Most of us liked the idea of a black president to put racism to bed once and for all. It's sad that Barry Soweto is what we got. Lying, corrupt and incompetent; did more to set back race relations than Al Sharpton.
As America's first mixed-race president, Obama had an opportunity to improve race relations in America. Instead, he made them worse due to his frequent race baiting and his condescending attitude toward poor whites.
His race wasn't a plus or minus to me; I wasn't voting for a Democrat anyway. But the fact that other people made a big hoopla over his race was a problem. So much for "I have a dream..."
I couldn't vote in '08 but my lifelong Republican voting parents could. They voted for Obama. The race thing wasn't something they really cared about but it was an added bonus. Their main attraction to him is that he wasn't McCain. We were going through an economic crisis and it seemed like all McCain wanted to talk about was our military and the war in Iraq. People wanted something different and Obama ran a great campaign, posing himself as something new.
Of course, my parents deeply regretted their decision within 1 year, but that doesn't matter.
Isn't it wild how McCain, Paul Ryan, and Romney all came out to be RINOS... I legit don't even know what to think about it. I remember hearing about Ryan a lot as an Ohioan and his tax plans etc but the dude fucked the first 2 years of Trumps presidency in the house.
There is some quote that I have been trying to find for some time. I believe that it was by one of the first black pro baseball coaches. It was along the lines of "we will not know that racism is dead when the first black coach gets hired, we will know that racism is dead the first time a black coach is able to be criticized."
Most of us liked the idea of a black president to put racism to bed once and for all. It's sad that Barry Soweto is what we got. Lying, corrupt and incompetent; did more to set back race relations than Al Sharpton.
As America's first mixed-race president, Obama had an opportunity to improve race relations in America. Instead, he made them worse due to his frequent race baiting and his condescending attitude toward poor whites.
I couldn't agree more. Would only add his other first.
https://youtu.be/wZ7JsFgSVdI
His race wasn't a plus or minus to me; I wasn't voting for a Democrat anyway. But the fact that other people made a big hoopla over his race was a problem. So much for "I have a dream..."
I couldn't vote in '08 but my lifelong Republican voting parents could. They voted for Obama. The race thing wasn't something they really cared about but it was an added bonus. Their main attraction to him is that he wasn't McCain. We were going through an economic crisis and it seemed like all McCain wanted to talk about was our military and the war in Iraq. People wanted something different and Obama ran a great campaign, posing himself as something new.
Of course, my parents deeply regretted their decision within 1 year, but that doesn't matter.
Isn't it wild how McCain, Paul Ryan, and Romney all came out to be RINOS... I legit don't even know what to think about it. I remember hearing about Ryan a lot as an Ohioan and his tax plans etc but the dude fucked the first 2 years of Trumps presidency in the house.
It doesn't matter what color the president is, racism will never die
If the DNC died, I think we’d at least have popularized identity politics racism go into remission.
There is some quote that I have been trying to find for some time. I believe that it was by one of the first black pro baseball coaches. It was along the lines of "we will not know that racism is dead when the first black coach gets hired, we will know that racism is dead the first time a black coach is able to be criticized."
Can anyone help me out with the source?