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Funny how such a racist nation elected Obama in the first place. With the black population at 13% +/- how did he get elected? Why did all the white racists vote for him (twice) ?
That is one of those facts the left wold rather you not bring up.
He literally passed laws to end the sentencing discrepancy that got Black people more jail time than White people for trafficking the same narcotics. Crack was punished more harshly than cocaine despite the fact that cocaine could be broken down into many more servings of crack.
So the challenge to put up has been debunked. What else you got?
So the one and only thing you can come up with is Obama made something that is ILLEGAL less of a punishable crime?
Wow! That is sad. And so after he did that everything was better? All perceived racial issues went away, because a criminal can spend less time in jail for breaking the law?
Obama opposes offering reparations to the descendants of slaves. "I have said in the past – and I'll repeat again – that the best reparations we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed," Obama said. An apology for slavery would be appropriate but not particularly helpful in improving the lives of African Americans, he said. ..
Obama's administration offered a brief in support of affirmative action in March 2010 vis-à-vis a court case seeking to challenge Grutter v. Bollinger and the legality of "race-conscious" college admissions.[69]
Following the not guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial, President Obama gave a 20-minute speech on July 19, 2013, in which he addressed the shooting of Trayvon Martin, racial profiling, as well as the state of race relations in the United States.[70]
here's the CNN recap article. I'd assume you can find his full remarks on youtube.
He championed the ancient trial by combat tradition so well illustrated in black panther
Average shootings per month 300
He felt non interference with this tradition was the best solution
So the one and only thing you can come up with is Obama made something that is ILLEGAL less of a punishable crime?
Wow! That is sad. And so after he did that everything was better? All perceived racial issues went away, because a criminal can spend less time in jail for breaking the law?
Justice & equality under the law has always been a benchmark issue of civil rights movements. That you're trying to dismiss it, while trying to also give Trump credit for doing prison reform tells me you need to pick up a history book.
POTUS has a bully pulpit and Trump gaslights racial divisions. Trump was one of the leaders of the racist birther movement..He has continued with his racist views for example when he used the false equivalence comparing the racist NC rally and the multiracial group that opposed them.
POTUS has a bully pulpit and Trump gaslights racial divisions. Trump was one of the leaders of the racist birther movement..He has continued with his racist views for example when he used the false equivalence comparing the racist NC rally and the multiracial group that opposed them.
Trump is not to blame for the institutional racism that has been here as long the country has existed. What he has done is provide racists an ear and support from the highest office of the land. #my take
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This is so sad. 5 pages in and no one can list anything Obama did to correct the perceived racial inequality issues. 8 years of Presidential Privilege and no one can explain why nothing changed for the better from the time he took office to the time he left office. The only thing the left managed to do is somehow try to turn this into a Trump bashing thread, even though I stated in the beginning that this is not an Obama versus Trump thread. I stated this is a thread based on the first BIRACIAL POTUS and what policies did he implement to correct the situation. I would think a HALF WHITE/HALF BLACK man would be able to see both sides of the equation and implement sound policies to correct the perceived issues.
Why can't the left discuss this openly, honestly and without bringing in their TDS?
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Originally Posted by Fleet
How was the birther movement "racist?"
It wasn't. There was reason to doubt where Obama was born in the beginning since his father wasn't a citizen of the US.
Just another attempt to paint Trump as a racist. Don't fall for it.
The fact that he repeatedly had his origins questioned despite providing ample evidence that he was an American citizen, something no other president or presidential candidate has had to endure. Even when he's come out on national television and tell people here was an American citizen, you still had people demanding he prove it. The burden wasn't on then to prove he was lying about his citizenship. It was the Black guy that had to prove that he was American.
To put it another way, what if you ran up to a random Hispanic and told them they had to prove they were American. You think it would be unfair to be labeled a racist for that?
Justice & equality under the law has always been a benchmark issue of civil rights movements. That you're trying to dismiss it, while trying to also give Trump credit for doing prison reform tells me you need to pick up a history book.
When did I give Trump credit for prison reform? Are you responding to the correct person?
This thread is about the 8 years of a BIRACIAL POTUS and what he did to solve the perceived racial issues. It has nothing to do with Trump. Why does the left keep bringing up Trump in a thread that is solely about the 8 years of a BIRACIAL POTUS and what he did to solve the perceived racial issues?
He literally passed laws to end the sentencing discrepancy that got Black people more jail time than White people for trafficking the same narcotics. Crack was punished more harshly than cocaine despite the fact that cocaine could be broken down into many more servings of crack.
So the challenge to put up has been debunked. What else you got?
interestingly, versions of the Fair Sentencing Act were proposed not only prior to Obama's election, but even by Jeff Sessions ... yes, that Sessions (accused of being Alabama White Supremacist).
I mean, it's wikipedia. sometimes they underplay the role of somebody. but by this, basically Obama signed it, but no mention of him pushing it through his Dem-controlled House & Senate.
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