Newsmax reported that during a podcast between Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen, Obama said we don’t have reparations because of white resentment.
The former president now says “the politics of White resistance and resentment” kept him from pushing for financial reparations for Black Americans while he was in office.
In the second episode of his podcast with Bruce Springsteen, “Renegades: Born in the USA,” released on Monday, Obama said that he thinks reparations are “justified,” despite having opposed it during the 2008 election.
Obama said, “there’s not much question that the wealth … the power of this country was built in significant part — not exclusively, maybe not even the majority of it, but a large portion of it — was built on the backs of slaves.”
That is a provable lie. It helped the plantations in the South.
He added that a proposal for reparations failed during his presidency because of “the politics of White resistance and resentment.”
Uh, no, we don’t owe reparations. There is welfare, affirmative action, Blacks first in every agency under Joe Biden. Now they want people who never hurt a Black person to give them money because their ancestors were slaves. Many ancestors of immigrants weren’t even here during slavery. Do they have to pay?
I lost an ancestor who fought for the Union. He died in Andersonville. My entire family on the Irish side fought for the Union.
None of my ancestors believed in slavery.
As an aside, both Barack Obama’s ancestors and Kamala Harris’s owned slaves.
How nice to be an elite and sit in your little Ivory Tower and plot taking others’ freedoms away. Obama needs to pay reparations before anyone does, given his family’s history.
Reparations are divisive and that’s all Barack Obama knows.
Here is another interesting tidbit: Springsteen will not have to answer for his drunk motorcycle driving. The charges were dropped. Yet, at least one police officer said he was slurring his words and appeared under the influence.
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Reparations would be used to bankrupt America more, and to transfer economic power to people based on race.
Consider what Obama did with reparations for black farmers 10 years ago. All they had to do was sign up for a payoff, with no screening, and they were handed hundreds of thousands each. Leftist groups of lawyers were down there handing out checks.
How much did Springsteen pledge?
The divide and conquer mania is strong with Hussein Hopenchange and he won’t rest until the republic is burned all the way down to the charcoal smelling foundations.
Grumbly hateful instead of humbly grateful is downright unseemly for someone in his privileged position.
O/T-the memes and memories page had a picture of ancestors from the 1920’s!
Looked in our beautiful King James family bible that could be used for weight training and it checks out.
Earliest memories of learning come from the KJV and a beautiful book of color paintings from the Civil War that mom and dad had from antique dealer days of the 1970’s.
God and parents are the first teachers.
I want reparations for being fractionally enslaved by the 16th Amendment and other taxes. In California, they had to make everyone a franchise so they could legally tax through the Franchise Tax Board. That leaves me feeling disenfranchised.
The most consistent thing about lefties, is their obvious inconsistency!
“”Back in 2008 Barack Obama was against reparations when he was running for president.
Obama was against a lot of things back then, like gay marriage, that would disqualify him from the Democrat party today. But he said what he thought the American people wanted to hear.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/obama-white-resistance-prevented-reparations-payments-blacks/
I need reparations also, for the blatant discrimination I received my entire career as a white male in engineering. It affected my bank statements and happiness, not my ancestors 200 years ago.