[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Obama (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 11/24/2014 11:14:14 PM EDT
| "They are understandable upset about the verdict"....... I guess his mind was made up......Stir it up |
| The media is in full swing trying to riot-incite. They cut away from the District Attorney's explanation of what actually occurred when Brown got himself shot just to show the crowd all running around. The true facts of what occurred is obviously not part of the story here, only the potential rioting and destruction sure to come. |
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Oh my. I'm terribly not giving a shit you jug eared fuck of a mouthpiece. FBHO |
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When they talk about these issues and problems....why is it no one talks about the issue of urban families raising urban youth who are criminals. Why don't they talk about the problem of urban youth not respecting themselves, their families, their neighborhood, other people, laws. Why is it always the "Police" are the problem?
Why won't anyone say that if Michael Brown didn't rob a store at 1145 in the morning he would not have been shot that day? Why won't anyone say that. Why won't the President say that? |
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When they talk about these issues and problems....why is it no one talks about the issue of urban families raising urban youth who are criminals. Why don't they talk about the problem of urban youth not respecting themselves, their families, their neighborhood, other people, laws. Why is it always the "Police" are the problem? Why won't anyone say that if Michael Brown didn't rob a store at 1145 in the morning he would not have been shot that day? Why won't anyone say that. Why won't the President say that? Because that is a much more difficult narrative that goes to individual personal responsibility and a general break down of certain racial demographics and communities in their values and culture (the same racial groups and communities that helped elect The Obama). Trying to change voting individuals is fraught with problems and drawbacks, whereas shifting the narrative to the "police" as the real problem is much more popular, has little blowback politically and ultimately keeps the votes from the affected racial demographics coming in. |
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If he were honest he would say: Communities of color ARE CAUSING these problems. |
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Quoted: If he were honest he would say: Communities of color ARE CAUSING these problems. Quoted: If he were honest he would say: Communities of color ARE CAUSING these problems. and who is getting voted into these communities |
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"They are understandable upset about the verdict"....... I guess his mind was made up......Stir it up SSDD: Remember the Henry Louis Gates incident of July 2009 But I think it's fair to say, No. 1, any of us would be pretty angry; No. 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, No. 3 ... that there's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately." Circa 2007: “The people down in New Orleans they don’t care about as much!” Obama shouts in the video, which was shot in June of 2007 at Hampton University in Virginia. By contrast, survivors of Sept. 11 and Hurricane Andrew received generous amounts of aid, Obama explains. The reason? Unlike residents of majority-black New Orleans, the federal government considers those victims “part of the American family.” …Obama begins his address with “a special shout out” to Jeremiah Wright, the Chicago pastor who nearly derailed Obama’s campaign months later when his sermons attacking Israel and America and accusing the U.S. government of “inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color” became public. To the audience at Hampton, Obama describes Wright as, “my pastor, the guy who puts up with me, counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He’s a friend and a great leader. Not just in Chicago, but all across the country.” ….“America will survive. Just like black folks will survive. We won’t forget where we came from. We won’t forget what happened 19 months ago, or 15 years ago, or 300 years ago.” And of course from "his" writings: \"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling conventions. We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated. But this strategy alone couldn't provide the distance I wanted, from Joyce or my past. After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerant. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names." "I don’t believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of Jim Crow and slavery has not gone away. It is not an accident that African-Americans experience high crime rates, are poor, and have less wealth. It is a direct result of our racial history." |