tailgater wrote:Obama was a truly great story teller. No doubt.
But as President the message should not have been that it's understandable how the black community behaves. How they react. Why they resent America.
It's what Obama DIDN'T say that led to his failure to unify the country.
He DIDN'T say that despite those feelings, people need to look forward. Although it's easy to blame the past, to blame how OTHER people look at you , you have to hold your head up high and show respect. For yourself and for others.
It's their right to complain.
It's their right to point out the injustice. Both real and perceived.
But when complaining becomes the only action, then it's just an annoying whine.
America elected a black man for our President.
And all he could do was sympathize.
'Pretty good storyteller' is the best platitude you could come up with before your unrelated and thoroughly horrible analysis?
Glenn Beck stated back in the day that Obama had “a deep-seated hatred for white people,” and Rush Limbaugh spewed a steady stream of invective on his radio show, from playing a song dubbed “Barack the Magic Negro” to claiming that Obama wanted Americans to get Ebola as payback for slavery. The most infamous birther, Donald Trump..oh, nm...
Obama, acknowledged that racism is deeply rooted in our culture but avoided addressing the plague of race (“I wouldn’t call myself a victim”) and instead highlighted the progress the country had made. For black Americans especially, that message was encouraging—but it obviously turned out to be shortsighted.
He insisted on celebrating advancements for African-Americans like him, but in so doing delayed what was festering: a revived siege of race hate that would sweep the country. Obama’s racial optimism/delusion perpetuated the falsehood that America had entered a post-racial era. And this prevented him from recognizing the enduring, worsening racism.
He openly criticized black violent demonstrators. And was made to pay for that by the black community and especially black activists.
It must also be that what Trump DOESN'T say worsens tensions, correct?
Or should Donald have said that white supremacists have to move on, show respect and hold their heads high?
Obama had no winning strategy because there was no winning strategy. He was doomed from the start.
Even when he openly shed a tear at a press conference after Sandy Hook Fox accused him of faking It!
Apparently he was incapable of compassion for white kids that were slaughtered, I guess?
Lessening racial tensions was, is and will probably always be an exercise in futility.