Posted on 06/01/2025 7:27:25 AM PDT by Starman417
Barack Obama’s legacy here started early. Not quite in office for six months Obama showed his hand with his characterization that “The police acted stupidly” about the arrest of Henry Louis Gates a professor at Harvard who, locked out of his house, broke in. A neighbor, not recognizing Gates, called 911. The police arrived and things didn’t go well and Gates was arrested.
When asked about race and the incident a week later, Obama responded: "I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home, and, number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there's a long history in this country of African Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately."
Without the facts, Obama stated the police acted stupidly and implied that racism might have played a role. Nothing however about Gates’ reported “loud and tumultuous behavior” just racism and police misbehavior.
But this was just the beginning. After George Zimmerman was acquitted in the killing of Trayvon Martin, Obama said: “You know when Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son...Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me, 35 years ago. And when you think about why, in the African-American community at least, there’s a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it’s important to recognize that the African-American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn’t go away.”
Again. All race, no facts.
But there’s more.
About the killing of Michael Brown Obama said: “In too many communities around the country, a gulf of mistrust exists between local residents and law enforcement… Too many young men of color feel targeted by law enforcement — guilty of walking while black or driving while black, judged by stereotypes that fuel fear and resentment and hopelessness.”
About the jury not indicting the NYPD officer involved in the killing of Eric Garner Obama said: “that we are going to take specific steps to improve the training and the work with state and local governments when it comes to policing in communities of color; that we are going to be scrupulous in investigating cases where we are concerned about the impartiality and accountability that’s taking place.”
In these instances and more Obama made the killing of a black man by police about race. It’s no surprise that the BLM movement began under Obama nor that the fiction of “systemic racism” took hold or that the black victimization ideology became omnipresent.
That’s unfortunate.
Like Rod Serling might have said, imagine if you will if Obama had handled those differently.
What if he had said about Gates: He should probably have remembered that the police were simply trying to protect his neighborhood after neighbors called them. Misunderstandings happen.
Or this about Brown: Michael Brown was killed after stealing from a store, attacking the proprietor, and attacking a policeman. Had Mr. Brown not done these things he’d likely be alive.
What if he had responded to the riots in Ferguson, Missouri after the death of Brown by taking to the airwaves and telling black Americans that the problem in their communities is not racist police, but criminal activity and fighting with police?
What if he had nationalized National Guard troops to restore peace in Baltimore or Ferguson rather than standing by and later coercing police forces around the country into “consent decrees” which invariably increase crime.
But he didn’t do any of those things. Instead, Barack Obama reinforced the notion that blacks are victims of systemic racism, that they cannot win on an even playing field, and that in any negative outcome, racism must be the cause.
It is that victimization that leads us to where we are today. The Internet is simply bulging with videos of blacks behaving badly. Flash mobs robbing stores. Punching random people on the street. Pushing people in front of trains. Running over bicyclists. Attacking bus drivers. Destroying merchandise in stores. Rioting on cruise ships. Attacking airline workers. And more. Sure, we have to state the obligatory reality that other people commit crimes too, but the fact of the matter is, that blacks do so at far higher rates.
Race relations are reaching a boiling point. To put this in perspective, in 2007 75% of whites and 71% of blacks thought race relations in America were either good or very good. By 2021 those numbers were down to 43% and 42% respectively, and no doubt they’re lower today.
The reality of that dichotomy can be seen in two events from last month.
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Next time somebody says he will transform America, believe it!
Obama had his own MAGA. Making America Ghetto Again.He was the original liberal MAGA President
This was the first clear indication that he (& whole family) was a raving racist — which is why so many Democrats voted for him.
I used to think that the last big racist the Democrats would elect to the presidency was going to be Woodrow Wilson. Bu they outdid themselves when they elected Obama. Much more of a racist than Wilson ever was. And that’s saying something.
Harvard now has all the legitimacy of the Duchess of Sussex. The good rank and file of DOJ and FBI agents have lost their respect with the American people. Teachers can’t add. And History is not taught. Doctors have become drug salesmen. Insurance companies have been promoted over medical staff. And frankly most medical staff aren’t even doctors.
Obama has intentionally lowered the quality of all American institutions. And we have been noticing it ever since he left office.
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Or, this is a great country and together we can change it. He didn’t mean for the better, that’s for sure.
Obama had his own MAGA. Making America Ghetto Again.He was the original liberal MAGA President
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Bathhouse Barry Obeyme meant to say he’d transform America into a Marxist banana republic.
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Harvard now has all the legitimacy of the Duchess of Sussex. The good rank and file of DOJ and FBI agents have lost their respect with the American people. Teachers can’t add. And History is not taught. Doctors have become drug salesmen. Insurance companies have been promoted over medical staff. And frankly most medical staff aren’t even doctors.
Obama has intentionally lowered the quality of all American institutions. And we have been noticing it ever since he left office.
Bolsheviks always on the hunt for a chump sometimes they find one?.
Marxist Critical Theory or Critical Race Theory needs a victim class. Victims are fed full of envy, jealousy and directed to hate a chosen enemy .
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