He was such a slick snake

Oh right, it’s all Obama’s fault.

Right right right. Race was in no way an issue in the US until Obama came along. Those centuries of race-based chattel slavery? A mirage! A myth! A story told by the devil!

Obama did all the dividing and Trump has just been trying to stitch it back together. The man is a saint.

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12 responses to “He was such a slick snake”

  1. What a Maroon Avatar
    What a Maroon

    I mean, before Obama came along no one cared about the President’s race, right? Then he had to get all uppity about it.

  2. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Before Obama came along nobody cared about anybody’s race. It was a race-blind paradise here!

  3. Omar Avatar
    Omar

    It’s an attempt at a re-run of St George vs the dragon: St Donald vs the barackodile maybe?. St Donald vs the Obamagator? Except they somehow don’t have the right ring to them.

    Maybe we should go with St Obama vs the Trumposaur. Seems a better fit..

  4. GW Avatar
    GW

    Just when you thought they couldn’t get more stupid. This is the stupidest thing I’ve seen in quite a while.

  5. What a Maroon Avatar
    What a Maroon

    Trump: Hold my Diet Coke.

  6. Tim Harris Avatar
    Tim Harris

    Simply being black is divisive, obviously.

  7. Harald Hanche-Olsen Avatar

    We see it again and again: There is no bottom. Just stupidity layered on stupidity all the way down.

  8. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    With lashings of sadism sauce.

  9. guest Avatar
    guest

    I think she may be right that ‘without Obama Trump wouldn’t have happened’ – the backlash against a Black president was shockingly savage (at least shocking to me).

  10. Steven Avatar

    The initial backlash against Obama was the Tea Party (remember them?)

    They’ve since been eclipsed by Trump.

  11. KBPlayer Avatar
    KBPlayer

    The podcast The Rest is History has an episode about George Wallace, who the presenter Sandbrook sees as a forerunner to Trump. He too was all about race – though he wasn’t so blatant in his message when campaigning in the North.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XugwohThlyI

    “In 1968 Norman Mailer was writing about Wallace he said ‘America might not be ready for George Wallace, but it might be waiting for a Super Wallace’.”

    This was just before the last American election.

  12. Mostly Cloudy Avatar
    Mostly Cloudy

    Megyn Kelly can pretend that Barack Obama was the US politican “who started to inject race when no one had been doing it” in US politics.

    Any student of US history knows things were very different:

    There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides.

    Vice President Calvin Coolidge, “Whose Country Is This?” “Good Housekeeping” magazine, February 1921.

    https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/09/26/american-immigration-century-racism/

    And Coolidge’s bigoted filth was mainstream opinion in the US of the time – as indeed, some in the Trump movement would like to make such drivel mainstream opinion again.

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