major freeways. Concerned Student 1959 tried to shut down the University of Missouri as Amherst Uprising did the same for their school.

Did Obama comment on the widespread racial unrest wracking his country? Occasionally. But each time he used his “on the one hand, but on the other” formulation that defines himself as the moral fulcrum amidst the madness. The President didn’t mention that his fingerprints were all over the riots.

Before getting into politics, Barack Obama was a community organizer. This anodyne term was created by Chicago leftist Saul Alinsky who created the position to “rub raw the sores of discontent.” Many thought Obama’s moderate sounding speeches meant he had tossed Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals in the dustbin. Instead, upon entering the White House, Obama created Organizing for Action, which has trained 5 million Americans in Alinsky tactics.

Occupy Wall Street, Wisconsin’s anti-Walker protests, and Black Lives Matter didn’t arise of their own accord. They were the bitter fruit intentionally cultivated by OfA.

More disturbingly, Obama’s goal to “fundamentally transform America” is far from over. In his farewell speech, Obama repeatedly stressed the need for the crowd to “lace up your shoes and do some organizing.”
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If Obama had wanted racial healing, he would have pursued racial healing.

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Thanks, Obama.

https://ricochet.com/403128/president-obamas-disastrous-record-race/
 
Obama had to avoid being seen as favoring blacks so he had to do pretty much what he did to do your post is dishonest
 
If you notice now that the election is over, and George Soros has pulled funding, they have pretty much vanished.

BLM was the "willing idiots" who were just another part of the Soros "Open Society" operation.
 
Race relations are the worst I've ever seen in my lifetime. Obama didn't heal anything - he stirred the pot.
 
katzgar said:
You are posting just to demonize Obama
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I don't think Obama is evil, so no ... I'm not "demonizing" him. He healed nothing - he did the exact opposite.
 
Josie said:
Race relations are the worst I've ever seen in my lifetime. Obama didn't heal anything - he stirred the pot.
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LOL, must be a young or naive one then.
 
katzgar said:
Obama had to avoid being seen as favoring blacks so he had to do pretty much what he did to do your post is dishonest
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So your thesis is that Obama is a slave to circumstance?
 
katzgar said:
more dezinformatsiya
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You seemed to be saying that he really, really wanted to produce an outcome that he did not produce.

Do you blame him and his skills and/or talents or the circumstances in which he failed?

The measure of many great men is taken by the adversities that he is able to overcome and is revered by those of us that live the average life.

These are the men like King, Churchill, Spartacus, Jesus and Ghandi. There are obviously 1000's more.

This is the kind of spirit that drove them:

<snip>
"Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul. "
<snip>
Invictus
BY WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY

If Obama failed to achieve what he said he was trying to achieve and he actually tried to achieve it, then he is the slave to circumstance.

If Obama failed to achieve what he said he was trying to achieve and he was actually working to achieve something else, then he was victorious in his effort.

So, which was it? Did he lie and succeed or tell the truth and fail?

I anxiously await your next linguistic perversion.
 
code1211 said:
You seemed to be saying that he really, really wanted to produce an outcome that he did not produce.

Do you blame him and his skills and/or talents or the circumstances in which he failed?

The measure of many great men is taken by the adversities that he is able to overcome and is revered by those of us that live the average life.

These are the men like King, Churchill, Spartacus, Jesus and Ghandi. There are obviously 1000's more.

This is the kind of spirit that drove them:

<snip>
"Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul. "
<snip>
Invictus
BY WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY

If Obama failed to achieve what he said he was trying to achieve and he actually tried to achieve it, then he is the slave to circumstance.

If Obama failed to achieve what he said he was trying to achieve and he was actually working to achieve something else, then he was victorious in his effort.

So, which was it? Did he lie and succeed or tell the truth and fail?

I anxiously await your next linguistic perversion.
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making things up re: what i say is a classic kremlin basement ploy
 
Josie said:
Race relations are the worst I've ever seen in my lifetime. Obama didn't heal anything - he stirred the pot.
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Did he make it better, probably not, did those on the right (yes race relations is a double edged sword) help matters. The is an old say, it takes two to tango, and in this case both dancers were on the floor, meaning no one has clean hands. So how well do you think trump will do on making race relations better, I think we know the answer to that one already. Hang on the ride is going to be very bumpy.
 
chuckiechan said:
If you notice now that the election is over, and George Soros has pulled funding, they have pretty much vanished.

BLM was the "willing idiots" who were just another part of the Soros "Open Society" operation.
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BLM is part of the group threatening to disrupt the inauguration.
 
katzgar said:
Obama had to avoid being seen as favoring blacks so he had to do pretty much what he did to do your post is dishonest
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If he had to be seen as not favoring blacks then he blundered several times. His favoritism of blacks was evident in his response to the Cambridge cops affair, the Trayvon Martin case, the Ferguson situation, etc., and his lack of response to a number of tragedies involving whites.

Just because a post makes a black man look bad does not mean it's dishonest. Organization for Action is Obama's creation. Its purpose is to train progressive organizers, people who go out and get people upset about their problems. Poor race relations is a direct result of that, there is no denying it. If there has been any positive result from all this agitation I can't find it.

Instead of teaching people to rely on themselves and solve their own problems OfA teaches them to demand someone else solve their problems for them.
 
LowDown said:
If he had to be seen as not favoring blacks then he blundered several times. His favoritism of blacks was evident in his response to the Cambridge cops affair, the Trayvon Martin case, the Ferguson situation, etc., and his lack of response to a number of tragedies involving whites.

Just because a post makes a black man look bad does not mean it's dishonest. Organization for Action is Obama's creation. Its purpose is to train progressive organizers, people who go out and get people upset about their problems. Poor race relations is a direct result of that, there is no denying it. If there has been any positive result from all this agitation I can't find it.

Instead of teaching people to rely on themselves and solve their own problems OfA teaches them to demand someone else solve their problems for them.
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your idea of a blunder is another persons idea of leadership.
 
katzgar said:
your idea of a blunder is another persons idea of leadership.
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Who's the other person? Sheila Jackson Lee?

But seriously, if Obama wanted to get racial groups at each other's throats as a way of effecting change, then it has a certain amount of logic from the standpoint of a political activist. But that's not what people were hoping for when they elected him.
 
LowDown said:
Who's the other person? Sheila Jackson Lee?

But seriously, if Obama wanted to get racial groups at each other's throats as a way of effecting change, then it has a certain amount of logic from the standpoint of a political activist. But that's not what people were hoping for when they elected him.
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the idea you have a clue as to what people hoped for is absurd
 
Jack Hays said:
Cornel West has jumped ship.

Pity the Sad Legacy of Barack Obama
Cornel West, The Guardian
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I think he hasn't jumped ship at all. Setting aside the numerous dishonest inferences in the piece and failure to put things into proper context, his thesis seems to condemn Obama for not being progressive enough and thereby making the disaster that is Donald Trump possible. I can look back over the last eight years and find a lot of things that Obama got right, but it sure wasn't his 'not being progressive enough' that put Donald Trump in office. If he had been more progressive, the GOP might have super majorities in both the House and Senate but the overall popular vote would remain unaffected. :)

As for race relations, the most recent Pew assessment doesn't find a strong consensus anywhere overall, but what raised my eyebrows re this particular piece is how different it is from most polls/assessments you see these days. As Pew is considered to be one of the more reliable polling organizations, I don't really have an opinion about that, but it did make me curious.

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Views of race relations | Pew Research Center
 
katzgar said:
Obama had to avoid being seen as favoring blacks so he had to do pretty much what he did to do your post is dishonest
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Too bad he did not do that for terrorists.
 
AlbqOwl said:
I think he hasn't jumped ship at all. Setting aside the numerous dishonest inferences in the piece and failure to put things into proper context, his thesis seems to condemn Obama for not being progressive enough and thereby making the disaster that is Donald Trump possible. I can look back over the last eight years and find a lot of things that Obama got right, but it sure wasn't his 'not being progressive enough' that put Donald Trump in office. If he had been more progressive, the GOP might have super majorities in both the House and Senate but the overall popular vote would remain unaffected. :)

As for race relations, the most recent Pew assessment doesn't find a strong consensus anywhere overall, but what raised my eyebrows re this particular piece is how different it is from most polls/assessments you see these days. As Pew is considered to be one of the more reliable polling organizations, I don't really have an opinion about that, but it did make me curious.

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Views of race relations | Pew Research Center
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West is dumping on Obama's record.
 
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