Olde Europe
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Okay, you go t me... I take back my previous statement "obama hasn't once addressed" and amend that to "addressed for 30 second in one speech." So... No wiggling! No shifting goal posts! No stubborn inflexibility here! Fully willing to own up to my errors and correct them!
Well, job well done.
It could have been even better if you had omitted the "30 second" gaffe, since the Morehouse commencement address was almost from beginning to end about responsibility, for self, for family, for the community, about setting an example for others to follow. But, see for yourself: Obama’s commencement speech at Morehouse College
As for Obama, I can find many more examples of multiple speeches and considerably more than 30-second addresses, where Obama has gone on the record to foment more racial divisiveness and play up the 'victim of white privilege' meme. Cambridge, Trayvon, now Wilson and Garner. Four times our "first black president" could have risen to the occasion to bring races together instead of instigating more polarization. He and his Attorney General are radicals with radical mentality when it comes to this. Everything has become a politically-calculated game.
I throw in another Obama initiative, just for the sake of it, so as to demonstrate how wrong, how far off the mark your "for 30 second in one speech" statement really was:
My Brother's Keeper
President Obama and AG Holder are radicals only if perceived from the far right fringe, and thus your statement tells a lot more about you than about them. For all others they're centrists. And I am going out on a limb and assert that you cannot provide three quotes, and explain, conclusively, how they amount to "fomenting racial divisiveness".
Absent proof, I find the rest of your posting was just the usual old men's complaint about the immoral, shiftless, useless youth that is standard fare throughout humankind's history. Nearly the same things, you might remember, were told about you and your peers back then, and they were most assuredly said about mine. Almost always the old farts mistook a few examples for the whole, and were bearing a grudge that their tastes and preferences weren't held in high regard. Guess what, years later the world is still rotating around its axis, even though the old ones back then wouldn't have thought it possible.