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Giving him a pass? If I had to score Obama's presidency on a historical scale I'd give him a C+/B-. He left a lot to be desired, made many mistakes. But Obama was - and is - a bright, decent man who did his best for the country. I know that's blasphemous to most of you, but that's how I see it.Stop giving him a pass and call a spade a spade and acknowledge the man did then.
When he spoke up about police brutality, about the unnecessary and likely avoidable deaths of black youths, his heart was in the right place. I get it a lot of people took offense, that he 'sided' with BLM or whatnot, but you never listened to him carefully. You never heard his words speaking at the funerals of police officers or servicemen. Obama had great respect for them all. But that was all for not because he dared speak up about cops shooting down kids in cold blood. Just because you may despise black rights and the movement that goes with it, doesn't mean there aren't bad cops that are way too ******* trigger happy. Not all white cops are great people, not all cops of any race are great people. This became a race issue because Obama spoke up about black kids being shot by white cops? You think he would have acted any differently if the cops were Latino or Asian American?
Who cares if Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and others weren't choir boys, they didn't deserve to die. You raise your voice when these things happen. Particularly if you're the President. Bad cops are bad cops and should be called out and weeded out. Who doesn't agree with that?
And as the story goes, the right went batshit crazy over Obama speaking up about this. And the right still goes batshit crazy, to this day. Now the problem is NFL players kneeling down, or raising their fists, voicing these same concerns.
So yes, Obama should have been more embracing of whites around the country during all of this. He should have been more inclusive. The optics may have been that he was 'siding with' African-Americans here, but I don't buy it. What the perception of it was, and what his true intentions were are not one and the same. But so have you, President Obama came up short in this area. I will give you that, but I don't agree with your overall premise that Obama purposefully hurt race relations.
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