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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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To: artichokegrower

Coates was raised by his Black Panther father.


61 posted on 12/13/2016 7:08:55 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Paladin2

It’s interesting that so many of the most militant, racist, “black leaders” are mulattos.


62 posted on 12/13/2016 7:18:32 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

“The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine. The Obamas are social with Beyoncé and Jay-Z. They hosted Chance the Rapper and Frank Ocean at a state dinner, and last year invited Swizz Beatz, Busta Rhymes, and Ludacris, among others, to discuss criminal-justice reform and other initiatives.”

A big hit by Ludacris:

Move Bitch
Ludacris
Move bitch, get out the way
Get out the way bitch, get out the way
Move bitch, get out the way
Get out the way bitch, get out the way
Move bitch, get out the way
Get out the way bitch, get out the way
Move bitch, get out the way
Get out the way bitch, get out the way
Oh no! The fight’s out
I’ma ‘bout to punch yo, lights out

can’t post any more lyrics because of obscenities.


63 posted on 12/13/2016 7:19:39 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: VanDeKoik

I have no President until we see President Trump in the Oval Office. This black Muslim is not black (half white by his American mother and the other half black by his Muslim father - not an NBC by any means) FIRST item on the agenda when President Trump arrives - teach Americans the exact meaning of NBC. BO’B was never a true President, never!


64 posted on 12/13/2016 7:19:53 AM PST by V K Lee (Is it too early for a President Trump?)
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To: DiogenesLamp

You forgot to speak of that nice, sharp crease in his trousers (he does wear them when not in Muslim garb.


65 posted on 12/13/2016 7:22:24 AM PST by V K Lee (Is it too early for a President Trump?)
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To: fatman6502002

” Why does anyone post this kind of drivel?”

artichokegrower has a habit of doing that.


66 posted on 12/13/2016 7:23:21 AM PST by aquila48
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To: backwoods-engineer
“Prediction: Barack Hussein Obama will be the LAST black President of the Republic.”.......

While I too feel it will be a VERY LONG TIME before another black person is POTUS, “Never say Never”. It may happen again but whom ever it is, I will not be around to witness it.

67 posted on 12/13/2016 7:25:41 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: backwoods-engineer
“Prediction: Barack Hussein Obama will be the LAST black President of the Republic.”.......

While I too feel it will be a VERY LONG TIME before another black person is POTUS, “Never say Never”. It may happen again but whom ever it is, I will not be around to witness it. I/WE never HAD a "black" president, instead we had a half black imposter who claimed the title but never was a "real" president..

68 posted on 12/13/2016 7:27:29 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: bus man
“My President Was Black”

Really? He was? Why didn’t anyone ever tell us that?

My initial thought was- "Was? when did Obama stop being black?"

His color never bothered me, I considered his race and ancestry as meaningless. It was his divisive rhetoric and statist policies that undermined our economy and reduced our international standing that make me despise Mr. Obama.

69 posted on 12/13/2016 7:28:16 AM PST by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.)
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To: Alas Babylon!
"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..." Your words that I completely agree with.

Amazing how blacks and guilt-driven whites forget those beautiful words. MLK had his foibles, but I still recognize him as a good man who just wanted ALL citizens to have equal standing in America.

Obama had such a great opportunity to bring the races together. He could have celebrated his black ancestry and all they've done, while acknowledging the accomplishments of his white ancestry. Instead, he divided us more with his stupid rhetoric, "the cops acted stupidly" and "if I had a son, he would look like Martin Treyvon", and other inane comments.

I guess that's what we get from a groomed community organizer, rather than a true Statesman. What a waste of opportunity. He could have soothed the soul of inter-racial disharmony. If he had spoken out against the riots in Fergueson, Baltimore, etc. what a powerful message that would have been to bring the races under the fold of Americanism. Just one more reason I despise this man, and the list is long...

70 posted on 12/13/2016 7:32:16 AM PST by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: artichokegrower

Member when saying not my president was racist?


71 posted on 12/13/2016 7:37:56 AM PST by MTsumi
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To: Red Badger

“Ta-Nehisi?..............”

Isn’t that a tropical disease?


72 posted on 12/13/2016 8:09:21 AM PST by Lucas McCain (Liberalism is the willful embrace of abject stupidity.)
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To: Qiviut
I have seen this Obama guy, and he was kind of light brown, lately with graying hair. I have a nephew who is very dark brown, I think I would recognize black if I saw it. I have seen mocha frosting much darker brown than is Mr. Obama. I would agree that Mr. O is not white, but than again neither am I. I am medium tan in summer and “fair” or light tan in winter,lately with graying hair.
73 posted on 12/13/2016 8:21:56 AM PST by cotton (one way, one truth, the life.)
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To: artichokegrower

My President Was Black.
The complaint department is three doors down to your left just follow the smell and one door to your right is the black leaders department.


74 posted on 12/13/2016 8:28:58 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: artichokegrower

I saw this whiny racist windbag’s “piece” early this morning over at The Atlantic. I gave up reading his nonsense long ago, and as I scrolled down page after page (to find the comments), I remembered that he stopped allowing comments on his articles last year. When he stopped the comments, I stopped reading him altogether. Affirmative Action writer/pseudo-intellectual.


75 posted on 12/13/2016 8:33:43 AM PST by blackbetty59
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To: LostPassword

President Reagan was once asked if it would be OK with him
for America to have a woman President. He replied, “Yes,
but only if she is a conservative Republican woman.”


76 posted on 12/13/2016 8:42:27 AM PST by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: HomerBohn

Oh, well, let’s just let them think he was black so they call it good and don’t feel the need to “get it right” the next time. I am dreading the next jerkoff who realizes we really haven’t had a 100% black president yet so we need to elect a real black one next time. I’m tired of their identity politics. BO was plenty black for me. Enough said.


77 posted on 12/13/2016 8:47:35 AM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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To: artichokegrower

Be quite awhile before we allow white guilt to elect another


78 posted on 12/13/2016 8:52:32 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Her ass belongs in prison.)
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To: artichokegrower

I think in the end, people will look back at Obama as being nothing more than an entertainer himself. He really brought nothing in or anything out. He taught us nothing about ourselves, like Jackie Robinson, Clarence Thomas and others. He was like the medical student his first day on clinical rounds wearing a white coat, and introducing himself as doctor to the patients when no one else can hear him.

Americans cannot be fooled, and that is the refreshing nature of the Trump win. Americans are still strong, vibrant, independent, patriotic and aggressively confident about ourselves. We are caring but also very dangerous bunch. Aside from some gun free zones, you don’t walk into a Walmart or other open place brandishing a weapon, unless you’re prepared to be taken out by a whole host of us who are also packing.

I think that’s why I’ve been so happy these past four weeks. I knew Trump would win from day one. I know now that in time he will rid both aisles of the phonies.

The greatest nation on earth should be run by the greatest people. He is raising the bar from her out. A bar that for the past eight years could be jumped by worms.

The statistics, hopefully in 2018, will show even more democrats out the door. Usually the midterms favor the people who are not in the WH, not this time. Liberalism is dead in this country, and I celebrate Obama’s leaving as well.


79 posted on 12/13/2016 9:00:15 AM PST by nikos1121 (I hear Kasich is being considered for post master general.)
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To: artichokegrower

I was completely indifferent to Obama’s skin color until he made it clear that it mattered to him. I am equally indifferent to President Trump’s skin tone, and I will feel the same about his successor. It is a shame so many people (particularly on the left) reject Martin Luther King’s ideal of judging others by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.


80 posted on 12/13/2016 9:03:59 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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