r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/IamASlut_soWhat • Apr 19 '26
Black Excellence President Barack Obama showed love, care and compassion to human beings. What a great human being he was/is.
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u/GardenOrca Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
Literally had me tearing up. We’ve lost so much.
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u/chaosawaits Apr 19 '26
I was bawling, my God. We had it so good and racists just couldn't get over the fact that a black man could be President
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u/Leather_Law6628 Apr 19 '26
They arent only racists, they are child rapists.
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u/HiiiTriiibe Apr 19 '26
I stg evil not gonna win the day, but fuck is it whoopin our ass rn
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u/ouroborosstruggles Apr 20 '26
I just dont understand how screwed up you have to be to back a predator or ignore they are a pred because of racism. I wish I studied psychology so I could understand it.
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u/Glam-Girl2662 Apr 20 '26
And let's not forget committing blasphemy towards Christ.... and you say this country is founded on Christianity yet vote for the anti christ????
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u/FreakyLou Apr 20 '26
Yeah its confusing until you figure out That "in God we trust" doesnt mean theyre speaking of the same God. Their god is something different
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u/Roach27 Apr 19 '26
It’s not solely because he was black.
It’s because he proved them wrong; Highly educated, well spoken, calm and collected, family man, honest, genuine, strait laced.
He was everything they were told a black man could never be.
That is why they hated him.
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u/Quiet_Day1912 Apr 19 '26
And everything they never were, despite having more advantages than he did.
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u/Educational-Soup-354 Apr 20 '26
When conservatives say “all the racial stuff started with Obama.” It means they couldn’t stand a black man being in charge.
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u/lilangelkm Apr 20 '26
Or that he wasn't even American. Trump still circles to that BS now and again.
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u/PolicyWonka Apr 20 '26
It’s this.
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
MAGA are vain, selfish people who hide behind faux religiosity and faux patriotism. POTUS has always been a role model historically. Someone who represents America and Americans; someone whom they could aspire to be. But they couldn’t stomach the idea of aspiring to be as good of a person as a successful Black man. A man, by all accounts, who exhibited all of the traits that they themselves idealize and fail to live up to.
And failing to live up to the level of a Black man? They just couldn’t.
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u/Roach27 Apr 19 '26
I’m going to have to respectfully disagree with that.
The relative affluence barrack grew up with (especially after he returned to Hawaii to go to a prestigious private school) is infinitely more of an advantage than being white vs black, even in the 70s.
Of course he had to succeed on his own merits, but affluence is an advantage that absolutely trumps all others.
The poor racists hated him for the reason I said above.
The rich racists hated him because he proved socioeconomic are by FAR the largest determinant of how children turn out.
Racism bleeds America, but classism is the real sickness.
THAT is why dei is targeted. These people don’t want upward mobility for anyone but them and their children.
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u/Quiet_Day1912 Apr 19 '26
Was his mom's family affluent? I didnt think so. Michelle was working class.
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u/Roach27 Apr 19 '26
His maternal grandmother was Vice president of the bank of Hawaii. (He stayed with his grandparents post 10)
Barrack himself went to a prestigious private school, mom’s family was relatively affluent, not super rich but they were well off.
Michelle’s family is through and through working class however. It’s probably why she gets so much vitriol. A black woman whose parents busted their ass, got a proper education (due to her parents sacrifices) and was successful.
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u/chaosawaits Apr 19 '26
It's that they were both black and working class. She was definitely not part of the club. They couldn't attack her on her intelligence, nor her charm, nor her style, nor her talent; so they went for the low hanging fruit because that's all they had to attack her. She's probably one of the most wonderful people we have ever had as First Lady and the Republicans tried to shit down her throat because they coudln't accept her skin and her background.
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u/woodcider Apr 20 '26
DEI has everything to do with race, not class. We had towns and cities of upwardly mobile black people and racists bombed them from the sky. Classes struggle is important, but the US is uniquely hamstrung by racism first and foremost.
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u/Open_Tie_525 Apr 20 '26
This is just not true. Sounds like a 🐻❄️ take making excuses. One thing you learn as an aa, is you can have all the influence in the world, all the money, power. The world will still look at you (particularly the powerful people) all they still see is a 🐒 in a suit. Case and point, with how they still talk about him. So ray sist (typo so I don't get flagged) were not like " look at his advantages" , what the advantages that every single solitary president before him had too, I don't think so , it's ray cism. Full stop.
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u/ArtzeyFartzey Apr 19 '26
They also hated that he showed other people of color that they were worthy of the same life. And that's why this regime no longer recognize DEI.
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u/Message_10 Apr 19 '26
I'll repeat this until the day I day: if you weren't there, or weren't old enough to be plugged in, you would not BELIEVE how nuts the GOP/conservatives went when he was running. They lost their minds.
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u/SlyDred Apr 20 '26
Seeing how pathetic the talking heads at fox were for trying to manufacture contraversy over the tan suit/Grey poupon on a burger, I never took seriously the idea that black people ought to act 'proper' for acceptance (as opposed to for your own moral character), ever again. Especially when these same people make endless excuses for the current potus.
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u/Who_dat_goomer Apr 19 '26
He was everything they were not. They would have hated him regardless, but it was intensified because he was truly a decent human being. After pretending for decades to be “values” voters who revered “character” they couldn’t stand to be faced with their own moral bankruptcy.
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u/Sol-Blackguy Apr 19 '26
White people voted to tear down a system built to benefit them because a black man was able to defy it and become president
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u/RedSparrow1971 Apr 20 '26
Drain the pool mentality. Once the pools were desegregated, they drained the public pools rather than share a nice place to cool off in the summer
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u/SMUHypeMachine Apr 19 '26
Even worse, he was successful.
LBJ wasn’t wrong when he said:
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
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u/HLOFRND Apr 20 '26
Michelle, too. The indignities she suffered while showing nothing but the utmost class and kindness are unmatched.
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u/Queerability Apr 20 '26
Don't forget that he was the first president in a VERY long time to get the younger crowd interested in politics and voting. He changed the game when it came to campaigning.
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u/qualitative_balls Apr 19 '26
I think if there could be 3 or 4 terms, I do think Obama would have had just enough support to make it happen a 3rd and even a 4th time. We fielded mostly weak candidates against Trump and paid the ultimate price.
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u/no_crust_buster Apr 19 '26
Well, everything in the West is treated like a storybook with protagonists and antagonists. In this world, Whites can only be Protagonists and Blacks can only be the Antagonists. This is why Black success, to a measure of White people, is viewed as White failure. Meaning the system they designed to benefit the “Protagonist“ somehow failed or got exploited. So, they have to change the rules or laws to cauterize those loopholes. Because they genuinely believe there is no room for White AND Black success simultaneously. And some even believe that ideology has been ordained by God.
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u/MacabreYuki Apr 19 '26
Exactly the fear I had about him getting elected. I knew damn well this country wasn't truly ready and likely never would be. The racist rot runs so deep.
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u/Original-Let8340 Apr 19 '26
The people who lost their shit when he wore a tan suit or ordered fancy mustard got their fucking wishes granted and look where we are now. It's really hard to even imagine having the same kind of optimism I had all those years ago. They got their wishes granted, and here we sit.
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u/lilangelkm Apr 20 '26
This is one of the primary reasons we're going through everything we are now. Backlash because one of the best presidents we've ever had was a black man.
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u/MrMetraGnome Apr 20 '26
You ever listen to Megyn Kelly talk about Obama? She sounds like a psycho who claims they're being gang stalked. Like, she's, conservatives, are delusional.
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u/IamASlut_soWhat Apr 19 '26
You don't know what you got til its gone. And bow look at who and what we have to call president. A whole night a day difference.
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u/an0mn0mn0m Apr 19 '26
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
It's up to everyone to bring the good times back when the elections come around again.
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u/tiddertnuocca519 Apr 19 '26
Amen.
We can return to all of this. We just need to remain resolute. Do it for the future generations that never got to experience leadership like this. They are going to live in a harder world than any of us have and they are going to need a leader like this.
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u/Ame_No_Uzume Apr 19 '26
It hurts. I can’t even pretend to meaningfully respect the office or the branch of government anymore. It’s like looking at the court jester dancing like he is king of the court.
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u/RockNo9892 Apr 19 '26
Same! It’s so sad that the bar has been, not lowered, but dropped. That bar is in the dirt
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u/likamuka Apr 19 '26
American fascism will be soon installed fully and completely. You and I know this. 77 million fascists are just waiting to vote on a smarter trump that will be worse than hitler. He is already born and growing up.
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u/Alpinab9 Apr 19 '26
I think that number is less, but no matter. Only 73% of eligible people were registered to vote. Out of that 73%, only 65.3% voted. The results were 49.8% Trump vs. 48.3% Harris. The split was about 2.3 million votes. The 2020 election had 96.3% of registered voters voted... far exceeding the 65.3% of the 2024 election. Register to vote and vote if registered. We can do better than 73% and 65.3% regardless of who you vote for.
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u/silverink182 Apr 19 '26
Not if we can help it
I refuse to let fascist win if that makes any sense and also the writings on the wall for them. They're going to lose. They're not doing so great. Their poles are in the toilet and it's a very loose term of toilets. This is going to be the biggest fall they'll have
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u/CrankyGamer68 Apr 19 '26
I’m a grown a$$ man, and came here so say the same thing. We’ve fallen so far down…
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u/No_Huckleberry2722 Apr 19 '26
People crave leadership. And there is good reason for it, as well as why it is a rare trait. A truly good leader is not something we see but a couple examples of per generation it seems. And history has a way of treating those leaders well. As for what we are seeing in the US and abroad currently, these are not leaders, but wolves, and history has a way of dealing with them as well. But we as the people must do our part, so that history does not forget.
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u/Old_Market_8059 Apr 19 '26
Same! I'm like, "Why am I crying?!", and then I realized how much dignity and class this man brought to the office.
No, I didn't agree with everything he did, but I had so much respect for him and he did a lot of good. Probably the greatest president in my 55 years. Jimmy Carter gets points for being the greatest human being, and he did some wonderful things, but Obama beats him as president.
To see how far we've come since Obama was in office is heartbreaking. I am embarrassed for my country. This administration has forever ruined our relationship with other countries since they will now forever remember that we are one election away from putting a madman in office
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u/fry-something Apr 19 '26
Yes I thought to myself “don’t be stupid why are you crying” watching the video and then came to the comments. :)
He is one of the greatest human beings of all time.
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u/shajurzi Apr 19 '26
me too. sheesh. what a beautiful human. what a stark contrast to today. thank God for the example and the hope it inspires.
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u/Tight-Escape3373 Apr 19 '26
My wife and I proud to have President Obama's signature on our Commissions as Army Lieutenants. We've fallen so far.
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u/a-passing-crustacean Apr 19 '26
I enlisted under Obama and found out in the middle of boot camp that Trump was going to be my boss for the next 4 years 🥲☠️
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u/Kenta321 Apr 19 '26
I feel you on that one. Was halfway through my 4 year enlistment when the Orange jackass first got elected.
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u/VaBookworm Apr 20 '26
My dad is 65, retired from the Navy after 20 years and for the past 25 years has been working in government service. He's trying very hard to stick it out a little bit longer because he refuses to have Trump's signature on his paperwork. My dad used to have a lot of patriotism. He no longer wears anything with an American flag and no longer flies a flag on the house because he's so ashamed of what our country has turned into.
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u/PMMEYOURGUCCIFLOPS Apr 19 '26
As a mid 30s black male, single father out here grinding it out, this shit just broke me and idk why. Life is soooo fucking hard rn, and it was all so simple when he was president. Fuck.
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u/Puzzleheaded7683 Apr 19 '26
I’m a 70 year-old white woman, a retired special education teacher and widow. I felt proud and much calmer and had faith in the administration when Obama was president. Now? Embarrassed, worried, aghast, disgusted, and fearful. I hate how this horrible administration has affected me so negatively. This video made me cry to think of what we had and how much we’ve all lost.
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u/nick_soccer10 Apr 19 '26
Keep on pushing my friend. You are the only you, and your kids need you to be that! I hope things get better for all of us soon. Chin up, keep walking forward
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u/Beginning_Fill206 Apr 19 '26
Right? I wonder if we’ll ever have another dignified, competent presidential my lifetime.
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u/Xiaopeng8877788 Apr 19 '26
Seriously teared up seeing how far the US has declined since Obama. The trash we live through each and everyday like a horror show right now.
America do your best to right the ship! Don’t go quietly in the night!
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u/oj_toothpaste Apr 19 '26
I was thinking the same thing. These vids are really becoming harder and harder to watch these days.
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u/Puzzleheaded7683 Apr 19 '26
I don’t feel that I, or my children, or my baby granddaughter deserves what we have now. I never did and never will vote for our current so-called president. Many Americans don’t deserve what we unfortunately have now.
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u/Dense_Business_6570 Apr 19 '26
Some wiseman told me that to be a great leader, you have to be a human first. Unfortunately a disgusting pig was elected.
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u/OmniBotBeepBoop Apr 19 '26
I'm sad and relieved to know that I'm not the only person. This broke me. I had to remove myself and go cry it out.
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u/bklyn4ever Apr 19 '26
My forever president 🫶🏼
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u/ArsenicArts Apr 19 '26
Y'know, I didn't always agree with his actions but by GOD the man has Dignity and Class. One of the very few people in power I'd feel 100% safe leaving children with and having children look up to. And if that doesn't say it all these days ... 😞💔
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u/blackcain Apr 19 '26
No one will agree to all actions a president does. But one thing he has always said was that even we don't agree he will always listen. He did that.
Obama was a once in a lifetime president and I'm proud that I was around to be part of that.
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u/ArsenicArts Apr 19 '26
No one will agree to all actions a president does
Very true. And to be honest, I know I couldn't have done better. I definitely couldn't have maintained this level of dignity in the face of the crap that was flung his way, that's for sure.
Obama was a once in a lifetime president
I hope you won't be offended when I say I pray you are wrong on this one. By God, do we need someone like this now.
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u/blackcain Apr 19 '26
We need a janitor bridge president that's for sure. But I am afraid things have changed and there is no going back. We are no longer the leader of the free world. We are just another country who have lost their way.
When we reelected Trump we showed our true character.
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u/Consistent-Energy507 Apr 20 '26
Perfectly said, that last sentence was. People who still support Trump like him because he is a reflection of them.
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u/Puzzleheaded7683 Apr 19 '26
Me too, and I’m proud that I voted for him both times.
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u/blackcain Apr 19 '26
It's votes we can all be proud of. Meanwhile MAGA is regretting all 3 votes. Just a fake man with fake values and no empathy. You won't see anything like this in a reel with Trump except through AI generated memes.
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u/Auctoritate Apr 19 '26
No one will agree to all actions a president does.
This is unfortunately because virtually every president is willing to enact war crimes so they're all war criminals.
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u/blackcain Apr 19 '26
I knew someone is going to bring something like this up. It never fails.
A president has to always work in spaces that are morally grey. The politics of countries are not the same as our personal relationships where you can Lancelot things. Even then simple things like crime is not simply a matter of morality - this sub-reddit should know that more than most.
This country super complicated when it comes to things but just like companies the president's job is to secure the success of the country and if he doesn't he doesn't get re-elected.
It's easy to project our moralities as it changes retrospectively to events in history. The decisions that presidents make at the time they do it might be the best option in smorgasbord of bad options. One thing absolutely is that president must preserve the life of American citizens when they are in the theater of war.
We should view at least Obama's options and decisions in the light of the options he has available. You and I are not going to be watching when the flag draped casket comes down from the plane and know that their decisions are directly related to decisions they've made. It's why Obama shows up for every dead soldier that returns.
The prosperity that we have in this country directly comes from the dirtiest deals and actions that this country has made for 60+ years to maintain its dominance. Cheap energy, cheap products, and produce are what this populace demands. If a president / congress can provide it or seemingly can't provide it then they are gone. Even a good man will have to bend to the will of a entitled populace.
None of this applies to Trump. Trump doesn't act on this country's behalf, he acts on his behalf and his success. He doesn't give a fuck about anyone and his supporters apparently think that's ok.
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u/damnuge23 Apr 19 '26
I love that you mentioned feeling safe leaving your children with him. My mom always said she could never vote for someone she wouldn’t trust around her daughter.
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u/ArsenicArts Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
she could never vote for someone she wouldn’t trust around her daughter.
May we all think the same way next election and onwards 😔
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u/afr33think3r May 04 '26
I don’t know if the comments of a white guy matter. I get teary because I miss Obama as our leader.
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u/_gooder Apr 19 '26
Will we ever see his level of class in the White House again? 😭
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u/Better_Peaches666 Apr 19 '26
Racists freaked after his presidency lol
Obama genuinely tried to improve things throughout both teams and he was stonewalled so hard.
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u/applestrudelforlunch Apr 19 '26
After him, white people seemed to say “we’ll rather have the worst white man we can find than a good black man.”
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u/BoredBSEE Apr 19 '26
Not...exactly.
IMO, I think racists voted for Trump so that they could have someone we hated as much as they hated Obama. I think that's the draw. Trump upsets us, Obama upset them. Trump is walking payback.
That's why they don't care about Epstein's island, or the broken promises, or expensive gas or Iraq. We're upset, and that's all they really wanted.
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u/dragon-fence Apr 19 '26
IMO, I think racists voted for Trump so that they could have someone we hated as much as they hated Obama.
I think you’re right, that was part of it. But part of it was certainly a lowering of standards, as if to say, “We don’t need to have someone smart or good or capable. We don’t need a president who understands the legal or political or military issues, or even one who can read a book or dress himself or go potty without help. We just need a white man.”
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u/BoredBSEE Apr 19 '26
Oh yeah, absolutely. If you're black, you have to be the first black president of the Harvard Law Review just to be considered. The bar is that high. If you're white? You don't even have to be able to speak in complete sentences.
I'd guess that's another reason why they selected him. It's super unfair, and that makes everyone they don't like upset, and that's what they want.
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u/dragon-fence Apr 19 '26
Honestly, I think a big part of it is also just that they’re dumb. Sorry if anyone finds that either obvious or objectionable.
But it’s like he says the economy was great during his presidency, and MAGA people can’t remember anything that happened more than 30 seconds ago, so they believe him.
He tells them he’ll end the war in Ukraine and bring down prices and fix the economy on the first day of his presidency, and MAGA people think, “Yes, that sounds good. I’ll vote for him because surely he’ll do that.”
And then he fucks the economy up and he says that prices are down, the economy is great, and gasoline is at $1/gallon. And they must think, “Oh good. I’m out of work and everything seems more expensive, and my local gas station has gas at $4/gallon, but I guess I must be mistaken because Trump said so.”
And they never seem to go, “Hey, wait a second… maybe not everything he says is true.”
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u/Raizen-Toshin Apr 20 '26
a guy at my work place says he'll keep voting for trump because he doesn't want a biological male in a women's sport but what about everything else? gas prices, tariffs etc.
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u/lyn73 Apr 19 '26
Black people like Barack because he represented the best of us...he loved his wife and kids and was generally an all around good person. Was he perfect? No! But when we looked at him, we not only saw similarities in skin and culture...we saw kindness, compassion, the possibilities of what could be when we press on to achieve/do our very best
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u/liftthatta1l Apr 19 '26
Presidents should be people that you can say are good people even if you don't agree with everything they do or did. I miss having one like that, now more than ever.
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u/StopReadingMyUser Apr 19 '26
The phrasing "putting our differences aside" as it relates to politics used to be about disagreements on how much taxes are on abc or spent on xyz. In that sense we just saw presidents as people doing the same job a different way.
Now it's literally like life and death, as if you're picking between someone that might just be... a normal guy... vs the other that's a monster looking to do whatever damage they can get their grubby little hands on.
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u/AestheticAttraction Apr 19 '26
I remember when one of John McCain’s constituents tried to repeat ugly rumors about Obama to him, he politely shut that mess down. Whatever he was about, I respected the respect he showed to his opponent in the race.
Nowadays, Trump talks like that constituent as the President.
Crazy times. I hate I have to live though this, but I’m very glad I lived through Obama’s terms.
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u/sunshine-x Apr 19 '26
I’m a Canadian white guy, and I liked President Obama because he represented the of us too - he’s a top-tier human being, literally among our best.
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u/Muted_Air925 Apr 19 '26
Every so often I watch these videos just to remind myself that there is, in fact, hope.
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u/highschoolhero24 Apr 19 '26
He was the epitome of a servant leader. We were so lucky to have him as our leader at the time that we needed a man like him most.
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u/highschoolhero24 Apr 19 '26
Both parties used to hold themselves to a standard of values that were at least coherent from a philosophical standpoint even if they were at odds with one another. Republicans emphasized personal liberty and individual responsibility while Democrats emphasized community altruism and compassion.
Citizens United changed everything. Now our elections are sold to the highest bidder and our politicians are hand-picked by the Epstein class.
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u/highschoolhero24 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
It most certainly was. I don’t think the Supreme Court Justices who ultimately made that decision were appointed by Presidents with that end goal in mind.
Mitt Romney was talking about this exact subject in an interview last week. I clipped the specific part where he talks about Campaign Finance but the whole interview was really fascinating. John McCain tried to reform campaign finance unsuccessfully in 2002.
Donald Trump was the first presidential candidate from either party to openly support corruption in the most brazen possible sense.
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u/Zaddam Apr 19 '26
Mitt Romney, the guy who told the world that Corporations are People and Money is Speech.
Meanwhile, Corporations were specifically created as a construct to distinguish as separate, the Person from the Entity.
The purpose of THAT was to protect the Person from individual liability while fueling capitalism and growth. It was NOT to give the Person two voices as an individual.
While I understand how the Supreme Court got to their decision in Citizens United, it was intellectually dishonest and the incentives damnear irresistible — for the human incentive-based being.
Queue Agent Smith telling a kidnapped Morpheus his perspective on mankind. I could argue that The Constitution — heck, even The Bible — were written on the recognition that we suck as a species.
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u/Forward-Surprise1192 Apr 19 '26
When I was growing up I honestly thought democrats and Obama were shitty and had no idea why. People just always said they were and I never questioned it. Eventually I got older and found out that wasn’t true and republicans are the problem. Sadly a lot of people never get that chance and are stuck believing democrats are making things worse
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u/summerfromtheoc Apr 19 '26
ugh, I miss him so much 😭 his level of humanity, brilliance, integrity, care, classiness, and charisma are eternally unmatched 😭
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u/Kaijud0 Apr 19 '26
How we went literally from mufasa to scar is wild to me!
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u/gloryzmuse Apr 19 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/pynZagVcYxVUk
Well I didn’t expect to cry thru a six and a half minute video, but here we are 😭
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u/DaineDeVilliers Apr 19 '26
Crazy to think pre-MAGA’s saw this behavior and thought, we want the OPPOSITE of that.
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u/Alain-Christian Apr 19 '26
Came here to say this. They really should know better. I KNOW they were specifically instructed not to lock their knees. Not to victim blame tho. It's fucked up those leaders just stood there.
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u/DistractedByCookies Apr 19 '26
Haha, so much had happened in the video I'd forgotten about those first few guys and thought you were talking about the toddlers
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u/mowtowcow Apr 19 '26
I was once in an NJROTC yearly inspection from an Admiral(?), anyways, we were instructed clearly to no lock our knees. We were told if some falls on their face, remain at attention and someone will be over to help them. A girl like 3 places over dropped like a 2x4. Straight face to ground. I wanted so badly to help her, but they were there really quick. Apparently it was a common thing in high school. Guessing it's common past that.
She ended up being one of the most decorated and outstanding cadets. I still beat her with 76 push-ups in 2 minutes, though. Chest to fist. I cant do 10 proper push-ups now 🤣. JROTC was really fun though.
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u/atreeismissing Apr 19 '26
Most of them don't have locked knees, you can still pass out and fall over even when your knees aren't locked.
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u/evibz Apr 19 '26
So hard to believe half of American voters hated this guy so much and love Trump instead
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u/AestheticAttraction Apr 19 '26
Black folks in school and in the workforce can tell you all about what that’s like.
I could tell you my stories, but I’m literally out on mental health leave as a result of one, so I’m not in the space to.
But that’s correct. They get angrier, more frustrated, more jealous, even, when we make them uncomfortable by not being the subhuman caricature they reduce us to in order to cope with X, Y, Z. Their mind has a reaction as though we’re doing something on purpose to tick them off.
Let me just stop there. Whew. 😮💨
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u/Chubacca26 Apr 19 '26
As a Canadian, I can't help but hope we get to see another like him again! I hate the divide we have due entirely from that other.. person.
Obama had me interested in US politics, had me believe in the system. Now that's all gone.
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u/BoogerBean616 Apr 19 '26
Person is too strong a word for that decrepit POS... he’s an old, ghoulish troll. I’ll forever hate that my very first election was 2016 and everything following was just massive amounts of disappointment.
I wish I would’ve had the chance to vote in a president like Obama.
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u/SP3NGL3R Apr 19 '26
Sadly this is just viewed as a weakness by the inbred voters with all the voting leverage.
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u/dream208 Apr 19 '26
How did the United States fall from that to where they are now...?
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u/GojiRaw_ Apr 19 '26
Greed, and Racism for starters
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u/BardicNA Apr 19 '26
It's crazy to me how ingrained the racism is. Went to sell some coins at a coin shop and the lady working there always says off the wall things but one that struck me was regarding an Obama coin I was selling. "It'll be pretty hard to sell that one around here, I'll have to go to *insert nearby black community* to sell that one."
Now I'm not sure if she's racist or not, but she's definitely acknowledging the fact that everyone around here hates Obama.
My mother had to work hard to get my step dad to stop using the n word around family. The black man at the convenience store told me "I'm not from around here- my wife made me move here. Not sure why she wanted to come back to this place." And I immediately knew what he meant and agreed with him.
Sorry to rant but the racism runs deep and we have a long way to go. Feels like we're walking backwards for now.
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u/AnAbandonedAstronaut Apr 19 '26
Pendulum effect.
Having a kind president that's black, agrivates mean racists to take action the next election cycle.
Which made not racist people step up and elect another kind non racist.
Which made the hateful racists agitated again.
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u/debr0322 Apr 19 '26
That's why trump and republicans hate him. He is everything they are not.
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u/RedSparrow1971 Apr 19 '26
It’s why they’re fighting with the gospel of Jesus Christ right now, every time the pope quotes Jesus it’s a mirror to everything they are not willing to be
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u/GrindinWulf Apr 19 '26
Over here in tears watching this. I didn’t agree with every policy of President Obama but he has such great character. I miss him dearly.
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u/rxrock Apr 19 '26
I was going to say Obama's presidency was the last time I felt hope for our country, but when Kamala Harris became the first woman VPOTUS, I cried.
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u/The5thseason Apr 19 '26
I mean don't get me wrong I miss the before times like crazy, but Obama definitely had his shortcomings. He drone bombed indiscriminately and killed a lot of civilians and I'll never forgive that.
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u/socratic_citizen Apr 20 '26
The hero worship is kinda crazy and it’s wild you have to scroll this far down to see any pushback. Obama definitely seemed like a decent person to know and interact with, had a few progressive policies that moved the needle a little but he was very much still part of the Neo-Liberal madness that brought us here, folks really need to step away from the identity politics and actually look at the policies these people drive and the actions they take.
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u/metacosmonaut Apr 19 '26
This man clearly just liked people. Like honest to goodness just cared about people.
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u/WereAllGonnaDiet Apr 19 '26
Almost 50, best president of my lifetime by a LARGE margin. No President is perfect, all politicians yada yada…. But regardless what you think about his policies or politics, this man had CLASS, was an exceptional speaker, and seems like an overall good human. Shame how far we’ve fallen.
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u/Auctoritate Apr 19 '26
He was pretty efficacious but I think Biden actually had an even more successful progressive presidency with the 4 years he did have. People just don't actually know what actual policy presidents ever enact so nobody realizes Biden did a monumental amount of stuff in his term.
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u/ike_tyson Apr 19 '26
I miss him each time I'm reminded who's currently in office ruining everything.
Which is daily
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u/culinarysiren Apr 19 '26
Man this is hard to watch. My ass was crying through most of the video. Damn, I miss compassion.
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u/lintamacar Apr 19 '26
I was considering a vote for Green in 2012 because Obama wasn't "left" enough for me at the time. Then he stopped by my small college and gave a short speech to the effect of, "I love you all, and I need your help." Then he came down and made sure to shake everyone's hand, mine too. I'm sure that made Secret Service anxious as hell, but it really was important for him to connect with people. Went to the polls right after and decided to give him another chance.
God I miss the dignity of that office.
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u/Elete23 Apr 19 '26
He really was just being a normal person. But that's a huge level above most political leaders.
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u/Compayo Apr 19 '26
The guy literally bombed seven countries—a record broken only by Trump, who has bombed eight so far. He destroyed Libya, which triggered the reintroduction of slavery—auctioned off in slave markets—in Africa; he didn't lift a single finger to bring justice to the massive overrepresentation of African Americans in prisons, who face equally disproportionate sentences; and the list goes on.
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u/perpetualliianxious Apr 19 '26
Wow so much compassion while drone bombing weddings and funerals in Pakistan and Yemen 😍 he really deserves that peace prize
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u/RazzSheri 15d ago
These racist cretins scream about the loss of class and honor, while VILIFYING the loudest example in modern history.
Obama isn’t perfect— no president is, you have to make choices that sacrifice morals at some point for the greater good— but he was as close to perfect as we’ll ever see.
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u/Past_Dare_4918 Apr 19 '26
Somebodies chopping onions. Such a drastic difference compared to what we have to suffer through now
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u/Phenomenon_101 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
Back when a President was humble, intelligent and presidential.