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Obamas on Race: We've Been Treated Like the Help

1 pointsby juanplusjuanover 10 years ago

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paulhauggisover 10 years ago
&quot;Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs,&quot; Michelle Obama told the magazine.&quot;<p>I was in Chicago last summer and I had an impossible time catching a cab (I&#x27;m not black). I spent 2 hours..and finally ended up taking a bus instead. There are a million reasons why a cab driver will not pickup someone...and it&#x27;s not necessarily because of race.<p>&quot;if you looked at what happened after Trayvon, if you looked at the decision after Eric Garner, I&#x27;m being pretty explicit about my concern, and being pretty explicit about the fact that this is a systemic problem, that black folks and Latinos and others are not just making this up,&quot;<p>While the police were abusive in Eric Garner&#x27;s case, I don&#x27;t think it had anything to do with race. He was a 30+ time criminal that was resisting arrest. No matter the race, the same outcome would have happened. It&#x27;s not like he was doing absolutely nothing..and the police abused him and framed him for a crime. In fact, all of these martyrs were involved in some sort of criminal behavior. I&#x27;m shocked that nobody seems to think that armed robbery, assault, and theft are no big deal anymore.<p>The hoodie meme that went on during the Trayvon situation was ridiculous. If you dress like this, I&#x27;m going to look at you suspiciously..I don&#x27;t care about your skin color. Political correctness is only hurting innocent people.<p>This poster on go.com has it right: &quot;Michelle Obama disguise herself to go to Target and if a woman asked her for help getting something off a high shelf it&#x27;s because she is tall......&quot;<p>The problem is that in our sick world today, bullshit memes on Facebook and Twitter are seen as fact.