Obama: In Some Ways African Americans ‘More Fundamentally Rooted in the American Experience’

"That’s part of the African American experience. You are, in some ways, connected to this distant land, but on the other end, you’re about as American as it gets, In some ways, African Americans are more fundamentally rooted in the American experience because they don’t have a recent immigrant experience to draw on. It’s that unique African American culture that has existed in North America for hundreds of years long before we actually founded the nation."

July 20, 2009 at 2:48 pm - CNN
Dateline: Cape Coast Castle, Ghana
jack   July 20th, 2009 - 3:08 pm

And so it begins……

Bill   July 20th, 2009 - 3:08 pm

What an arrogant jerk. This guy is such a racist. He can’t say 10 words without brining up his race. It doesn’t matter – the only thing that does matter is performance and he does a poor job. I would he would just try to do his job instead of babbling on all the time.

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   July 20th, 2009 - 3:09 pm

America, this is the most devisive man to ever live in our White House!

He is not a uniter, like he said in his campaign, he is a divider!

He is pandering for the black vote to garnish more guaranteed votes for upcoming elections!

The black experience is no more rooted in this great nation than my grandparents.

He is lying to them to get them to believe this…just like blacks of old told them they all descended from Kings and Queens in Africa.

Listen, black America the Kings and Queens of Africa sold your ancestors to the Europeans for slaves in Europe and the Americas!

Your own people sold you out! I am slavic and my great grandparents were serfs (slaves) also!

Your own people are still selling you out! They are lying to you and you want to believe that lie because you want it to be true…that doesn’t make it true!

We are Americans…we all have deep roots in this great nation and it’s history. We all have an experience to tell…you are no different…you are as American as we are…no more…no less!

This man needs to be thrown out of office!

CALL YOURS REPS, AMERICA, AND TELL THEM YOU WANT TO SEE THAT ‘ORIGINAL’ BIRTH CERTIFICATE PROVING HE IS NOT A LEGAL CITIZEN AND THEN THROW HIM OUT OF OUR WHITE HOUSE AND SEND HIM PACKING TO KENYA WHERE HE CAN BECOME THEIR NATION OF ISLAM’S MESSIAH…WE DON’T WANT HIM!

old white man   July 20th, 2009 - 3:09 pm

What? Man I gotta brush up on my history unless all those old white woman was teaching me wrong. I should have known better even them ols white womans are no good.

Charles   July 20th, 2009 - 3:09 pm

“It’s that unique African American culture that has existed in North America for hundreds of years long before we actually founded the nation.”

I’d love to know what African Americans he’s talking about…did the Native Americans import slaves? Were there any African explorers who settled in the New World? Or is Obama as usual just blathering, hoping nobody listens too closely?

Debbie   July 20th, 2009 - 3:10 pm

WHAT???

ron   July 20th, 2009 - 3:12 pm

This is very sad. In no way does any other American have a ‘more’ American experience than anyone else. We are all Americans, having an American experience. For a sitting president to say something as ridiculous as this is very disappointing – and – it’s racist. I voted for this person for President, if I hear more garbage like this I will work for the Republicans to get him out of office. This sickens me, and it should sicken every red/black/yellow/brown/white American.

Matt   July 20th, 2009 - 3:13 pm

This is just the same wise latina comment … good grief. Seems like we have a slow learner in the group

Ben   July 20th, 2009 - 3:13 pm

What about Indonesian Americans, huh? Barry?

This guy is so pompus and completely out of touch!

jane   July 20th, 2009 - 3:13 pm

Forget about the whole Birth Certificate thing. I think he is actually from another planet.

The Slovak   July 20th, 2009 - 3:14 pm

Let’s give this a try on the same scale.

White people are smarter than Black people. Sounds great doesn’t it.

Obama, you keep proving how big of a fool you really are.

Colonial Dame   July 20th, 2009 - 3:14 pm

Jeez, is this guy proof of the dumbing down of American schools or what?

Jose   July 20th, 2009 - 3:14 pm

this guy is great…provides daily humor

dude   July 20th, 2009 - 3:15 pm

How ironic. “AFRICAN” Americans are more rooted in American Experience? Sounds like they are still rooted in Africa.

IdiAmin   July 20th, 2009 - 3:16 pm

So when did not paying taxes, refusing to better oneself and predominantly being involved in the criminal culture (all empirically proveable facts) become “as American as it gets”.

Everyman   July 20th, 2009 - 3:16 pm

Say what?????!!!!!!!!!!

He said what?   July 20th, 2009 - 3:16 pm

It came as no surprise that his fan club president didn’t ask him to elaborate on just what the American experience i.
Had any other American President,(I’m not hyphenated) said that in many ways whites are more rooted in the American experience, there woruld be immediate calls for resignation. How did we get such a complete idiot in this position?

Richard   July 20th, 2009 - 3:16 pm

Way to cut out the context in your Drudge-bait headline. “In some ways…” should definitely have been there.

Get over yourselves with your Obama Derangement Syndrome.

Peyoteboy   July 20th, 2009 - 3:16 pm

This guy really is an idiot.

By his standard, people of European descent have been here even longer, and so thier “American Experience” has been rooted here even longer.

This is one more example of how COMPLETELY idiotic and out of touch with your average american this tool is.

Sorry, most of us, White, Black, Hispanic or Asian, DONT want to be identified as hyphenated americans, as we know that means we are still defined by our race.

Im not a “german american” and my wife is not a “mexican american”, we are both americans. Just americans.

Obama, Get over it and stop being a racist.

Rev Wright   July 20th, 2009 - 3:16 pm

I have taught him well.

Son of the Confederacy   July 20th, 2009 - 3:16 pm

My white ancestors from England came to America not long after the Jamestown settlement, so I think I have equally deep cultural roots grounded in the “American experience” as what Obama is saying to that tea bagger Cooper Anderson.

jimbo297   July 20th, 2009 - 3:17 pm

Funny how a second generation immigrant (if we’re to believe his birth certificate) speaks about being African-American, as if his family descended from American slaves in any way, whatsoever. There’s a better chance that his dreamy daddy is descended from slave-sellers then there is of Obama being descended from slaves. In fact, if we’re` going to go down this road, “I” have a more fundamental understanding of what it is to be American than the president, since I’m 9th generation Vermonter. As if that even means anything! Once you subscribe to socialist values, you cease to be American anyway!

Dude   July 20th, 2009 - 3:17 pm

What a lame thing to say. What a lame president. He should go back to Kenya, where he was born, and be president there.

DR. tillinghast   July 20th, 2009 - 3:17 pm

this man is proving to be not only inexperienced and inept. he is also an idiot!

Sammy   July 20th, 2009 - 3:18 pm

Slavery came about because European Trading Companies brought them over because of tribal wars in Africa (the spoils of the African Wars). Hundreds of years before US Independence, don’t think so. But since Obama is an authority on all subjects great and small and he is our first Socialist President then I won’t say a word.

Oppo   July 20th, 2009 - 3:18 pm

Actually, Obama personally has migrant experience. He was, after all, born in Kenya.

Lady liberty   July 20th, 2009 - 3:18 pm

Well you see when you never learn American history in your Indonesian school …you just have to make it up …lol… what a pathetic display of stupidity.

MissButterfly   July 20th, 2009 - 3:18 pm

Huh? My white ancestors came to Virginia from England and Northern Ireland, variously, from 1640-1770, then moved southwestward and settled in Alabama and Mississippi about 1811-1832. The entire southeastern United States was settled that way, without nearly as much recent immigration as has occurred in the north.
Dixie is the real America! :)

Dave, Tn   July 20th, 2009 - 3:19 pm

I think what he’s trying to say is that they’re more fundamentally rooted in the American Experience we’re headed towards of being slaves to DC and NY with a side dish of LA propaganda.

Heard about this?
“Barofsky said that while the TARP program that Congress passed amounts to $700 billion, the total federal government support since 2007 for the economy and the financial sector could reach a far higher figure of $23.7 trillion. The government has committed significantly more money through a variety of other federal agencies and programs.”

http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/1240-TWENTY-FOUR-TRILLION-DOLLARS!.html

aubrew   July 20th, 2009 - 3:19 pm

hey charles you dumb sleaze,
slaves were imported before the revolution. crack open a book.

Jim G.   July 20th, 2009 - 3:20 pm

Now we see “the content of his character”

Bob   July 20th, 2009 - 3:20 pm

What part of American experience would that be?
The one where you work hard to support your family and a Mother and Father raise their kids together to be an independent member of society?
Or the one where children are abandoned by their fathers and are taught to live as dependents of a plantation state?

Other   July 20th, 2009 - 3:21 pm

His polls are down. By re-affirming his African heritage he riles up the racial base which forces the politically correct lemmings to shout their support.

blue swede   July 20th, 2009 - 3:21 pm

Am I sensing a pattern here? Will white people get the same health coverage as all the rest in the Obama Health takeover plan? I think my naivete is being stripped. Can a wise latina respond, please?

Irondog   July 20th, 2009 - 3:21 pm

These idots will do anything to advance their agenda including rewriting history-unfortunately it’s the “higher educated” who are the suckers who believe this pap.

Dillon   July 20th, 2009 - 3:21 pm

Blahah. Too bad it was on the Communist News Network. BO might want to try and do an interview with a news agency that isn’t obsessed with the ground he walks on. Maybe then people might watch / listen to what he says / does.

jo byden   July 20th, 2009 - 3:21 pm

Obama is a straight up Kenyan born anti-American racist.

MissButterfly   July 20th, 2009 - 3:22 pm

Huh? My white ancestors came to Virginia from England and Northern Ireland, variously, from 1640-1770, then moved southwestward and settled in Alabama and Mississippi about 1811-1832. The entire southeastern United States was settled that way, without nearly as much recent immigration as has occurred in the north.
If any one part of the country is more American than the other, it’s Dixie! :)

Don   July 20th, 2009 - 3:23 pm

My ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. Can I be any more “fundamentally rooted in America ” than that ? Obama needs to stop exaggerating and lying to the American people. I’ve never heard of a more racist President than this guy. Wake Up America. This guy doesn’t love America and that’s why he wants to change it so much.

trb   July 20th, 2009 - 3:23 pm

Nice to know my American experience is less than all the “African” Americans. Would a Haitian or Jamaican hae as rich an expereince? I still cannot beleive the American people bought into the hype and packaging of Obama by the MSM. Were those knee pads Anderson Cooper was hiding behind his back?

DeeAdams   July 20th, 2009 - 3:24 pm

I am from the Cherokee and I beg to disagree with this, this, — statement. You would think that a person educated in three private schools would know better.

daniel   July 20th, 2009 - 3:24 pm

glad to see some of america is waking up to see the consequences of an election based on skin color alone…racism is a double edged sword.

pat   July 20th, 2009 - 3:25 pm

I would say that today, African Americans are the most graffic embodiment and representation of American culture. There is certainly nothing African about them.

Jim G.   July 20th, 2009 - 3:25 pm

How many other “recently former” democrats are out there? Am I alone?

madmommy09   July 20th, 2009 - 3:25 pm

….”African Americans are more fundamentally rooted in the American experience because they don’t have a recent immigrant experience to draw on. It’s that unique African American culture that has existed in North America for hundreds of years long before we actually founded the nation.”"……

I have to ask,…. isnt he being racist to the latinos and asians? It almost sounds like he is saying that black people have more claim to being American than “other” immigrant races because blacks have been here longer!

Shockedandshagrined   July 20th, 2009 - 3:25 pm

Wait a second. Wasn’t this guy’s father born in Kenya. He has less American experience (never mind that his mother is Caucasion)than the Irisihmen and thier decendants who where conscripted into the Union Army the minute they landed in New York to fight in the civil war. How does he get away with it.

AA Healthcare   July 20th, 2009 - 3:26 pm

This is why the offices of “Civil Rights” and “Minority Health” are at the CENTER of his health care plan. He’s going to kill off white people by denying them health care they are paying for!! AFFIRMATIVE ACTION HEALTH CARE!!!
http://docs.house.gov/gopleader/House-Democrats-Health-Plan.pdf

jerky   July 20th, 2009 - 3:26 pm

i r confused.

last time i checked, Native Americans were the first on this great land…which is why they are called NATIVE AMERICANS. AFRICAN AMERICANS were brought over FROM AFRICA by the English as slaves…hence the AFRICAN AMERICAN name. wake up america. this guy is a horrible racist and is further dividing our country.

Lydia   July 20th, 2009 - 3:26 pm

I sware hussein obama has my head spinning like in the exorist! What an arrogant ignorant fool we have in the
white house. Let’s get rid of this usuper!

arete5000   July 20th, 2009 - 3:27 pm

It’s comforting to know that we have an American soldier being paraded as a pawn through cyberspace and this ignoramus is making racially devisive and just plain stupid statements to his Kool-aid sipping drones. Nice to see where your sympathies lie, Barry

rscott   July 20th, 2009 - 3:27 pm

The Obama BS express runs continually. Rap, fatherless children, rampant out of wedlock birthrates are definately not as American as it gets. Obama is a racist piece of crap that is destined to screw up this country for years to come. God help us all.

Jim   July 20th, 2009 - 3:27 pm

More proof he is a racist, but he won’t be called out on it.

Scott   July 20th, 2009 - 3:28 pm

They are actually Africans in Diaspora.

chase   July 20th, 2009 - 3:29 pm

I have no problem with the man’s ancestry; I do have a problem with his being dishonest for political purposes/expediency, I suppose. His mother was white. His father was 3/4 Arab and 1/4 African. That makes the President 1/8 african. Based on those percentages, I could be elected and call myself the first “native american” president. Our leaders and our suppliers of news give us mostly half-truths. None of us, regardless of
ideology, should stand for it.

L_Dave   July 20th, 2009 - 3:29 pm

This guy obviously hates America, and feels some kind of need to constantly re-write its history. I think it started with his anthropologist mom – a 60’s radical from Kansas who obviously had issues with white men, and an unwarranted sympathy (brought about by self loathing and guilt, I’m guessing) for foreigners.

Jon   July 20th, 2009 - 3:30 pm

I’m pretty sure that he was speaking of African Americans as opposed to Africans, not African Americans as opposed to European Americans. I’m not an Obama supporter, but you people have made a poor choice is picking this as a reason to think he’s divisive. Watch it again. He’s speaking about people from Africa and what he’s saying is that African Americans have little in common with Africans because African American culture and heritage has been in the New World long before the founding of the nation – which is TRUE because the thirteen colonies, spanish Florida and Louisiana were all here at least a hundred years before we ever had a the United States of America. And wherever there were Europeans during that period of history there was going to be slaves. That’s just common sense and anyone who claims to have common sense would have at least listened to the clip before spouting off crap.

Mark   July 20th, 2009 - 3:30 pm

if they are more rooted in America, Obama might be suggesting its time to cease using the phrase Africa-American, one love, one heart, lol

caca   July 20th, 2009 - 3:31 pm

Abrew
Im thinking you need to crack a book. look at the quote “It’s that unique African American culture that has existed in North America for hundreds of years long before we actually founded the nation.”
Hundreds of years????? Charles is right.

jimbo96   July 20th, 2009 - 3:32 pm

I wonder why this obviously racist statement gets a pass? My family is rooted in the United States as I can trace two of my lines back to 1750, both of which fought in the revolutionary war. But what really annoys me is the fact that BHO seems to think that the “American” experience can be inherited. The only experience BHO has is his. The only experience I have is mine. As a black/white citizen he has had it much easier than I, and if he had to live on what I do I would pity him. But he got lucky, very lucky, but his luck came at the expense of millions of others. I suspect that he actually does not meet the requirements of being a “natural born citizen of the US.” I say this because he refuses to release his real, complete and certified birth record. His father was not a US citizen, and his mother was too young at the time to confer citizenship according to information out there. Since he refuses to answer this one simple question, easily done, that means he has something to hide. The only reason for refusing to answer this question is because he is not Constitutionally eligible to hold the office of President. That means that Joe Biden is the next in line, and possibly the real Pres. That is even a scarier thought than BHO…
Bigoted and biased President of the USA elected by a combination of illegal aliens, dead voters, fictitious voters and bought votes from people too dumb to know the difference, or too paid off to care.

justin   July 20th, 2009 - 3:32 pm

Obama would like to clarify his comments, see he meant the ‘New and Improved American Experience’ not that old liberty garbage.

The new American experience where we are slaves to the state, forking over a majority of our work to the state through various taxes, fees, and inflation.

See, African Americans are old hats at slavery. The rest of us are now going to get a small taste.

Kiss your liberty good bye and bend over and love the new Hope and Change.

Obama Bin Lying   July 20th, 2009 - 3:32 pm

So what does your white half thing about that comment?

Golf Guy   July 20th, 2009 - 3:32 pm

If Africans were sold into slavery by other Africans, Europeans and Arabs and then brought to what was then the original colonies, there had to be white slave owners here already! At what point we do stop pandering to this kind of crap and get real with the problems that face us. Even Jesse Jackson would have been a better President then this character. At least he understands the American experience (black or white) as oppose to this illegal!

Chris   July 20th, 2009 - 3:33 pm

He is such an embarrassment to this country.

Jim   July 20th, 2009 - 3:33 pm

Blacks are better Americans than whites, Reverand Wright told him so.

d deming   July 20th, 2009 - 3:33 pm

Jane….don’t give Extraterrestrials (aliens) a bad name. BHO is an educated idiot born in Kenya, educated in Indonesia, he is not a natural born citizen, therefore; he isn’t qualified to be president, he is a fraud. A front man for George Soros, and other liberal/socialist/communist nut jobs. Joe Biden is an idiot too! People wake up before it is too late. Vote out the democrats in 2010 and get some balance. I didn’t vote for BHO, but one thing for sure. I’ve had enough “CHANGE”, and it’s all been for the bad. God save America from these fools.

Don   July 20th, 2009 - 3:34 pm

Seems relatively harmless to say something like he just said. Interesting, actually, when you think about it. But leave it to hateful, ignorant, angry people like you all not to listen closely and just jump all over every word.

As a 3rd generation American, it is interesting to meet people, white or black (or Asian for that matter) who can trace their history in North America back 300 hundred years or more.

What is confrontational about what he said?

To you Jamestown founder lineage folks, or English and Irish immigrants? What gives? You argue his point by arguing you’re “more rooted?”

No, I’m more rooted. No, I am. No, I am.

Pathetic.

Frederik   July 20th, 2009 - 3:34 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen: meet Reverend JEREMIAH WRIGHT in da White Houze.

Ryan   July 20th, 2009 - 3:34 pm

I don’t like Obama the President…at all. And I was ready to trash him over this statement. But then I listened to it. He wasn’t saying that African Amercians are more rooted than other racial groups. He was saying that African Americans have more in common with America – more deeply rooted – than they do with Africa. I still hope Republicans take back Congress in 2010 and replace Obama in 2012, but this statement was harmless.

Dave,Tn   July 20th, 2009 - 3:34 pm

Just listened to it again and he didn’t say they were more fundamentally rooted than any other race here, so there really is no there there. Still think NY DC and LA are the axis of liberal evil though. :D

Jim L   July 20th, 2009 - 3:35 pm

The Funny part is he is only half Black and raised in Frickin Hawaii (After the muslim training). And they called Condoleeza Rice “White” Who was brought up in the racist south during the civil rights movement.

rulisteningnow   July 20th, 2009 - 3:35 pm

RACE is not the issue Barack. We are on to you Barack so stop
trying to play you your race-baiting bullshit in hopes of changing the subject. The issue we have with YOU (not African American by the way) is your agenda that hurts the country. Play your Saul Alinsky, community organizer” ‘Rules for Radicals’ elsewhere.

Understand Saul Alinsky and Understand Obama’s Agenda

Ben-Peter Terpstra

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are disciples of Saul Alinsky, the late community organizer. And according to radio host Andrew Wilkow, Americans need to understand Alinskyism in order to understand Washington-first politicians.

So, let’s review: In 1966 the Oakland Tribune’s John Burk exposed the many ways in which the community organizer, Saul Alinksy worked (April 14):

Some possibilities for Alinsky’s Oakland Program:

1. A Watermelon March. Using a skin color chart, Alinsky would select a few hundred of the city’s “blackest” Negroes, attire them according to a stereotype – in coveralls – give each of them a watermelon… “One problem in Oakland is that the power structure doesn’t know there are any Negroes,” Alinsky explains. “We’d show them some Negroes.” The Watermelon March would go from City Hall to The Tribune to the lakesideCounty buildings.

Walking Tactic

2. Sunday Walks. Large numbers of equally dark-skinned Negroes, immaculately dressed, would walk through predominantly white residential neighbourhoods all day long, several Sundays in a row. The anticipated reaction from white suburbia, Alinsky said, would be demands to get the Negroes out of the neighborhood. The result: “You won’t have to ASK for anything. They’ll call you in from the street and ask you what want.”

3. Exodus. This is a long range program. It calls for moving Negroes into special target areas where, in Alinsky’s words, “the white establishment has built its finest amenities.” Like the better high schools, the better grade schools, the museums, the parks, and so forth. Anticipated result: “The white people will move out and you’ve got their goodies.”

These are unorthodox tactics, long on showmanship. Because Alinsky is part showman, part con man, full of circus tricks, he carefully orchestrates every tactical move for fullest dramatic effect. He knows his tactics must be novel to be effective.

Here, the investigative journalist is introducing us to Alinsky’s outlandish race-baiting plans for cities. But freethinkers might ask: Why would Obama embrace the teachings of a divider?

Unsurprisingly, Obama attended a black-majority church with links to Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan, and the so-called Million Man March. Marching matters: division fuels the remote leader’s goals.

Truly, race baiting is just a tool liberals use to empower their wallets and careers. Anarchist philosopher Alinsky owned at least two houses. Obama, the make-poverty-history leader, also paid $1.65 million for his controversial house – $300,000 below the asking price.

In symbolic charity, as shown in Alinsky’s street theatre, there was no real attempt to help minority groups; in fact, African-Americans were treated like “social justice” Muppets to empower the two-houses-for-me elites. And notice how liberals used skin-charts and how very willing they were to use the “blackest” of blacks.

Allow me to highlight three more problems with Alinsky’s religion: entitlement theology, Orwellian language tools, and tricknology.

Entitlement theology: Bob’s school is better than Harry’s. Harry’s park is better than Sue’s. Sue’s house is better than Sally’s. The entitlement theologian first tells his subjects that the grass is always greener on the other side. Europe’s socialistic healthcare is better than America’s (if we ignore filthy hospital floors and beds). Therefore, we’re entitled to a European-style system (and the taxpayer worker ants must pay for it). Or: the Catholic school up the road is better than my public school. Therefore, the middle classes must pay to fatten public school bureaucrats. Entitlement theologians sell envy, or psychological hunger. Obama’s children, however, are entitled to a private school education.

Orwellian language tools: Of course, entitlement theology relies on words and symbols. But Obama’s Orwellian toolbox is his greatest strength and weakness. Emotional trigger words abound: change, hope, unity, fairness, equality, peace, justice. But what happens when you’re single, unemployed and find your “hope” in a bottle? Or, what happens when you’re literally looking for “change” to eat? Obama’s “wise Latina” Supreme Court pick is pure Alinskyism.

Tricknology: Saul Alinsky said: “I don’t consider revolution a nasty word. Changes are caused by a series of revolutions. There is no evolution without revolutions. And there have been no revolutions without conflict.” However, in crafting his philosophy, Alinsky highlighted minority rights as opposed to responsibilities. In his worldview, certain groups were children. Dress them up. Tell them to do silly things and fire them up. Meanwhile, the community organizer lives in relative comfort. Anger is channeled in only one direction.

Chris B. Behrens   July 20th, 2009 - 3:36 pm

I think he’s actually saying “African Americans are more fundamentally rooted in the American experience (than other more recent immigrants) because they don’t have a recent immigrant experience to draw on.”

As far as the “unique African American culture that has existed in North America for hundreds of years long before we actually founded the nation”…if I were to be charitable…maybe slaves in the sugar trade? Even then, that’s going to be Caribbean, which I guess is sort of North America. As any good American schoolchild should know, it was the invention of the cotton gin that really kicked off slavery in massive numbers in the south (though certainly there were slaves in America before that).

I dunno…I try to give people I disagree with the benefit of the doubt as much as possible, but I’m not sure to what culture he’s referring to. It’s probable he was just riffing…where’s that teleprompter when you need it?

anon   July 20th, 2009 - 3:36 pm

Several of my ancestors were from the Irish that fought, were either wounded or killed in the Civil War, for the Union. I’m not asking for reparations.

Joshua   July 20th, 2009 - 3:36 pm

I’m white and I wasn’t offended. I think most of you who left angry comments will turn on Fox News tonight and jerk off to Bill O’Reilly. You know he’ll be “looking out for you.”

Mark   July 20th, 2009 - 3:37 pm

“Law Enforcement” enables this swill.

rulisteningnow   July 20th, 2009 - 3:39 pm

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are disciples of Saul Alinsky, the late community organizer. And according to radio host Andrew Wilkow, Americans need to understand Alinskyism in order to understand Washington-first politicians.

Here, the investigative journalist is introducing us to Alinsky’s outlandish race-baiting plans for cities. But freethinkers might ask: Why would Obama embrace the teachings of a divider?

Unsurprisingly, Obama attended a black-majority church with links to Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan, and the so-called Million Man March. Marching matters: division fuels the remote leader’s goals.

Truly, race baiting is just a tool liberals use to empower their wallets and careers. Anarchist philosopher Alinsky owned at least two houses. Obama, the make-poverty-history leader, also paid $1.65 million for his controversial house – $300,000 below the asking price.

In symbolic charity, as shown in Alinsky’s street theatre, there was no real attempt to help minority groups; in fact, African-Americans were treated like “social justice” Muppets to empower the two-houses-for-me elites. And notice how liberals used skin-charts and how very willing they were to use the “blackest” of blacks.

Allow me to highlight three more problems with Alinsky’s religion: entitlement theology, Orwellian language tools, and tricknology.

Entitlement theology: Bob’s school is better than Harry’s. Harry’s park is better than Sue’s. Sue’s house is better than Sally’s. The entitlement theologian first tells his subjects that the grass is always greener on the other side. Europe’s socialistic healthcare is better than America’s (if we ignore filthy hospital floors and beds). Therefore, we’re entitled to a European-style system (and the taxpayer worker ants must pay for it). Or: the Catholic school up the road is better than my public school. Therefore, the middle classes must pay to fatten public school bureaucrats. Entitlement theologians sell envy, or psychological hunger. Obama’s children, however, are entitled to a private school education.

Orwellian language tools: Of course, entitlement theology relies on words and symbols. But Obama’s Orwellian toolbox is his greatest strength and weakness. Emotional trigger words abound: change, hope, unity, fairness, equality, peace, justice. But what happens when you’re single, unemployed and find your “hope” in a bottle? Or, what happens when you’re literally looking for “change” to eat? Obama’s “wise Latina” Supreme Court pick is pure Alinskyism.

Kash   July 20th, 2009 - 3:39 pm

Hussein skipped History and Math when in school. Must be that affirmative action education. He continues to embarrass himself – since he is our almighty dictator, I guess he can get away with being stupid….We will all pay for his arrogance and stupidity.

Leigha   July 20th, 2009 - 3:40 pm

After listening to the video, I think he meant that African Americans are more rooted in the American experience than the African experience because so many have been here so long…

mensareject   July 20th, 2009 - 3:40 pm

Afro-Americans more rooted in America? Blacks built the White house? Chinese built the railroads? Edison’s black assistant really invented the light bulb? The Wright Bros stole the plane plans from a freed slave? The Pharaohs were all black and the nose of the Sphinx was removed by whites to hide the truth? These are the facts you will learn when you go to college and major in Afro-American studies.

Carlos   July 20th, 2009 - 3:40 pm

Just one question: WHAT?

NoMarxist   July 20th, 2009 - 3:41 pm

He must think we’re stupid!! This guy is really starting to make Bush look like a genius!!

Roots   July 20th, 2009 - 3:42 pm

I would have to agree that their heads are firmly rooted below the surface of the ground and that probably accounts for the fact they continue to vote for the party that has harmed them the most since the War Agaist the South.

Matt Oberlander   July 20th, 2009 - 3:42 pm

Hispanic women are wiser, “African-Americans” are more American,… I think I see a pattern emerging. Racism is in vogue unless, of course you are a White Christian, then it is a hate crime.

Ricky   July 20th, 2009 - 3:42 pm

I can’t stand Obama. Always about race, taxes and communist/marxist policies!

Dark Helmet   July 20th, 2009 - 3:43 pm

A history lesson from a muslim communist…… yawn…

Suru   July 20th, 2009 - 3:43 pm

It is time to reveal the greatest secret of American history: our founding fathers were really black! There is no need to keep the truth hidden

Glennis   July 20th, 2009 - 3:43 pm

My ancestors were here in the late 1600’s and early 1700’s. How much more rooted than that can you get?
Obama is a classless, pandering fool.

Rick Lamark   July 20th, 2009 - 3:43 pm

What did you idiots that voted for all the hope and change expect? You made you bed so shut your filthy pieholes and deal with it. YOU PUT THIS MARXIST/SOCIALIST/RACIST PIG IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!! What an embarrasment for our country. I hope Air Force One crashes with him and the entire press corp on board. Clean house with one fell swoop. Drop dead all you morons.

Karen Louis   July 20th, 2009 - 3:44 pm

Wow. What a jerk he is, just a teensy bit arrogant. First, I know plenty of black Americans who are first and second generation Americans, Second, what about my Crown nation ancestors, my 1850s German ancestors, not to mention the late 1700s Irish ancestors. Huh? What is this man saying? I think he sounds really racist, but he probably knows better than a wise Latina, so listen up.

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH   July 20th, 2009 - 3:44 pm

BHO means the “AMERICAN CRIMINAL EXPERIENCE” as documented here -

http://www.NewNation.org.

Tom   July 20th, 2009 - 3:44 pm

This guy’s a total idiot! [sic]…African American culture that has existed in North America for hundreds of years long before we actually founded the nation.” Huh??? What did the Indians hide the AF-Americans? Can you answer that Mr. Prez…………?

Melissa   July 20th, 2009 - 3:44 pm

This is what happens when the man doesn’t have a teleprompter. His thoughts aren’t his, they’re all the product of his PR machine.

Glenn   July 20th, 2009 - 3:44 pm

Spoken like the socialist that Mr. President is. Redefining what it means to be American. Well American public you got the same guy that would not wear the flag or cover his heart for the Anthem. Now he is going to tell you that African-Americans are more American because they don’t belong anywhere. Ridiculous. American is Freedom, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That is just pure rubbish.

Wrangler911   July 20th, 2009 - 3:44 pm

Really?! REALLY?! First of all; Wasn’t this the man that was going to “change the way America thinks about race?” Also, HOW are African American any more fundamentally rooted in the American experience? Isn’t the American experience to go to school, get a good job (maybe even start your own business) and accumulate wealth to have a comfortable life? Hmmmm does anyone see the irony?

d deming   July 20th, 2009 - 3:45 pm

Irondog….Not everyone with a “higher education” believes BHO and his crap! I have two almost three Master’s Degrees from major universities. Just because you are educated means you have wisdom. Knowledge (education) unchallenged is a worthless as having a hammer handle and no hammerhead. Educated idiots like BHO can’t pound nails. I worked my way through school digging coal in the coal mines, sweating along side the coke ovens, doing construction work, and serving my country during Vietnam. And just because I’m educated doesn’t mean I can’t tell a fraud when I see one. One thing I learned through 12+ years of college….question authority, trust only in God, and vote your wallet. God Bless America.

Mike in Salt Point   July 20th, 2009 - 3:45 pm

So, since he does NOT have African-American heritage, does that mean he isn’t as American and the descendants of slaves? Michelle would be more American than he would be, by his own definition.

Well, really only one word comes to mind.. Racist.

Vince Hugh   July 20th, 2009 - 3:45 pm

The American experience IS the creation of white men from a white Europe who wrote our Constitution, developed our culture, managed and won our big wars, brought Christianity, developed our universities and invented our technology and mechanization to make us the greatest country in the world. Blacks, unwillingly, were brought to this country and were initially told what to do by white men. Many blacks learned from the American experience and made great contributions to our country. But if Obama is trying to insinuate that blacks have a better connection than whites with American culture and values, he must consider that it was put their by white Americans. Whites should not be afraid to be proud of being white and what they have accomplished…and should not think of themselves as being racist if they do….despite what Obama and the media wants you to believe.

cecil91   July 20th, 2009 - 3:45 pm

Blacks were brought to Jamestown in 1619, and for several decades had the same status as all other indentured servants–a common practice during the period. So, since I can trace my ancestors back to the first line of white indentured servants, I can only conclude that my European ancestry places me alongside Blacks as having that fundamental “oomph” factor that separates me from the remainder of unconnected riff-raff who also inhabit this country. Of course, this is one of the most irrational arguments I have ever heard, and it is particularly stupid coming from the POTUS.

Truth Lives   July 20th, 2009 - 3:45 pm

Actually blacks are under represented at our most important fundamental moments, like Gettysburg, Bastogne, D-day,etc…Their leadership is often heard lamenting any blacks being on the front lines of any war.

JP   July 20th, 2009 - 3:46 pm

The jerk & the Racist

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