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Jan. 25, 2021 - Epoch Times
13:50
Barack Obama: How To Play The Race Card
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Now, we've already done a video about the hideous siege of the Capitol building on January 6th.
This is about what President Obama said about it and Obama's persistent, consistent, aggravating use of the race cards.
For two months now, a political party and its accompanying media ecosystem has too often been unwilling to tell their followers the truth, that this was not a particularly close election and that President-elect Biden would be inaugurated on January 20.
Their fantasy narrative has spiraled further and further from reality and it builds upon years of sown resentments.
Now we're seeing the consequences whipped into a violent crescendo." Where do I start with that?
First of all, it was a close election.
Steve Karnacki is a political analyst on MSNB He-Haw, a station that hates Donald Trump's guts.
He said 40,000 votes.
If about 40,000 votes in three states, a fraction of a point in each, had flipped, Donald Trump could have won the presidency.
In just three or four states, could have swung the election from Joe Biden to Trump.
So send your cards and letters to Steve Karnacki of MSNB He-Haw.
Former President Obama, of course, has said that Donald Trump has emboldened his supporters to be cruel, divisive, and racist.
This is a man who got elected with 52% of the vote.
The day he walked into Oval Office, his approval rating was at 67%.
How does that happen?
Because a whole bunch of people who did not vote for the man, nevertheless, pulled for him because of the statement that was being made by his election.
In 1964, this gentleman eerily predicted that somebody like Barack Obama would become president.
Frankly, I have seen certain changes in the United States over the last two years that surprise me.
I've seen levels of compliance with the Civil Rights Bill and changes that have been most surprising.
So on the basis of this, I think we may be able to get a Negro president in less than 40 years.
I would think that this could come in 25 years or less.
Now, King did not say in 40 years time maybe we could have a black president of an Ivy League college, which we have.
He didn't say in 40 years time there'll be several black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, which has happened.
He didn't say there'll be a black person to be a governor of one of the states of the Confederacy, Doug Wilder, Virginia.
He didn't say there'll be a black male doctor to become the head of the American Medical Association, and later on a black female doctor will become the head of the American Medical Association, which happened.
He didn't say a black man will become the head of the American Bar Association, which has happened.
He didn't say they're gonna be black senators from states like South Carolina, which of course has happened.
He didn't say there's gonna be a thriving black middle class, which has happened.
He didn't say they're gonna be black mayors of the largest cities in America, New York, LA, Chicago, Philadelphia.
He said in 40 years time there could be a black person President of the United States which meant at that point one could reasonably say that our society is now evaluating people based upon the content of their character and not the color of their skin.
He meant that at that point, you stick the pole in the ground, raise the flag, salute, and convert the troops to civilian duty.
And what does that mean?
Saving the family and doing something about the lousy K-12 education.
Barack Obama once said, as far as race relations are concerned, we're 90% of the way there.
The Moses generation pointed the way.
They took us 90% of the way there, but we still got that 10%.
In order to cross over to the other side.
Now, Obama even wrote a book about his absent father called Dream to My Father about his angst.
Sharpton.
Sharpton had a nice middle-class lifestyle until his father abandoned the family and then down to the ghetto goes Sharpton.
Farrakhan.
Farrakhan's mother was estranged from her husband, had a boyfriend, took back up with the husband, got pregnant by the husband, didn't want the boyfriend to know, and tried to abort Farrakhan with a coat hanger.
Jesse Jackson.
Jesse Jackson's mother was a teenage mom who got pregnant by the married man who lived next door.
And when Jesse Jackson was growing up in South Carolina, he was taunted by kids who said, Jesse ain't got no daddy.
Jesse ain't got no daddy.
Now, these are the problems facing black America, and Obama, Farrakhan, Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, have all had experiences with absent fathers, or fathers not in their lives, and they could and should speak poignantly about this, but they don't.
It's racism, racism, racism.
Another window into Obama's mind comes through his book, Dreams From My Father, where he talks about meeting Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
He was new to Chicago, Obama, wanted to join a church, wanted to join a church that was politically connected, which is why he chose Trinity, but he wanted to meet Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
Obama gets there earlier for this meeting.
Wright's not there yet, so Obama starts speaking with the church worker who has known and worked with Jeremiah Wright for years, his assistant.
And she, a black female single mom, told Obama that she was thinking of moving from her urban neighborhood to a suburban neighborhood because her kid wants to be in the marching band.
And her school had no, his school had no marching band.
And she found a school in the suburbs, largely white school.
That not only had a marching band, but also had free uniforms.
So she told Reverend Jeremiah Wright that she was thinking about moving to that suburb and told Obama that Wright tried to discourage her from doing it, wasn't discouraging her from doing it, saying that boy won't know who he is, won't know his ethnicity if she moves to this predominantly white suburb.
Now think about this.
She's telling this To a biracial man, Obama, whose white mother sent him back from Indonesia to Hawaii to live with his white grandparents so he could get a better education.
The same thing this church woman is trying to pursue for her kid.
So when Jeremiah Wright comes, I would have thought that Obama would have said something to him about it, about how bad this is and how racist this is and how this was hurting this kid's future prospects.
So Obama did bring it up.
And Wright said, yeah, that's right.
That boy won't know who he is if he moves to that neighborhood.
Obama joined the church.
Obama didn't say, excuse me, I'm not going to join your church.
What you're doing is thwarting this boy's ability to have a good future.
My mother made sacrifices for me.
How dare you tell her not to make sacrifices for him?
Instead, he joined the church.
What does that tell you?
Now, when Obama decided to run for president, remember, he barely got elected.
He didn't know where the bathroom was.
So he brought in all of his homies, his advisors, Axelrod, Plouffe, Valerie Jarrett, to find out whether or not they thought he had a chance of winning, what the pros and the cons were.
And according to NPR, the Illinois senator reached out to friends and political mentors for advice.
chose to take advantage of a rare window of opportunities that opened for him so quickly, knowing it could close just as fast.
One former congressman said, I think he realized that whatever the constellation of political factors that got into play, this was the right time for him.
Obama first had to convince Michelle Finding a balance between family life and political life is something Michelle Obama still discusses on the campaign trail.
Hmm, he had to convince Michelle, but what about his race?
What about racism in America?
Didn't that come up?
Once Michelle was on board, the couple turned to David Axelrod for advice, asked him for research, aired their own questions, So they turned to David Axelrod for advice.
You know, do I have the requisite experience?
But what about race and racism?
Axelrod knew what Obama would be up against in terms of money and organization and rivals with greater credentials.
So he was concerned about his lack of experience, money, strategy, rivals.
Race never came up.
That's because Obama does not perceive America to be a racist country, and Obama does not think of himself as a victim.
He thought he had a shot.
Race never came up.
Fast forward, Obama becomes president.
Racism is in America's DNA. If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
The Cambridge police acted stupidly.
Oh, there's a place called Ferguson, showing we have our own racial problems, he told the United Nations.
The man knew that in order to become successful as a politician, blacks have to be angry, blacks have to believe that racism remains a major problem in America, and as a result, Obama kept pushing and pushing and pushing that narrative, even though he knew it was BS. I mean, remember this senator?
How important is race in defining yourself?
I am rooted in the African-American community, but I'm not defined by it.
I am comfortable in my racial identity, but that's not all I am.
You think the country's ready for a black president?
Yes.
I mean, in Obama's book, he has a character called Ray.
And Obama lectures Ray on Ray playing the race card.
Now, this is when Obama was in high school.
Ray said, oh man, I'm not going to any more of those BS Punahou parties.
Punahou is the prep school that Obama went to in Hawaii.
These girls are certified racists.
All the white girls, Asian girls, shoot, these Asian girls are worse than whites.
Think we got a disease or something.
Obama played it down, said, maybe they're looking at that big butt of yours.
Man, I thought you were in training, end of quote.
Obama, in effect, told Ray, knock it off.
Stop playing the victim.
Use that racial stuff later on when we really need it.
Now, in his book he talks about his white girlfriend.
One night I took her to see a new play by a black playwright.
It was a very angry play, but very funny.
Typical black American humor.
The audience was mostly black and everybody was laughing and clapping and hollering like they were in church.
After the play was over, my friend started talking about why black people were so angry all the time.
I said it was a matter of remembering.
Nobody asks why Jews remember the Holocaust, I think I said.
And she said that's different.
And I said it wasn't.
And she said that anger was just a dead end.
We had a big fight right in front of the theater.
When we got back to the car, she started crying.
She couldn't be black, she said.
She would if she could, but she couldn't.
She could only be herself, and wasn't that enough." Now you can see the girlfriend said, drop the anger.
Essentially the same thing Obama said to Ray.
But Obama knew that for purposes of politics, this white girlfriend would be a liability, less so with whites, more so with blacks.
So how much racism remains in America, Mr.
Obama?
Here's what you once said.
The Moses generation pointed the way.
They took us 90% of the way there, but we still got that 10% in order to cross over to the other side.
From that to this, The legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives, that casts a long shadow.
And that's still part of our DNA. That's passed on.
We're not cured of it.
Racism.
Racism.
We are not cured of it.
Clearly.
90% of the way there, he said, before he got elected president, we had that additional 10% to go.
Now, don't you think that 10% now is down a little bit because the man got elected president and reelected?
Now, the Elvis factor.
2002, Fox Opinion poll found 8% of Americans believe Elvis is still alive or that there is a possibility that he is.
So when you talk about the additional 10%, don't forget 8% involve the Elvis factor.
So maybe there might be 2% left to go, if that.
I'm Larry Elder, and we've got a country to save.
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