Obama talked less explicitly abt race than most right-wing podcasters. Dylan Roof walked into a historic black church in South Carolina and murdered 9 Christians. If ever there was an opportunity to “fan the flames of racial division,” that was it. His focus that day was grace.

That’s called “gas lighting.”

I'm gonna dissent. Remember when he said "If I had a son..." after the Trayvonn Martin issue? That was before any criminal trial happened. That was part of the age old tradition of manipulating the Black community. And the criminal trial revealed that Zimmerman did nothing wrong.

If President Trump, after the murder of Iryna Zarutska, said that she reminded her of his daughter, would you have considered that a racially divisive statement?

But Trump never said that. At the same time, some average folk saw their daughter in Iryna. Watching her fear resonated among average folk. The way she cowered hit hard. That was a visceral moment. Imagine the parents of, say, Annijah Rolax:

That’s not an answer to the question I asked.

Narrow the question you've asked of me. I'm lost on your initial question. I'll take that "hit". Perhaps, I've read you incorrectly.

My goodness, what a horrible take. Obama and Michelle are absolutely racial arsonists.

When a society deliberately makes brown skin a stigma, one need not even open his mouth to be a threat or to fan the “flames.” He’s so common.

You’re about to realize in the replies that these white conservatives who claim to be Christians will only tolerate you when you worship Trump. Show something defending Obama? Then, you’re just another talking black man to them 😑

Obama made every aspect of his presidency about race, and almost exclusively blamed opposition to what he wanted to do on racism.

“Trayvon could have been my son”

I want to make it clear that he did more than just walk in a church that was black. What he did was far more insidious and needs to be highlighted. He started showing up as a regular and gained their trust there for a long time while active plotting to do this the entire time.

Obama bureaucracies massively expanded woke programs that prioritized and weaponized racial considerations, so yes, to unwind that weaponization of race, we talk about it in order to substantiate why it’s being removed.

So we are we to judge Obama on the one day he didn't fan the flames of racial division? If Obama had a son, I suspect he would look like you. 😏

Obama is a POS. He blamed and condemned us as a people for the crimes and harms our government committed against usand never made us whole. Obama hates the idea of American Descendants of Slavery. Obama dehumanized us more than any POTUS in modern history.

Umm, Obama almost always framed all opposition to his radical leftwing policies due to racism

Doesn’t this critique ignore the amazing grace offered by the Emanuel AME parishioners? They set the bar too high for political rhetoric to sully.

Sure. I guess you think all his lies about Michael Brown were true. Obama set race relations in America back by 30 years. Denying it doesn’t make it less true.

@WilliamWolfe didn't say "speak". He said "done".

You're absolutely right. Imagine what Trump would have done if this were reversed.

The only word that saves your hot take is the word explicitly. You are correct. They were not explicit about racial issues. They were subtle and manipulative. They were never the spark or the fuel, but they were a vast source of the oxygen that enabled racial fires to burn.

In this situation he followed the example that was being set by church leaders and the SC community. We weren’t race baiting each other we were loving one another. Such a horrific tragedy.

Trayvon could have been my son. Obama was a race bomb thrower and we all know it now.

Really? He's the reason Trump exists and why we're here right now

It has nothing to do with Obama "fanning the flames" - as someone who watched some of his own family go down this path, it has to do with having a black president absolutely breaking their brains. The idea that there was a black man they couldn't talk down to wrecked them

Agreed although many times during his Presidency he took a different approach

He spent 8 years constantly race baiting, amplified by a supplicant media machine. How do you think we ended up with the polarization that led to Trump in ‘16?

The same man so “full of grace” sat in a church led by a black antisemitic racist minister by the name of Jeremiah Wright some of his notable sermons included God Damn America not to mention his admiration of another racist antisemite Louis Farrakhan..Obama sat in this church with his wife and children listening to this hateful man spew division and hatred for over 20 years…he only distanced himself from him because he was afraid it would cost him politically.

@DTheKingpin He played race constantly. If you disagreed w him on policy, for example, “you just didn’t want a black man to succeed “. Good grief.

Guess you forgot about Ferguson.

No this was racist. @barackobama whose religion is flake, refused to recognize them as Christian martyrs as I did.

There were moments he did not fan the flame, but far more moments he did fan the flames. The thing with Trayvon Martin was disgraceful, as was the nonsense with Gates up in Massachusetts.

"If I had a son, he'd look like Treyvon." You can't have it both ways, my guy.

He told black men to step up and wife up the baby mommas who give it up. It was one of his defining moments that burned the bridges with black men.

What about when he went to the funerals of the 5 white police officers murdered by a black man and said that police needed to take part of the blame for those murders?

That's not what Gallup polling on race relations after "Trayvon could have been my son" and urging protests in the "understandable" anger following the fake "hands up, don't shoot" narrative (and sending his DOJ to sic consent decrees on Ferguson and much of the rest of the country based on lies about police violence) show.

@CoreyWriting Obama made race a front and center issue every time. What sis this nonsense?

Obama constantly fanned the flames of division and still does. Your memory is apparently impaired.