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RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 105,393 Founders Club
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 game

Obama 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. moron

The 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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  • WestlinnDuckWestlinnDuck Member Posts: 15,192 Standard Supporter
    edited February 2021
    Please run on reparations. Please. Someone ask barry if half white millionaires get reparations. Hilarity ensues.
  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 43,915 Standard Supporter
    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."


    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.

  • SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 32,037
    edited February 2021
    I've reconsidered my position on reparations in light of the fact that 4 of the 5 members of my immediate family will get paid, and if they get paid the Big Guy gets paid. My position on this issue is strictly transactional.
  • NorthwestFreshNorthwestFresh Member Posts: 7,972

    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."


    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.

    Flashback from cringing every time he would spreak for us? “folks.” A dollar store version of Wilford Brimley, “folks.”

  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 105,393 Founders Club
    SFGbob said:

    I've reconsidered my position on reparations in light of the fact that 4 of the 5 members of my immediate family will get paid, and if they get paid the Big Guy gets paid. My position on this issue is strictly transactional.

    My wife has 10 siblings. We can start a ranch
  • NorthwestFreshNorthwestFresh Member Posts: 7,972

    SFGbob said:

    I've reconsidered my position on reparations in light of the fact that 4 of the 5 members of my immediate family will get paid, and if they get paid the Big Guy gets paid. My position on this issue is strictly transactional.

    My wife has 10 siblings. We can start a ranch
    You’re a Trump White Supremacist.

    It will be called a plantation...
  • TurdBomberTurdBomber Member Posts: 19,939 Standard Supporter
    "the best reparations we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed."

    Exactly what Trump fought for.

    Does Michelle know she's married to a MAGA man?
  • TurdBomberTurdBomber Member Posts: 19,939 Standard Supporter

    SFGbob said:

    I've reconsidered my position on reparations in light of the fact that 4 of the 5 members of my immediate family will get paid, and if they get paid the Big Guy gets paid. My position on this issue is strictly transactional.

    My wife has 10 siblings. We can start a ranch
    You’re a Trump White Supremacist.

    It will be called a plantation...
    "Ranch." Sanitized to hide White Complicity.

    Where does it rank on the Whiteness Meter?
  • Fire_Marshall_BillFire_Marshall_Bill Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 23,723 Founders Club
    I think they have a case given the Japanese thing. But why weren't Italians and Germans given reparations? I'm 1/4 German and want my reputations pronto
  • SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 32,037

    I think they have a case given the Japanese thing. But why weren't Italians and Germans given reparations? I'm 1/4 German and want my reputations pronto

    Only living Japanese who had actually been interned in the camps received compensation. The Federal government put the Japanese in camps. The Federal government didn't enslave any black people. There's really no comparison.
  • TurdBomberTurdBomber Member Posts: 19,939 Standard Supporter
    edited February 2021
    I've got some Jew in me from my Jew-loving great-great grandmother in the mid 1800s.

    Got twice as much German, though. So I guess I owe a big debt.
  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 43,915 Standard Supporter
    edited February 2021
    SFGbob said:

    I think they have a case given the Japanese thing. But why weren't Italians and Germans given reparations? I'm 1/4 German and want my reputations pronto

    Only living Japanese who had actually been interned in the camps received compensation. The Federal government put the Japanese in camps. The Federal government didn't enslave any black people. There's really no comparison.
    If only there was block chain technology in 1865, this whole problem about reparations could be solved. Either you and yours owned slaves or you didn't. Easily verifiable through the technology. You play, you pay.

    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.



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