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How Black America Saw Obama: His success elated us. But then we spent eight years worrying for [tr]
NY Times ^
| January 14, 2017
| Michael Eric Dyson
Posted on 01/15/2017 8:54:01 AM PST by C19fan
I stood in Grant Park on election night 2008, along with more than 200,000 other people, and watched as a man Id known as a fellow member of a Chicago church, a man Id worked to help get elected, took to the stage. He would be the first black president of the United States of America. My joy at the surreal scene was transcendent. The jumbotron flashed the face of the civil rights stalwart the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, with tears streaming down his cheeks, an image that evoked the profound elation of black America at the election of Barack Obama.
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Give me a break. I never heard of one legitimate assassination plot against Obama. There was already someone who tried to get Trump during the primary season. He mentions Malcomm X. He was murdered by another Muslim African-American. Vernon Jordan was the target of a serial killer who tried to whack Larry Flint. He cites Jesse Jackson getting death threats when he ran for President. Which major candidate has not received death threats?
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01/15/2017 8:54:01 AM PST
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C19fan
To: C19fan
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01/15/2017 8:57:26 AM PST
by
maine-iac7
(cHRISTIAN IS AS CHRISTIAN DOES)
To: C19fan
“The jumbotron flashed the face of the civil rights stalwart the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, with tears streaming down his cheeks”
Is this the same Jesse Jackson that wanted to “cut Obama’s nuts off” for talking down to black people (when he was feigning values to attract white voters)?
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posted on
01/15/2017 8:57:44 AM PST
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kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: C19fan
The “civil rights stalwart”. Rev Jesse Jackson
Like Lewis another #FakeIcon #LineHisPockets. #ShakeDownArtist
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posted on
01/15/2017 8:57:54 AM PST
by
A_Former_Democrat
("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO Kellogg's)
To: C19fan
Three Members Of Trinity United Church Murdered between Nov. and Dec. 2007.
A man who worked as a choir conductor and school teacher was found Dec 2007 shot to death. The victim is 47-year-old Donald Young. Youngs death has been ruled a homicide.
Donald Young, a 47-year-old choir master at former Rev. Jeremiah Wrights Trinity United Church of Christthe same congregation that Obama has attended for the past 20 years. Two other young black men that attended the same churchLarry Bland and Nate Spencerwere also murdered execution style with bullets to the backs of their headsall within 40 days of each other, beginning in November 2007.
To: C19fan
Every President since before Lincoln has been the target daily of several assassination attempts.
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01/15/2017 8:58:10 AM PST
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: C19fan
New York Times = propaganda sheet.
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01/15/2017 8:58:35 AM PST
by
ZULU
(Particular circumstances can never be used to justify an act that is intrinsically evil.)
To: maine-iac7
>>PAGE NOT FOUND?<<
Me too.
But that is how blacks SHOULD have seen obozo. One big 8 year 404.
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posted on
01/15/2017 8:58:41 AM PST
by
freedumb2003
(obozo: not just the worst president in American history - worst *American* in American history (turf)
To: C19fan
#FakeNewspaper #FakeReporter #FakeConcern
To: maine-iac7
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01/15/2017 8:59:32 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
The jumbotron flashed the face of the civil rights stalwart the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, with tears streaming down his cheeks, an image that evoked the profound elation of black America at the election of Barack Obama.
Barry Soetoro is mostly white. His mother was 100% Caucasion. His father, uncertain. Playing the role of Barack 0, Soetoro has resorted to makeup on occasions to emphasize his African heritage.
To: C19fan
We need to have a national prom queen so Democrats can vote their feelings.
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01/15/2017 9:01:26 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: C19fan
“My joy at the scene was transcendent”...............
Just the way I felt at the last election night while watching Hillary lose! I don’t remember when I felt so happy!
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01/15/2017 9:03:12 AM PST
by
Ditter
(God Bless Texas!)
To: C19fan
Barack Hussein Obama, raised in Indonesia by his Indonesian stepfather and transvestite nanny? And in Hawaii by his white bank vice-president grandmother? Who somehow gravitated from an expensive California private college to the Ivy League before being selected for high political office without even ever having to toil in grimy local politics?
And American blacks somehow identify with this guy? That's the very definition of racism.
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01/15/2017 9:05:22 AM PST
by
Trailerpark Badass
(There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
To: Ditter
To: C19fan
...Rev. Jesse L. Jackson (who can be seen on video describing and demonstrating how he'd like to cut Obama's nuts off),
with tears streaming down his cheeks...Bah.
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01/15/2017 9:05:45 AM PST
by
ExGeeEye
(For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
To: C19fan
“Fellow member of a Chicago church”
Finally the media reports on thus
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posted on
01/15/2017 9:05:53 AM PST
by
lacrew
To: C19fan
The fancy Greek columns were emblematic of his presidency: styrofoam.
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01/15/2017 9:06:29 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: C19fan
This is a little disconcerting, with the way the Rats project.
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01/15/2017 9:07:32 AM PST
by
lacrew
To: Ditter
I stayed up to watch as well...and I’m (honestly) still thrilled by it. That crook and her agenda (a continuation of Obama’s scheme to disenfranchise working whites) had to be defeated; now the remaining Dem politicians are pretending it is still afloat but they’ll be watching from the sidelines...as we were when ObamaCare passed without a single Republican vote.
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01/15/2017 9:07:37 AM PST
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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