Concha: Al Sharpton Arguably Now The Most Powerful Person In America
Posted on 12/27/2014 1:40:57 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
President Obama believes that the United States is less racially divided than when he took office in 2009.
Asked in an NPR interview set to air starting Monday whether the nation is more racially divided than six years ago, Obama said "No."
"I actually think that it's probably in its day-to-day interactions less racially divided," Obama told "Morning Edition" host Steve Inskeep. Excerpts of the interview were released before broadcast by NPR.
A majority of Americans, 53 percent, believe that race relations have worsened under America's first black president, compared to 36 percent who say they have stayed the same and 9 percent who say they have improved, according to a Bloomberg Politics poll released earlier this month.
The issue of race in the United States has been a primary focus since protests erupted across the country last month following a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer in the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man, in a St. Louis suburb.
Protests and scrutiny of police tactics intensified earlier this month after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict a white police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, another unarmed black man.
Another poll released by CNN/ORC earlier this week found that 57 percent of white Americans believe few police officers, if any, treat black people differently, while only a quarter of nonwhite respondents held the same view.
The NPR interview took place Dec. 18, a day after People magazine published remarks by the president and first lady Michelle Obama saying that they themselves had experienced racial prejudice.
"I think people forget that we've lived in the White House for six years," the first lady said.
"Before that, Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs," she added.
"There's no black male my age, who's a professional, who hasn't come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn't hand them their car keys," the president said.
What a lying, conniving jerk [community organizer].
What’s Obama been smoking?
The man is a joke. It’s just not polite to point it out.
If you like whitey on the streets rioting and looting, you can keep whitey on the streets rioting and looting.
If he actually told the truth (ya I know):
Obama-” I think America is more racially divided now than it’s ever been.”
Who would be at fault?
That’s what I wanna know.
Whiskey for My Men, Beer for My Horses ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arXuLdzVfQQ
Must be nice to have a President who is a dreamer!
5. As the novelty and bustle of inaugurating the government will for some time keep the public mind in a heedless and unsettled state, let the press during this period be busy in propagating the doctrines of monarchy and aristocracy. For this purpose it will be particular useful to confound a mobbish democracy with a representative republic, that by exhibiting all the turbulent examples and enormities of the former, an odium may be thrown on the character of the latter. Review all the civil contests, convulsions, factions, broils, squabbles, bickering, black eyes, and bloody noses of ancient, middle, and modern ages; caricature them into the most frightful forms and colors that can be imagined, and unfold one scene of horrible tragedy after another till the people be made, if possible, to tremble at their own shadows.
10. “Divide and govern”
11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks.
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm
Obama is either deluded or a liar - probably both.
Race relations haven’t been so bad in fifty years.
A president totally out of touch.....
The first thing about race race he told us was, “the police acted stupidly”. This after a personal friend of his made a national case out of resisting the police.
don’t believe Anything coming out this clowns gub mint
I’m sure the question was pre-screened. Seems worried.
Delusional.
“....Obama also expressed optimism the New Year will usher in cooperation in Congress under GOP control. “Now you’ve got Republicans in a position where it’s not enough for them simply to grind the wheels of Congress to a halt and then blame me.”
http://nypost.com/2014/12/26/obama-says-us-less-racially-divided/
Insane, I say.
He and Holder have driven a deep wedge in the potential for peaceful, coexistent racial relations.
Zero takes a giant dump on the country and he calls it fudge brownies.
Concha: Al Sharpton Arguably Now The Most Powerful Person In America
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