Posted on 06/19/2013 1:11:04 PM PDT by Zakeet
Complete Headline: Obama: 'If Catholics Have Their Schools and Buildings and Protestants Have Theirs ... That Encourages Division'
Likening religious schools to segregation--a racist system that forced blacks to attend different schools and use different facilities than whites in the American South--President Barack Obama told a town hall meeting for youth in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Monday that there should not be Catholic and Protestant schools because such schools cause division.
"Because issues like segregated schools and housing, lack of jobs and opportunity--symbols of history that are a source of pride for some and pain for others--these are not tangential to peace; they’re essential to it," said Obama. "If towns remain divided--if Catholics have their schools and buildings, and Protestants have theirs--if we can’t see ourselves in one another, if fear or resentment are allowed to harden, that encourages division. It discourages cooperation.
"Ultimately, peace is just not about politics," he said. "It’s about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don’t exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation.
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Of course, as a black racist, Obama sees nothing wrong or divisive about BET, NAALCP, UNCF, and other black only organizations.
Sidwell Friends is a left wing “religious” school.IOW...their faith is atheism.
That must be why Obama doesn’t consider this school divisive!
When he gets back to America do you think he will tell the muslims that having separate schools encourages division.
What an idiot he is!!!
So we can have muzzie mosques instead of Christian schools and that ISN’T a division?
What public school do the OBama children attend again?
A little division is good for society, especially in the arena of politics and ideas, but also in culture and education. We need more division and less diversity.
Regular-divisive, or Jerimiah Wright-style-divisive?...
And if blacks have their own:
entertainment network
beauty pageant
college fund
Congressional caucus
etc.....
Hypocrite...didn’t Barry Sotero attend a Catholic school as a kid in Indonesia as well as a Muslim school? Isn’t the tony rich kids school his daughters attend also a church school...Society of Friends (Quaker)?
“IF” - BO
What the heck is he really saying...
If the FedGov allows Catholics to have...
He is using “if” as though it is an option for HIM to decide.
FUBO
Ping!
It isn’t the religion p[art of the school that Obama is against.
What he is against is the fact that it isn’t a Government controlled school that teach’s homosexuallity and the liberal viewpoint taught in public school.
This is just another Obama Reich copy of the third Reich under Hitler.
What about the “Elite” private schools, that’s exclusive. Blah
This Obama thing is the most evil monster that ever existed
So teach religion in the public schools.
North Ireland and South Ireland is also divisive.
who does this guy think he is?
they do. it's called islam.
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