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Barack Obama's message to Black male voters angered some Democrats. Why it matters.
Business Insider ^ | Oct 12, 2024 | John L. Dorman

Posted on 10/12/2024 6:48:04 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Former President Barack Obama this week hit the campaign trail for Vice President Kamala Harris, part of a concerted effort to rally support around the Democratic presidential nominee with less than a month remaining before the election.

Obama has long been known for his soaring oratory, which helped propel him to the White House in 2008. That year, Obama's diverse voting coalition was headlined by overwhelming support from Black and young voters, two groups that Harris needs to win in November.

But Obama's remarks while in Pittsburgh on Thursday sparked a major debate about Black voters and their loyalty to the Democratic Party and former President Donald Trump's push to make inroads with the key group.

"You're coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses," Obama said of Black male voters. "I've got a problem with that."

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1 posted on 10/12/2024 6:48:04 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

He thinks he owns the American blacks. It was horribly insulting.


2 posted on 10/12/2024 6:51:28 PM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefobest thing we c)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Obama has long been known for his soaring oratory...

He has long been known for the over-the-top worship he got from members of "the intelligentsia," which was utterly unjustified.

3 posted on 10/12/2024 6:55:29 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: MinorityRepublican

Obama is Bill Ayer’s apostle and is racist and wants to eliminate white people that are in his way so communists can take over the US.


4 posted on 10/12/2024 6:59:23 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: MinorityRepublican
Based on what is going on out there, it seems like it would add up to more than 15%.

Now, you have more black people saying publicly they support Trump, or don't support Kamala. And even social media channels. More than ever before.

And you have more black celebrities the ever before, including black women. It's not looked down on as it would have been in the past.

It seems like 15% would be disappointing, given all that.

5 posted on 10/12/2024 7:04:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Steely Tom

With lines like that you can imagine how surprised he is that yesterday’s serving of his usual pretentious blather didn’t go over well


6 posted on 10/12/2024 7:08:37 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Obama was scolding them to get back on the plantation or else.


7 posted on 10/12/2024 7:09:51 PM PDT by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. )
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To: McGavin999
Obama is many things, but stupid is not one of them.

Methinks he was actually sabotaging Harris.

8 posted on 10/12/2024 7:10:25 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

https://ncnewsline.com/briefs/bill-clinton-to-campaign-for-harris-in-eastern-nc-with-rural-bus-tour/

Here he is to save the day
Mighty mouse is on the way


9 posted on 10/12/2024 7:12:40 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

He’s not even that black. Bad move.


10 posted on 10/12/2024 7:15:08 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2024)
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To: vetvetdoug

Obama doesn’t look well.He and Big Mike might want to get checked out.


11 posted on 10/12/2024 7:15:37 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: cnsmom

Not guilty. He’s cool. That’s all that matters.


12 posted on 10/12/2024 7:22:56 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: cnsmom

Yeah full blown AIDS will do that to ya


13 posted on 10/12/2024 7:24:03 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: MinorityRepublican
0bamaumao condescendingly berates black men for their “lack of energy.” (isn’t that the same as calling them “lazy?”)

"You're coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses," Obama said of Black male voters.

And isn't that saying that black males are uninformed and lack critical thinking skills?

14 posted on 10/12/2024 7:28:26 PM PDT by TigersEye (Steve Bannon is a political prisoner. Free Steve Bannon!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

When a politician plays the race card be they black or white they are appealing to racism by white or black constituents and stoking racial animus between races. That is just plain damn wrong and evil!

Racism and inequality was real years ago. I grew up in South Louisiana and West Texas and saw racism and did not even realize it was racism. In my mind it was “Just the way it was supposed to be.” I was woefully ignorant in the 60s.

With the passage of the Civil Rights Act it was put away legally but not socially. Forty years later it is dead and gone by race but not socially. Few people give a damn about your color. They do give a damn about what you are socially as they should. Wealthy and middle class blacks do not want to live next door to white trash nor black. Wealthy and middle class whites do not want to live next door to white trash nor black. The new social structure is not by race but by economics and education.

I live in an upper class to wealthy area, and most houses are on 2-5 acres of land. It is mostly white and perhaps 20% minority mostly Hispanic (one is my wife) and a few blacks.

We do not give a damn about race in my neighborhood. We all live here for the same reason. We like the isolation of big lots, we like our great school system, and we just all want to be left alone.

PS
Our neighbors as I are armed and many are very adept as I. Many are ex military. Our neighborhood is without violence but it does have petty crime by stupid kids. That is life.

I like where I live!


15 posted on 10/12/2024 7:30:31 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: McGavin999

Obama is desperate and blew it!
He’s also devastated because black males and a fair number of black women are not falling for Barack’s bull crap anymore.


16 posted on 10/12/2024 7:30:53 PM PDT by doc maverick ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Once again if Trump said someting even remotely close to “I got a problem with white people voting for Harris” he would be assassinated again.


17 posted on 10/12/2024 7:34:41 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: McGavin999

I still think the REAL and ONLY reason that we can’t see his birth certificate is that it states Race = Caucasian.


18 posted on 10/12/2024 7:37:18 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Massa has spoken, no straying off the plantation.


19 posted on 10/12/2024 7:45:49 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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I forgot to add a note about my neighborhood. We are out in the country side. Within 1 mile of my home are 5 private shooting ranges, one of which is mine. We often hear rifle and pistol shots. It is of no importance to us. Deer hunting season is almost here. I hear frequent shots this week as hunters are sighting in their rifles. We have many deer on our lands and those damn pigs that need killing. They are destructive in the extreme. They are vermin.

Oddly, I no longer hunt as the joy of killing has left this old man. I have a friend that hunts my land and we share the venison which is delicious. When it comes to killing vermin I have no problem and do. That is just house cleaningl


20 posted on 10/12/2024 7:49:02 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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