Posted on 05/17/2018 11:03:25 AM PDT by PBRCat
If former President Barack Obama wants the Obama Presidential Center to define his legacy, he’s going to have to let life go full circle.
That means climbing off his presidential high horse and returning to his roots as a community organizer.
Once Obama announced his library would be in Chicago, it was as if the former president had suddenly turned into a greedy real estate developer.
And unfortunately, the manner in which the project was unveiled wasn’t inclusive.
Jeanette Taylor, the education director for the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, Taylor said she asked the former president why he wouldn’t sign a CBA.
Taylor said Obama told her, “I was a community organizer . . . I know the neighborhood. I know that the minute you start saying, ‘Well we’re thinking about signing something that will determine who’s getting jobs and contracts and this and that,’ . . . next thing I know, I’ve got 20 organizations coming out of the woodwork.”
“He’s got a lot of nerve saying that,” Taylor told Politco. “He’s forgotten who he is. He forgot the community got him where he is,” she said.
The relationship between the Obama Foundation and the activist community has been adversarial ever since.
Right now, there is so little trust between the Obama Foundation and grass-roots activists, we might as well be talking about the Chicago Police Department and Black Lives Matter.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
This is Chicago. They’re suggesting he has the boys break a few legs.
If former President Barack Obama wants the Obama Presidential Center to define his legacy, he’s going to have to let life go full circle.
All the way back to Kenya.
Yes, especially Kilauea - great place to stay on the mountain overnight right now.
It looks very Islamic, which I’m sure was intentional.
But aside from that, what we have here is the “do you know who I am?”scenario playing out. And these poor Chicago fools didn’t realize from the very start that, for all his life, everything was all about Obama? What would benefit him, promote him, require the least amount of effort...and to heck with the rest of the world.
Chicago was just where he went to establish his black leftist creds, and one of the ways he did it was by marrying the lovely Michelle, daughter of the local black Dem party boss. Everything has always been about Barry and his career since the very beginning. And I think some black Chicagoans are just beginning to realize it.
Looking over his presidency, he never stopped being a (failed) “community organizer”.
Barry “needs” to be arrested for his fraud and many other crimes against this nation.
The election of Harold Washington as Chicago’s mayor attracted the opportunist’s attention. Obama was also very much aware of the fact that the 1st Congressional District had repeatedly had black representatives for over seventy-five years. Initially, his goal was to obtain a Congressional sinecure, but his first campaign for Congress resulted in a loss (US Representative Bobby Rush called him an “educated fool”). Obama wound up stumbling into the US Senate and bumbling into the presidency.
if bathhouse barry returns to his roots, then the man club is going to be busy, busy, busy...
Use it as a homeless shelter
As a sewage substation. More appropriate.
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