Your POTUS: Kaepernick should think about pain he could cause with protest
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BOOM!!!
BlackPainDoesNotMatterWhileEveryoneElsePainDoes
Fuck dey feelins! Our men, women, and children are being slain by these corrupt fascist.
Fuck dey feelins! Our men, women, and children are being slain by these corrupt fascist.
Bullshit and when will Obama even think about being honest ?
What Kap is doing has nothing to do with veterans or the flag and if Obama even tried to be honest he would be saying what Kap is doing and not trying to even give credibility to the narrative that it has anything to do with disrespect of veterans.
And while he is on it maybe he could speak on how this country disrespected black veterans from ww1 ww2 Vietnam and Korea who gave their lives and came home to the racism that is behind people getting shot.
Kap explained clearly his respect for vets and exactly what he is protesting by not standing for a racist song.
So why does Obama feel the need to allow what he is doing to be defined contrary to what was said ?
He has continually punked up by allowing BLM and other protests to be made out to be anbti-police so he always feels the needs to talk about the good police.
Just stop excusing this bullshit
He might be the best white president ever.
and he is hedging in the full video the half video ..
didn't he make one statement when Kap first knelt ? So why is he still talking about it ?
Who is he trying to sooth ? The 25 or so black folks killed by police since ?
I'm numb at this point really
When will he apologize for all the people who stand to show respect for a racist song that celebrates the murder ,enslavement and oppression of black people.
When will he apologize to those of us who feel pain because we have had loved ones lynched and murdered under the color of authority ?
Ridiculous you say because that isn't why they are standing ?
Well why can they define the kneeling protest but I can't define their standing ?
When will he apologize to those of us who feel pain because we have had loved ones lynched and murdered under the color of authority ?
Ridiculous you say because that isn't why they are standing ?
Well why can they define the kneeling protest but I can't define their standing ?
Basically... .... Folk ain't read his entire statement but take a piece and make it seem that's all he said..
Folk getting got by sound bites as usual
if you got any of what you said out of what Obama said, youre purposefully being a dick.
no HONEST or RATIONAL person can be negative about someone saying: see it from the other persons perspective instead of just yours.
Ok Brother, I understand what you're saying.
This is the thing. People are irritated at Barack because when it comes to the issue of Black Lives Mattering, he is something between a fence-sitter and a bullshitter. On the issue of police murdering unarmed Black folks amd getting away with it - he always has said something like, "Most of our police officers are fair and just and risk their lives daily for our safety". This doesn't need to be said. First of all it's not necessarily a true statement as police commanders and chiefs, states attorneys, crooked police review boards, police unions and fellow officers who lie or remain silent - are all complicit in cops getting away with murder. Secondly, cops who do their jobs correctly are not the issue. To mention them in the same breath as the epidemic of Blacks being murdered by the police is to minimize the main issue. It suggests the problem is 'not all that bad' when it really is all that bad. The entire justice system needs a severe overhaul.
As for Kap, protest is not polite. It does not exist within proper designated spaces. It is meant to disrupt and to agitate. It happens as a reaction to unaddressed oppression. Yes Barack is telling the young soldier the other side of the coin. However Barack's saying, Colin should be aware...is horse shit. Colin already knows all that. This is PROTEST. IT is not meant to be polite. The larger issue is unprosecuted police violence. If these soldiers died for a fucking flag and a song (neither of which honored us), then something is seriously wrong. If they were sent to manufactured conflicts to risk their lives for the express purpose of imperialism and making rich neo-cons richer, then something is seriously wrong. The narrative of what we saw on that video was VERY skewed. The implication is that asserting that our Black lives matter might just offend "somebody". That somebody in this case being families of people who lost loved ones to war. So then, Colin should be more considerate, perhaps. That is the implication. Obama just doesn't want to come out and say America has failed Black people. He doesn't want to say it STILL is failing us. He doesn't want to say that flag and anthem never was for us - that we were enslaved when both were created. He doesn't want to say that "the land of the free and the home of the brave" was a boldfaced lie. He doesn't want to say that it was a lie because Black folks weren't free - and the white motherfuckers who supported that system of bondage and oppression for hundreds of years were nothing but cowards.
But he SHOULD say those things because they are true. He should say it because it speaks to the larger issue of historic insitutionalized racism and white supremacy and how it underpins both these racist unprosecuted murders and the negative reactions to Colin's protest.
If I go to the doctor because I got shot in my foot, how would it look for the doctor to say: "Whoa that's a nasty wound, but look, your other foot is just fine!" And then that doctor hands me a band-aid and sends me home bleeding? This is what our Black president does in regard to our oppression. People are tired of it.
This is how I interpreted it when he said it last night at the town hall.
Fucking Obama is a GREAT wordsmith, he knows what the fuck he is implying. Man fuck him with this get over it bullshit. Soldiers and those that have died are heroes!!!!, but not fucking police that are killing people DAILY state to fucking STATE.
yet they can arrest white folks that have gone on fucking killing sprees.
Obama is such a middle of the fucking road disappointment.
yet they can arrest white folks that have gone on fucking killing sprees.
Obama is such a middle of the fucking road disappointment.
Bro
At the dedication of the African American museum last week he specifically mentioned LGBTQ
I turn off the TV right after
He doesn't mention black people when talking about gay rights
In fat where are the fucking gay groups supporting black disenfranchisement?
and the fucking women groups?
He doesn't need to tell a soldier that
He needs to tell the fucking congress while he passes a police accountability bill
Fuck he want the soldier to do?
Feel sorry for us?
Fuck feelings
We need action
The Philippines President has more balls than O
This thread is bringing out ALL of the butt hurt CACs and Coons!
I voted for this fool. I still have the paper of him being sworn in. Obama is the black version of Clinton: someone who seemed cool and got us all hyped in believing that being cool and approachable was all we needed to govern the country.
I'm reminded of Tavis Smiley and Cornell West -- 2 dudes who been riding against this fool for the longest, and I'll be damned if they didn't turn out to be right after all. What seemed like hate in the beginning from them was really them holding Obama accountable. I want to apologize to Tavis for believing he was a hater. Cornell, however, is still out in the pasture...
These comments make you seem like one of Eddie Long's victims, who swears that Eddie is a "good man."
Imma say this: I strongly suggest that you don't wait until police brutality hits home for you. If nothing else, this fool lacks empathy for black people, and I don't care how much he's been Pinocchio'ed, even Clinton said F You to the Republicans who impeached him.
I swear the next time someone wants to say anything about some damn vets and the flag, I want them to go find 20 of those same veterans who were denied health care because of the long waits to see a doctor, and ask them what they think about that damn flag. Or ask the families of those vets who DIED while waiting for an appointment with a doctor. I'm sure you'll find some piss stains on their flag.
That's all I'm requesting.
Say some shit that is happening to black people is wrong without mentioning another side to it period.
That is not too much to ask.
The flag shit has nothing to do with veterans so why mention them?
This thread is bringing out ALL of the butt hurt CACs and Coons!
Not a cac nor am I a coon.
The soldier asks this question Obama says this has nothing to do with the military. It's not a protest against the military. It is a civil rights issue in which the military is fighting for their right to do so.
There is a problem in this country with our police killing its unarmed citizens. They are protesting because of the pain caused by those incidents so I would ask that you take a moment, listen to what they're saying and try to understand that as well as they respect the military and are exercising the very freedom you fight for.
I'm disappointed with some of yall.
I mean...some of yall are pretty smart, we'll read, even tempered.. and you obviously didn't watch the video.
Context is everything.
Some if yall never look at source material...you just show your ignorance on a regular basis.
No honest person can watch the video and still think dude answered badly.
I mean...some of yall are pretty smart, we'll read, even tempered.. and you obviously didn't watch the video.
Context is everything.
Some if yall never look at source material...you just show your ignorance on a regular basis.
No honest person can watch the video and still think dude answered badly.
I feel Barack's negligence to speak directly or exclusively to our issues points to a larger issue ...
...and that is that the majority population IS sensitive about their wrongdoings towards us, and no matter how wrong they are, the majority populations sensibilities must not be offended.
You see how they're acting about Kap and athletes of all levels following him with kneeling? They're throwing temper tantrums, and for what? They think we SHOULD feel America is great for us, despite what everyone can see playing out before us, and that only being ONE ASPECT of racism towards blacks? Nah. Its that oppressors don't even like the slightest indication that the oppressed are developing some sort of backbone.
Its like a dude who had a woman he was able to beat on with no fight back, have that woman swing on him one day. She's not entitled to that from his fucked up perspective, because his desire is to have her feel totally helpless before him, because that is the only way HE can feel powerful
Same with CACs.
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