re: Obama's Farewell Address and what you will remember him for.

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Meh. Maybe. I don't know enough about it to form and opinion.

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My God, a real break through, you beautiful son of a bitch.


Check it out, your Truth Journey begins.

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Only if you want it to be.

That documentary is just the CIA directors talking shop to the extent they can.

Mostly honest men I think but, Carters guy is super creepy and too soon to tell about Brennan.

I found Leon Poneta, H.W., Coffer Black, and Petraus most honest.

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irst off, and most importantly, he's mixed. Not "oh I'm a sixteenth Irish way back down the line," but the direct offspring of one white parent and one black parent. The fact that he eschewed that heritage in favor of embracing the more politically expedient, archaic "one drop rule" perspective of being black is, frankly, reprehensible. In and of itself, that was an egregious blow to racial harmony.

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Are you saying he played up his "black card" in order to pander to black voters? I don't think that's being fair and you're belittling the intelligence of literally millions of people of varying degrees of education. Not to mention the whole "vote for me! I'm black!" Didn't really work out so well when Jessie Jackson ran in the 80s. He can't downplay his racial makeup, and seeing how he married a black women, has browned skinned daughters and is basically my color it's probably easy to assume that he self identifies more with his black side anyway.

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His incessant interjection into racially divisive matters is a horrible precedent that helped stoke racial fires already burning. Additionally, the advent of his presidency further entrenched racial identity politics. The political dialogue has deteriorated significantly along racial lines since he's been in office.

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Obama was the first man of color who was the president of the United States, meaning that there was no guide he could've follow to show him what was the "right" way to discuss racial issues as a black president. More importantly we as a country had no idea how a black president would or even SHOULD react, seeing as our past 43 presidents were white and all.

So we all have this completely new and totally different perspective talking about issues that large portions of the country never had to deal with and probably never even knew about. Some people didn't understand it, a lot of people didn't like that. I think it was inevitable no matter who the first black president was. The fact that Obama's first racial "incedent" (other than the birther crap) was Trayvon Martin near the end of his first term was astounding. I was expecting something between his first two years.

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m not blaming him for all of our strife as a country on that front, but his conduct didn't help matters. At all.

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And I'm not saying he was a perfect president by any means, but for someone who was dealing with being the first black president coupled with the fact that racial tensions were at an all time low and dealing an uptick in protests and racial violence from all sides I'd say he handled it as good as anyone could in that situation. I'm not saying that he did a good or bad job, I just feel like there aren't many people who could have done better.

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Are you saying he played up his "black card" in order to pander to black voters?

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I'm saying he played up his "black card" to pander to voters in general, not just black.

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the whole "vote for me! I'm black!" Didn't really work too well when Jessie Jackson ran in the 80s.

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MUCH different political landscape in 2008 than in the 80s.

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for someone who was dealing with being the first black president coupled with the fact that racial tensions were at an all time low and dealing an uptick in protests and racial violence from all sides I'd say he handled it as good as anyone could in that situation. I'm not saying that he did a good or bad job, I just feel like there aren't many people who could have done better.

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I respect your opinion--it's just mine that I believe he could have and should have done much better

Of course, I'll admit my bias.

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He played the black card to pander to young white people who feel guilty for being white.

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The Left's social movement was their winning ticket for so long, but now the well is dry for a lot of older people that are white and have shitty cubicle jobs and don't have time to waste virtue signaling. However, they have suckered a ton of rich spoiled youth in to this white privilege narrative and it's terrifying. If someone described "Social Justice Warriors" to me a couple of years ago, I would have thought it was a joke, and something high school kids did instead of being emo or something. But no. Legitimate adults believe this bullshite too. And there are SO many of them. It's fricking weird man, and if Trump fricks up and the pendulum swings back in their direction, I'll be scared for the future of this country.

I actually like my cube....I just wish my building had at least one window for me to look out.

No matter what, no Republican set himself on fire outside Obama's house in protest.

The Left has lost the plot....

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Racial tensions weren't that bad when he took office.

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just, wow.

Race baiter and Chief. Also bigly opponent to cleaner climate as he sent more US production to massively pollutant unmonitored Chinese foreign factories. Huge hater of progressive women and gay values shown by his push for bringing angry Muslims into this country. Will go down as bottom 5 president in history.

There's this thing called empathy, it involves seeing and feeling the world from others perspectives.

From YOUR perspective nobody can accuse Trump of being racist.

But from others perspective they will see his moves as racist.

Trump is a huge log on the race tension fire.

Obama's voice isn't annoying.

Grow out of your current level of consciousness. Evolve. See more.

2003 had the most impactful affirmative action court decision in the history of race relations, period. It caused quite the backlash from white folks.