One is known by the company one keeps.
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.
The Mouse King just keeps the lies coming...
Oh yeah?
One is known by the company one keeps.
That's something most Americans are trying to forget.
"If youse wants justis, put'cho hands up."
How Al Sharpton (an Ebonics-talkin' race hustler) Got His MSNBC Gig EXCERPT ..... in 2009, NBC was part of the General Electric family of companies. GE decided to sell a controlling stake in NBC Universal to cable giant Comcast. What stood in the way of that goal, according to the article in Washingtonian, was Washington itself — regulators and lawmakers who would have to be convinced that this move would not stifle competition. (Money exchanged hands among pols, w/ Sharpton greasing the way.) In January, 2011, Washington approved the deal. And lo and behold, Al Sharpton — who had virtually no professional broadcast experience but did have a long history of legal entanglements and ethical quandaries — landed a prime-time show on MSNBC. (Excerpt) Read more at westernjournalism.com ...
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It seems like an eternity.
Don’t believe with what’s wrong with him mentally he could have said anything different.
Skinflute.
He smokes exclusively bathouse brand skinflutes.
Amen.
And you can find out whats in it after you pass it. I can’t stomach anyone of them
The guy who has Al Sharpton as his chief advisor on race relations believes things are better racially? Excuse me while I have a laughing fit.
Even now, after all we have gone through with Obama, he still maintains a +40% approval rating. Our country and our culture has been decimated and the ignorant have prevailed.
And how.
I am surprised there are not reports across the nation of cross lightings.
No, he's just "undocumented".
Got the good stuff in the pipe this time.
This clown can’t utter any kind of pronouncement that should not be captioned: Satire.
He must have scored some really good Stuff from one of his old dealers.
I would NEVER give my car keys to Obama....NEVER!
The words turned to ashes in his mouth.
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