“Fight for your seat at the table”???
This is the mindset of thugs or savage, it’s no surprise it comes from Obama.
No fully civilized human should find this quote great. At the table, we are taught to share, not to fight. If someone has to fight for his seat at the table, he should NOT be at the table at all.
I understand what you’re saying, but I don’t think it’s correct to say this is a completely negative quote. If it read “kill for your seat at the table” then yes, that’s totally a thug mindset. I read the word fight as struggle, or strive. The table in the context of this quote is not a dinner table where one is expected to share with the poor and the less fortunate, but rather a council or a meeting table.
So, “strive for your seat on the council” to me rings rather true. If our candidates and leaders don’t struggle among the most ruthless of them to have their voice be heard our way of living will soon be lost.