Obama Defends Protesters: ‘This Country Was Founded on Protest’
Obama Foundation
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Former President Barack Obama defended widespread protests in America’s major cities on Wednesday, in a
virtual town hall about changing the “systemic racism” of police departments.
Obama said:
Just remember this country was founded on protest. It’s called the American Revolution, and every step of progress of this country. Every expansion of freedom, every expression of our deepest ideals has been won through efforts that has made the status quo uncomfortable.
Obama said that the widespread protests were just one more way that America was paying for the “original sin of our society” that begin with slavery.
“They are the result of a long history of slavery, Jim Crow, institutionalized racism that have too often have been the plague of the original sin of our society,” he said.
Obama said that there was only a “tiny minority” that engaged in violence during the protests, lamenting that they received the majority of the focus. He added that arguments about voting versus civil disobedience missed the point, and that America needed both aspects to move towards progress.
“I have been hearing a little bit of chatter on the internet about voting versus protest. Politics and participation versus civil disobedience and direct action,” he said. “This is not either/or. This is both/and to bring about real change.”
The hour and a half conversation featured Obama discussing his own community policing task force that he put together in his administration, and urged all mayors to do more to fix their police forces. The former president stayed away from any explicit or implicit criticism of President Donald Trump.
He urged all activists to move quickly to institute changes in society.
“At some point, attention moves away, protest starts to dwindle in size and it is important for us to take the momentum that has been created as a society and as a country to say, let’s use this to finally have an impact,” he said
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The
Truth about Interracial Violent Crime
Debunking the Left's pernicious
lies.
Thu Jun 4, 2020
Instead it is the sin of envy personified, and
the theory of socialism in street talk: “I need the iPad in your store , so I’ll take it
and beat you senseless if you object --
you privileged, rich, oppressive white.”
A Deliberately Bankrupted America
Why
are the cities burning? African Americans have been a part of our history since
our nation’s founding -- they fought for independence . They are found on
the Supreme Court , in military leadership, as
prominent mayors , Members of Congress , academics , authors , cabinet secretaries , ambassadors , police chiefs , surgeons , business owners , entertainers , athletes , astronauts , and CEOs . A 75% white America
even voted twice to choose an African American leader. If so much progress has
been made, why are the nation’s cities -- some led by African American mayors,
with a diverse police force often led by non-white police chiefs -- burning?
Could
this be the end result of choices made over time by some of our leaders to
bankrupt America and African-Americans economically, morally, educationally,
and spiritually?
The
Free Trade Agreements from ‘94 to ‘01, with NAFTA, and then with China,
bankrupted the nation economically. The ‘ sucking sound ’ of factories closing and millions of jobs
disappearing hit both sides of the border.
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EDITOR: FOR 8 YEARS BARACK OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN DID NADA FOR BLACK AMERICA AS
THEY SURRENDERED OUR BORDERS TO MEXICO!
Millions
of Mexican family farmers could not compete with American agribusiness, lost their farms .and began the trek
northward.
Those men (in the words of the times) worked ‘twice as hard as black men, for
half the pay’. Systemic unemployment enabled by free trade and open borders
was made worse by floods of drugs brought by the Colombian and Mexican Cartels,
and synthetic drugs manufactured in Chinese factories . Addicted men engaged in
petty theft to support their habits or became part of the predatory gangs profiting
off the addicts. The explosion in crime, starting with the crack wars of the
late 80s, resulted in the imprisoning of many young African American men. In
1990, one of every three African-American
men under 29 were in prison or on parole.
Already
stressed family bonds broke under this strain. Currently 77% percent of African
Americans are born into unmarried families. The family pictures of son, father,
and grandson is almost unknown in our poorest communities. The anger and pain
of sons abandoned by their fathers is a lifelong wound. The consequences of
numerous short-term disposable relationships is abusive stepparents and the loss of
positive male role models. When the patriarchy is smashed, there are no
fathers to guide boys to manhood, and the masculinity that remains is too often
toxic.
If
the family is a broken reed, what of the schools ? In our poorest schools, the lowest achieving
students, mostly young men with attention and behavior problems , leave elementary school
without learning to read or mastering arithmetic, only to fall behind further
each year. In our nation’s capital, one-third of the adults
cannot read. Our lowest-performing students learn from school that no matter
how disruptively and disrespectfully you behave, no matter how little you work
or how low your test scores, you will pass on to the next
grade.
When 2/3rds of students are not at grade
level, maintaining standards is impossible
without drastic reform.
Our
schools and our culture do not support societal stability. They are creating a
nation of moral and spiritual midgets. With the Biblical Ten Commandments
ridiculed for a generation, looters of every background across the nation defy
the unknown command “Thou Shalt Not Steal.” Rather than heed Jesus’ example of
forgiveness, grievance is nurtured and encouraged. In expelling those old white
men, the Greek philosophers, from our humanities, we do not teach Aristotle’s
virtue of moderation in a democratic society. In schools today, the focus is
not on the virtues or genius of our founding generation . There is little talk of innovators , entrepreneurs , explorers , soldiers , scientists , pioneers , architects , or engineers . Instead, a cartoon
version of only protestors and oppressors becomes our national story . America is portrayed as a shameful, oppressive country , one that deserves
little loyalty or protection from
the mob. The social compact has been deliberately frayed.
For
a generation, the complaint has been of wealth inequality -- some people
are too rich . An entire race
has been labeled with #Whiteprivilege . We have become a nation singularly focused on
the color of our skin, while blindly ignoring the content of our individual
character. Suddenly America is not the place where an African immigrant genius
can lead our national return to space , but an oppressive land where the fabulously
rich Elon Musk is just another rich white man benefiting from his privilege.
The nuance and truths behind the theories of income inequality and white
privilege are lost on the rioting mobs. Instead it is the sin of envy
personified, and the theory of socialism in street talk: “I need the iPad in your store , so I’ll take it
and beat you senseless if you object --
you privileged, rich, oppressive white.” Or as Karl Marx so eloquently put it: “From each
according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
Our
nation’s political class is deeply divided. Many Democrat politicians cannot
bring themselves to openly side with law and order against their allies and so
remain silent to the hijacking of legitimate protests . To a socialist ‘you
didn’t build that’ -- what the entrepreneur spent a lifetime building up -- is
actually the property of the voters, who have decided to redistribute the
wealth. Thus, hundreds of Minneapolis police stood by, at the mayor’s
command, while businesses were looted across the street. They were defending the
police precinct -- government property. And even then, they were ordered to
give that up to the mob. After all, the city can just take your money in taxes
to rebuild after it’s over. In Minneapolis, under the leadership of Mayor Jacob
Frey, the police are there to keep your nonessential business shut down because
of COVID-19, but not to protect your life’s work from the anarchists. In
Washington D.C., the mayor at first refused to use city police to protect the
White House and our nation’s monuments. Arlington county withdrew its police from D.C., when
they saw their officers help the President cross the street during the
protests. To some, the real problem is the political opposition, not the
rioting. After all, if Trump succeeds in bringing back American manufacturing,
and if his actions raise American wages by lowering taxes and regulations while decreasing illegal immigration , then Democratic
politicians might lose a few elections. Better to burn America down, than to
MAGA.
And
therein lies a clue to the problems of our deeply divided country. Our country
is deeply divided and hurting economically, educationally, morally, and
spiritually. But division is in the interests of some of our political leaders.
Why unify, when division makes your supporters more passionate? Why build, when
it is much easier to tear down? The key to our political paradox lies in the
virtues expounded by the world’s first democrats, the Greeks: wisdom, justice, moderation, and
courage .
May we have the wisdom to sit in moderate dialogue with our fellow citizens,
and the courage to seek liberty and justice for all.
The
Truth about Interracial Violent Crime
Debunking the Left's pernicious
lies.
Thu Jun 4, 2020
Prior to
the May 25th death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a major focus of the media
during the preceding two weeks had been a video showing an incident where a
young black man named Ahmaud Arbery was fatally shot by
two white men in Glynn County, Georgia. The killers say that they pursued
Arbery, whom they suspected of having been involved in some recent local
burglaries, when they spotted him running through their neighborhood – though
some accounts claim that he was merely out for a jog. Eventually a fight broke
out, and Arbery was shot and killed. After a video of the deadly altercation
went public in early May, there were massive protests in
Arbery's behalf. On May 8 – which would have been Arbery's 26th birthday –
activist Al Sharpton used the Internet to lead a “ virtual
rally ” in the young man's memory, drawing some 105,000 participants.
In an
interview four days later, Sharpton, exhorting members
of the black community to “sustain” their “indignation” vis-a-vis the Arbery
case for as long as possible, portrayed the Georgia killing as an extension of
racist American violence dating back to the epoch of slavery: “It was expected
that if you saw a black, that you would suspect that he was a runaway slave,
and you had the runaway slave laws that … they would use that to hunt down
blacks for vigilante groups, the KKK and others, all the way up until the
modern era.” characterized Arbery's
death as a consequence of intransigent white racism: “He went out for a jog
while being Black. I wonder what was he thinking in those last seconds of his
life? Unimaginable to go for a run in 2020 and end up dead because of the color
of your skin.” murdered three
years ago in Fresno, California by Kori Ali Muhammad, a black racist who
candidly sought “to kill as many white males as possible” – killings for which
the perpetrator was convicted just six weeks ago. Regarding the Zackary
Randalls murder, Mr. Muhammad has since explained : “When I walked
up to the truck, I saw a Mexican driver and a white guy. I didn’t want to
target the driver because he was Mexican, so I shot the white dude.” The media,
for some mysterious reason, didn't find the story compelling enough to cover. lamenting the
deaths of 86-year-old Paul Marino and his 85-year-old wife, Lidia, both of whom
were murdered in cold blood by a black gunman on May 8 – the very day of
Sharpton's “virtual rally” in honor of Ahmaud Arbery – while they visited the
gravesite of their late son, Anthony, in a Delaware cemetery. To borrow Oprah's
pithy maxim, we might say that Mr. and Mrs. Marino were just “visiting their
son's grave while being white.”
· Joyce
Whaley, Patricia Nibbe, and Nettie Spencer – three middle-aged
white women who were brutally stabbed to death by a black killer at a
Tennessee truck
stop in early April;
· Heather Perry,
a 21-year-old white woman who was shot to
death in a Denver alleyway on May 9 by Cornelius Haney, a
convicted armed robber who had just been released from prison in order to
protect him from contracting the coronavirus;
· Logan Allen
Stacks, a 17-year-old white boy who was gunned
down by two black teens on March 27 in Lancaster County, South
Carolina;
· Dr. Beth
Potter, a 52-year-old white physician who dedicated her career to helping
“underserved communities,” and her husband, educational consultant Robin Carre,
who were shot execution-style by a
pair of black teens on March 30 in Madison, Wisconsin; and
· Kristopher Dacus,
a 33-year-old white man who on February 26 was shot multiple times and killed by
four black teens in the North Little Rock, Arkansas cemetery where he worked.
Let us
assume for a moment that Ahmaud Arbery – who quite obviously was a volatile and menacing character with
a criminal
history – was in fact the innocent victim of a horrific, wholly
unjustifiable murder. Even if that were the case, why should his death garner
more attention from American media outlets and civil rights activists, than,
say, the deaths of the 13 aforementioned whites whose lives were mercilessly
snuffed out by black killers in 6 different states? Perhaps a case could be
made in favor of such a double standard if white-on-black killings were commonplace
in American society – on the theory that the condemnation of such occurrences
might help raise people's collective consciousness about the deadly
ramifications of white racism. But in fact, white-on-black homicides in the
U.S. have been exceedingly rare for many decades.intra -racial affair, where
whites target mostly whites, and blacks target mostly blacks. This is certainly
true for homicide, but much
less true for other crimes of violence such as assault, rape,
and robbery. 2012 and 2013 . During
those years, white killers nationwide chose to target white victims
approximately 93 percent of the time, and black victims 7 percent of the time.
Meanwhile, black killers targeted black victims 84.7 percent of the time, and
white victims 15.3 percent of the time.from the
perspective of the offender . That is, when a given violent offender
chooses a victim to target for a crime, does he tend to target a victim who is
a fellow member of his own racial group, or does he tend to go after a victim
from another racial group? Here are the facts:
· When white
offenders committed crimes of violence (excluding homicide) against either
whites or blacks in 2012-13, they targeted white victims 95.8 percent of the
time, and they went after black victims a mere 4.1 percent of the time.
· By
contrast, when black offenders committed crimes of violence against either
whites or blacks in 2012-13, they targeted white victims a whopping 48.5
percent of the time, and they went after black victims 51.4 percent of the
time.[2]
If we
factor into the equation the relative sizes of America's white and black
populations, we find that, statistically , any given
black person in 2012-13 was about 27 times more likely to attack a white, than
vice versa. 2018 there
were 593,598 interracial violent victimizations (excluding homicide) between
blacks and whites in the United States. Blacks committed 537,204 of those
interracial felonies, or 90.4 percent, while whites committed 56,394 of them,
or about 9.5 percent. Moreover:
· When white
offenders committed crimes of violence against either whites or blacks in 2018,
they targeted white victims 97.3 percent of the time, and they went after black
victims 2.6 percent of the time.
· By
contrast, when black offenders committed crimes of violence against either
whites or blacks during that same year, they targeted white victims 58 percent
of the time, and they went after black victims 42 percent of the time.[3]
City
Journal also reports that
according to Justice Department data, blacks in 2018 were overrepresented among
the perpetrators of offenses classified as “hate crimes” by a whopping 50
percent—while whites were underrepresented by 24 percent.
These
numbers are staggering .
If America were teeming with white racism, those guilty of interracial crime
would be disproportionately white. But instead, the exact opposite is
the case. Thus, the enormous amount of attention given to white-on-black
attacks – which are statistically rare in the United States – is an obscene and
senseless absurdity. The notion of ubiquitous white racism manifesting itself
in unacceptably high levels of white violence against blacks, is one of the
most destructive and monstrously evil lies of our time, creating levels of
racial mistrust and animosity that are wholly unwarranted.
NOTES National
Crime Victimization Survey, 2012-13 , Special Tabulation, Table 10.
[2] Ibid.Criminal
Victimization, 2018 , Table 14.
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