Posted on 02/24/2021 11:53:32 PM PST by knighthawk
Former President Barack Obama claimed reparations for black Americans are 'justified' but explained in his podcast with Bruce Springsteen that it was a 'nonstarter' during his presidency because of 'white resistence'.
During his 2008 presidential campaign, Obama appeared to oppose reparations and argued that 'the best reparations we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed.'
Obama, 59, has launched an eight-episode podcast series called Renegades: Born in the USA with the 71-year-old rock legend, released through Spotify’s partnership with the Obama’s Higher Ground production company.
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Have some Irish heritage here too. Mixed with some European and those darn American Indians.
We don’t want the Irish! /Blazing Saddles
What a load.
Did slaves build the transcontinental railroads? NO.
Did slaves build our world leading steel industry NO.
Did slaves build the skyscrapers of New York? NO.
Did slaves build our auto industry? NO.
Did slaves build our oil and gas industries? NO.
Did John Deere and Cyrus McCormick employ slaves? NO.
Did slaves build our aviation industry? NO.
Did slaves build our health care industry? NO.
Did slaves build our shipbuilding industry? NO.
Did slaves build the electrical power grid? NO.
Did slaves build the Interstate Highway system? NO.
I wonder how many conditions the Halfrican would check off in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders if anybody ever did an honest appraisal.
Yep, share the loan/overdraft/debt.
Picking some cotton in a backward, rural corner of the country hundreds of years ago, built the wealth of the largest, most innovative and multi-faceted economic powerhouses the world has ever seen? Don’t make me laugh.
Interesting timing.
The Harkles just inked an eight figure deal with Spotify...
Wonder if the Harkles still have that firmer Obamabot still working for them...
FAR more wealth was built by Irish and German laborers and Chinese railroad line workers.
Instead of reparations, how about repatriations? That ought to make ‘em happy, unless they’re lying about hating it here.
It’s time to heal.
Just buy stock in Foot Locker and Newport if it’s coming.
They sort of built the Penal system...
Did slaves build our computer industry? No!
Did slaves build the Internet? No!
Glad Obama is finally letting his Farrakhan grade racism and stupidity shine. Enough of his anti social personality.
The wealth of America was built on the backs of Americans.
Obama is a creator if illusion and he himself is an illusion.His real appearance :
As I recall, the Magna Carta (1215 AD) held that men were not responsible for their fathers “debts”.
Why is this worthless piece of Schiff still breathing?
Another poster said it right ... this country would be far better off if blacks had been left in Africa. By now they may have been able to build a real Wokanda (Wakanda, Wakandi ... who cares) ... or not.
My money is on ‘not’.
Wonder if the Harkles still have that firmer (!) Obamabot still working for them...
ya well after we tally the destruction of just about every major city across the land, some people would still owe us money no matter how many reparations they got!
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