Obama says 'institutional constraints' kept him from commenting on killings of Black Americans
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We knew Obama lives and operates ina. Totally different socioeconomic class than the majority of blacks in America so I don’t know what people expected here. I keep on saying class trumps race in a lot of areas but folks don’t listen.
from the moment I seen Obama in 07 or 06 I remember him debating Alan Keyes I knew they nigga was nothing like us. I actually felt Alan keys minus the Blanton coining for a job was more relatable than Obama.
from the moment I seen Obama in 07 or 06 I remember him debating Alan Keyes I knew they nigga was nothing like us. I actually felt Alan keys minus the Blanton coining for a job was more relatable than Obama.
I think folk are missing what he is saying. Institionally this shit is rigged against black men. He’s saying it flat out. There was nothing he could do in 8 years to move the needle over 400 years. He’s right.
dude your responses have been reasonable and well explained and you may as welll be talking to megan kelly's asshole for the good it will do.
these guys aren't about reasonable debate its just scattershot bitching and moaning designed specifically to discourage and demoralize with no viable alternative offered.
it is rigged but with that power if you really about it you go to jail like a G.
I know the game is rigged they need blacks to be blacks they don’t want us doing better.
Bruh... The "hit house nigha will holla" ... He hollered.
This thread needs a sticky
Holla about what..correcting some bullshit misconception purposely put out for bullshit reasons.
YesHolla about what..correcting some bullshit misconception purposely put out for bullshit reasons.
He did speak on the killings of Tamir Rice and Trayvon Martin, even going so far as to publicly say that that Trayvon could have been his son. He did speak on the killing of Michael Brown and Alton Sterling. I would just like to know what more his detractors believe he could have done in addition to referring all three to the Justice Department for investigation. People forget in these cases a President is constrained by states jurisdictional authority and able to do only so much, and a black President facing a backlash from whites thinking he's pro black and blacks thinking he's not black enough even more so.
People react simplistically to complex situations and become angry when what they feel should happen doesn't and instead put a face to their disappointment and in this case blame Obama with no regard for the real machinations at play .
Yeah, okay... Like I said, some people have simplistic views and unrealistic solutions for every problem. I'd just ask you to rethink your comment that "A president can do what they want when they're in office; especially one who's secured his 2nd term". Nixon thought so too and had to resign even after winning re-election in a landside.
Exactly, he measured his words to often when addressing black folks. But understand if he said we have a problem with policing and it's infiltrated with kkk, Faux news would have dialed up the rhetoric to 17 instead of 13.
They are delusional about fucking Tim Tebow abilities, you think they believe the stats the government put out about white militants? After that information came out, who did they focus on? Black identity Extremists.
They used to hold cac's somewhat responsible. Now we have congressmen saying the attack on the Capitol was basically a tour.
We haven't even hit bottom yet, cause old ass Joe is still trying to work with people that follow Trump.
But here’s the deal — the real deal — there actually wasn’t a two year supermajority.
This timeline shows the facts.
President Obama was sworn in on January 20, 2009 with just 58 Senators to support his agenda.
He should have had 59, but Republicans contested Al Franken’s election in Minnesota and he didn’t get seated for seven months.
The President’s cause was helped in April when Pennsylvania’s Republican Senator Arlen Specter switched parties.
That gave the President 59 votes — still a vote shy of the super majority.
But one month later, Democratic Senator Byrd of West Virginia was hospitalized and was basically out of commission.
So while the President’s number on paper was 59 Senators — he was really working with just 58 Senators.
Then in July, Minnesota Senator Al Franken was finally sworn in, giving President Obama the magic 60 — but only in theory, because Senator Byrd was still out.
In August, Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts died and the number went back down to 59 again until Paul Kirk temporarily filled Kennedy’s seat in September.
Any pretense of a supermajority ended on February 4, 2010 when Republican Scott Brown was sworn into the seat Senator Kennedy once held.Do you see a two-year supermajority?
Debunking the Myth: Obama's Two-Year Supermajority
Mitt Romney's at it again -- shading the truth on CBS News' <i>60 Minutes</i>. He's perpetuating the false Republican narrative that President Obama should have gotten more done during his first two years in office because he had a supermajority in the Senate.www.huffpost.com
If by collateral you mean black people as well as others benefit from a policy what is wrong with that? In this day and age it would be political suicide for Obama or any President to propose legislation that was specifically and exclusively for one group or another. Can you imagine a Bill being pushed in Congress that specifically stated it was for whites only? As for legislation progressed for homosexuals as far as I know any that has passed had to do with them receiving civil rights enjoyed by everyone else.
You'd be politically naive if you think that in this divided and racist nation tax paying white people wouldn't revolt if their money was being siphoned off and earmarked for blacks only. That is why reparations is a pipe dream. You might say so what let them be angry. But you have to realize that anger metastasizes into more angry white people showing up at the polls and the subsequent election of those who don't want any progressive program that would mostly benefit blacks and other people of color.
Thankfully Obama was a pragmatist who recognized in the face of total bigoted Republican obstructionism any hope of getting anything passed that would benefit us primarily required political skill, negotiation and the realization that no one ever gets all they want when they want and rightly or wrongly economic fairness in this country comes incrementally and all you can do is keep on pushing.
hmmmm... good read
@shaddyvillethug sez to sticky this ! its very revealing as always
Who left the gate open?
My niggas always spitting that fire
This is something that I wish the black democrats on here would realize one day before its too late.
This is the exact reason why I went independent. I started seeing and hearing white republicans and white democrats sound more and more alike on issues pertaining to black folk and what's worse - I observed white democrats GO SILENT ON BLACK ISSUES when their voices could have aided situations. Its not that they were unaware, its that it wasn't an election year, so they had nothing to gain.
Fuck all of 'em.
Even now, I see white liberals like Bill Maher slowly turning into old republicans (seemingly every time he opens his mouth). Eventually, they all start to acknowledge and embrace their supremacy.
Fuck all politicians and the medias that support them.
Do for self and if others want to join, do so. We don't need them; we just need to do shit for ourselves and NOT INCLUDE THEM.
If trump said it he would have said its a fucking white country..
but please elaborate on how what biden said is controversial?
I think one of their main reasons is fear from the Republicans on the other side.
HYON
If was not just killings of blacks in America. What our tax dollars paid for was to genocide the blacks in Libya. Even to this day they are being sold into slavery or killed their because of our love for white power. The president seat is one of satan's highest seat. Cynthia McKinney learned that the hard way.
are you a moron?? no seriously...you don't hear the edits in that speech??
rememeber the Shirley Sherrod incident?? Where breitbart cacs posted a edited version of her speech to make it look like she was racist...check the video
and now today they can do video fakes and all kinds of shit..
Come on dude...don't play into that shit
False claim: Obama rejected democratic ideals by saying that “ordinary men and women are too small minded to govern their own affairs”
A video shared hundreds of thousands of times on Facebook is edited to falsely depict former president Barack Obama rejecting democratic ideals and calling for individuals to submit to totalitarianism. The clip shows Obama making a speech in which he says, “…and for the international order that...
are you a moron?? no seriously...you don't hear the edits in that speech??
rememeber the Shirley Sherrod incident?? Where breitbart cacs posted a edited version of her speech to make it look like she was racist...check the video
and now today they can do video fakes and all kinds of shit..
Come on dude...don't play into that shit
I be wondering on these bgol streets most these days now, Trump n that mindset unleashed a monster into the public sphere unlike anyone or anything b4... it's not only bgol but in bgol defense this is porn board..so ..
False claim: Obama rejected democratic ideals by saying that “ordinary men and women are too small minded to govern their own affairs”
A video shared hundreds of thousands of times on Facebook is edited to falsely depict former president Barack Obama rejecting democratic ideals and calling for individuals to submit to totalitarianism. The clip shows Obama making a speech in which he says, “…and for the international order that...
It's 2021!! White folks still mad about Barack , they will never let it go, it's almost 5years since Barack dipped and their minions still keeping the fake outrage going 
why dont you go sit in a corner and ask more stupid questions of the BGOL community , like " Which day do you cut your toenails on ....Monday or Tuesday ?
The edits you're referring to is the video replaying. It's very easy to read his lips and confirm that he did say everything in the video .
Name calling , it really funny when the same immature people keep doing it . I guess I'm supposed to be shook by it .
Its hard to believe that Obama was constrained when trump came in and did whatever the fuck he wanted to do.
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