How much progress did President Obama make towards ending racial discrimination in the US?
He made no progress, apart from making things worse with some uninformed and reckless statements that he didn’t need to make.Evidence: Race Relations Are at Lowest Point in Obama Presidency, Poll FindsDuring the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump made the somewhat audacious statement to African American voters “What do you have to lose by voting for something different?” making the case that eight years of the Presidency of Barrack Obama hadn’t done much for them. Which, apart from unemployment rates, was pretty much the case.President Obama didn’t need to weigh in on the Trayvon Martin case, but he did. He didn’t need to say anything about the Skip Gates arrest, but he did. He didn’t need to defend the Ferguson rioters and criticize the police, but he did. He didn’t need to speak of Michael Brown in glowing terms, despite evidence that he was a thug who tried to take a cop’s gun, but he did. He didn’t need to chime in on the Freddie Gray case, but he did. He didn’t need to equate the execution of five Dallas police officers with unrelated police killings, but he did.In all of these instances, and there are more, President Obama weighed in on racial issues, consistently on the side that was wrong. No one was convicted of wrong doing in any of those cases. Yes, the death of Michael Brown was regrettable, but he was a thug who had just committed a strong arm robbery and, when confronted by the police, chose to resist and try to take a cop’s gun. There was no “arms up don’t shoot,” and Brown wasn’t some little angel who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.So, his actions made exactly zero progress toward improving racial relations in this country and arguably made them much worse. Claims that him just being a competent President improved things ring fairly hollow — only a crazed racist would assume that he couldn’t be a competent President just because he was black, and that kind of person isn’t going to change their mind for such a simplistic reason.
Why did Michelle Obama have to call in an etiquette coach to teach the Obama family basic table manners?
This pic is a great example of why our president needs to learn basic dining skills like how to hold a champagne coupe properly so that he he doesn't put his greasy finger prints all over it or transmit the warmth of his hand to the white wine in question . http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100408/capt.e1a22b2e1647445086316f4dd8e516fb-e1a22b2e1647445086316f4dd8e516fb-0.jpg
Is President Obama considered black considering his mother is white and he was not raised by a black family?
It's his choice to self-identify as whatever he pleases, especially because he does have the biological backing to do it. I always think it's so funny that I have to self-identify as Asian, when clearly a lot of people use that term to refer to Chinese, Korean and Japanese people (among others).To actually address your question: I can understand why you would think it would be "racist" for Obama to pick a side. Although I'm not mixed race, I guess I fall on the "American Born Confused Desi" spectrum, and I can tell you that the peers of my generation are all pretty widely scattered around this spectrum. Some of them are so white-washed, the only thing I have in common with them is brown skin. Some of them, like me, try desperately to hold on to vestiges of desi culture that our equally desperate parents tried to impart in us while growing up. When asked whom I pledge allegiance to patriotically, I say the following: Canadian by citizenship and support for healthcare, American financially, and Indian at heart. What a muddle. The barista at the NYC Starbucks didn't believe me when I pronounced the accent grave in crème, being a stubborn Canadian, claiming damn it, I took French in high school. Sardonically, he said, "it's cream, lady. Cream." Crushing my stupid Canadian Indian American heart. In different circumstances, different aspects of my Americanness, Canadianness and Indianness stand out.Outwardly, I just find it easier to say, hey, I'm Indian. Obama has an equally, if not more diverse background. Being black, from my understanding, can be a defining trait in your life, much the same way my brown skin defines me. And it's not racist to identify yourself with that.
If Obama wins...will the black complaining, whinning & free ride END finally?
Heck no, they'll just demand more and more until our country is even broker and the welfare baby-mammas and babydaddys are the rich ones. I can't wait to see that....me working my butt off to pay my bills, driving a used car and watching my budget just so some lazy-butt can sit around her rent free apartment and not lift a finger. Oh wait, that's the way it is now........I can't imagine what they'll demand next....maybe back-pay from slavery days....what a joke. EDIT: JUST BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T LIKE OBAMA DOESN'T MEAN YOU DON'T LIKE BLACK PEOPLE. THAT'S A COP-OUT THAT PEOPLE WHO FAVOR OBAMA FOR NO REASON USE. I AM SO SICK OF IT!!!!
Was Barack Obama given the Nobel Peace Prize on credit?
I wish I could give a full answer. Im on my phone in beijing right now however so that just not going to happen.Just after it was announced that obama won the peace prize there was a lot of speculation about why he won. Many commentators decided that he won because of peaceful intentions or something. There is precedent for this, like when Kissenger won the prize.Then something happened. A member of the norwegian committee that decides the prize explained in a widely circulated op ed why they gave the prize to obama. Turns out it was for two reasons.One, Obama pulled plans to put missile instillations in eastern europe. At the time he explained we would just use subs instead but the committee and the ex US world saw it as an amazing action of peace.Two, Obama made a huge step.forward toward better relations between the US and the Arab world when he did his Cairo speech. It was televised and translated all over the Arab world. Arabs generally thought highly of obama for a few months after that. I have since visited Palestine, Jordan, and Egypt, and I can tell you that those warm feelings for obama are no longer there.If I was at a computer with fast internet I would just put in links for all these things but unfortunately readers will have to google these things.The tragedy of the matter is th the op ed came out after the news cycle on obamas peace prize finished. Networks never reported on the op ed and the truth of why he won never seeped into the national consciousness. It is so sad that thats how it went but such is public undersranding.Hope this helps!
Is Obama still paying Halliburtin in Iraq +Affanastan ?
Poor pathetic you. Your epic ignorance disgusts me.
Why do I see some Republicans calling Michelle Obama terrible things in the comments section of news articles?
I see Mrs Obama as a good person and I have no negative feelings towards her. However, almost everyone I know is Catholic and/or Republican. They dislike her for one reason only, at least what they tell me and that is because of her quote on election night about this being the first time she's been proud of the USA. Now, they are all white and most would be considered upper middle class. But, the fact that she wasn't proud until 2008 really rankled them.I've tried to explain to them that the USA isn't the innocent freedom defender they think we are(which riles them up too). That slavery and jim crow still has an effect on black Americans, not to mention redlining, flat out theft of wealth, and racial law enforcement(even if people are debating about whether LE is racist today, they were in the immediate past). That black people have had a different experience than whites have had. Most think about all this and say she should have at least been proud of the USA over WW2. Until I ask how she could be proud of a country that fought for freedom overseas while still discriminating at home. It was still freedom for white people(European) only. Why would Obama be proud of that.Besides the hatred they have toward Mr Obama, her quote is the reason a lot of right wing “patriots" hate her.