Posted on 02/18/2024 7:18:21 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
MSNBC host Joy Reid lamented that black Americans have not received sufficient reparations for “literally, physically” building this country, believing that former President Barack Obama’s eight-year tenure is the best they will get.
Reid issued her comments during an interview on Salon Talks with writer Dean Obeidallah wherein she said that black people “literally, physically, built this country” and therefore deserve much more than a two-term black president.
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When do we celebrate the contribution of Chinese to the building of this country? On the 4th of July. We even have a special song for Chinese who came here and joined with us in this country. It’s called the National Anthem.
If you look closely at the following painting, you will see representatives of the many people who were part of us during the Revolution. While we were mostly European, among us were Africans and Native Americans.
Her ancestors were in Congo and Guyana when all that was going on, so she ain’t getting squat.
I’m not sure northern agriculture was more productive than the south. It maybe that southern money crops were in cotton and tobacco while northern crops were more likely concentrated on wheat, barley rye and others.
Plus, you know the whole industrial might of the north and greater population thingy.
At least she’s consistent.
Lying and totally delusional....she’s out of her mind.
They might have picked a lot of cotton, but they certainly didn’t build the country.
A country made of cotton balls. That’s us.
Obama Seeks to Knock US Down a Peg
By Thomas Sowell, Monday, 01 October 2012, newsmax.com
Much puzzling behavior by Barack Obama falls into place when we go behind the image that he projects (”Obama 1”) to the factual reality of the man’s whole life and thrust (”Obama 2”). Obama himself is well aware of the nature and importance of his image. In his own words, “I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.” An 18th century philosopher put the matter bluntly: “When I speak, I put on a mask. When I act, I am forced to take it off.”
Many of Barack Obama’s actions as president of the United States reflect neither political expediency nor an attempt to promote the best interests of the American people. Take, for example, his bowing low from the waist to foreign leaders. No president of the United States had ever done that before. It gained Obama nothing with the voters, nor was there any reason to think that he expected it to. Why then did he do it?
What did it accomplish? It brought the United States down a peg, in the eyes of the world, something that he has sought to do in many other ways. These bows were perfectly consistent with his view of a mal-distribution of power and prestige internationally, just as his domestic agenda reflects a felt need for a redistribution of wealth and power within American society. It is not just the United States, but the Western world in general, including Israel, that needs to be brought down a peg, from the standpoint of the ideology prevalent among the people with whom Barack Obama has allied himself consistently for decades.
Against that background, it is not at all puzzling that President Obama has clamped down on offshore oil drilling by Americans in the Gulf of Mexico, but has actually encouraged and subsidized offshore oil drilling by Brazil with our tax dollars. Nor is it surprising that he imposes draconian restrictions on industrial activities in the United States, in the name of fighting “global warming,” while accepting the fact that Third World nations that are beginning to industrialize will generate far more pollution than any restrictions in America can possibly offset.
That is another example of international redistribution — and payback for perceived past oppressions or exploitation of the West against the non-West. So is replacing pro-Western governments in the Middle East with Islamic extremist governments. Some people may have gotten focused on the issue of Barack Obama’s birth certificate because so much of what he has done seems foreign to American ideals, traditions, and interests. But birth tells us nothing about loyalty. One-time American Communist leader Earl Browder was descended from the Pilgrims.
Those who have questioned whether Barack Obama is really a citizen of the United States have missed the larger question: Whether he considers himself a citizen of the world. Think about this remarkable statement by Obama during the 2008 campaign: “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that every other country is going to say, ‘OK.’” Are Americans supposed to let foreigners tell them how to live their lives? The implied answer is clearly “Yes!” When President Obama went to the United Nations for authority to take military action and ignored the Congress of the United States, that was all consistent with his vision of the way the world should be.
How has Obama gotten away with so many things that are foreign to American beliefs and traditions? Partly it is because of a quiescent media, sharing many of his ideological views and/or focused on the symbolism of his being “the first black president.” But part of his success must be credited — if that is the word — to his own rhetorical talents and his ability to project an image that many people accept and welcome.
The role of a confidence man is not to convince skeptics, but to help the gullible believe what they want to believe. Most of what Barack Obama says sounds very persuasive if you don’t know the facts — and often sounds like sheer nonsense if you do. But he is not trying to convince skeptics, nor worried about looking ridiculous to informed people who won’t vote for him anyway. This is a source of much polarization between those who see and accept Obama 1 and those who see through that facade to Obama 2.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford U.
Joy Reid is a 1st generation American, like Kamala and Nimrata.
He’s made sure they will sit at the bottom of the socio economic ladder as insignificant people.
75% of births are illigitimate with no male influence. The failure of the black family has produced generations of dickweeds with no means of lifting theirselvés out of their poverty other than gangs and crime.
Play me some more rap with hoes, blow and cop killing. It’s the culture man, who néeds a traditional biological family?
As many as 700,000 men, black and white, died in the civil war. That’s reparations enough.
And some might say that black people have worked to undo the building by voting for Democrats.
The bottom line with ‘reparations’ is that they, no matter how much, will never be enough, and the ‘400 Years Plaint’ will become 500, 1000 - forever.
they also invented music, did you know..and basketball....oh, and the internet, excuse me Mr.gore.
Also - Clarence Thomas and Thomas Sowell
NEVER saw a single black farmer growing up.
Joy's 'Reparation' is America's Near Death flirtation with diversity.
Because stupid virtue signaling white leftists thought it was a wonderful idea to have a non-citizen, black homosexual, white hating racist as president.
Maybe but I was thinking the Irish beat cop.
Those who like him, worship him. When the dust settles, I hope he doesn’t disappoint you.
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