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The Obamas: How We Deal with Our Own Racist Experiences
People Magazine ^
| 12/17/2014
| Sandra Sobieraj Westfall
Posted on 12/17/2014 8:35:08 AM PST by HomerBohn
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To: txnativegop
“...Barack Obama was a black man...who had his share of troubles catching cabs.”
I wouldn’t have stopped for him, either. That guy always expects a free ride.
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posted on
12/17/2014 10:13:10 AM PST
by
beelzepug
(You can't fix a broken washing machine by washing more expensive clothes in it.)
To: HomerBohn
I went to a bookstore from church so I was wearing a white shirt and tie and was mistaken for help. I said “I’m sorry, I don’t work here, but the information desk is over there.” Somehow, this didn’t traumatize me for life.
To: HomerBohn
There’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn’t hand them their car keys,” said the president, adding that, yes, it had happened to him.
LMAO! At least you were not mistaken for a President!
To: HomerBohn
Mr. and Mrs. Obama, or whatever your name is... You would NOT be the current residents of the White House if you were not black.
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posted on
12/17/2014 10:31:15 AM PST
by
Tzfat
To: KevinB
Baraq was mistaken as a valet. Moochelle was asked to take something off a shelf at Walmart. Finally, they have been asked to do jobs for which they are qualified.
I have been asked on a couple of occasions by little old ladies to help them get thing off a shelf or where to find something in the local grocery store. One time when I told her I didn't work there she said she knew that but I looked nice and helpful. I took that as a compliment. How do you get to be president if you can't shrug things off.
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posted on
12/17/2014 11:53:18 AM PST
by
Idaho_Cowboy
(Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
To: KevinB
Baraq was mistaken as a valet President.
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posted on
12/17/2014 11:55:24 AM PST
by
Pelham
(Treason, not just for Democrats anymore)
To: Tzfat
You would NOT be the current residents of the White House if you were not black. ...and if your presence there in the disgraced White Hut was not as a result of a two-party system that needs serious competition.
To: Boiler Plate
... take out the trash... If only the 'trash' from 1600 could be moved out to the curb!
To: Tzfat
I read the title, and the thought that came to my mind was
how do they deal with their own raciSM experience?
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posted on
12/17/2014 2:41:31 PM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Slyfox
Before that, Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago... And before that he was a poor foundling negro baby that was taken in by some crackers in Georgia and raised as their own. He was known as the 'Jerk.'
To: Our man in washington
I went to a visitation in a funeral parlor dressed in a suit and tie and was mistaken for the mortician-funeral director.
I gave them a tour of the mortuary.
I would do the same for the Obama duo.
To: AngelesCrestHighway; MeshugeMikey
"There's no black male my age, who's a professional, who hasn't come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn't hand them their car keys," said the president See, it's okay if Obama stereotypes professional car jackers. Just don't *you* do it.
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posted on
12/17/2014 2:49:35 PM PST
by
Ezekiel
(All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
To: HomerBohn
(from comments)
>>She told David Letterman:
No one knew that was me. Because a woman actually walked up to me, right? I was in the detergent aisle, and she said I kid you not she said, Excuse me, I just have to ask you something. And I thought, Oh, covers blown. She said, Can you reach on that shelf and hand me the detergent? I kid you not. And the only thing she said I reached up, because she was short, and I reached up, pulled it down. She said, Well, you didnt have to make it look so easy.
That was my interaction. I felt so good.
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posted on
12/17/2014 3:05:15 PM PST
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
To: Ezekiel
I’m betting that Obie Fantasizes about being a Car jacker when he grows up.
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posted on
12/17/2014 3:28:52 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: MeshugeMikey
Im betting that Obie Fantasizes about being a Car jacker when he grows up.???
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posted on
12/17/2014 3:31:57 PM PST
by
Ezekiel
(All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
To: HomerBohn
A rare event.....
a rare look at the PRIVATE lives of the Obies
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posted on
12/17/2014 3:41:59 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: Ezekiel
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posted on
12/17/2014 3:43:30 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: MeshugeMikey
Haha. When I saw the original at the top of the page it reminded me of
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posted on
12/17/2014 3:48:29 PM PST
by
Ezekiel
(All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
To: Ezekiel
yes obie ...ME....i mean YOU!
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posted on
12/17/2014 4:21:11 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: Ezekiel
they really are a manufactured item///
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posted on
12/17/2014 4:21:51 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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