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Obama call for reparations for black Americans because the 'wealth of this country was built on the backs of slaves' - but says he couldn't get it done as president due to the 'politics of white resistance'
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 25 2021 | ADAM SCHRADER

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: blacksupremacy; obama; reparations
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To: knighthawk


21 posted on 02/25/2021 1:31:33 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian; dfwgator

Have some Irish heritage here too. Mixed with some European and those darn American Indians.

We don’t want the Irish! /Blazing Saddles


22 posted on 02/25/2021 1:33:06 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: knighthawk

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.


23 posted on 02/25/2021 1:55:41 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (Eleutheromaniac)
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To: Irenic

Yep, share the loan/overdraft/debt.


24 posted on 02/25/2021 1:55:51 AM PST by LordOddsocks
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To: knighthawk

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.


25 posted on 02/25/2021 2:06:05 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: knighthawk

Interesting timing.

The Harkles just inked an eight figure deal with Spotify...


26 posted on 02/25/2021 2:07:52 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: mewzilla
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry shamed over eyewatering Spotify deal - MP hits out

Wonder if the Harkles still have that firmer Obamabot still working for them...

27 posted on 02/25/2021 2:10:24 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: mewzilla
Slavery Reparations? We Already Tried Them And They Didn’t Work Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty was intended to raise up black Americans. Instead it benefitted bureaucrats and big unions.
28 posted on 02/25/2021 2:12:43 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: knighthawk

FAR more wealth was built by Irish and German laborers and Chinese railroad line workers.


29 posted on 02/25/2021 2:14:39 AM PST by montag813 ("Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the Great")
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To: knighthawk

Instead of reparations, how about repatriations? That ought to make ‘em happy, unless they’re lying about hating it here.


30 posted on 02/25/2021 2:15:02 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: knighthawk

It’s time to heal.


31 posted on 02/25/2021 2:52:11 AM PST by EEGator
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To: irishjuggler

Just buy stock in Foot Locker and Newport if it’s coming.


32 posted on 02/25/2021 2:53:32 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

They sort of built the Penal system...


33 posted on 02/25/2021 2:56:58 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Did slaves build our computer industry? No!

Did slaves build the Internet? No!


34 posted on 02/25/2021 3:02:34 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: knighthawk

Glad Obama is finally letting his Farrakhan grade racism and stupidity shine. Enough of his anti social personality.


35 posted on 02/25/2021 3:08:20 AM PST by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: knighthawk
Obama call for reparations for black Americans because the 'wealth of this country was built on the backs of slaves' >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

FACTUALLY INCORRECT

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 :


36 posted on 02/25/2021 3:11:34 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: knighthawk

As I recall, the Magna Carta (1215 AD) held that men were not responsible for their fathers “debts”.


37 posted on 02/25/2021 3:18:53 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: knighthawk

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’.


38 posted on 02/25/2021 3:19:56 AM PST by ByteMercenary (Healthcare Insurance is *NOT* a Constitutional right.)
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To: mewzilla
Some typos speak for themselves...

Wonder if the Harkles still have that firmer (!) Obamabot still working for them...

39 posted on 02/25/2021 3:24:46 AM PST by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: knighthawk

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!


40 posted on 02/25/2021 3:31:34 AM PST by sit-rep ( )
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