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(37,573 posts)but the former claim is not something I ever made.
It's more like this
Bad things have happened to Obama in life, good things have also happened to Obama in life. Some of those bad things in his life may have been "race-based oppression". In the net sum of it, Obama seems to have experienced far more good things than bad things.
Compared to SOME white people, such as, say, myself, somebody whose life experiences I know fairly well. Bad things have also happened in my life. Very few of them had anything to do with race, or gender.
Still, and all, the bad things that have happened in my life seem, to me, to be far far greater than whatever hardships Obama faced because of his race. In the final analysis, Obama is very privileged - he has power, and status and money. Whereas I have far far less of those three.
Ergo, it is somewhat ridiculous to put Obama into an "oppressed class" and me into a "privileged class" when it is pretty clear that he is privileged and I am not. Making $400,000 a year is a privilege. Making $13,000 a year is not.