Obama reminds me of an old close classmate from back in the day that you have to see less to stay close with for old times sake... I fucks with 'em, but can't fuck with 'em.
Obama says 'institutional constraints' kept him from commenting on killings of Black Americans
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Everything but get re-elected, and that's what Obama was trying to do. Which is no excuse for being 'restrained' in his second term, too.
You find it hard to believe a black man couldn't get away with what a white guy did/does?
Didn’t stop Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Harding, Coolidge or Eisenhower.
you coons are funny.
Trump is also a one termers who was impeached twice and being criminally prosecuted as we speak.
Any of those guys black?
I respect the upfront asshole and or racist. Biden is just as racist
None of that shit matters to the people he hit shit done for. Obama could have done Executive orders as well but he's too pussy. Matter fact he did bailout the banks and made big moves for the homosexual community
You can’t even spell faggot and should never refer to anyone as mentally ill when you beat down women like they are punching bags.
you should talk less and listen more, you Lennie from “Of Mice and Men” wannabe
All 6 are so-called black as stated by the records, which include their own words. Why else would I mention them? You pro-libertines know nothing about history
You can’t even spell faggot and should never refer to anyone as mentally ill when you beat down women like they are punching bags.
you should talk less and listen more, you Lennie from “Of Mice and Men” wannabe
You are a bitch made faggit. I beat down men who wanna be women. Fuck you at so I can fulfill my mission?
No your not supposed to be shook by it...your supposed to CONFIRM if the video was accurate which it clearly isn't...I was gonna post the original video but then I thought they're just trolling...
Again it's just joker in it for the irritation
youre right calling you a moron was wrong....youre really just a troll..
carry on
George Bush signed the law that bailed out the banks and the states/courts is were the homosexual community gained rights, etc...
Now tell me what executive orders do you think Obama should have issued??
executive orders get repealed by the next guy and trump demonstrated by tearing down nearly everything obama did by EO with his own EOs... ask the trannies who got kicked out of the military (this after trump told the lgbt community he would fight for them...guess he forgot what the T stood for)
so whats your point again?
oh you mean that section of wiki that saysAll 6 are so-called black as stated by the records, which include their own words. Why else would I mention them? You pro-libertines know nothing about history
Unsubstantiated claims that presidents had African ancestry
Claims that certain U.S. presidents other than Barack Obama had African or African-American ancestry have been made by the historian William Estabrook Chancellor, amateur historian J. A. Rogers, ophthalmologist Leroy William Vaughn,[10] and Auset BaKhufu. All but Chancellor base their theories chiefly on the work of J. A. Rogers, who apparently self-published a pamphlet in 1965 claiming that five presidents of the United States, widely accepted as white, also had African ancestry.[11] Vaughn's and BaKhufu's books also appear to have been self-published.[12]
Historians' and biographers' studies of these presidents have not supported such claims, nor have the claims been published in any peer-reviewed journal.[13] These authors are generally ignored by scholars. They repeat each other's material and are classified as "rumormongers and amateur historians."[14] Vaughn and BaKhufu have added little substantive research to their claims, although there has been extensive new documentation of the potential African heritage of other presidents in the decades since Rogers published his pamphlet.
African heritage of presidents of the United States - Wikipedia
again..joker
The next guy ok..in the meanwhile your helping your people.
Even before taking office in January 2009, Obama had signed on to the previous Bush administration's drastic, but politically unpopular, plan to directly infuse up to $700 billion in taxpayer-backed loans into the U.S. banking industry.
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Without providing that liquidity, working capital and credit lines to healthy businesses, big and small, would have dried up. That would have translated into no money for producing products, making payroll, hiring vendors, keeping the lights on and nearly anything else you can think of as essential to operating a company and the economy.
Even a short-term credit disruption could have been devastating.
As a Democrat taking over from a Republican administration, Obama could have made a political calculation to let the opposing party stew in its own troubles. Instead, he realized the country was facing an extraordinary financial crisis and that a massive infusion of cold hard cash from the Federal Reserve, which acts as bank lender of last resort, was the fastest way to break the fever.
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It didn't stop with the banks. In the early days of his presidency, Obama also backed an estimated $80 billion bailout of the foundering American auto industry, which ended up saving thousands of jobs throughout the heartland and beyond.
Because of the bailout, the U.S. auto industry retooled, raised efficiency standards and avoided massive shutdowns. (Ultimately, the bailout ended up costing taxpayers about $9 billion, according to the Treasury Department.)
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Obama also supported an estimated $800 billion economic stimulus package that pumped money into public works projects and, by extension, the national economy, which in January 2009 alone had lost over 500,000 jobs .
Fast forward a few years and times have changed for the better.
The banks, having paid back those low-cost loans, are lending again and enjoying an earnings rebound. Same for the auto industry, which is tallying up accelerated vehicle sales.
Did Obama do everything right in this massive financial crisis and is everything great? The answer: No.
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For instance, his administration didn't aggressively go after the Wall Street and white-collar criminals who illegally exploited the financial, banking and mortgage-lending system.
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Instead, it backed bank regulations like Dodd-Frank to attack systemic Wall Street and banking excesses.
Still the economy has steadily improved under Obama's watch. Unemployment, a main economic indicator, is dropping and job creation is up.
In December, the jobless rate was 4.7 percent, with the country adding 156,000 jobs, according to the Labor Department. Last year's net employment gain was 2.2 million jobs; the year before it was 2.7 million.
However, real wage increases have been slow in coming, with only a modest 2.9 percent gain in 2016 compared with the year before, according to the department.
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We don't exactly know how President-elect Donald Trump's economic plan is going to shape up. Basically, he talks of keeping U.S. jobs at home, curtailing foreign trade and boosting domestic household incomes more than Obama ever did.
That remains to be seen, obviously.
But this much is clear: Outgoing President Obama is leaving President-elect Trump a pretty impressive Inauguration Day present: A strong, functional U.S. economy.
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No, I mean actual texts and artifacts from the time period they were running as well as books written on the topics. Not my job to do your research for you as you’ll never learn but you can start here. Good luck:oh you mean that section of wiki that says
Unsubstantiated claims that presidents had African ancestry
Claims that certain U.S. presidents other than Barack Obama had African or African-American ancestry have been made by the historian William Estabrook Chancellor, amateur historian J. A. Rogers, ophthalmologist Leroy William Vaughn,[10] and Auset BaKhufu. All but Chancellor base their theories chiefly on the work of J. A. Rogers, who apparently self-published a pamphlet in 1965 claiming that five presidents of the United States, widely accepted as white, also had African ancestry.[11] Vaughn's and BaKhufu's books also appear to have been self-published.[12]
Historians' and biographers' studies of these presidents have not supported such claims, nor have the claims been published in any peer-reviewed journal.[13] These authors are generally ignored by scholars. They repeat each other's material and are classified as "rumormongers and amateur historians."[14] Vaughn and BaKhufu have added little substantive research to their claims, although there has been extensive new documentation of the potential African heritage of other presidents in the decades since Rogers published his pamphlet.
African heritage of presidents of the United States - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
again..joker
The Five Negro Presidents: According to what White People Said They Were|Paperback
Historian Joel Augustus Rogers provides his evidence that there have been nineteenth- and twentieth-century presidents of the United States who had partial black ancestry, including Harding, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln.
His fatal flaw was not understanding the true nature of most cacs because of his family/upbringing.
Either way you look at it, its unacceptable. I'm am inclined to think that he was scared tho, because he knows how racist these cacs are and he did a bunch of shit for the fags. He knew that was politically safer. He couldn't even say blacks deserve reparations. I think he came out against it. That's some inexcusable shit right there. Whats the point of having a nigga in the white house if niggas dont get anything from it.
ppl always bring up "he did a bunch of shit for fags", what was this significant "BUNCH OF SHIT" ,?
he told ppl to not discriminate against their civil rights ! thats it ! and that aint stop folks from discriminating against them anyway ..
i really wanna know what these BUNCH OF SHIT was , all i see is regurgitate undercover rightwing talkin point
he told ppl to not discriminate against their civil rights ! thats it ! and that aint stop folks from discriminating against them anyway ..
i really wanna know what these BUNCH OF SHIT was , all i see is regurgitate undercover rightwing talkin point
He knew y'all Mofos talk a good game, but if it goes down y'all would be nowhere in sight.
All but Chancellor base their theories chiefly on the work of J. A. Rogers, who apparently self-published a pamphlet in 1965 claiming that five presidents of the United States, widely accepted as white, also had African ancestry.[11] Vaughn's and BaKhufu's books also appear to have been self-published.[12]No, I mean actual texts and artifacts from the time period they were running as well as books written on the topics. Not my job to do your research for you as you’ll never learn but you can start here. Good luck:
The Five Negro Presidents: According to what White People Said They Were|Paperback
Historian Joel Augustus Rogers provides his evidence that there have been nineteenth- and twentieth-century presidents of the United States who had partial black ancestry, including Harding, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln.m.barnesandnoble.com
Joel Augustus Rogers = J.A. Rogers
but all of that is beside the point your using unproven rumors and hearsay quotes to say what??
Abraham Lincoln described himself c. 1838–39 as "black" and his "complexion" in 1859 as "dark"...
you do know that when white people say the phrase TALL DARK AND HANDSOME..theyre NOT talking about Denzel Washington...theyre talking about Richard Gere (for the record Gere is of Anglo-Irish descent)
Theyre concept of dark and black in refererence to themselves and each other is does NOT include African features or ancestry. You should know this
either post the original video or JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP !No your not supposed to be shook by it...your supposed to CONFIRM if the video was accurate which it clearly isn't...I was gonna post the original video but then I thought they're just trolling...
Again it's just joker in it for the irritation
youre right calling you a moron was wrong....youre really just a troll..
carry on
Do you follow that Twitter account bitch ass nigha? Be honest...
Naw cuz... He's the one testing the waters. Trying to see if we remember how much bizatch he really had in him...we do..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
bruh ! everyday reveals a new level of the true nature of these cats/CACS on the bgol streets! i start smdhdudes posting and liking fake vids.....
dudes posting opinions and rumors and trying to claim it as facts.....
and these are the supposed intelligent members of the board.
then i remember why i keep forgetting its a porn board
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...
False claim: Obama rejected democratic ideals by saying that “ordinary men and women are too small minded to govern their own affairs”
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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 we have worked for generations to build. Ordinary men and women are too small minded to govern their own affairs. That order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign.” The excerpt lacks context and is misleading.
Example posts sharing the excerpt can be found here , here , and here .
The video is extracted from a speech made by President Obama on March 26, 2014 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium, while traveling for meetings with European Union and NATO allies. Obama expressed the need for NATO to boost its presence in eastern European countries that felt vulnerable to Russia after its annexation of Crimea ( here ).
The full transcript of the speech, visible on C-SPAN here , shows that Obama said, “Leaders and dignitaries of the European Union, representatives of our NATO alliance, distinguished guests, we meet here at a moment of testing for Europe and the United States and for the international order that we have worked for generations to build.”
Later in his remarks, he contrasted “the belief that through conscience and free will, each of us has the right to live as we choose, the belief that power is derived from the consent of the governed and that laws and institutions should be established to protect that understanding” with what he described as “the alternative vision” propagated by countries like Russia. This alternative vision,” he said, “argues that ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs, that order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign.”
VERDICT
False. Former president Barack Obama’s words were cropped and taken out of context.
This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our work to fact-check social media posts here .
These mutherfuckers be on some James O"Keefe 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...www.reuters.com
False claim: Obama rejected democratic ideals by saying that “ordinary men and women are too small minded to govern their own affairs”
By Reuters Staff
3 MIN READ
Reuters Fact Check. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt
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 we have worked for generations to build. Ordinary men and women are too small minded to govern their own affairs. That order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign.” The excerpt lacks context and is misleading.
Example posts sharing the excerpt can be found here , here , and here .
The video is extracted from a speech made by President Obama on March 26, 2014 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium, while traveling for meetings with European Union and NATO allies. Obama expressed the need for NATO to boost its presence in eastern European countries that felt vulnerable to Russia after its annexation of Crimea ( here ).
The full transcript of the speech, visible on C-SPAN here , shows that Obama said, “Leaders and dignitaries of the European Union, representatives of our NATO alliance, distinguished guests, we meet here at a moment of testing for Europe and the United States and for the international order that we have worked for generations to build.”
Later in his remarks, he contrasted “the belief that through conscience and free will, each of us has the right to live as we choose, the belief that power is derived from the consent of the governed and that laws and institutions should be established to protect that understanding” with what he described as “the alternative vision” propagated by countries like Russia. This alternative vision,” he said, “argues that ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs, that order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign.”
VERDICT
False. Former president Barack Obama’s words were cropped and taken out of context.
This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our work to fact-check social media posts here .
The next time I type "Obama did a bunch of shit for the fags", this is what I'm talking about. Its easier to type what I typed than to type all this shit lol.
Barack Obama[edit]
Illinois state senator[edit]
Obama supported legalizing same-sex marriage when he first ran for the Illinois State Senate in 1996.[280] When he ran for re-election to the Illinois Senate in 1998, he was undecided about legalizing same-sex marriage and supported including sexual orientation to the state's non-discrimination laws.[281][282] During his time as a state senator he cosponsored a bill amending the Illinois Human Rights Act to include protections for LGBT people which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the workplace, housing, and all public places and supported Illinois gender violence act.
U.S. Senator from Illinois[edit]
Obama supported civil unions, but opposed same-sex marriage when he ran for the U.S. Senate in 2004 and for U.S. President in 2008.[280] He supported civil unions that would carry equal legal standing to that of marriage for same-sex couples, but believed that decisions about the title of marriage should be left to the states.[283][284]
During his time as senator, Obama co-sponsored the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, Tax Equity for Domestic Partner and Health Plan Beneficiaries Act, and Early Treatment for HIV Act.[285][286]
In the 109th United States Congress, Obama received a score of 89% by the Human Rights Campaign.[286]
In 2006, Obama voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would have defined marriage as between one man and one woman in the U.S. Constitution.[287]
In 2007, Senator Obama said he opposed the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and the don't ask, don't tell policy when it passed and supported repealing it. He also said that homosexuality is not a choice, he supported adoption rights for same-sex couples, and he would work as president to extend the 1,000 federal rights granted to marriage couples to couples in civil unions. He also voted for the Kennedy Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 that would expand federal jurisdiction to reach serious, violent hate crimes perpetrated because of the victim's sexual orientation and gender identity and the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act.[282][285]
In the 2008 presidential election, he expressed his opposition to state constitutional bans on same-sex marriage in California, and Florida on the November ballot,[288][289][290] but stated in a 2008 interview that he personally believes that marriage is "between a man and a woman" and that he is "not in favor of gay marriage."[291] In the 110th United States Congress, Obama received a score of 94% by the Human Rights Campaign.[286] In the 2008 election, Obama received the endorsement of the following gay rights organizations: Houston GLBT Political Caucus,[292] Human Rights Campaign,[293] and the National Stonewall Democrats.[294][295]
Presidency[edit]
Main article: Social policy of the Barack Obama administration
First Term[edit]
Barack Obama took many definitively pro-LGBT stances. In March 2009, his administration reversed Bush administration policy and signed the U.N. declaration that calls for the decriminalization of homosexuality.[296] In June 2009, Obama became the first president to declare the month of June to be LGBT pride month; President Clinton had declared June Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.[254][297] Obama did so again in June 2010,[298] June 2011,[299] June 2012,[300] June 2013,[301] June 2014,[302][303] June 2015,[304] and June 2016.[305]
On June 17, 2009, President Obama signed a presidential memorandum allowing same-sex partners of federal employees to receive certain benefits. The memorandum does not cover full health coverage.[306] On October 28, 2009, Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which added gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability to the federal hate crimes law.[307]
In October 2009, he nominated Sharon Lubinski to become the first openly gay U.S. marshal to serve the Minnesota district.[308]
On January 4, 2010, he appointed Amanda Simpson the Senior Technical Advisor to the Department of Commerce, making her the first openly transgender person appointed to a government post by a U.S. President.[309][310][311] He has appointed the most U.S. gay and lesbian officials of any U.S. president.[312]
At the start of 2010, the Obama administration included gender identity among the classes protected against discrimination under the authority of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). On April 15, 2010, Obama issued an executive order to the Department of Health and Human Services that required medical facilities to grant visitation and medical decision-making rights to same-sex couples.[313] In June 2010, he expanded the Family Medical Leave Act to cover employees taking unpaid leave to care for the children of same-sex partners.[314] On December 22, 2010, Obama signed the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 into law.[315]
On February 23, 2011, President Obama instructed the Justice Department to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court.[316]
In March 2011, the U.S. issued a nonbinding declaration in favor of gay rights that gained the support of more than 80 countries at the U.N.[317] In June 2011, the U.N. endorsed the rights of gay, lesbian, and transgender people for the first time, by passing a resolution that was backed by the U.S., among other countries.[317]
On August 18, 2011, the Obama administration announced that it would suspend deportation proceedings against many undocumented immigrants who pose no threat to national security or public safety, with the White House interpreting the term "family" to include partners of lesbian, gay and bisexual people.[318]
On September 30, 2011, the Defense Department issued new guidelines that allow military chaplains to officiate at same-sex weddings, on or off military installations, in states where such weddings are allowed.[319]
On December 5, 2011, the Obama administration announced the United States would use all the tools of American diplomacy, including the potent enticement of foreign aid, to promote LGBT rights around the world.[320]
In March and April 2012, Obama expressed his opposition to state constitutional bans on same-sex marriage in North Carolina, and Minnesota.[321]
On May 3, 2012, the Federal Bureau of Prisons has agreed to add an LGBT representative to the diversity program at each of the 120 prisons it operates in the United States.[322]
On May 9, 2012, Obama publicly supported same-sex marriage, the first sitting U.S. President to do so. Obama told an interviewer that:[323]
In the 2012 election, Obama received the endorsement of the following gay rights organizations: Equal Rights Washington, Fair Wisconsin, Gay-Straight Alliance Network,[324][325] Human Rights Campaign,[326] and the National Stonewall Democrats. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) gave Obama a score of 100% on the issue of gays and lesbians in the U.S. military and a score of 75% on the issue of freedom to marry for gay people.[327]
Second Term[edit]
On January 7, 2013, the Pentagon agreed to pay full separation pay to service members discharged under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."[328]
Obama also called for full equality during his second inaugural address on January 21, 2013: "Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law—for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well." It was the first mention of rights for gays and lesbians or use of the word gay in an inaugural address.[329][330]
On March 1, 2013, Obama, speaking about Hollingsworth v. Perry, the U.S. Supreme Court case about Proposition 8, said "When the Supreme Court asks do you think that the California law, which doesn't provide any rationale for discriminating against same-sex couples other than just the notion that, well, they're same-sex couples—if the Supreme Court asks me or my attorney general or solicitor general, 'Do we think that meets constitutional muster?' I felt it was important for us to answer that question honestly. And the answer is no." The administration took the position that the Supreme Court should apply "heightened scrutiny" to California's ban—a standard under which legal experts say no state ban could survive.[331]
On August 7, 2013, Obama criticized the Russian gay propaganda law.[332]
On December 26, 2013, President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 into law, which repealed the ban on consensual sodomy in the UCMJ.[333]
On February 16, 2014, Obama criticized the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014.[334]
On February 28, 2014, Obama agreed with the Governor of Arizona Jan Brewer's veto of SB 1062.[335]
Obama included openly gay athletes in the 2014 Olympic delegation, namely Brian Boitano and Billie Jean King (who was later replaced by Caitlin Cahow).[336][337] This was done in criticism of Russia's anti-gay law.[337]
On July 21, 2014, President Obama signed Executive Order 13672, adding "gender identity" to the categories protected against discrimination in hiring in the federal civilian workforce and both "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" to the categories protected against discrimination in hiring and employment on the part of federal government contractors and sub-contractors.[43]
Obama was criticized for meeting with anti-gay Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni at a dinner with African heads of state in August 2014.[338]
Later in August 2014, Obama made a surprise video appearance at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Gay Games.[339][340]
On February 10, 2015, David Axelrod's Believer: My Forty Years in Politics was published. In the book, Axelrod revealed that President Barack Obama lied about his opposition to same-sex marriage for religious reasons in 2008 United States presidential election. "I'm just not very good at bullshitting," Obama told Axelrod, after an event where he stated his opposition to same-sex marriage, according to the book.[341]
In 2015, the U.S. appointed Randy Berry as its first Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBT Persons.[342]
In April 2015, the Obama administration announced it had opened a gender-neutral bathroom within the White House complex, located in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next door to the West Wing.[343] President Obama also responded to a petition seeking to ban conversion therapy (inspired by the death of Leelah Alcorn) with his pledge to advocate for such a ban.[344]
Also in 2015, when President Obama declared May to be National Foster Care Month, he included words never before included in a White House proclamation about adoption, stating in part, "With so many children waiting for loving homes, it is important to ensure all qualified caregivers have the opportunity to serve as foster or adoptive parents, regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status. That is why we are working to break down the barriers that exist and investing in efforts to recruit more qualified parents for children in foster care." He was the first president to explicitly say gender identity should not prevent anyone from adopting or becoming a foster parent.[345]
On October 29, 2015, President Barack Obama endorsed Proposition 1 in Houston, Texas.[346]
On November 10, 2015, Obama officially announced his support for the Equality Act of 2015.[347]
In June 2016, President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met with the victims and families of victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting. Obama and Biden laid 49 bouquets of white roses to memorialize the 49 people killed in the tragedy impacting the LGBTQ community.[348]
On June 24, 2016, President Obama designated the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan, as the first national monument in the United States to honor the LGBT rights movement.[209]
On October 20, 2016, Obama endorsed Kate Brown as Governor of Oregon.[349] On November 8, Brown became the first openly LGBT person to be elected governor in the United States. Brown is a bisexual woman who has also come out as a survivor of sexual assault and domestic violence.[350][351] Before being elected in her own right, Brown had assumed the governorship due to a resignation. During that time, she signed legislation to ban conversion therapy on minors.[352]
your tweet is lie..its on youtube...search it...
give you a hint: President Obama on March 26, 2014 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium
put that in the search and see what you get and we'll see if you have the guts to post the original video here..
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In fact, on his wiki page, there is a whole subsection titled "LGBT Rights". How the first Black president have a LGBT rights section, but no reparations section?
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