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My President Was Black
The Atlantic ^ | January/February 2017 | Ta-Nehisi Coates

Posted on 12/13/2016 6:21:55 AM PST by artichokegrower

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41 posted on 12/13/2016 6:41:38 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: artichokegrower

Obomba is as much white as he is black. Why doesn’t he claim his privilege by claiming to be white?


42 posted on 12/13/2016 6:41:50 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
....and he sucked.

Congratulations you have just won the internet!!!
43 posted on 12/13/2016 6:43:36 AM PST by rhubarbk (I have great stamina . . . not tired of winning yet.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

I seem to recall that his Kenyan ancestors may have been involved in selling slaves.


44 posted on 12/13/2016 6:43:56 AM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: grobdriver

While I know I can’t possibly speak for Ireland or the Irish: Kenya can have all of him as far as I’m concerned.


45 posted on 12/13/2016 6:44:49 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: artichokegrower

Why does anyone post this kind of drivel?


46 posted on 12/13/2016 6:46:23 AM PST by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: artichokegrower
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

We've come a long way, baby!

BACKWARDS....

47 posted on 12/13/2016 6:48:42 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: artichokegrower

His president may have been ‘black’, but the author must have had rose-colored glasses super glued to his face to write what was in this worshipful piece regarding Obama. Everything else is laid at the feet of ‘racism’ ... Tea Party, Trump’s win, anything thought/said by a white person ....


48 posted on 12/13/2016 6:49:09 AM PST by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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To: artichokegrower

He’s an enemy islamist.


49 posted on 12/13/2016 6:50:20 AM PST by onedoug
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To: artichokegrower

Prediction: Barack Hussein Obama will be the LAST black President of the Republic.


50 posted on 12/13/2016 6:50:32 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; I celebrated; I'm good. Let's get on with the civil war now.)
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To: artichokegrower

Insufferable. But illuminating in that this guy, who clearly knows absolutely nothing about what might be required of a great President, enjoyed several intimate, informal, and off-the-record meetings with the President, not to mention partying with him at the White House. This is the same President that never met with Mike Flynn during his fiveyear term as head of defense intelligence.


51 posted on 12/13/2016 6:51:05 AM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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52 posted on 12/13/2016 6:54:54 AM PST by stylin19a (obama = Fredo smart)
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To: artichokegrower

I doubt he thinks as highly of a fellow brother, Clarence Thomas.


53 posted on 12/13/2016 6:56:06 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: artichokegrower

Author mentions “brown paper bag test”. The only time I’ve heard of this actually in use was by Atlanta’s black high society. They won’t have anything to do with the really dark ones. But Ta-Neeshie, in spite of his color meeting your standards, he has been a lousy president.


54 posted on 12/13/2016 6:57:04 AM PST by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory.)
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To: MNJohnnie
"Someone needs to point out to this racists that Obama is half white."

There are many self-described African-Americans that are so white in facial features with light skin in the celebrity industry they could pass for white. Why they don't celebrate their Caucasian ancestry that built the World is beyond me. I would be proud of both. But some people just need to play the aggrieved black card. It tells me something about their self-esteem.

Also, when was the last time you heard Asians complain, riot, demand reparations? The Chinese were practically slave labor in building the western rail roads plus other industries and services. Personally, I respect Asians even above Caucasians for their work ethic to this day.

They forego the stupid "feel good" humanity classes in college and study hard in Math, Engineering, and Sciences and they excel. Good for them, unless they are Chinese foreign exchange students who take their degrees home to China. Those who don't, add to our way of life.

Serious question: When did oriental become a derogatory term? I missed that memo. It was not derogatory when I was growing up with the Japanese in Gardena, CA.

55 posted on 12/13/2016 6:57:37 AM PST by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: MNJohnnie

He must be referring to Mugabe.


56 posted on 12/13/2016 7:02:10 AM PST by depressed in 06 (I'm going to have to come up with a new tag line.)
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To: metmom

Looks like Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream has has crashed in flames and and is just a heap of burning, smoldering wreckage.

___________________

So true. How sad.


57 posted on 12/13/2016 7:02:32 AM PST by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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To: artichokegrower

See who wrote it? a White-hating racist.


58 posted on 12/13/2016 7:02:42 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: MNJohnnie

He’s Halfrican.


59 posted on 12/13/2016 7:06:20 AM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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To: artichokegrower

The ONLY thing Obama has accomplished for his black race is he became their first black president. He has done nothing since and evidently that is the only thing they wanted, beyond that, nothing.


60 posted on 12/13/2016 7:07:07 AM PST by Toespi
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