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Barack Obama’s Tiresome Condescension Toward Black Men
Qoshe ^ | 12 Oct 2024 | Zak Cheney-Rice

Posted on 10/13/2024 8:08:22 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Before Barack Obama delivered his speech supporting Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh on Thursday, he made a more intimate appearance at the Harris-Walz campaign offices in the city’s East Liberty neighborhood. “Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives or other reasons for that,” he told the assembled staff and volunteers, referring to a specific kind of Harris-skeptical Black man he anticipated they would encounter during their voter outreach. “You’re thinking about sitting out, or even supporting somebody who has a history of denigrating you?” Obama likened this attitude to betrayal. “Women in our lives have been getting our backs this entire time,” he said. “When we get in trouble and the system isn’t working for us, they’re the ones out there marching and protesting.”

The erosion of support among Black men for Democrats, including Harris, is a real trend. According to polling from NBC News, Black men have voted for the Democratic presidential nominee at lower rates in every general election since 2008, when it peaked at 95 percent. (It fell to 87 percent in 2012, 82 percent in 2016, and 80 percent in 2020.) A recent New York Times–Siena College poll found that only 79 percent of Black voters overall intend to back Harris in November, while Black support for Donald Trump is tracking higher than ever at 14 percent. Maybe most remarkably, a September poll by the NAACP found that 26 percent of Black men under 50 years old said they would support Trump.

Obama’s broadside, which quickly went viral, was further proof of his status as the party’s resident scold. ...

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1 posted on 10/13/2024 8:08:22 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Obama’s mom was a lily white slut.


2 posted on 10/13/2024 8:11:02 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you"e)
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3 posted on 10/13/2024 8:15:38 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Magnum44

That’s what Democrat Joe Biden said for sure


4 posted on 10/13/2024 8:19:14 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Rummyfan

Here's our little oppressed winged muslim horse scam artist.

c'mon black, your smarter than this okey doke

5 posted on 10/13/2024 8:25:22 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you"e)
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To: Rummyfan

Between Kamala and Barack I’m surprised there is any cocaine left in America.


6 posted on 10/13/2024 8:38:24 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you"e)
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To: Rummyfan

BTTT


7 posted on 10/13/2024 8:53:39 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Rummyfan

Until the democrats wise up and support a leader like John James the black men might as well fly the LGBTQ flag forever which doesn’t help strong black women anyway. The replacements have a foothold now and they don’t walk the Obama prance.


8 posted on 10/13/2024 8:54:52 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
And his dad abandoned them....well, he might have been his dad....
9 posted on 10/13/2024 9:17:19 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

The peasants are getting stuck with fentanyl.


10 posted on 10/13/2024 9:20:39 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Rummyfan

I would like to hear what Tyrus has to say about this. Hope he is on Gutfeld tomorrow night.


11 posted on 10/13/2024 9:37:34 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice: Psalm 130)
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He thinks he OWNS THEM!!! They WILL OBEY HIM......OR ELSE!!


12 posted on 10/13/2024 9:44:48 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Maybe she needs to use her scoldy mom voice she used on Brett Kavanaugh.


13 posted on 10/13/2024 1:55:53 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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