Black People Not Amused By Politico Suggestion That Obama Reach Out To Whitey
(Whitey is in the article's original title, and is meant to be satirical, just a note to alerters.)
http://thedailybanter.com/2015/12/black-people-not-amused-by-politico-suggestion-that-obama-reach-out-to-whitey/
There’s nothing like a molten hot take to warm up the icy news tundra of Christmas week, and so it is that Politico Magazine has stepped in to fill the void with a column suggesting that President Obama travel the country silently being spat on by racists in order to counter Donald Trump‘s Starkiller Base of white resentment. Lest you think I’m exaggerating, here is a little sample of Issac Bailey‘s well-intentioned but misguided column:
He shouldn’t say much at all. He should go primarily to listen, even if it means he has to endure being called nasty names to his face or risk being spat on. Because when you cut through the political rhetoric and fearmongering and empty, overheated debates, that’s the one thing people in those communities believe they haven’t received and want most—to be heard.
There’s a lot more to the piece (which you should read in full before judging) than that, but it doesn’t get much better than its headline – Why Obama Must Reach Out to Angry Whites.
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There is a widely-held political misunderstanding about White America that fuels this kind of thinking. There are actually three White Americas: the Trump America that’s either balls-out racist or feels “understandable” resentment, the “Reagan Democrats” who recognize racial injustice but can be persuaded to ignore it in their own self-interest, and liberal White America, who will keep racial justice somewhere on the menu, depending on whatever else they’ve got going at the time. Only two of those White Americas are reachable, and Trump America ain’t one of them
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He must visit DU, on occasion!
classrooms in the country he leads on the global stage? 
I was fascinated to learn recently that many classrooms in China actually study this POTUS, especially his 2008 road to the White House. Many English learning students chose his acceptance speech for their finals. It just baffles me.
I'm convinced that this President won't be fully appreciated until he's been out of office for a term or two.
and respect! 
And the guy who wrote that idiocy is apparently black too. I won't type what I'm thinking. Black Twitter is eating his ass up. Good.
This is why the "oligarchs are the reeeeeeal EEEEEEVIL in this world!!1one" crap falls on the ears of the clueless. The worst racists, the people who have burned black folks out of their homes, kept their children from their schools, denied them jobs have not been the faceless "oligarchs." They have represented the full spectrum of white Americans.
And -- stupidly!!! -- the author of that BS actually touches on that but somehow feels that Obama or anybody other than these hate filled people can change that. Downtrodden white people would have the undying sympathy of every person of color in the world if so many of them, in their privileged resentment, didn't turn on us before they turn on everybody else.
Color me super, dooper surprised. 
Thanks for that link, Starry. Just when it seemed like Sir Issac had regained his senses (to a point), he pens the "Obama should do a Hatemobile tour" mess. Though it does seem that he's got some serious rose colored glasses on when it comes to the GOP:
That GOP no longer exists. During the Obama era, the Republican Party has morphed into something I couldn’t feel comfortable being associated with. Conservative opposition to this president has not felt like politics as usual. I’ve watched relative moderates like Graham walk in lock-step with an all-out, seemingly monolithic opposition campaign against Obama and his policies—as our country was fighting two ground wars, the economy was in freefall and millions of people went without basic health care. I don’t know if that hyper level of opposition in a time of national crisis always had to do with race. I do know it showed the depths to which the party would go to hate Obama.
So basically he's saying "I was willing to overlook the blatant, beyond obvious racism of the 60s and the warmongering idiocy of the Bush years so that I could stay a Republican but these people are so out of control now I can't stay even though Republicans have been the party of hate for decades and their behavior under Obama is nothing compared to how they've acted before, peaking with the 8 years of solid, non-stop hate under Reagan."
Actually those glasses weren't rose colored, they must have been jet-black and made of lead to justify such blindness.
When Obama reached out to those who hated him, not only did he get hated on by them, but even our beloved left began to dogpile on him as some sort of fake black person (as ifwhites like Ted Rall and Ralph Nader were somehow in a position to judge if Obama could be called black.) IMHO, when the Bernie supporters started yelling at BLM and wondering "why don't you people understand!" a lot of Afro Americans remembered the way many on the LEFT also fired at Obama because he was not THEIR version of what a Black president should be!
While I myself wish Obama was more of a leftist, I would say humbly, at this point, he owes people NOTHING. In terms of practical results, long lasting results, like Gay Marriage, increased access to Medical care, and killing Osama Ben Ladin, he has gotten results that will NOT be washed away by history. Yes, he dragged his feet on some, but after that foot dragging, he got up and walked, which is something a hell of a lot of so called "liberals" never did. He had to deal with attacks on all sides, including especially from the DINOS who often get lauded right here on this page (such as Reid, Pelosi, Landrieu et al )
The sad fact is, even after the whites finally are no longer the numerical majority, many of them will still expect to be the favored children, the ones that get everything they want for xmas and the biggest slice of cake. Want Proof?, see the way many people recoil at immigration, both of Syrians (whose country we helped ruin thanks to our then sec of state declaring "Assad must go"
to Mexicans (those whose country we cut in half and took the part that had all the gold.) After we get used up, the best place for many of these fools to call will be the call centers in China, which is, after all, where they allowed the wealth of the nations to be moved to. The true equality will be the the PRC will hate and have contempt for both black and white Americans.
our FL Michelle.. who does not suffer fools.