Rick Santorum claims Obama "exacerbated racism" long before Trump

[tigerred59]

"Doesn’t @BarackObama, a descendent of slave sellers on his father’s side and slave owners on his mother’s side, owe me #reparations?!?" - Wacky Larry Elder

Hey, I heard a bunch of thugs in Chicago, got a reparations check for you...but you'll have to come after midnight.

 

[TheParser]

I feel that Senator Santorum chose the appropriate verb "exacerbated."

That is to say, President Obama unwittingly caused unpleasantness between the current majority ethnicity and one of our major minorities. It was NOT his goal to do so.

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I think that it may have started when President Obama invited (with the best of intentions) a college professor and a police officer to the White House to discuss their disagreements.

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For me, I was especially dismayed when President Obama decided to bow to pressure from the activists and to discuss the case of the young man who was fatally shot in Florida. When President Obama said something to the effect that if he had had a son, his son would have looked like that young Floridian, President Obama seemed to be taking the side of those people who felt that the young Floridian had been unjustly shot.

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Furthermore, I am disappointed that President Obama's first Attorney General was a very angry gentleman.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

"Doesn’t @BarackObama, a descendent of slave sellers on his father’s side and slave owners on his mother’s side, owe me #reparations?!?" - Wacky Larry Elder

Hey, I heard a bunch of thugs in Chicago, got a reparations check for you...but you'll have to come after midnight.

Hell no!!!
Those black neighborhoods are dangerous!

 

[frigidweirdo]

Rick Santorum claims Obama 'exacerbated racism' long before Trump

i got a lot to say on this topic which why i put it in Current Events instead of race relations so that more people participate. but right now i'm busy watchin the NBA finals. stay tuned, folks, stay tuned!

Yes, he did. He was a black man as president. This was always going to exacerbate the anger in white racists.

 

[basquebromance]

Obama didn't address issues important to blacks out of political calculation, even though his personal conviction was one of empathy towards black folk!

 

[S.J.]

Obama didn't address issues important to blacks out of political calculation, even though his personal conviction was one of empathy towards black folk!

If Obama had been an African leader during the slave trade, he would have been the one selling his own people into slavery.

 

[Correll]

It's cute that Santorum still thinks he is still relevant.

His point is true.


That might not be relevant to you.

 

[basquebromance]

the black old guard was especially hard to convince of Obama's greatness because most of them didn't know Obama personally. some who did know him could not be sure he would have the back of blacks when it mattered.

at the same time, Obama's understanding of the white mainstream proved the advantage of his half whiteness: he knew intimately the desires and fears of white folks...