Posted on 06/16/2023 4:00:02 AM PDT by Libloather
America's first black president took aim at black Republican senator Tim Scott for saying his party was 'doing a fabulous job of making progress.'
Scott launched his run for president last month on an optimistic platform and has put his own story of struggle at the center of his campaign, with a philosophy that suggests everyone can succeed if they want to.
But former President Barack Obama said in a podcast released on Thursday that it was time for the Republican Party to get real about how systemic racism shaped the nation's history.
'And so, if a Republican who may even be sincere in saying "I want us all to live together" doesn't have a plan for how do we address crippling generational poverty that is a consequence of hundreds of years of racism in this society and we need to do something about that ...' Obama told the Axe Files, hosted by his former adviser David Axelrod.
'If somebody is not proposing, both acknowledging and proposing elements that say, "No, we can't just ignore all that and pretend as if everything's equal and fair. We actually have to walk the walk and not just talk the talk."
'If they're not doing that, then I think people are rightly skeptical.'
Scott responded to his comments late on Thursday, but steered clear of attacking Obama by name.
'Let us not forget we are a land of opportunity, not a land of oppression. Democrats deny our progress to protect their power,' he said.
'The Left wants you to believe faith in America is a fraud and progress in our nation is a myth. The truth of my life disproves the lies of the radical Left.'
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Yeah, congressional white guys put the proposed 13th-15th Amendments out for ratification.
White men across the states ratified them.
Tim Scott speaks from personal experience. He was raised in SC by a divorced black mother who worked long hours to support her family.
Obama was raised by his white-leftist mother and grandparents. His grandmother was VP of a bank. He went to a private school in Hawaii.
Like many other leftists, Obama grew up with privilege. He looks down on other people as helpless.
Racism doesn’t cause poverty. It’s bad. It exists. But it does not cause poverty in this day and age. Poverty is bad and exists, but racism is not the cause of it. Jim Crow is dead and gone. Affirmative action has been around for decades. Red-lining is now illegal. There isn’t even a correlation between poverty and racism anymore. There are poor whites and poor blacks. The welfare state has a lot to answer for the poverty of both, including without limitation absent fathers, dependency, dysfunctional mothers, and also failed schools. But enough already with this antiquated paradigm.
Get rid of the federal welfare state, since it was the cause of (or at least exacerbated) Black poverty by declaring war on Black fathers and the Black Nuclear Family. Great Society has probably been the single greatest failure of a program(s) in the history of the nation.
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