President Obama Reflects on Race and His Upbringing

abcnews.go.com ^ | June 9, 2015 | ARLETTE SAENZ

[PROCON]

President Obama reflected on growing up as a young black man and relayed the example he hopes to show other boys and young men of color in a new documentary.

“I want every young man who sees me to know that I’m not that different from them. I wasn’t born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes but I kept at it,” the president said in the Discovery documentary, “Rise: The Promise of My Brother’s Keeper.”

The president touted the work of the My Brother's Keeper initiative, which aims to help struggling boys and young men of color succeed.

[PROCON]

And just how has "My Brother's Keeper" been doing to bring the races together and to help poor, underprivileged yutes?

The documentary tells the story of Chicago, Baltimore and California communities that have implemented the My Brother’s Keeper program. “Rise: The Promise of My Brother’s Keeper” will air on the Discovery Channel and OWN this Sunday at 7 p.m. ET.

Well FReepers, it looks like your weekend entertainment is all set

[madison10]

He’s NOT black.

[Fido969]

And whitey kept him down.

Heck, that’s why they only let him be the lousy president. If he was white, they would have made him KING!

[Sir Napsalot]

It is really tiresome. Even for his admirers, I imagine.

Just how many times he and Michelle have to tell us their fake-struggles and fake-life stories?

[Calvin Locke]

Say, when’s TCM running that Christopher Lee, RIP, marathon?

[Paladin2]

Bammy needs to go to Colorado to be a dope inspector/tester.

[TomServo]

This ass hat is so full of shit.

[TomServo]

Wow - didn’t know they were running one...

Thanks for asking!

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/movie-news.html?id=1098037

[Huskrrrr]

Dumbass.

[EagleUSA]

“..He’s NOT black...”

That is correct. He is of MIXED RACE, HALF Kenyan black, and HALF English caucasian. But of course, that is never put out publicly by the MSM. Putting out the lie that he is “black” was one of the main reasons he was elected (sad reasoning) and can continue his RACIST activities and vote pandering. And that is just for openers, of course.

[fatnotlazy]

“I wasn’t born into wealth.”

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Probably BS like any of the millions of lies he has told all his life.

I remember a story of his childhood where he went to Disneyland or Disney World, not sure which. If true, and he was so poor, how did he get to go there? Who paid? I know when I was a kid, my parents could barely afford the school picnic at a local amusement park. And there were a few years when we didn’t go at all.

[Dilbert San Diego]

He is not exactly honest here.

He was born into relative wealth. He went to the top private school in Hawaii. His grandmother who raised him was a vice president of a major bank in Hawaii. He went to Ivy League universities. He has an much in common with ghetto youth as I have.

[ETL]

Quote from James Cone:

"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".
African American Religious Thought: An Anthology (Paperback)
by Cornel West (Editor), Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Editor)
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SEAN HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes:"

WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can't talk about the black value system.

HANNITY: But I'm a — reverend

WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html

[funfan]

Go Away O please.

[Calvin Locke]

Forgot two things. ... tells the story of Chicago, Baltimore and California

If I was an actual student, rather than a constant target of liberal BS propaganda, it might be interesting the to see the spin they put on the in-your-face failures of yet another signature Obola initiative.

Maybe they found the exception in the state of Kali, some small community not run by liberals, that is, not LA, not SF, not Sacremento, and especially not Oakland.

And the LSM has got to stop kidding themselves and us. The only thing Obola has ever reflected upon is a mirror.

[Calvin Locke]

Somebody posted it in a Lee death thread last week.

[MNDude]

this is as interesting as listening to John Kerry’s war stories.

[ETL]

Frank Marshall Davis
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Obama’s Communist Mentor
AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | February 18, 2008

excerpt...

"through Frank Marshall Davis, Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his 'poetry' and getting advice on his career path. But Obama, in his book, Dreams From My Father, refers to him repeatedly as just 'Frank.'

The reason is apparent: Davis was a known communist who belonged to a party subservient to the Soviet Union. In fact, the 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii identified him as a CPUSA member. What's more, anti-communist congressional committees, including the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), accused Davis of involvement in several communist-front organizations."

Frank Chapman, a CPUSA supporter, has written a letter to the party newspaper hailing the Illinois senator's victory in the Iowa caucuses:

"Obama’s victory was more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle. Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary 'mole,' not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through."
-People's Weekly World (PWW), official newspaper of the Communist Party, USA
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/12302/1/405
(Note: article has since been pulled from the Communist Party USA/Peoples Weekly World/PWW website)

AIM article: Obama’s Communist Mentor
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/
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Barack Obama, from Dreams from My Father, Three Rivers Press, New York, Revised Edition, 2004, ISBN 1-4000-8277-3, p. 76-7:
"But by the time I met Frank [Frank Marshall Davis] he must have been pushing eighty, with a big, dewlapped face and an ill-kempt gray Afro that made him look like an old, shaggy-maned lion. He would read us his poetry whenever we stopped by his house, sharing whiskey with Gramps out of an emptied jelly jar."

[USMCPOP]

He’s half black, half-assed and full of shit.

[EagleUSA]

“He’s half black, half-assed and full of shit.”

Yes, and I wish that was all that he is. The USA would be in much better condition.