I think to call this 'reparations' might mislead by overstating this man's allegiance to the African-American identity. This is not a black thang with Barrack. His ideological allegiance does not emanate from the African-American experience (for indeed he doesn't come from it himself). Not at all.
His allegiance is to the offshore third worlder view that America is the root of all evil. The reparations he seeks are for those abroad who want revenge for a nation which stands as a slap in the face to their inadequacies & the wealth he wants to spread around is to them. He wants to annhialate America's economic preeminence as revenge for them, as does his patron George Soros. He wants to destroy America's superior health care system because it's just 'not fair" that Americans are able to enjoy the timely delivery of quality health care when there are so many in the Marxist third world (and even in the declining socialist first world countries) who do not.
This man Obama serves as the "president" not for the American people, and certainly not for African-American people, but for every Third World tinpot dictator & kleptocratic tyrant for whom America stands as the shining symbol of negation of everything they are not & as haunting proof of their inadequacies.
In Obama's zero-sum gaming mind, if there are poor countries which exist in the world, it is not because of the criminally corrupt and/or controlling elites there who are shackling their citizens' economic potential, it is due solely to the fact that imperialistic America is strong & powerful and is arrogantly hogging the world's finite (to him) wealth.
It's so ironic that the state run media should endow this President with the traits of someone who is 'progressive' & future-oriented, when the troglodytic zero-sum economic world-view to which he subscribes is the economic equivalent of the flat earth theory.
Agreed, although I’d add that the “reparations” theme is tied to the third-worlder view. It might be overstating his allegiance to the AA identity but, (this is difficult to express), I think he ties the “victim hood” of the AA community to the same cause and effect you refer to in your second paragraph. That is to say he sees them as part and parcel of a long list of peoples, third world and those living in first world countries who have been sacrificed on the alter of America’s greatness. And your post ties in to the theme of “De-Development” which the “Global Marxists” (of which he certainly is, as a method of “leveling” wealth throughout the world.
Ironic only if one assumes that the MSM is lettered in a classical education.
The abyssmal gap between our Constitution and our government would be grounds for massive impeachment if there were a body committed to the Constitution. There is none save the people.
Recent upwellings of protest by the people may yet grow into a cleansing of the Temple. Assuredly the den of vipers that currently swarm in our capitals need to be defanged.