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We should have seen Trump coming (2008 Obama nostalgia)
The Manchester Guardian ^ | September 29, 2017 | Ta-Nehisi Coates

Posted on 09/28/2017 10:49:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

I have often wondered how I missed the coming tragedy. It is not so much that I should have predicted that Americans would elect Donald Trump. It’s just that I shouldn’t have put it past us. It was tough to keep track of the currents of politics and pageantry swirling at once. All my life I had seen myself, and my people, backed into a corner. Had I been wrong? Watching the crowds at county fairs cheer for Michelle Obama in 2008, or flipping through the enchanting photo spreads of the glamorous incoming administration, it was easy to believe that I had been.

And it was more than symbolic. Barack Obama’s victory meant not just a black president but also that Democrats, the party supported by most black people, enjoyed majorities in Congress. Prominent intellectuals were predicting that modern conservatism – a movement steeped in white resentment – was at its end and that a demographic wave of Asians, Latinos and blacks would sink the Republican party.

Back in the summer of 2008, as Obama closed out the primary and closed in on history, vendors in Harlem hawked T-shirts emblazoned with his face and posters placing him in the black Valhalla where Martin, Malcolm and Harriet were throned. It is hard to remember the excitement of that time, because I now know that the sense we had that summer, the sense that we were approaching an end-of-history moment, proved to be wrong.

It is not so much that I logically reasoned out that Obama’s election would author a post-racist age. But it now seemed possible that white supremacy, the scourge of American history, might well be banished in my lifetime. In those days I imagined racism as a tumour that could be isolated and removed from the body of America....

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; anticapitalism; blacks; obama; trump; waronwhites; whites; whiteymustpay
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To: WKTimpco

Modern conservatism is colour blind


21 posted on 09/29/2017 12:24:36 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Slyfox

That was just BS from Hillary. She wanted to go against Jebba the Hut. He would have taken a knee for her. She would not even have to do much campaigning then. None of those Hillary is spastic and collapsing videos would have been made.


22 posted on 09/29/2017 12:35:06 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Impy; GOPsterinMA

First commercial, if I had done that with my granny at the mall, she’d have been pissed and hit me. She almost never cracked a smile, anyhow.

Second commercial, I’d have slammed my fist on the fancy car repeatedly and shouted, “I’m walkin’ here ! I’m walkin’ here !” and jumped across the hood of the car. I reenacted that scene in “Midnight Cowboy” when I almost got struck by a car in Copley Square in Boston.

Third commercial. Dick waiter ignoring me. I was in Key West with my father and utterly parched (which was not a good thing) when we sat down at a restaurant. Waiter did nothing for a half hour and then I loudly screamed in front of the other patrons, “I’m f***ing THIRSTY ! Where’s my f***ing WATER ?” He was not happy, I could not care less. Ordinarily I know the rule not to crap on waitstaff because they could retaliate with your food, but I couldn’t believe how atrocious the service was and I was worried if I didn’t get some cool water, I’d have one of those health episodes.

Anywho, I don’t think I ever had a Mentos. I always thought those commercials were gay.


23 posted on 09/29/2017 12:56:01 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: justa-hairyape

El Jebbe just luvs his Sissy Hillary.


24 posted on 09/29/2017 12:57:30 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama was a race mongering , black power, Saul Alinsky, nationalist socialist. His method and philosophy were fascist. He meant to destroy America.He succeeded in destroying Kenya and Libya.

President Trump has saved our nation from Obama.

No one should ever forget that.

Good Read:

” The Quintessential Liberal Fascist”

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.htm


25 posted on 09/29/2017 12:58:42 AM PDT by Candor7 ( (Obama Fascism http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.htm)
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To: 4Runner

U R an Idiot.


26 posted on 09/29/2017 1:02:06 AM PDT by Bobalu (Don't give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to be freeloaders.)
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To: Bobalu; 4Runner

U R an Idiot.>>>>>>>>>>>>

I second that e-motion.


27 posted on 09/29/2017 1:15:29 AM PDT by Candor7 ( (Obama Fascism http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.htm)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The paper of choice for the chucked GOP


28 posted on 09/29/2017 1:45:40 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
And none of them are doin time.

Proof of party collusion.

29 posted on 09/29/2017 2:28:13 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (TETELESTI Read em and weep Lucy! Yer times almost up.)
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To: 4Runner

2DV, keep up the good work.


30 posted on 09/29/2017 2:55:51 AM PDT by gasport (Smash the Beast - starvation takes too long)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

>>It is not so much that I logically reasoned out that Obama’s election would author a post-racist age.

Electing a bigot with a chip on his shoulder against this nation (something he hated his whole life, raised abroad and on the knees of Communists) wasn’t going to take America to a post-racist age. He was a community organizer and that’s what he does, stirs up the hate. Look at Jesse “Hymietown” Jackass and Al “Jew them down” Sharpton.


31 posted on 09/29/2017 3:13:51 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: WKTimpco

“modern conservatism – a movement steeped in white resentment”

Projection for her own resentment and racist behavior?

She would do herself some good if she’d start acting like a blessed American and stop looking for something that’s not there.


32 posted on 09/29/2017 3:24:36 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia (#DrainTheSwamp #HeFights)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

People such as Ta-Nehisi Coates make resurrecting the concept of Liberia appealing.


33 posted on 09/29/2017 3:30:36 AM PDT by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)
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To: x1stcav

They never leave. They hate the United States so much, they believe it’s the worst place in the world with the worst people in the world ... but they never leave.

Like teenagers: “I hate you, Mom! You’ve ruined my life! Drive me to the mall!”


34 posted on 09/29/2017 4:26:55 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("What comes after diversity is the grim uniformity of Islam." ~Mark Steyn)
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To: Tax-chick

After visiting your home page I would have to admit that you know what you’re talking about when it comes to teenagers.

Good looking kids.


35 posted on 09/29/2017 4:30:42 AM PDT by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)
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To: x1stcav

” Ta-Nehisi Coates “...

That is as far as I read.....told me all I needed to know.


36 posted on 09/29/2017 4:48:27 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: x1stcav

Thank you. Four of them are presently teenagers: girls 19 and 17, boys 15 and 13.


37 posted on 09/29/2017 4:49:17 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("What comes after diversity is the grim uniformity of Islam." ~Mark Steyn)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Those 3, I like.

And this fake one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc6mAeosKa0

There’s parody gold in Mentos commercials

” Ordinarily I know the rule not to crap on waitstaff because they could retaliate with your food”

Oh, you feel a little queasy?
Do you need a diagnosis? Well the doctor’s got one.
“Your stomach seems to be filled with boogers and ***”


38 posted on 09/29/2017 5:39:49 AM PDT by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This person is an out and out racist. Everything in this article is a flat out lie. The fact is that Obama ran and we were told it was to be a “post racial America”, when in fact, the administration came in and conducted policy based off their own racism. So instead, race relations are worse 8 years later; the worst since the Rodney King riots.


39 posted on 09/29/2017 5:40:57 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The dummies CREATED Trump.


40 posted on 09/29/2017 5:44:27 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (If GOP won House, Senate and Presidency...why are the Democrats still in charge?)
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