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Obama: if you were fine with big government until it served black people, rethink your biases
The Atlantic via Vox ^ | December 13, 2016 | The Atlantic via German Lopez

Posted on 12/13/2016 8:00:47 PM PST by ErikJohnsky

Here’s some real talk from President Barack Obama, taken from his conversations with Ta-Nehisi Coates at the Atlantic:

I’m careful not to attribute any particular resistance or slight or opposition to race. But what I do believe is that if somebody didn’t have a problem with their daddy being employed by the federal government, and didn’t have a problem with the Tennessee Valley Authority electrifying certain communities, and didn’t have a problem with the interstate highway system being built, and didn’t have a problem with the GI Bill, and didn’t have a problem with the [Federal Housing Administration] subsidizing the suburbanization of America, and that all helped you build wealth and create a middle class — and then suddenly as soon as African Americans or Latinos are interested in availing themselves of those same mechanisms as ladders into the middle class, you now have a violent opposition to them — then I think you at least have to ask yourself the question of how consistent you are, and what’s different, and what’s changed..

Obama’s basic argument: If you didn’t have a problem with big federal government services until black and brown people began clearly to benefit from them, maybe it’s time to rethink your biases.

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


TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: 0bama; obama; racialism; racism
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1 posted on 12/13/2016 8:00:47 PM PST by ErikJohnsky
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To: ErikJohnsky

Barry Hussein Obama is the most racist President in the history of this nation. More racist than Woodrow Wilson, James Buchanan, and other Democrat gems!


2 posted on 12/13/2016 8:01:18 PM PST by ErikJohnsky
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To: ErikJohnsky

Shouldn’t this malignant fraud be in prison? What a racist.


3 posted on 12/13/2016 8:02:40 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: ErikJohnsky

I guess he never heard (was probably too busy snorting coke and helping deadbeats cheat lenders) but the era of big government ended in the 1990s.

Bill Clinton said so.


4 posted on 12/13/2016 8:03:09 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
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To: ErikJohnsky

Racism goes both ways. The Black Panthers, NAACP, Black congressional congress, KKK, La Raza, are all racist groups. No difference.


5 posted on 12/13/2016 8:05:56 PM PST by buffyt (January 20, 2017!)
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To: ErikJohnsky

His logic, or lack thereof, is truly mind-boggling. These are thoughts of a radical human being who has been subjected to a lifetime of socialist indoctrination. He doesn’t understand Americans cause he never was one.


6 posted on 12/13/2016 8:06:06 PM PST by SteveinSATX (Anti-liberalism 24/7)
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To: ErikJohnsky

He is going to be the most outspoken, unhinged, divisive ex prez ever. And ... and a hole while he does it.


7 posted on 12/13/2016 8:06:55 PM PST by laxcoach (Government is greedy. Taxpayers who want their own money are not greedy.)
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To: ErikJohnsky

wow..

so much..

lets take this one at a time:

Tennessee Valley Authority electrifying certain communities - that helped everyone in those area not just those too lazy to work.

and didn’t have a problem with the interstate highway system being built - again that helped everyone, not just those too lazy to work.

, and didn’t have a problem with the GI Bill - that was a benefit to those that “earned” it risking their lives for our country and was well deserved and again was available to everyone.

, and didn’t have a problem with the [Federal Housing Administration] subsidizing the suburbanization of America - again that helped everyone, not just those too lazy to work.

And the fact of the matter is Mr. Almost Ex-President that more WHITES than blacks use welfare. Opposition to coddling those to lazy to work is not based on race it is based on knowing human nature. ie. that if you pay someone not to work... many will not work.

But thanks for again making everything about race Mr Almost Ex-President.


8 posted on 12/13/2016 8:07:02 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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I’m confused——I thought blacks were eligible for the GI bill and used interstates and electricity.

Obama thinks they were a white thing???????????????

.


9 posted on 12/13/2016 8:07:31 PM PST by Mears
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To: ErikJohnsky

Keep stirring the pot...


10 posted on 12/13/2016 8:08:30 PM PST by LucyT
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To: ErikJohnsky

How about this : FDR should have been run out of DC on a rail, tarred a feathered, along with the treacherous progressives and sellout Justices the moment they consummated their high handed lawlessness.


11 posted on 12/13/2016 8:09:31 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Mears

There are a lot of blacks on the interstates who don’t know it’s illegal! And they probably are using electricity for the Internets, too.
/s


12 posted on 12/13/2016 8:12:21 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: TexasFreeper2009

You said it well.

People of all races and background, benefited from all of these programs he mentioned.

Is he implying that blacks were bypassed when rural electrification brought power to rural America?

Is he implying that blacks were not allowed to drive cars on interstate highways?

What the heck is he trying to say????

What is his point??

Or does he have no point, but just doing stream of consciousness rambling????


13 posted on 12/13/2016 8:12:36 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ErikJohnsky

Dear Mr. President,

Go **** yourself.

Nothing but love,

L


14 posted on 12/13/2016 8:12:46 PM PST by Lurker (America burned the witch.)
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To: Rurudyne

Works For Me!!


15 posted on 12/13/2016 8:13:41 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: ErikJohnsky

Shut up already and go away O.


16 posted on 12/13/2016 8:16:17 PM PST by funfan
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To: ErikJohnsky
This stupid POS is such a RACIST, and blinded by his hate of whitey, that it is unbelievable how many even STUPIDER whites voted for him....TWICE.

This nation has actually NEVER been this divided, not even before and during the Civil War and it's all Obama's fault!

And for a whole LOT of generations of GOP voting Conservatives, LESS/SMALLER GOVERNMENT has ALWAYS been what we want/ed and it has NOTHING to do with race.

17 posted on 12/13/2016 8:16:26 PM PST by nopardons
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To: ErikJohnsky

Yes, he is and that’s really saying something!


18 posted on 12/13/2016 8:17:07 PM PST by nopardons
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To: LucyT

Sounds more like he’s smoking it, again.


19 posted on 12/13/2016 8:19:06 PM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: ErikJohnsky

>>>I’m careful not to attribute any particular resistance or slight or opposition to race.<<<

Now that’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are - that is really funny.


20 posted on 12/13/2016 8:19:18 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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