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Obama fears his own daughters will suffer from racism: Tells of concern in full interview
The London Daily Mail ^ | December 8, 2014 | Francesca Chambers

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....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blacks; ericgarner; obama; racism
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To: Theophilus
I suppose one day Bo's daughters will be continuing the agenda as this gal...


61 posted on 12/09/2014 1:31:03 AM PST by caww
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To: rdcbn
We are also paying Michelle Obama’s mother $176,000 a year to live in the White House and provide day care to the two girls.

Hold on a cotton-pickin' minute here, please. Grandma Robinson, Jesse Jackson's aunt, only moved into the WH so that Barry's BF Reggie would move out. Her daughter Michelle, Jesse Jackson's cousin, did sign the Beard Contract, but it didn't say anything about Barry Down-Low having a live-in BF! Momma just be takin' care of her baby!

Whateva we are paying Jesse Jackson's aunt is well worth it to preserve some sense of decorum in the ménage Obama.

62 posted on 12/09/2014 1:51:37 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (The fate of the Republic rests in the hands of the '15 -16 Congress. God help us.)
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To: JennysCool
He really does think it’s 1971, doesn’t he?

Nope, he thinks it's 1947.
63 posted on 12/09/2014 1:54:55 AM PST by Nepeta
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To: LucyT; vpintheak; Old Sarge; Mossad1967; brucecw; EnigmaticAnomaly; KylaStarr; Califreak; kalee
'I want them to be judged based on....their behavior and their talents and their gifts...

What my Maximum Leader is trying to say is we want his putative offspring judged entirely differently than those who idolize him judged him. IOW, not as Affirmative Action Nincompoops, but as actual people.

64 posted on 12/09/2014 1:57:31 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (The fate of the Republic rests in the hands of the '15 -16 Congress. God help us.)
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To: lee martell

Just apply ‘Vicks’ like Beck.


65 posted on 12/09/2014 2:04:07 AM PST by MooseKnuckles ( People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think it is more likely they will display racist behavior, because if you grow up in a house with racist attitudes, and go to a church with racist attitudes, and hang around a lot of adults with racist attitudes, you are probably going to be susceptible to racist behaviors and attitudes.


66 posted on 12/09/2014 2:23:15 AM PST by rlmorel (The Media's Principles: Conflict must exist. Doesn't exist? Create it. Exists? Exacerbate it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No one in the collected fiefdom of this country is allowed to say anything about the daughters - Hands Off!

Yet he is more than willing to use them willy nilly as examples of the most absurd assertions.


67 posted on 12/09/2014 2:27:33 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

frankly senore’ obammy,
I don’t give a rats patootie about your brats.


68 posted on 12/09/2014 2:51:06 AM PST by Joe Boucher (The F.B.I. Is a division of holders Justice Dept. (Nuff said))
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To: 4Liberty

“THIS GUY IS THE U.S. PRESIDENT. POOR, OPPRESSED HIM.”

And to think people read his elections as a sign of improving race relations.

He is quite happy to have them get through life with “lowered expectations” due to their race (just like him); they will be held to no standard at all because to do so would be “raciss”...


69 posted on 12/09/2014 2:51:44 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: caww

That’s great! It has two victims from another class (women) in it; brilliant!


70 posted on 12/09/2014 2:53:33 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He is such a phony. His biracial kids will have a better life, materially, than the vast majority of white Americans. They will be judged harshly only if they decide to become conservatives. Otherwise, they will be adored.


71 posted on 12/09/2014 2:54:39 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Kinda like the rest of us suffering from Obama’s racism on the US public, mostly white - due to his little elite squad of Holder, Sharpton, Jackson, and his side kick, Jarrett...


72 posted on 12/09/2014 2:55:00 AM PST by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: Politicalkiddo

73 posted on 12/09/2014 2:55:56 AM PST by caww
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To: caww
She's right
  1. abortion
  2. government schools
  3. entertainment that glorifies libertine promiscuity and rampant substance abuse.
  4. politicians and a welfare system that constanly exploit covetousness and indolence.

74 posted on 12/09/2014 3:05:28 AM PST by Theophilus (Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
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To: Theophilus

Well yes...but that’s not the intention of her sign nor the march she is in.

Great how you turned it around though...I will be agreeing with those and making your points...thanks!


75 posted on 12/09/2014 3:08:32 AM PST by caww
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To: Olog-hai

We have our very own Al Sharpton in the white hut running the most powerful nation in the world, an affirmative action street urchin gangbanger racist racebaiter who is fueling and fanning the fires of civil unrest. He has with the help of others brought the American presidency into the gutter


76 posted on 12/09/2014 3:18:12 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Empty head empty suit = arrogant little bastard)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If their black boyfriends dump them for chubby white girls that may be true.


77 posted on 12/09/2014 3:19:05 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: TigersEye

Would be nice if his thoughts were stuck pre-oil crisis. Problem here is, the EPA dates back to 1970.


78 posted on 12/09/2014 3:19:51 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just look at the black females in his cabinet, starting with Jarrett. I call it reverse racism.

I really think his daughters will not be the local mom on welfare with 6 kids and 5 daddies.

What a stupid statement....just like his "prediction" of his daughters' "inconvenient" abortions.

79 posted on 12/09/2014 3:19:53 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I want them to be judged based on....their behavior and their talents and their gifts,' Obama told BET's Jeff Johnson

I want the incompetent ass Obama to be judged the same way.

80 posted on 12/09/2014 3:20:07 AM PST by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
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