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Old 05-20-2013, 02:44 PM
 
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I'm kinda thinking that Obama knows a little about growing up black in a white society.

Probably a lot more than his hyper-partisan critics do.
That's funny since his mother was white and so that makes him just as much white as he is black.
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Old 05-20-2013, 02:47 PM
 
Location: Texas
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That's funny since his mother was white and so that makes him just as much white as he is black.
Funny that he's considered black by everyone but you.
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Old 05-20-2013, 02:54 PM
 
Location: Home, Home on the Front Range
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That's funny since his mother was white and so that makes him just as much white as he is black.
So, if you knew nothing at all about him and saw him walking down the street towards you, you would consider him white?

Really?
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Old 05-20-2013, 03:11 PM
 
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Funny that he's considered black by everyone but you.
Who's everyone? You know everybody? He is of mixed race not just black. Those who admirer him want to play up his black side though and play down his white side and it's for a reason.
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Old 05-20-2013, 03:12 PM
 
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Who's everyone? You know everybody? He is of mixed race not just black. Those who admirer him want to play up his black side though and play down his white side and it's for a reason.
Play down his white side? Are you for serious? You look at the guy & think "white"? Yeah right. Nice try.
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Old 05-20-2013, 03:17 PM
 
Location: Northern NH
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Obama: "As An African American You Have To Work Twice As Hard As Anyone Else If You Want To Get By"

Obama: "As An African American You Have To Work Twice As Hard As Anyone Else If You Want To Get By" | RealClearPolitics

Maybe not racist, but completely false and absolutely non-presidential. Seems like a pretty awful comment for a POTUS to make.

I feel like he was stating some truth. I suppose not PC but true.
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Old 05-20-2013, 03:21 PM
 
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Obama: "As An African American You Have To Work Twice As Hard As Anyone Else If You Want To Get By"

Obama: "As An African American You Have To Work Twice As Hard As Anyone Else If You Want To Get By" | RealClearPolitics

Maybe not racist, but completely false and absolutely non-presidential. Seems like a pretty awful comment for a POTUS to make.
Quoting snippets and soundbites sounds very ignorant! People loose credibility very quickly!

How do you know it isn't true unless your Black and successful. Some White people need to stop telling other peoples story!
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Old 05-20-2013, 03:36 PM
 
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paranoid much. What do you want, people to bow at your feet. Not going to happen. Put your big boy pants on and face life like everyone else.

A real man does not suck off the government teet.
You don't know anything about BigDGeek. Can you prove that he's "living off of the government"? Calling him paranoid? Sounds like a way to dismiss anything he has to say, not to mention insulting someone.
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Old 05-20-2013, 04:04 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Who's everyone? You know everybody? He is of mixed race not just black. Those who admirer him want to play up his black side though and play down his white side and it's for a reason.
Race is just a social construct anyway. The fact is, all his physical characteristics are black, which makes him black.

But the real point of it all is that this quote was taken way out of context.
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Old 05-20-2013, 04:06 PM
 
Location: Santa Monica
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Every one of you have a grandma or an uncle or a parent who’s told you that at some point in life, as an African American, you have to work twice as hard as anyone else if you want to get by. I think President Mays put it even better: He said, “Whatever you do, strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead, and no man yet to be born can do it any better.”

Not an Obama fan but within this context it's not only NOT racist it fu**ing rocks.
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