https://newsmax.com/politics/obama-reparations-slavery-african-americans/2021/02/24/id/1011382/Former President Barack Obama says that "the politics of White resistance and resentment" kept him from pushing for financial reparations for Black Americans while he was in office.
And yet he never pushed for it like the coward he is so how do we know what would happen. He chose to not even play the gameObama said, "there’s not much question that the wealth … the power of this country was built in significant part — not exclusively, maybe not even the majority of it, but a large portion of it — was built on the backs of slaves."
significant part. not exclusively. not the majority. but a large portion. moronThe former president said, "And what I saw during my presidency was the politics of White resistance and resentment. The talk of 'welfare queens' and the talk of the 'undeserving' poor. And the backlash against affirmative action.”
According to Obama, "All that made the prospect of actually proposing any kind of coherent, meaningful reparations program struck me as, politically, not only a nonstarter but potentially counterproductive."
He added later that it’s "perfectly understandable why working-class White folks, middle-class White folks, folks who are having trouble paying the bills or dealing with student loans, wouldn't be too thrilled" with the idea of "a massive program that is designed to deal with the past but isn't speaking to their future."
This appears to represent a shift in Obama’s stance on the issue, having said during his first presidential campaign that "the best reparations we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed."
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STFU you pandering, state the obvious motherfucker.
And take that shitty ass jump shot the fuck out of here too. That's the whitest looking lunch ball shit I've ever seen.
It will be called a plantation...
Exactly what Trump fought for.
Does Michelle know she's married to a MAGA man?
Where does it rank on the Whiteness Meter?
Got twice as much German, though. So I guess I owe a big debt.
But alas, that didn't exist then. So somebody is going to have to tell me why a nation comprised of a few generations of mongrel immigrants and descendants of abolitionists in the north fighting to end the practice should be held financially responsible for something they adamantly opposed at the time.
Because dat shit just don't make any sense.
Alternatively, give every fucking person in the country $10K and STFU.