Posted on 12/19/2016 9:07:58 AM PST by TigerClaws
NPR’s Steve Inskeep and President Obama (NPR)
Regardless of what President-elect Donald Trump’s plans are for immigration, President Barack Obama says there will be “inevitable” changes to the demographics of the United States.
“If you stopped all immigration today, just by virtue of birth rates, this is going to be a browner country,” Obama told NPR’s Steve Inskeep in an interview that aired Monday. “And if we’re not thinking right now about how we make sure that next generation is getting a good education and are instilled with a common creed and the values that make America so special and are cared for and nurtured and loved the way every American child is treated, then we’re not going to be as successful.”
Obama said it’s natural for the nation to have “some growing pains” because of the substantial changes to the world during his eight years in office:
I started my presidency inheriting a massive crisis of proportions that we haven’t seen since the 1930s. It laid bare some long-term and troubling trends about globalization, and technology, and rising inequality, and the fragility of our financial systems, and the way in which middle-class folks felt they were getting squeezed. And the fact that the ladders of opportunity seem to be farther and fewer between for people who are trying to get out of poverty.
And throughout that process, we also then started seeing — because when the economy’s not doing well some other tensions get laid bare — changing attitudes about sexual orientation, and about race, and about the nature of families. And all of this has been amped up by the revolution in information, throwing through social media and the Internet. And so it’s a big dose. It’s been a lot of stuff that’s been coming at people really quickly, and it’s made folks anxious.
But Obama said the national conversation about race is “long overdue.”
“All these smartphones suddenly taking pictures are not documenting a suddenly worsening relationship between the African-American community and the police,” the president said. “They are recording what has been a long-standing tension and the sense on the part of police that they’re put in a very difficult situation of trying to manage law enforcement in poor communities where guns are easily accessible, the African-American community being rightly convinced that there is a long history of racial bias in our criminal justice system.
“And as painful as it is, that conversation is long overdue,” he continued. “So, my feeling is that if everybody takes a breath, and if we can structure a conversation that is less about how somebody else is trying to take advantage of me, and structure the conversation around how can we work together to solve problems that makes everybody better off, that America can emerge stronger. But that requires leadership. It requires citizenship. It requires all of us doing self-reflection at the same time as we’re fighting on behalf of the things that we care deeply about.”
Obama said he plans to do that self-reflection after he leaves office.
“I can say, and I can demonstrate, I can document that the country is a lot better off now than it was when I took office in almost every dimension,” the president said. “But what I can also say is that we could be doing even better. There are times where I reflect and ask myself, ‘Is there’s something else I could have done, something that I could have said slightly differently that would have led to additional progress and less polarization?’ And I’ll probably, you know, as I reflect on my presidency, once I’m out of just the day-to-day scrum of this thing, I’m sure I’ll come up with a whole bunch of things to add to my list. But I think all of us have to do that.”
Obama: ‘This is going to be a browner country’
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He should know. He certainly left a brown stain everywhere he went.
The guy is a flaming racist.
Grrrrr. Every time this putrid SOB opens his mouth, he makes me angrier and angrier.
We don’t give a rat’s patootie if the country is browner, whiter, greener, or whatever. What we care about is that people are here legally, and that the immigration policies about who we allow in legally are SANE and BEST FOR THE COUNTRY.
As always, that POS makes the color of people the primary consideration, not a surprise, because he views EVERYTHING through a prism of race.
The unspoken truth that Obama did not say though is that “the browner” people will be clients of the progressive, debt-laden nanny state and will be fed racial division by the oligarchs of the left, thus giving Obama hope for the future.
True, bad idea to do so.
That is the Democrat’s dream since that Leftist pin head Ted Kennedy spearheaded the demographic shift from Europeans to Third World countries in his immigration reform act. It bolstered the number of dependents on welfare, guaranteeing more Democrat votes.
Look at CA,where millions of immigrants, legal and illegals, voted for Clinton. Republicans stayed home because their votes don’t matter anymore and they no longer run for office because it’s a waste of timeand money, an exercise in futility. If Pres. Trump does not crack down on ALL immigration, we will all be like CA.
Browner ???
Oh, poo...
Yep. Better. More like Mexico, Syria and Nigeria. A nice combo thereof.
It looks like he is saying kill whitey. Yep he is.
Unfortunately the brown people in our country are being subsidized to have children out of wedlock. It is one of their main sources of income and needs to be cut off. The middle class whites are paying the bills for other people’s kids and can no longer afford their own.
The Balkanization of America continues.
A more realistic appraisal being a Third World conquest of a degenerate West.
Browner does not change the Constitution unless the people amend it to change it. Browner is not bad if legal immigrants are vetted and believe in the United States system of government. Both sentences go against the Brown man who has been occupying the White House. He changed things in a non legislative way and does not believe in this system of government, and definitive proof of his birth and background have yet to be revealed.
These people are ANXIOUS to turn this country the way of Detroit.
Detroit was a great great city ... it turned ‘browner’ too. What did that ‘browner’ culture do to that great city?
- the same thing that cancer does to a human body.
The problem is, Obama and his fellow travellers believe a conversation consists of them bellowing from a bellhorn into our ears and we just sit there and say nothing in response.
Hey Barry, your fundamental transformation is going to be reversed.
Deport, deport, deport.
And stop muslim immigration.
Islam is incompatible with the Constitution.
“instilled with a common creed”
On the other hand, Planned Parenthood earns millions in grants from the federal government for the express purpose of aborting brown babies.
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