Obama 1995: "white Americans couldn't care less about. . .problems African-Americans are facing"

Chicago Reader ^ | December 8, 1995 | Hank De Zutter

[AJFavish]

In 1995 Obama stated: "These are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a 'lock 'em up, take no prisoners' mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress" and "that white Americans couldn't care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing."

http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/archive/barackobama/

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"This doesn't suggest that the need to look inward emphasized by the march isn't important, and that these African-American tribal affinities aren't legitimate. These are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a 'lock 'em up, take no prisoners' mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress. Historically, African-Americans have turned inward and towards black nationalism whenever they have a sense, as we do now, that the mainstream has rebuffed us, and that white Americans couldn't care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing."

"But cursing out white folks is not going to get the job done. Anti-Semitic and anti-Asian statements are not going to lift us up. We've got some hard nuts-and-bolts organizing and planning to do. We've got communities to build."

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Regards,

Allan J. Favish
http://www.allanfavish.com

[TNCMAXQ]

These evil people who make these hateful statements, and the ones who say only whites are racist, must think they are God. How do they know what other people are thinking, or what we believe!? Of course he is wrong to make a statement like this. Most decent people DO care about their fellow Americans. In order to keep the racial divide alive forever, they will just spew out this nonsense. Damn them for the harm they have done to the world.

[Salamander]

So Obama’s white half didn’t care about the problems of his black half?

Where's Captain Kirk when you really need him?

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

I too am becomming more angry and more bigoted. I do not think any one race is superior to another, so i am not a racist. However the “black-africanamerican” culture is what I hate. Violence, entitlement, apathy, lack of responsibility and “gettin’ over on the system” in and out of employment.

I am being told now that the marching I did for equal rights in the late sixties and the integration movements I was part of in the 70’s didn’t matter diddly....I am still a “typical white person” ( said with disgust and disdain ).

You are not moving us all ahead Barry Obama ...you are moving us BACK! Back into the racial divide. BAck into pushing the ‘white guilt”. Problem is, all those “whiteys” that wanted to move forward in the 60’s and 70’s, including those Jews that you hate that died in Mississsippi for your “cause”.....well, guess what? Go it alone now!!!

Congratulations, Barry Hussein Obama...you have done what sharpton and Jesse never quite could...you have divided white and black AGAIN!

[Texas Eagle]

I'm curious, what exactly are blacks "facing" in America today?

Something about shabby neighborhoods, edgier and less-restrained yoots, glowering brothers in prison, middle-class flight to the suburbs, etc.

You know. Stuff.

I wonder if it has occurred to Barry that all these problems blacks are facing in South Chicago are the still there decades after being addressed by white Liberals. And black Liberals.

[flowerplough]

Re: the newbie’s self-contradictory “lock ‘em up, take no prisoners”, I knows which one I prefers.

[Stentor]

"The right wing, the Christian right, has done a good job of building these organizations of accountability, much better than the left or progressive forces have. But it's always easier to organize around intolerance, narrow-mindedness, and false nostalgia. And they also have hijacked the higher moral ground with this language of family values and moral responsibility.

That's just hate.

[AlexW]

“white Americans couldn’t care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing.”

How about this:

All Americans couldn’t care less about the profound
problems poor white trash Americans are facing.

Where is the NAAPWT?

[Vince Ferrer]

First, I think Barry is right to a certain extent. There, undeniably, are whites who don't care what blacks are facing are going through.

Perhaps we can start to be honest about what blacks actually expect from whites. Blacks will complain they they are being neglected and whites don't care, yet often when whites do show interest, their efforts are rebuffed, or twisted into claims of racism and oppression.

As white person I tend to treat people with benign indifference. I simply get up in the morning, go to my cubicle for 8 hours, and then come home. Is this neglect? Possibly, but at least its an evenhanded neglect. If blacks would like to deal drugs and shoot each other, and live their lives in prison, or if they want to study and graduate from Harvard, I will still live my life the same way.

Its up to each individual to choose their own lives.

[Texas Eagle]

My zinger was in the next sentence where I pointed out that the non-caring whites I was referring to were mostly Liberals.

But I see what you are getting at. The problem isn't whites who are non-caring, it's whites who promote themselves as being all-caring. And those whites are almost 100% Liberal. Well, maybe 90% Liberal and 10% Moderate.

[raybbr]

As a result, Miss Rice told editors and reporters at The Washington Times, “descendants of slaves did not get much of a head start, and I think you continue to see some of the effects of that.”

“That particular birth defect makes it hard for us to confront it, hard for us to talk about it, and hard for us to realize that it has continuing relevance for who we are today,” she said.

From here.

Will racial victimhood EVER end??????

[kjo]

Exactly. When black kids, especially males begin taking their education seriously...and stop dressing and acting like thugs, things will get much better for them.

[Godwin1]

This poseur looks worse every day. A vile, victimhood loving racist now comes looking for the despised Whitey's votes. No, no, hell no.

[TCats]

As I posted on another thread:

“Unfortunately, the dialog Obama suggests is only one-way. Look at the disparate reactions to what Imus said as compared to the outright racist, hate-speech of Obama’s pastor. As well, the treatment of corrupt White politicians as opposed to corrupt Black politicians, and on and on through to OJ.

No, the dialog that is suggested by many in the Black Community and their non-Black acolytes is that Society adopt/accept many of the aspects of Black Society including incarceration rates, out-of-wedlock birth rates, graduation rates, murder/crime rates, etc. and there is no compromise or societal change needed from their end.

I do not see where any kind of dialog with this value system is possible.”

[aruanan]

So Obama’s been an opportunistic hate-monger for quite a while.

[STE=Q]

“Problem is, all those ‘whiteys’ that wanted to move forward in the 60’s and 70’s, including those Jews that you hate that died in Mississsippi for your ‘cause’.”

This article may help:

>http://web.archive.org/web/19990427143249/www.wiesenthal.com/resource/Blackdem.htm<

From article:

Someone has observed that: “We can rarely bring ourselves to forgive those who have helped us the most”

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

You are right. If they can’t dialogue wioth Cosby , Steele and Clarence thomas and Sewell...good grief!

[kabar]

philanthropist, and author, he already has no trouble working 12-hour days.

This article was written in 1995. Where did he get the money to be a philanthropist?

[kabar]

Obama doesn't need another career. As a civil rights lawyer, teacher, philanthropist, and author, he already has no trouble working 12-hour days.

This article was written in 1995. Where did he get the money to be a philanthropist?

[Matchett-PI]

The Obama families’ pastor, Jeremiah Wright, like his teacher and mentor, James Cone, even tell God who he has to be in order for blacks to accept him. Their arrogance knows no bounds.

James Cone:
“Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.” Divine Racism: http://www.amazon.ca/God-White-Racist-Jones-W/dp/toc/0807010332

Here’s a 20 minute YOUTUBE interview with James Cone (hear the racist hate-monger for yourself): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1X5sZ6Q4Fw
To hear James Cone give a lecture about his Marxist / racist theology, go to this link from the Ingersol Lecture website: Ingersol Lecture 2006. Strange Fruit: The Cross and the Lynching Tree. http://www.hds.harvard.edu/news/events_online/ingersoll_2006.html The actual lecture starts about 8 1/2 minutes in. Whole video lasts about 90 minutes.

[RipSawyer]

“I couldn’t care less at this point.”

“”””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””

Anyone who says, “I couldn’t” rather than the standard for today,”I COULD care less”, has my instant respect. I salute you.