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Obama urges persistence in confronting deep roots of racism
MSN ^ | 12/07/14 | David Nakamura, Vanessa Williams

Posted on 12/07/2014 6:07:03 AM PST by Libloather

President Obama on Sunday sought to calm tensions in the wake of racially charged protests in New York and Ferguson, Mo., saying the nation has made progress on race relations but emphasizing that the distrust between minority communities and law enforcement “will not be solved overnight.”

“This is something that’s deeply rooted in our society, that’s deeply rooted in our history,” Obama said in an interview on the cable network BET.

**SNIP**

“We have to be persistent,” Obama said in the BET interview. “Typically, progress is in steps. It’s in increments. When you’re dealing with something as deeply rooted as racism or bias in any society you’ve got to have vigilance but you have to recognize it will take some time and you have to be steady so you don’t give up when we don’t get all the way there.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: looting; obama; racism; roots
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Per the “authorities” on that....doesn’t exist.


21 posted on 12/07/2014 6:33:00 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Libloather

The deep roots of racism? start with the african americans then we will talk. Crying wolf and look at me Im a victim is not cutting it, we are tired weiry and frankly sick and tired, pick your self up look in the mirror and fix your house!


22 posted on 12/07/2014 6:38:27 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Empty head empty suit = arrogant little bastard)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

It is been proven that blacks can not be racist. As anyone yet seen any black person be accused of racism. See...


23 posted on 12/07/2014 6:38:46 AM PST by rovenstinez
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To: cripplecreek
cripplecreek :" Sayeth the root."

The Racist-in-Chief Executive = RICE
True Racism was virtually non-existant until the RICE was elected to prove that things had changed for the better
He has exacerbated racism and lying to an artform, aided an abetted by the media, and the "JUST-US Dept.
to the point where the National Guard was called , and then held in abeyance, by the White House
until AFTER the burning and racial disharmony occurred.
Like Obamacare , HE OWNS IT !!

24 posted on 12/07/2014 6:40:11 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Libloather

Progress ?? Obama and his minions have set progress BACK half a century.

The “N-word” is back, and even anti-Semitism is fashionable in some liberal circles. . .


25 posted on 12/07/2014 6:53:06 AM PST by Salgak (Peace through Superior Firepower. . . .)
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To: Salgak
Progress ?? Obama and his minions have set progress BACK half a century. The “N-word” is back, and even anti-Semitism is fashionable in some liberal circles. . .

Quite right Salgak. Racial hatred is at the highest peak that I have ever seen in my lifetime. Also true for anti-Semitism. BHO is doing a great job of pitting groups against each other. May he soon be gone!

26 posted on 12/07/2014 6:57:07 AM PST by Blennos
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To: Libloather

Obama is all about perpetuating race as a divisive issue in fidelity to his Marxist ideology.


27 posted on 12/07/2014 7:04:37 AM PST by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: Libloather; justiceseeker93; flat; unkus; freekitty; mazda77; vette6387; Forty-Niner; ZULU; ...

Zero would be better served to read history books and take note of all the peoples of the world who faced adversity such as the six millions Jews slaughtered by Hitler or the millions in the Killing Fields or, perhaps, the Spanish Inquisition or the slaves of Egypt, ya think?


28 posted on 12/07/2014 7:13:25 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: savedbygrace
"... could you please tell us when and where in history this problem has been solved before, and how it was solved?"

In our country’s recent history we’ve celebrated diversity in our population as if it were a good thing. However, one look at world history will show you that no country with a diverse population of different races, languages, and religion has long survived.

Countries don’t naturally form with a diverse population, and when in the past they’ve occurred it’s usually been as a result of armed conquest. These unnaturally formed countries have either melded together into a single population made up of one mixed race with one language and one religion or they’ve come apart, and they’ve usually come apart with extreme violence. The longer these diverse populations are forced to coexist with one another without mixing and becoming one, the more the hatred grows among them and the more violently they break apart, but break apart they will, or genocide will settle the issue once and for all.

Why is this and why can’t we all just get along? The truth of the matter is that we (the human race) just aren't as civilized as we would like to think we are. Our species, Homo-sapiens-sapiens, isn’t that long “out of the trees” and the veneer of civilization is very thin, to non-existent, upon us all. We’re all carrying the genes that got us here and some of those genes carry a very basic survival instinct that has allowed us to survive thus far.

This most basic of all survival instincts is self preservation and it’s the one that warns us to be very wary of those who are different than us, our family, and our tribe. Those who possessed this survival instinct survived and reproduced, and those who had no fear/distrust of strangers didn’t survive. Over the years, this survival instinct has been referred to as tribalism, nationalism, ethnocentrism, racism, and various other isms, but it’s an inborn instinct carried in our genes whether we like it or not.

29 posted on 12/07/2014 7:17:10 AM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war,and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Libloather

The “deep roots of ‘racism” stem from a lack of responsibility and a Blame Game mindset from those hypocrites who are the true racists of the far left and minority “communities”

Get your acts together and see how your lives improve. A foreign concept to you, I know, but try it, you just might like it.


30 posted on 12/07/2014 7:25:14 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Get ready St. Louis . . . Guns Up . . .LnL . . .STK)
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To: Libloather

The first concession should be that all whites are not racists and all blacks are not victims. But, that would contradict fifty years of Bolshecrat dogma. The Bolshies can only win with white guilt and black resentment.


31 posted on 12/07/2014 7:32:15 AM PST by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: Libloather

Okay, so what does the cool rapper culture have to offer?


32 posted on 12/07/2014 7:53:12 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

He’s not trying to calm things down, he is trying to stir it up


33 posted on 12/07/2014 7:53:52 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Libloather

The only deeply rooted racism I’ve been seeming is from those that blame the white guy even when the facts show otherwise.

When Sharpton chants, “Keep hope alive.” I think he really means,’Keep racism alive.’ After all, without racism, Sharpton would have to get a job.


34 posted on 12/07/2014 8:07:59 AM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: Libloather

The white raciss has a glass house.


35 posted on 12/07/2014 8:09:33 AM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: cripplecreek

Amen


36 posted on 12/07/2014 8:34:09 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Libloather

             

.. and the traitor maggots you blew to get here.

37 posted on 12/07/2014 8:37:46 AM PST by tomkat (this is me on a good day)
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To: MeshugeMikey

A living, breathing bobblehead.


38 posted on 12/07/2014 8:41:06 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: DJ Taylor
Extremely well said, FRiend !
39 posted on 12/07/2014 8:41:49 AM PST by tomkat
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To: Libloather
Obama urges persistence in racism
40 posted on 12/07/2014 8:43:04 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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