I agree that Obama wouldn’t come right out and say, “Go beat up Whites because of how you have been treated.” He could say, “I understand how frustrated you are. It is reasonable to be frustrated. I can understand that.”
What is the net result of this? Perhaps it wasn’t an intentional suggestion to seek retribution. It none the less gives a basis for it. If you’re frustrated and the president says that is reasoned, is that not an admission that they have been treated unfairly? Is that not a reason to justify acting out?
Yes we’re talking about people who are borderline already, but this next step was to be expected. Still Obama made unfortunate comments that fed into this mindset.
Perhaps he actually saw himself as a peacemaker, although I doubt that, he still exerted influence from the highest office in the land. Has he come out and said the Knock Out Game and the Racial attacks in Chicago were unacceptable?
I don’t necessarily object to the comments you’ve made.
It is true that Blacks have not been helped by this guy. If anything they have been set back several decades by him. Unemployment, racial equality (at least in perception), Obama has infuriated people on both sides.
Say what you want about the guy trying to be even-handed, he has been a massive divider, and nothing whatsoever of a uniter.
I don’t disagree with you either. I just don’t think any kid in Harlem or the Bronx or South Central actually wants to be Cosby or Obama. They haven’t an inkling what that means let alone the ability or resources to half way pull it off besides their friends wouldn’t be impressed.
Sure, Obama is a massive divider, that is what he needs. He would be more useless than he is now, since so many are fooled into believing that he can actually do something or is doing something. Eric Hoffer has a good book on mass movements and the people that lead them and those that follow in them. Were any of these so called leaders to actually resolve anything they’d be out of work. Hoffer notes that those who can actually mobilize people are not necessarily those that can lead them or maintain a movement once it achieves anything. Many times movements are centered on personalities and not actual concepts. King in the civil rights movement is a classic example.