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Our Laziest President - Fitbud - 01-11-2018 11:28 AM
For black and brown Americans, Barack Obama's two terms in office were a rebuke to a society where nonwhites have long been marked as second-class citizens. For black people in particular, the literal presence of Obama's family in the White House represented a high point in the long black freedom struggle. In the long arc of history, for centuries black Americans were owned, murdered, abused and raped by whites as human property, and yet a black American had become the most powerful man on the planet.
Of course, Obama's ascent did not heal the centuries of harm done to black Americans by white racism. But that next chapter in America's history -- where one more "first" for a black person was demolished -- was still symbolically intoxicating because it validated a belief in this country's ability to change for the better.
For many millions of other Americans, the overwhelming majority of them white and conservative, Obama's presidency represented a personal insult. The very presence of an intelligent, graceful, educated and accomplished black man in the White House -- as president, instead of as a maid, janitor or butler -- rocked them to the core of their being. If a person inherently connects being a "real American" with whiteness, then a black president is unthinkable. Such a reality forces a cognitive dissonance that cannot be easily reconciled. What was understood to be the natural order of things for White America was turned upside down.
Over the course of those eight years, many white conservatives became lost in the fever swamps of white supremacist paranoia, consumed by an existential dread about some vague notion of black or brown power, manifested in their archenemy and political demon Barack Obama. For too many people, Obama seemed to represent the displacement and obsolescence of White America and the birth of some undiscovered country where nonwhites rule and whites are made to kneel at their feet in submission.
Linkypoo
This is what I have been saying for years.
RE: Our Laziest President - DefCONNOne - 01-11-2018 11:36 AM
This article, if you can call it that, is irony at its finest. Sorry Fit, your pathetic attempt to troll this board will not foster the "serious conversation" you've been crying about today.
RE: Our Laziest President - VA49er - 01-11-2018 11:36 AM
Still playing the race card it seems.
RE: Our Laziest President - BatonRougeEscapee - 01-11-2018 11:37 AM
Warning!
Racist author writing simplistic article with racist views of people with light skin tones.
Surprisingly published by Salon.
RE: Our Laziest President - HeartOfDixie - 01-11-2018 11:38 AM
What a nasty and unproductive worldview.
Oh, Salon!
RE: Our Laziest President - BuffaloTN - 01-11-2018 11:39 AM
Why does he post so much garbage from Salon?
RE: Our Laziest President - HeartOfDixie - 01-11-2018 11:40 AM
(01-11-2018 11:39 AM)BuffaloTN Wrote: Why does he post so much garbage from Salon?
Trolling
RE: Our Laziest President - Fitbud - 01-11-2018 11:41 AM
Posting "Trolling" without actually attempting to have a discussion is in fact trolling.
RE: Our Laziest President - BuffaloTN - 01-11-2018 11:42 AM
I do wonder how many times Mach and Fit are never posting at the same time. Coincidence??
RE: Our Laziest President - Fitbud - 01-11-2018 11:43 AM
(01-11-2018 11:42 AM)BuffaloTN Wrote: I do wonder how many times Mach and Fit are never posting at the same time. Coincidence??
It's another conspiracy. Don't take off your foil hat.
RE: Our Laziest President - HeartOfDixie - 01-11-2018 11:43 AM
(01-11-2018 11:41 AM)Fitbud Wrote: Posting "Trolling" without actually attempting to have a discussion is in fact trolling.
I answered a posters questions.
Your posting this extremist garbage is trolling though.
RE: Our Laziest President - Lord Stanley - 01-11-2018 11:46 AM
Liberals constantly tell me to stop talking about Clinton.
But Obama, we always need Obama reminders?
Strange days, indeed.
RE: Our Laziest President - HeartOfDixie - 01-11-2018 11:46 AM
Here is the website for the cretin that wrote that article.
Affirmative Action
You can tell he is very successful since he is talking about where he was cited and where he is begging for tips and donations.
RE: Our Laziest President - BuffaloTN - 01-11-2018 11:47 AM
(01-11-2018 11:43 AM)Fitbud Wrote:(01-11-2018 11:42 AM)BuffaloTN Wrote: I do wonder how many times Mach and Fit are never posting at the same time. Coincidence??
It's another conspiracy. Don't take off your foil hat.
I do think Mach cares about what he posts - although he's so far down the rabbit hole now he's a lost cause. You on the other hand post nothing of value and cry in vain when you're ignored. I guess you get enjoyment out this somehow.
RE: Our Laziest President - WKUYG - 01-11-2018 11:48 AM
(01-11-2018 11:42 AM)BuffaloTN Wrote: I do wonder how many times Mach and Fit are never posting at the same time. Coincidence??
Both are educators. But one is a troll and the other actually believes everything he post.
RE: Our Laziest President - Dasville - 01-11-2018 11:52 AM
It’s not hard. Every show on every network should be required to have equal # of whites/blacks/women/men/sexual orientation/sexual identification/every other identifier. The sad part is shows used to run credits. Now they don’t.
RE: Our Laziest President - BatonRougeEscapee - 01-11-2018 11:52 AM
It is people like this author, and those that agree with his views, that will never allow racial harmony in this country. What a terribly myopic world view. Always ascribing the worst motivations and characteristics to those with different views from you. A truly pathetic excuse of a human being.
RE: Our Laziest President - DefCONNOne - 01-11-2018 12:12 PM
(01-11-2018 11:41 AM)Fitbud Wrote: Posting "Trolling" without actually attempting to have a discussion is in fact trolling.
Pointing out the trolling of the lazy, troll article from a whiny trolling OP is the ultimate in trolling.
RE: Our Laziest President - MemTigers1998 - 01-11-2018 12:13 PM
(01-11-2018 11:52 AM)Dasville Wrote: It’s not hard. Every show on every network should be required to have equal # of whites/blacks/women/men/sexual orientation/sexual identification/every other identifier. The sad part is shows used to run credits. Now they don’t.
why?
RE: Our Laziest President - VA49er - 01-11-2018 12:17 PM
(01-11-2018 12:13 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:(01-11-2018 11:52 AM)Dasville Wrote: It’s not hard. Every show on every network should be required to have equal # of whites/blacks/women/men/sexual orientation/sexual identification/every other identifier. The sad part is shows used to run credits. Now they don’t.
why?
Yeah, I'm trying to figure that one out myself.