I think this might be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen you post.

Far left racism is very dumb and serious. Its only gotten worse since Obama started a race war

by existing and winning an election

You’re comparing a time that was relatively soon after slavery had ended and blacks were not considered citizens but subhuman things to be swept under a rug and kept away from the good white folks.

Your ignorance is astounding if you think it’s similar and how dare you try to place your struggles on the same lines as blacks in the “golden days.”

You’re probably also one of those hacked up waffles who get offended by there being a Black Entertainment Network and also have no idea what the word “systemic” means.

Thanks again for showing us who the real snowflakes are.

This post was edited by IchBinDaddy on Jan 20 2019 04:32pm

A sucker punch in 2017. Ow my, clicky clicky.

:/ yawn

not a single cnn article

guess to a white leftist some blacks are less valuable than others =(

Well, not necessarily by existing and winning an election. But when he supported ideology that encouraged further racial division. Such as this (a public announcement around the time of the Alton Sterling shooting),

"What I can say is that all of us as Americans should be troubled by the news. These are not isolated incidents. They are symptomatic of a broader set of racial disparities that exist in our criminal justice system.…

African Americans are arrested at twice the rate of whites. African American defendants are 75% more likely to be charged with offenses carrying mandatory minimums. They receive sentences that are almost 10% longer than comparable whites arrested for the same crime.

So if you add it all up, the African American and Hispanic population, who make up only 30% of the general population, make up more than half of the incarcerated population. Now, these are facts.

And when incidents like this occur, there's a big chunk of our fellow citizenry that feels as if because of the color of their skin, they are not being treated the same. And that hurts. And that should trouble all of us."

Furthermore, combine that with Black Lives Matter, and the high profile events that took place which the media took a biased stance. Even in cases where officers weren't at fault, Darren Wilson/Michael Brown in the Ferguson shooting, the Alton Sterling shooting, and others. If a person actually dissects those cases, and evaluates them. You realize why the officers used deadly force. However, the general public was just fed news headlines that they just immediately ate up. I never heard any sort of public apology for those officers, or it wasn't made clear to me. However, officers like Darren Wilson lost their career and were forced to go into hiding due to safety concerns of the bias against them.

TL:DR. I wouldn't classify Obama as really the only reason or primary reason, I think at times he likely could have done more to help against racial division. But, there definitely is racism on both sides. The ideology that racism can only exist when a certain race holds a systemic power over another is false and flawed.

This post was edited by GLYC123 on Jan 20 2019 05:07pm

I focus on the worst which is government treatment of the poverty stricken specifically black and brown people through things like the drug war, not only police brutality but harassment and instigation that leads to more incarceration and more broken families . Terrible treatment of natives etc etc

I as a lifelong voter can't do much about low level racism between communities and families or racial gatekeeping which I personally despise that happens way too often but politically can address the bigger issues which do come through power with my power as an individual with the right to vote

The monster known as the internet has turned an uphill battle into a mountain because of everyone having a platform to do negative and counterproductive shit on everything from police brutality to racism to sexual harassment and violence

Ultimately none of us have to agree on a lot of this as long as we all agree on creating a fair justice system focused on rehabilitation and productively battling poverty

and overall we do improve and will improve some more. The bitterness and distrust and disdain between races does calm down over time as we all mix up more. The current political climate is damaging but a few terms of boring could calm that down too

Good post, I largely agree. I would, however, say that Obama could not have said or done anything to reduce racial tensions, simply because of who he is. If/when he called out real racism against minorities, it being him, the first black president, who's calling it out would/has only added additional fuel to the fire of white supremacists. On the other hand, if he had openly sided with white officiers in these cases, or officially denounced BLM, he would have been considered a race traitor by blacks. Had Obama done that, he would have massively increased their feeling of being discriminated against, it would have increased their racial resentment against whites and/or cops. On the other hand, had Obama spoken out more aggressively for criminal justice reform, racial quotas, BLM etc., then the president right now would not be named Donald Trump, his name would be Steve King.

Obama's historic role as the first non-white president made everything race-related a minefield for him, so the best thing he could do was to keep a low profile on racial issues, and thankfully, that's what he did most of the time.


This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jan 20 2019 06:36pm