Is this worse than Obama pretending to drink Flint’s water?

  • Othello [comrade/them, love/loves]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    its worse because it was a betrayal to the black community specifically. flint residents and black Americans thought “god these white racist are KILLING us kids will be permanently maimed. oh look obama hes gonna save us” and then boom i was radicalized the second i saw that slimey motherfucker drink that fake water. as I heard the recorded crowd boo i literally threw up as a teen. my black president who was supposed to care about us see us as human was killing us just like the fucking rest of them seving us up for slaughter to his white masters. truly a life changing moment for me.

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      This felt like the moment that a million switches flipped inside a million minds, including mine. It was so easy for years to make excuses for why Obama couldn’t do this or needed to triangulate on that or whatever, but here he just straight up tells the people to fuck off and stop whining. The dawning realization in the crowd of what he’s doing from the time he says “Can I get some water?” to the time he takes that tiny sip of water is still brutal to listen to. I can’t imagine what that moment must have felt like for you as a black teenager

    • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      It really sucks to be black and hate obama and everyone just assumed you’re a chud. Like… did you all not see the 8 years of racist ratfucking he did on behalf of the white supremacists and banks?

      • Othello [comrade/them, love/loves]@hexbear.net
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        10 months ago

        yes! like did we forget LIBIYA!!! did we forget all the promises he lied about. what did that fuck even fucking do??? the worst part is when people start conversions with “dont you loooooove obama” and if its another black person I go through all his crimes till they call me weird or “too young to know what im talking about”. and if its a white liberal i call or imply their a racist and they get upset. (its so fun, truly one of my greatest joys in life). i just say loudly “why BECAUSE IM BLACK?” and then they get embarrassed and leave. once a strange white woman came up to me in a starbucks and put her hand on my shoulder said “im voting for kamala harris” and WINKED. she left that interaction on the brink of tears. im nicer to non strangers btw, I just hate when white people see a black person and think oooh I found one.

        • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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          10 months ago

          I can remember one particular line she said that I fully agree with, basically “Most civil rights laws in the US have been federal laws. Community justice in the United States has historically been known as ‘Lynchings’”

          She was 100% right, white Americans are rabid animals and need to be controlled by a strong central government.

        • SerLava [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          10 months ago

          I remember something she was saying on the chapo podcast a few years ago. It was about people glorifying small towns or communities, and that nobody glorifying it actually lives in one, because American small communities tend to be freaky proto-fascist environments, or something along those lines.