Posted on 12/08/2014 9:16:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
* 'I want them to be judged based on....their behavior and their talents and their gifts,' Obama told BET's Jeff Johnson
* Obama said he doesn't want his future grandson 'to be subjected to the kind of constant bias that makes them feel as if this is not their home'
* He also said he believes the Eric Garner video 'troubled' Americans of all walks of life, including some police officers
* The president hit back at critics who say he's not taken the recent killings of black men seriously enough: 'I'm being pretty explicit about my concern'
President Barack Obama got unusually personal during an interview about race relations that aired Monday night on BET.
The president spoke about his experiences as a young black man and opened up about concerns he has about the way his daughters, Sasha and Malia, and future grandsons could be treated in society because of their skin color.
'I want my children to be seen as the individuals that they are, and I want them to be judged based on the content of their character and their behavior and their talents and their gifts,' he told BET's Jeff Johnson.
'I don't want them to be objects of fear simply because of misguided attitudes.'
Obama said that part of what makes the racial tension exploding in America 'so heart breaking and frustrating for a lot of folks' is 'the recognition that simply by virtue of color, you've got less margin for error.'
That's particularly true for black boys,' Obama said....
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Narcissism and paranoia cannot be separated.
Oh, good grief! 0bama was raised as a privileged white kid by his white mother and his typical white grandmother and grandfather. He went to an upscale school in Hawaii and lived in Indonesia for eight years.
“Nobody knows the troubles I’ve seen.
Nobody knows my sorrow. And gay angst.”
Barry-O
Especially with regular crack and popper use.
Makes one wonder how he can still read the teleprompter.
Next scene; “Crocodile Tears”, sprayed on both cheeks with a misting bottle during the commercial break.
Privileged white kid with Marxist indoctrination.
Allowing them to dress as sluts in their adolescence can’t possibly drive the narrative!
Malaria and Sharia are already bearing up admirably at their $28K/year dump of a school and the hovel they are expected to call home.
Taught the fine art of propaganda and demagoguery from the cradle on up.
If he teaches them respect and how to follow orders from the Police no worries, There should not be a worry about the grandsons either if they have a Father that teaches them right from wrong and the same respect for those in charge, but I thought he did not want his daughters burdended with a child.
The American people can't wait until he is gone.
Holder claims this BS about profiling something Bush had already done in 2002.
THIS GUY IS THE U.S. PRESIDENT. POOR, OPPRESSED HIM.
Copying Martin Luther King, no doubt.
He really does think it’s 1971, doesn’t he?
Ironic comments from a man who got everything in his life because of affirmative action.
He’s emotionally stuck in ‘71, when he was ten, so why shouldn’t he be historically stuck in ‘71?
And once they have finished their time at the upscale , elite 1% er Sidwel Friends, they will be afforded the opportunity to surpass their mothers epic and unforgettable Senior thesis at an Ivy League school such as Harvard, Princeton or Yale
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