Posted on 02/23/2016 1:10:34 PM PST by xzins
GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson told Politico on Tuesday that it is “a bit of a stretch” for President Barack Obama to claim he identifies with the experience of black Americans, because “he was raised white.”
“He was raised white,” Carson said of Obama. “Many of his formative years were spent in Indonesia. So for him to claim that he identifies with the experience of black Americans I think is a bit of a stretch.”
During an interview with Politico’s “Off Message” podcast, Carson said he was “proud that we broke the color barrier” when Obama was elected, but Obama’s experience and Carson’s experience were “night and day different.”
Politico’s Glenn Thrush asked Carson, “Are you curious at all about what his experience was like? I mean, when he was elected—“
“What experience?” Carson asked.
“Experience of being elected. Let’s just stop it at Jan. 20, 2009, right? Was that significant for you? As somebody who sat and watched that – I was there. I was in the crowd. It was a pretty interesting moment in American history. Did you derive any joy out of that, any sense of pride? How did you process that?” Thrush asked.
“I did not—I mean like most Americans, I was proud that we broke the color barrier when he was elected, but I also recognize that his experience and my experience are night and day different. He didn’t grow up like I grew up by any stretch of the imagination – not even close,” Carson said.
“He was an ‘African’ American as opposed to an African-American,” Thrush said.
Why should Carson get out? It's his money. It's his life. He's helping to expose the Zero from a black man's experience.
His g’parents were wealthy.
Pounahou is $$$$.
IIRC, when g’ma died-or before, 0bama got a trust fund.
Great article.
Ben’s the only one who can go there—and then he does! My hat is off to him!
Pity Michelle Obama is not like Condi...
But he has Aunt Esther lying in bed with him (purportedly) to remind him everyday.
I lived in Hawaii for a year in 70-71 and went to the university as a graduate student. So I also was a graduate assistant. There were the Haole’s and the Kanaks. The Haole’s were the whites. The Kanaks were the Hawaiians, mixed race, etc, which is most of the population. Many of the Hawaiians would rather have black friends than white friends. They were accepted by the Hawaiians more than whites. They really didn’t like white people.
I do not believe that Obama suffered from prejudice in Hawaii. It just wasn’t as prevalent in those days as it was in the mainland. And as you said, he went to a very prestigious private school.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haole
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kanaka
“He was an ‘African’ American as opposed to an African-American,†Thrush said.”
And neither Obama or Carson are interested in being “Americans”. There’s too much benefit from being otherwise.
“Did you read that in Obama’s book? How he raised in private schools etc. isn’t common knowledge.”
Did you know Obama had a “step Sister”, not the half sister, but a poor Indonesian child who was used as his maid and companion.
http://www.wnd.com/2010/08/190449/
“She died mysteriously, just before Obama went to Indonesia.
A previously unknown stepsister of Barack Obama died unexpectedly earlier this year.
Internet researchers made the link between the president and his previously undisclosed stepsister, Holiyah “Lia†Soetoro Sobah, after translating from obituaries published in Indonesia. She died Feb. 26.
The obituaries identified Lia as having been adopted by Lolo Soetoro, Obama’s stepfather, and Ann Dunham Obama Soetoro, the president’s mother.
The surfacing of Lia as an adopted child of Lolo Soetoro and Dunham raises the question of whether Barack Obama himself might have been adopted officially as Lolo Soetoro’s stepson while in Indonesia from 1967 to 1971.
Even though Obama makes no mention in “Dreams from My Father†of having had an Indonesian stepsister, the Indonesian obituaries make clear that Obama slept in the same room as his stepsister while the two of them grew up together in the Soetoro home in Jakarta.
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| Nobody in modern public life has ever risen to such a high office with such an incomplete knowledge of his past. No immediate family, no childhood, no knowledge of his undergraduate years, no professors, teachers, people in the community who knew him. All surpressed. This is the story of Zero. |
No he isn’t. Kenneth Lamb isn’t a reliable source. He gave no proof.
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