2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Frankly, I'm glad that BLM is confronting Bernie's campaign, and Bernie should be glad as well... [View all]MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)What you're clearly imply here is that Obama should have been operating as the "Black President," rather than as a black man who just happens to be president.
You are aware that this is America, right?
I could spend all night explaining how Barack Obama's blackness has been pretty much handcuffed the entire time he's been in office. Just between you and me, I'm quite sure that we will all see quite a different and more activist Obama once he leaves office.
But let's just say that very few white people in this country are capable of having a rational reaction if Obama suddenly expanded his degree of inner blackness. This country isn't ready for that at all.
However, we do have one Democratic who at least admitted that he was open-minded enough to entertain solutions to the problems addressed by the BLM. It just so happens that he's the old white guy from Vermont.
About this whole white supremacist thing. I've explained it before that even white liberals can still be passive white supremacists. One way that this happens is by simply saying nothing and doing nothing when black lives are taken. White supremacy is also furthered with whites simply cannot understand that the conditions and experiences of white and black people are not the same in this country. That all reactions to these conditions and not the same. White supremacy comes into play when whites, even liberal ones fail to value black conditions and experiences as much as their own. So, when you have a white Democrat standing up on a stage, blurts out "All lives matter," when every black person within earshot replies with "Not in this country," then we have a problem.
I'm sorry, but the ball has been dropped here. So who's going to pick it up?