Posted on 06/22/2015 8:19:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
President Barack Obama used the n-word during an interview released Monday to make a point that there's still plenty of room for America to combat racism.
"Racism, we are not cured of it. And it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say nigger in public," Obama said in an interview for the podcast "WTF with Marc Maron."
"That's not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It's not just a matter of overt discrimination. Societies don't, overnight, completely erase everything that happened 200 to 300 years prior."
The jarring comment comes as the nation is engaged in a debate over the role of race after a white supremacist killed nine African-Americans last week in a historically black church in Charleston. They also reflect a growing willingness for Obama to discuss race during the final years of his presidency....
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As written by a fine black man over a hundred years ago:
"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well." -- Booker T. Washington
Booker T was dead on correct!
Obama seems to consider himself freed from any and all constraints since that slaughter.
But Honkey, Whitey, Cracker, old white guy are still OK
I think a lot of people agree, but are too afraid to say so. It is a very Un-PC opinion to have.
Well, I am not PC.
Sue me.
;-/
At least on CNN International, they did not bleep him. But the anchorette did say Barky was going to use a word we normally bleep.
Johnson and Truman are also on record as having used the N-word in office . It’s just a Democrat thing, you wouldn’t understand! /s;)
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