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This section of DiscoverTheNetworks.org
documents how Barack Obama has based his career on fomenting
group-based resentments and thereby energizing his political base. "Hope
and change" has, in practice, all too often become "divide and
conquer." Obama's propensity to pit populations and "interests" against
each other in this manner is an outgrowth of the socialist worldview
that sees all human interactions in terms of "class struggles." The
divisions that Obama seeks to promote, as the following material shows,
are not only those of class, but also of race, ethnicity, and sex.
* Go to: DIVIDING BY CLASS
* Go to: DIVIDING BY RACE / ETHNICITY
* Go to: DIVIDING BY SEX
Obama the Chicago Community Organizer: From the mid- to late 1980s, Barack Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago. Thomas Sowell, the eminent Hoover Institution Fellow, offers this concise explanation of what community organizers do:
"For 'community organizers' ... racial resentments are a stock in trade.... What does a community organizer do? What he does not do is organize a community. What he organizes are the resentments and paranoia within a community, directing those feelings against other communities, from whom either benefits or revenge are to be gotten, using whatever rhetoric or tactics will accomplish that purpose."Obama Uses Saul Alinsky Tactics to Foment Class Resentments: Three of Barack Obama's mentors in Chicago were trained at the Industrial Areas Foundation, founded by the famed godfather of community organizing, Saul Alinsky. In the Alinsky model, "organizing" is a euphemism for "revolution"—where the ultimate objective is the systematic acquisition of power by a purportedly oppressed segment of the population, and the radical transformation of America's social and economic structure. The goal is to foment enough public discontent, moral confusion, and outright chaos to spark the social upheaval that Marx and Engels predicted.

But Alinsky's brand of revolution is not characterized by dramatic, sweeping, overnight transformations of social institutions. As Richard Poe explains, "Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process. The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as churches, unions and political parties." Indeed, Alinsky advised organizers and their disciples to quietly, unobtrusively gain influence within the decision-making ranks of these institutions, and to then introduce changes from those platforms. Obama himself taught workshops on the Alinsky method for several years.

Alinsky said:
Obama Emphasizes Inter-Group Conflict: In a 1995 interview, Obama said: "... [T]he truth of the matter is that many of the problems that Africa faces, whether it's poverty or political suppression or ethnic conflict is just as prominent there and can't all be blamed on the effects of colonialism. What it can be blamed on is some of the common factors that affect Bosnia or Los Angeles or all kinds of places on this earth, and that is the tendency for one group to try to suppress another group in the interest of power or greed or resources or what have you."
Obama Scapegoats the "Top 5 Percent": In a December 28, 1995 interview published in the Hyde Park Citizen newspaper, Obama explained his views on income inequality in the United States: "In an environment of scarcity, where the cost of living is rising, folks begin to get angry and bitter and look for scapegoats. Historically, instead of looking at the top 5% of this country that controls all the wealth, we turn towards each other, and the Republicans have added to the fire."
In that same interview, Obama said that his perspective on the "top 5%" had been shaped by his experiences abroad: "It's about power. My travels made me sensitive to the plight of those without power and the issues of class and inequalities as it relates to wealth and power. Anytime you have been overseas in these so-called third world countries, one thing you see is the vast disparity of wealth of those who are part of power structure and those outside of it."
Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Obama's Entry into Politics: In the mid-1990s, Obama decided to try his hand at electoral politics, setting his sights initially on a state senate seat in Illinois. He launched his political career in the home of two well-connected Chicagoans, longtime activists who would help the fledgling politician make important contacts and enlarge his public profile. These two allies were Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, lifelong Marxists who in the 1960s and '70s had been revolutionary leaders of the Weather Underground Organization, a domestic terror group that aspired to transform the U.S. into a Communist country. In 1974 Ayers and Dohrn co-authored a book that openly advocated "revolutionary war" as "the only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism"; called for "a revolutionary communist party ... to lead the struggle [to] seize power and build the new society"; and lauded socialism as the key to "the eradication of the social system based on profit."
"I Actually Believe in Redistribution": At an October 19, 1998 conference at Loyola University, Barack Obama said: "There has been a systematic ... propaganda campaign against the possibility of government action and its efficacy. And I think some of it has been deserved.... The trick is, how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure that everybody's got a shot." At other points during his address, Obama stated that the "working poor" on welfare constituted a political voting bloc that could be harnessed to the advantage of Democrats. Specifically, he said that:
Obama Equates Conservatism with Greed, and Free Markets with "Social Darwinism": In a 2005 commencement address, Obama described the conservative philosophy of government as one that promises "to give everyone one big refund on their government, divvy it up by individual portions, in the form of tax breaks, hand it out, and encourage everyone to use their share to go buy their own health care, their own retirement plan, their own child care, their own education, and so on." "In Washington," said Obama, "they call this the Ownership Society. But in our past there has been another term for it, Social Darwinism, every man or woman for him or herself. It's a tempting idea, because it doesn't require much thought or ingenuity."
The "Rich" Should Pay More Taxes: During a June 28, 2007 primary debate at Howard University, candidate Obama was asked, "Do you agree that the rich aren't paying their fair share of taxes?" He replied, "There's no doubt that the tax system has been skewed. And the Bush tax cuts -- people didn't need them, and they weren't even asking for them, and that's why they need to be less, so that we can pay for universal health care and other initiatives."

Calling for a Capital Gains Tax Hike: In an April 2008 Democratic primary debate, Obama was asked, by journalist Charlie Gibson, a question about his proposal to nearly double the capital gains tax (from 15 percent to 28 percent). Said Gibson: "… In each instance when the rate dropped [in the 1990s], revenues from the tax increased. The government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the [capital gains] tax was increased to 28 percent, the revenues went down. So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that 100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected?"
 Obama replied that he wished to raise the tax "for purposes of fairness.... [T]hose who are able to work the stock market and amass huge fortunes on capital gains are paying a lower tax rate than their secretaries. That's not fair."
Higher Taxes for the Wealthy: In a September 2008 Fox News Channel interview, Obama pledged to cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans, while raising taxes on those who earn more than $250,000: "Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax…. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, I'm going to pay a little bit more? That is neighborliness."
"Spread the Wealth Around": At an October 2008 campaign appearance in Ohio, Obama was approached by a man named Joe Wurzelbacher ("Joe the Plumber"). Obama said that a tax increase on businesses like Wurzelbacher's was justified because it would enable the government to give tax breaks to people earning considerably less than $250,000. "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody," said Obama.
"Fat-Cat Bankers": During a December 2009 interview broadcast on CBS' 60 Minutes, Obama said: "I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat-cat bankers on Wall Street."
"At Some Point, You've Made Enough Money": On April 28, 2010, President Obama was in Illinois making a speech about a proposed Wall Street reform bill. He criticized Wall Street lobbyists for trying to dilute the bill's most stringent provisions, saying: "We're not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that's fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money, but you know, part of the American way is, you can just keep on making it if you're providing a good product or you're providing a good service."
Obama Opposes Tax Cuts for Top Earners: On September 8, 2010, the Associated Press reported: "President Barack Obama strongly defended his opposition to extending Bush-era tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans on Wednesday and delivered a searing attack on Republicans and their House leader for advocating 'the same philosophy that led to this mess in the first place.' Obama said the struggling U.S. economy can't afford to spend $700 billion to keep lower tax rates in place for the nation's highest earners.... 'We should not hold middle class tax cuts hostage any longer,' the president said. The administration 'is ready this week to give tax cuts to every American making $250,000 or less,' he said."
The "Rich" Should Pay More Taxes: In an April 13, 2011 speech on the topic of debt reduction, President Obama said: "In the last decade, the average income of the bottom 90 percent of all working Americans actually declined. Meanwhile, the top 1 percent saw their income rise by an average of more than a quarter of a million dollars each. That's who needs to pay less taxes?... There's nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires."
Obama Says the "Occupy Wall Street" Movement Reflects Americans' Frustrations: At an October 6, 2011 press conference, President Obama congratulated the anti-capitalist Occupy Wall Street activists for "express[ing] the frustrations that the American people feel … about how our financial system works"; for reminding him "what we are still fighting for"; for "inspir[ing]" him; and for being "the reason why I ran for this office in the first place."
Obama Calls for Tax Hikes on High Earners: On June 29, 2011, President Obama called on Republicans to drop their opposition to tax increases, saying that because "everybody else" was sacrificing their "sacred cows" for deficit reduction, GOP lawmakers should be willing to follow suit. He made six mentions of eliminating a tax loophole for corporate jets, suggesting that insufficient taxes on such jets had the effect of depriving student-loan funds or food-safety funds of their needed revenues.
Obama Again Calls for Tax Hikes on High Earners: At a July 11, 2011 press conference, President Obama said: "And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact, I'm able to keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income that I don't need, while a parent out there who is struggling to figure out how to send their kid to college suddenly finds that they've got a couple thousand dollars less in grants or student loans."
Obama Speech on Economics and Taxes: On December 6, 2011, President Obama delivered a speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, wherein he said the following:
Obama Speech on the Republicans' Proposed Budget: (April 3, 2012):
"Everybody's Getting a Fair Share": During the closing statement of his October 3, 2012 presidential debate with Mitt Romney, Obama said that he sought to create an America where "everybody's getting a fair shot, and everybody's getting a fair share." He then quickly corrected himself: "everybody's doing a fair share, and everybody's playing by the same rules."
Obama Gives an Indication That Taxes Will Ultimately Be Raised on most Americans, Not Just the Wealthy (though the latter will be targeted first): On December 6, 2012, Obama, calling for a tax hike on the top 2% of earners, said: "We're going to have to strengthen our entitlement programs so that they're there for future generations. Everybody is going to have to share in some sacrifice, but it starts with folks who are in the best position to sacrifice, who are in the best position to do a little bit more to step up."
"A Shrinking Few Do Very Well and a Growing Many Barely Make It": During his second inaugural address as president on January 21, 2013, the newly re-elected Obama emphasized his belief that capitalist America had become a place of widespread inequity and injustice: "[O]ur country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it"; "We do not believe that in this country freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few."
Obama Says Republicans Only Care About Cutting Taxes for the Rich: In February 2013, President Obama told an audience of black broadcasters: "My sense is that their [Republicans'] basic view is that nothing is important enough to raise taxes on wealthy individuals or corporations ... That's the thing that binds their party together at this point."
Obama Emphasizes Class Warfare: During his weekly address to the American people on February 23, 2013, Obama addressed the looming "sequestration" budget cuts that were scheduled to take effect in a few days:
Obama Seeks to Cap Americans' Tax-Sheltered Retirement Savings: In April 2013, President Obama unveiled his budget for fiscal 2014. This budget proposed, for the first time ever, to cap the amount of money Americans could save in tax-sheltered 401K retirement plans -- because some people were accumulating "substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." Specifically, the president sought to "limit an individual's total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per year in retirement, or about $3 million for someone retiring in 2013."
Obama Tells College Grads that the Traditional U.S. Economic System Is Rigged Against Them: In his speech at Ohio State University's 2013 Commencement, Obama urged the graduates to "reject a country in which only a lucky few prosper," and where the "well-connected" get "special treatment that you don't get."
"Winner-Take-All Economy" and "Growing Inequality": On July 24, 2013, President Obama made the following remarks on the economy at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois:
Obama Speaks about America's Economic Injustice:
On August 28, 2013—the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech—Obama spoke about America's economic inequity and the role that government could play in curbing it via wealth redistribution:
"Even as corporate profits soar, even as the pay of a fortunate few explodes, inequality has steadily risen over the decades. Upward mobility has become harder. In too many communities across this country in cities and suburbs and rural hamlets, the shadow of poverty casts a pall over our youth, their lives a fortress of substandard schools and diminished prospects, inadequate health care and perennial violence....Obama Calls for More Economic Equality and More Government Control of the Economy
In a December 4, 2013 speech on the U.S. economy, President Obama made the following remarks to his Center for American Progress audience:
Obama Derides "Tax Loopholes for the Very Very Fortunate"
During a White House speech on June 9, 2014, President Obama criticized congressional Republicans for refusing to close tax loopholes for high earners as a way to pay for his initiative to limit student-loan interest payments to 10% of a person's annual income. Said Obama:
"It would be scandalous if we allowed those kinds of tax loopholes for the very, very fortunate to survive while students are having trouble just getting started in their lives. If you're a big oil company they'll go to bat for you. If you're a student, good luck. Some of these Republicans in Congress seem to believe that just because some of the young people behind me [i.e., college students in attendance] need some help, that they're not trying hard enough."Further, Obama blasted lawmakers who "pay lip service to the next generation and then abandon them when it counts." He also urged voters to be aware of "who it is that's fighting for you and your kids and who it is that's not."
Broadcaster Mark Levin pointed out Obama's hypocrisy by noting that America's national debt had already grown by approximately $7 trillion under Obama's watch -- a fact that would impose a massive financial burden on "the next generation" for many decades to come.
Obama Says Republicans Favor "Billionaires" over the "Middle Class"
In early October 2014, the Obama Administration disseminated a fundraising email wherein the president said: "If the Republicans win [the midterm elections], we know who they'll be fighting for. Once again, the interests of billionaires will come before the needs of the middle class."
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Obama Characterizes America As "Mean-Spirited," Where Race is Concerned: In an interview published by the Daily Herald on March 3, 1990, Harvard Law School student Barack Obama said: "There's certainly racism here [at Harvard Law School]. There are certain burdens that are placed [on blacks], more emotionally at this point than concretely.... Hopefully, more and more people will begin to feel their story is somehow part of this larger story of how we're going to reshape America in a way that is less mean-spirited and more generous. I mean, I really hope to be part of a transformation of this country."
Obama Supports Professor Derrick Bell at Harvard Law School: In 1991, Obama, who was then president of the Harvard Law Review and a well-known figure on the Harvard campus, spoke at a rally in support of Professor Derrick Bell. The godfather of Critical Race Theory, Bell was infamous for his anti-white views and his contention that America was an irredeemably racist country. At the rally in question, Obama encouraged his fellow students to "open up your hearts and minds to the words of Professor Derrick Bell," whom he described as someone who spoke "the truth." For a comprehensive discussion of Bell's views regarding race, click here.
Obama's Relationship with Jeremiah Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ: For two decades, Jeremiah Wright was Obama's pastor in Chicago. Wright's many writings, public statements, and sermons reflect his conviction that America is a nation infested with racism, prejudice, and injustices that make life very difficult for black people. As he declared in one of his sermons: "Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!... We [Americans] believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God." For a comprehensive profile of Wright and his views on race, click here.
Obama Implies that Suburban Whites Are Racist: In a 1995 interview, Obama made reference to a hypothetical "white executive living out in the suburbs, who doesn't want to pay taxes to inner city children for them to go to school."
Obama's Remarks About Race at a 1995 Book Reading* "Despite his concession that white Americans were 'basically decent,' Obama did not think they were 'making a serious effort' to compensate for the 'brutal experience' of black history. That 'was going to cost some money,' and, according to Obama, 'Americans don't like to sacrifice.'"
In a September 1995 book reading at the Cambridge, Massachusetts Public Library, Obama promoted his then-newly released memoir, Dreams from My Father. A professionally shot video of that presentation suddenly appeared on YouTube in April 2015. In an article published by the American Thinker, author Jack Cashill made the following observations about the video:
* "Obama made the supersized claim that 'American culture at this point, what is truly American, is black culture to a large degree.' As evidence, he cited Pulp Fiction, a pop-art gangster movie with a surfer music sound track and an Italian-American director."
* "Obama's 'angry black man' is largely fictional. The one and only passage that Obama read [at the 1995 book reading] details how he came to grips with the reality of being a black man in America. Much of it is fabricated, especially the part about his brooding black friend 'Ray.' Obama-friendly biographer David Maraniss tracked the real 'Ray' down. His name is 'Keith Kakaguwa.' Two years ahead of Obama at Punahou, Kakaguwa is only about one fourth black. Maraniss describes Ray as the 'first of several distorted or composite characters' in Dreams. According to Kakaguwa, he and Obama lived close to a carefree Hawaiian existence, not at all the tortured, race-scarred one Obama imagined."
* "In [a] cited passage, Obama tells the story of how a 'very aggressive' panhandler harassed 'Toot,' his diminutive white grandmother. 'Gramps' then tells Obama that Toot felt threatened because the aggressor was black. 'The words were like a fist in my stomach,' wrote Obama. In 2008, he would compare Toot's alleged racism to Jeremiah Wright's to save his candidacy."
* "After this incident, Obama visited 'Frank' [his Communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis] to get the lowdown on white people. 'What I'm trying to tell you is, your grandma's right to be scared,' Davis tells Obama. 'She understands that black people have a reason to hate. That's just how it is.' With these words of wisdom ringing in his ears, Obama heads into the night 'utterly alone.'"
Also at his 1995 presentation in Cambridge, Obama read a passage that discussed how he had once invited some white friends to a black party, where they attempted for awhile to mask their palpable discomfort by "trying to tap their foot to the beat and being extraordinarily friendly," before telling Obama that they wanted to leave. Obama concluded: "What I have had to put up with every day of my life is something that they find so objectionable that they can't even put up with a day." This demonstration of what he perceived as white racism, said Obama, "trigger[ed]" something in his mind that suddenly enabled him to comprehend a "new map of the world."
Obama Accuses the Bush Administration of Racism and Racial Insensitivity: In September 2005, Senator Obama spoke at a town hall meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus. Nominally devoted to the subject of "eradicating poverty," the meeting was replete with condemnations of President George W. Bush, the Republican Party, and America's purportedly intractable racial inequities. Obama stopped short of suggesting that the allegedly slow federal response to the victims of Hurricane Katrina (which had devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast earlier that month) -- especially black victims -- was motivated by racism. But he nonetheless claimed that racism was the cause of what he perceived to be the Bush administration's lack of sensitivity to the struggles of African Americans generally:
"The incompetence was colorblind. What wasn't colorblind was the indifference. Human efforts will always pale in comparison to nature's forces. But [the Bush administration] is a set of folks who simply don't recognize what's happening in large parts of the country."Blacks in hurricane-hit areas were poor, Obama further charged, because of the Bush administration's "decision to give tax breaks to Paris Hilton instead of providing child care and education …"
Obama Endorses Dorothy Tillman, Proponent of Reparations and Admirer of Louis Farrakhan: In 2006, Senator Obama endorsed candidate Dorothy Tillman in the Third Ward race for the Chicago City Council. A passionate admirer of Louis Farrakhan, Tillman was a leading proponent of reparations for slavery. Claiming that America remains "one of the cruelest nations in the world when it comes to black folks," Tillman continues to declare that the U.S. "owes blacks a debt."
2007 Speech to the National Council of La Raza: In July 2007, presidential candidate Obama was a featured speaker at the annual convention of the National Council of La Raza, which lobbies for racial preferences, mass immigration, and amnesty for illegal aliens. Among his remarks were the following:
More Inequities in the Criminal-Justice System: Also during the 2008 campaign, Obama said that "in our criminal-justice system, African-Americans and whites, for the same crime … are arrested at very different rates, are convicted at very different rates, receive very different sentences."
Accusing Republicans of Racism: At a June 2008 campaign stop in Jacksonville, Florida, Obama suggested that his political opponents were trying to exploit the issue of race to undermine his candidacy. "It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their stewardship of the economy or their outstanding foreign policy," he said. "We know what kind of campaign they're going to run. They're going to try to make you afraid. They're going to try to make you afraid of me. He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?"

The following month, Obama told his listeners at another campaign event: "They [Republicans] know that you're not real happy with them and so the only way they figure they're going to win this election is if they make you scared of me. What they're saying is 'Well, we know we're not very good but you can't risk electing Obama. You know, he's new, he doesn't look like the other presidents on the currency, he's a got a funny name.'"
Reference to America's "Voiceless" and "Dispossessed" People: In 2008, Obama, as he had also done the year before, addressed Al Sharpton's National Action Network to seek its support for his presidential campaign. Calling Sharpton "a voice for the voiceless and ... dispossessed," Obama stated: "What National Action Network has done is so important to change America, and it must be changed from the bottom up."
Reference to American Bigotry and Intolerance: During an April 2008 campaign stop in San Francisco, Obama said: "You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years, and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate, and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Minority Education Expenditures: In the 2008 campaign, Obama said: "Latinos have such a high dropout rate. What you see consistently are children at a very early age are starting school already behind. That's why I've said that I'm going to put billions of dollars into early childhood education that makes sure that our African-American youth, Latino youth, poor youth of every race, are getting the kind of help that they need so that they know their numbers, their colors, their letters."
America's Mistreatment of Native Americans: Speaking at a July 2008 gathering of hundreds of minority journalists in Chicago, Obama said the United States should acknowledge its history of treating certain ethnic groups poorly: "There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we've got some very sad and difficult things to account for…. I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged…. I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds."
Nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court: In May 2009, President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Sotomayor formerly had been a board of directors member of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, and a member of the National Council of La Raza, two organizations that strongly emphasize identity politics. In the past, Sotomayor had spoken publicly about the role that affirmative action had played in her own educational background, and about her unwavering endorsement of affirmative action policies. Refuting the notion that judges should not permit personal traits to influence their legal decisions, Sotomayor had famously said: "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
The Henry Louis Gates Affair: When Cambridge, Massachusetts police -- as a result of a misunderstanding -- arrested Professor Henry Louis Gates for disorderly conduct on July 16, 2009, Obama, without knowing all the facts of the case, said it was "fair to say" that the officers had "acted stupidly" in arresting Gates. Obama further said that the arrest played into what he called the "long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately."
Obama Calls for Support from "African Americans, Latinos, and Women": In late April 2010, President Obama narrated an ad calling on American voters to support Democrats in the upcoming November midterm elections. Said Obama in the ad: "It will be up to each of you to make sure that the young people, African Americans, Latinos and women who powered our victory in 2008 stand together once again."
Obama Criticizes Arizona Immigration Law: President Obama said that a "misguided" Arizona law (which allowed police in the state to check the immigration status of criminal suspects) was an example of legislative "irresponsibility" that would "undermine basic notions of fairness," and he ordered the Justice Department to find some way to challenge its standing. At an April 27, 2010 Iowa town hall meeting, Obama said: "You can imagine, if you are a Hispanic American in Arizona — your great-grandparents may have been there before Arizona was even a state. But now, suddenly, if you don't have your papers and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you're going to be harassed. That's something that could potentially happen. That's not the right way to go." On June 17, 2010, the Obama administration announced that it intended to sue the state of Arizona over the law.
Obama Criticizes Arizona Immigration Law in Meeting with Mexican President: On May 19, 2010, Obama met with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who blasted the controversial immigration law that had been recently passed in Arizona. Obama, during his own welcoming remarks to Calderon, called the Arizona law a "misdirected expression of frustration over our broken immigration system."
Obama DOJ Ignores Civil Rights Cases with White Victims: On Election Day, November 4, 2008, New Black Panther Party members at a Philadelphia polling station intimidated white voters with racial slurs and threats of violence.
On January 7, 2009, the Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Bush filed criminal charges against those responsible. But in May 2009, the Obama Justice Department filed a notice of voluntary dismissal.
In June 2010, J. Christian Adams, who had served in the Voting Section of the U.S. Department of Justice for 5 years, resigned over the "corrupt nature of the dismissal of the case." Wrote Adams in 2010: "Citizens would be shocked to learn about the open and pervasive hostility within the Justice Department to bringing civil rights cases against nonwhite defendants on behalf of white victims. Equal enforcement of justice is not a priority of this administration. Open contempt is voiced for these types of cases." In July 2010, Adams gave damning public testimony about how Obama officials believe "civil rights law should not be enforced in a race-neutral manner, and should never be enforced against blacks or other national minorities."
More Evidence That DOJ Ignores Civil Rights Cases with White Victims: In September 2010, Christopher Coates, Voting Section Chief for the DOJ, corroborated the previous testimony of J. Christian Adams, stating that the Obama DOJ had routinely ignored civil rights cases involving white victims.
Obama DOJ Sues Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio: In September 2010, the Obama Justice Department sued Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, known for his aggressive policies against illegal immigration.
Obama Urges Hispanic Voters to "Punish" Their "Enemies": In a radio interview conducted a few days before the November 2010 midterm elections, President Obama urged Hispanic listeners to flock to the polls: "If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, 'We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,' if they don't see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it's gonna be harder and that's why I think it's so important that people focus on voting on November 2." Obama said that Republicans who supported Arizona's immigration law "aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values."
Obama Administration's Massive Support for the National Council of La Raza: A Judicial Watch investigation revealed that federal funding for the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) and its affiliates had skyrocketed since President Obama had appointed NCLR's senior vice president, Cecilia Muñoz, to be his director of intergovernmental affairs in 2009. The year Muñoz joined the White House, government funds earmarked for La Raza increased from $4.1 million to $11 million. Fully 60 percent of that money came from the Department of Labor, headed by Hilda Solis, who has close ties to the La Raza movement. Also in 2010, the Department of Housing and Urban Development gave NCLR $2.5 million for housing counseling, the Department of Education contributed almost $800,000, and the Centers for Disease Control gave approximately $250,000.
Obama Supports The DREAM Act: In November 2010, President Obama spoke out in favor of the DREAM Act, a proposed law that would provide a path to citizenship for illegal-alien high-school graduates in the U.S.
Obama Signs Bill Paying $1.15 Billion in Discrimination Compensation to Black Farmers: As the result of a 1999 decision on a class action suit known as Pigford v. Glickman, the federal government paid approximately $1 billion to 15,640 black farmers who claimed that the that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) had discriminated against them by refusing to provide them with federally subsidized farm loans and benefits during the years 1981-96. In 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama pushed to get another $100 million appropriated through that year's farm bill, to compensate black farmers who alleged USDA discrimination but had missed the 1999 filing deadline under the original Pigford case. "I am also pleased that the bill includes my proposal to help thousands of African-American farmers get their discrimination claims reviewed under the Pigford settlement," said Obama.
Then, in early December 2010, President Obama signed the Claims Settlement Act of 2010, which awarded another $1.15 billion to 94,000 black farmers alleging USDA discrimination between 1981-96. When signing the bill, Obama lamented the "long and unfortunate chapter in our history" that it represented.
According to the Census Bureau, the number of black farmers in America between 1981 and 1996 peaked at 33,000 in 1982. More than 15,000 of those had already received settlements under Pigford I. The USDA predicted that about 3,000 of the remaining 18,000 black farmers would now come forward to file additional discrimination claims. Instead, the actual total was 94,000 people claiming to have been "victimized" by the USDA.
Obama USDA Awards $760 Million to Native American Farmers As Compensation for "Discrimination": In October 2010, the Obama USDA settled the so-called Keepseagle case, agreeing to make $760 million available to Native American farmers and ranchers contending that they had not received the same farm loan opportunities as whites between 1981-99.
Obama USDA Offers Female and Hispanic farmers over $1.3 billion in "Discrimination" Payouts: On September 24, 2012, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced that Hispanic and women farmers and ranchers who believed the USDA had discriminated against them between 1981 and 2000, could now file claims to get a portion of at least $1.33 billion in cash awards and tax relief payments, and up to $160 million in farm debt relief. Said Vilsack: "The opening of this claims process is part of USDA's ongoing efforts to correct the wrongs of the past and ensure fair treatment to all current and future customers." The USDA said it would use mail, media, and community advocacy groups to ensure that those eligible would be made aware of the claims process.
The Fraudulence of the Black, Native American, Hispanic, and Female Farmer "Discrimination Payouts Is Confirmed: On April 25, 2013, The New York Times reported the folowing:
In the winter of 2010, after a decade of defending the government against bias claims by Hispanic and female farmers, Justice Department lawyers seemed to have victory within their grasp.
In the winter of 2010, after a decade of defending the government against bias claims by Hispanic and female farmers, Justice Department lawyers seemed to have victory within their grasp.
Obama Lauds the Race-Baiting Civil-Rights Activist Al Sharpton: On April 6, 2011, President Obama traveled to New York's Sheraton Hotel & Towers to attend a 20th anniversary celebration of Al Sharpton's National Action Network. When addressing the crowd, Obama, who had heartily embraced Sharpton and complimented him for "his style." Obama also
praised "the National Action Network's commitment to fight injustice and inequality here in New York City and across America. That's not only a testament to Reverend Sharpton. It's a testament to all of you who are here tonight. I want to commend you for the work that you've done over the last two decades."
Obama Mocks Anti-Illegal-Immigration Activists: In May 2011, President Obama went to El Paso, Texas to give what was billed as an important speech on immigration. He mocked opponents of illegal immigration by saying, "Maybe they'll need a moat [i.e., in addition to a wall to keep Mexicans out of the United States]. Maybe they'll need alligators in the moat."
Obama DOJ Investigates Police Departments for Civil-Rights Abuses: On May 31, 2011, Salon.com reported that "President Obama's Justice Department is aggressively investigating several big urban police departments for systematic civil rights abuses such as harassment of racial minorities, false arrests, and excessive use of force...."
Working to Bring Back the Subprime Mortgage-Lending Practices That Caused the Housing Market to Collapse in 2008: In July 2011, it was reported that the Obama DOJ, in a manner reminiscent of the lending practices that helped cause the housing crisis of 2008, was once again strong-arming banks to make risky loans to minority applicants – threatening to charge banks with discrimination if they failed to comply.
Claims of Discrimination Against Black Schoolchildren: In a February 25, 2012 speech to the organization 100 Black Men of Atlanta, Attorney General Eric Holder lamented the findings of a 2011 study of discipline patterns in Texas schools. Holder said the study showed that "83 percent of African American male students and 74 percent of Hispanic male students ended up in trouble and suspended for some period of time" -- as compared to 59% of white male students. "We've often seen that students of color, students from disadvantaged backgrounds, and students with special needs are disproportionately likely to be suspended or expelled," Holder stated. "This is, quite simply, unacceptable.… These unnecessary and destructive policies must be changed." After citing the Texas study, Holder added that "tellingly, 97 percent of all suspensions were discretionary and reflected the administrator's discipline philosophy as much as the student's behavior." In his speech, Holder ignored data indicating that the different discipline rates were consistent with differences in actual schoolyard behavior.
Holder revisited this theme in January 2014, when he and Education Secretary Arne Duncan issued the first-ever national guidelines for discipline in public schools. These guidelines demanded that schools adhere, as an Associated Press (AP) report put it, "to the principle of fairness and equity in student discipline or face strong action if they don't." "[I]n our investigations," said the administration, "we have found cases where African-American students were disciplined more harshly and more frequently because of their race than similarly situated white students. In short, racial discrimination in school discipline is a real problem." Holder, for his part, declared: "A routine school disciplinary infraction should land a student in the principal's office, not in a police precinct."
In particular, the Obama administration was troubled by the fact that:
To address this matter, the Obama administration encouraged schools to:
"The nation's educators can avoid sanctions by adopting a racial quota system for student discipline. So as Roger Clegg, president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, predicts, 'school officials will either start disciplining students who shouldn't be, or, more likely, will not discipline some students who ought to be.' I can imagine school administrators reasoning this way: 'Blacks are 20 percent of our student body, and 20 percent of suspensions this year have been of black students. In order to discipline another black student while maintaining our suspension quota, we will have to suspend some white students, whether they're guilty or not.'"The Trayvon Martin Case: When the black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in an altercation with a "white Hispanic" man on February 26, 2012, Obama lamented: "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon." Further, Obama urged all Americans "to do some soul-searching to figure out how does something like this happen." Obama did not explain why this particular incident should be weighted with such racial significance, given the fact that the overwhelming majority of interracial crime in the United States is black-on-white, and more than 90% of black homicide victims nationwide are killed by other blacks.
It was subsequently learned that the Martin-Zimmerman incident was by no means a case of stalking and cold-blooded murder, as the media and civil-rights activists (and, by, implication, Obama) had portrayed it. In fact, just prior to the shooting, Martin had been pummeling Zimmerman viciously, inflicting a broken nose, two black eyes, and a head wound on the latter. Moreover, before shooting Martin, Zimmerman had desperately cried out for help 14 times.
In July 2013, it was learned that in the immediate aftermath of the Martin killing, the Community Relations Service (CRS), a small office within the U.S. Department of Justice, sent taxpayer-funded political agitators to Sanford, where they helped organize protest demonstrations and convey the false impression that the killer had racial motives. At one of those rallies -- the March 31, 2012 "March for Trayvon Martin" -- the featured speaker, Al Sharpton, advocated for Zimmerman's prosecution. According to journalist Matthew Vadum:
"DOJ documents provided to Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act show that in the weeks before Zimmerman was charged, CRS expended thousands of dollars to help organize marches in which participants exacerbated racial tensions and loudly demanded that he be prosecuted.On July 19, 2013 -- a few days after Zimmerman was acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges -- Obama made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room to issue a statement. His remarks included the following:
First of all ... I send my thoughts and prayers, as well as Michelle's, to the family of Trayvon Martin, and to remark on the incredible grace and dignity with which they've dealt with the entire situation....On August 7, 2013, Obama appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, who asked him to comment on the Trayvon Martin case. The President replied:
"Well, I think all of us were troubled by what happened. And any of us who were parents can imagine the heartache that those parents went through. It doesn't mean that Trayvon was a perfect kid -- none of us were. We were talking offstage -- when you're a teenager, especially a teenage boy, you're going to mess up, and you won't always have the best judgment. But what I think all of us agree to is, is that we should have a criminal justice system that's fair, that's just. And what I wanted to try to explain was why this was a particularly sensitive topic for African American families, because a lot of people who have sons know the experience they had of being followed or being viewed suspiciously.Obama Suggests That There Are Efforts to Suppress the Votes of Nonwhite Minorities: During his second inaugural address as president on January 21, 2013, the newly re-elected Obama made reference to alleged efforts to suppress the votes of certain demographic groups, particularly low-income nonwhite minorities: "Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote."
Obama Says Illegal Immigrants Should Not Be "Expelled from Our Country": Also during his second inaugural address (on January 21, 2013), Obama emphasized his commitment to passing "comprehensive immigration reform" and the DREAM Act, both of which would include a path-to-citizenship for illegals currently residing in the United States: "Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity, until bright young students and
engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country."
Obama Says That People From Mexico "Did Not Cross the Border, The Border Crossed Them": When outgoing Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, who is of Mexican heritage, formally stepped down from his post in early February 2013, Obama suggested that the Hispanic Cabinet member was more authentically American than the Pilgrims of New England: "His ancestors were here before the Mayflower set sail." The president then echoed a phrase common among Nativists who believe that lands belong to ethnicities rather than to countries: "[Salazar and] his family did not cross the border, the border crossed them. And that's why, when I needed somebody to lead Interior, I didn't have to look very far."
Americans' View of Race Relations Has Deteriorated Greatly During Obama Administration: In June 2013, a poll by NBC and the Wall Street Journal reported that 52 percent of whites and 38 percent of blacks had a favorable opinion of race relations in the U.S. At the beginning of Obama's first term (4 and 1/2 years earlier, the corresponding figures were 79 percent and 63 percent.
Obama Speaks about America's Racial Injustice, Yesterday and Today: In an August 23, 2013 speech at Binghamton University, Obama said:
"I think what we've also seen is that the legacy of discrimination—slavery, Jim Crow—has meant that some of the institutional barriers for success for a lot of groups still exist. African American poverty in this country is still significantly higher than other groups. Same is true for Latinos. Same is true for Native Americans. And even if there weren't active discrimination taking place right now—and obviously, we know that some discrimination still exists, although nothing like what existed 50 years ago—but let's assume that we eliminated all discrimination magically, with a wand, and everybody had goodness in their heart. You'd still have a situation in which there are a lot of folks who are poor and whose families have become dysfunctional because of a long legacy of poverty, and live in neighborhoods that are run down and schools that are underfunded and don't have a strong property tax base. And it would still be harder for young people born into those communities to succeed than those who were born elsewhere."Obama Marks the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech by Emphasizing America's Racial Inequity: On August 28, 2013, Obama said:
"To secure the gains this country has made requires constant vigilance, not complacency. Whether it's by challenging those who erect new barriers to the vote or ensuring that the scales of justice work equally for all in the criminal justice system and not simply a pipeline from underfunded schools to overcrowded jails....Obama Laments America's Historical and Continuing Racial Injustice: In a December 4, 2013 speech on the U.S. economy, President Obama said: "[I]t's true that the painful legacy of discrimination means that African-Americans, Latinos, Native Americans are far more likely to suffer from a lack of opportunity -- higher unemployment, higher poverty rates.... So we're going to need strong application of anti-discrimination laws. We're going to need immigration reform that grows the economy and takes people out of the shadows. We're going to need targeted initiatives to close those gaps."
Obama Commutes the Sentences of Eight Crack-Cocaine Offenders Convicted under "Unfair System": On December 19, 2013, President Obama commuted the prison sentences of 8 (nonwhite) individuals who had been imprisoned for more than 15 years apiece for crack cocaine offenses committed at a time when the penalties for the possession of crack, a drug most often used by poor blacks, were approximately 100 times harsher than the penalties for possession of powder cocaine, whose users were typically affluent whites. (In 2010 Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act, which narrowed the disparity of those penalties considerably.)
One of the individuals whose sentences Obama commuted was a first cousin of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, one of the president's most loyal supporters. Patrick's cousin, Reynolds Allen Wintersmith Jr., had been sentenced to life in prison in 1994 for cocaine possession and conspiracy to distribute cocaine and its products on behalf of a gang known as the Gangster Disciples.
Said Obama in a statement: "I am commuting the prison terms of eight men and women who were sentenced under an unfair system. Commuting the sentences of these eight Americans is an important step toward restoring fundamental ideals of justice and fairness.... If they had been sentenced under the current law, many of them would have already served their time and paid their debt to society. Instead, because of a disparity in the law that is now recognized as unjust, they remain in prison, separated from their families and their communities, at a cost of millions of taxpayer dollars each year."
In addition to the 8 sentences he commuted, Obama also pardoned 13 individuals convicted of crack cocaine offenses.
Further, Obama urged Congress to approve additional sentencing-reform measures to ensure "that our justice system keeps its basic promise of equal treatment for all."
Federal Hate-Crime Charge Against White Perpetrator of the "Knockout Game": In the fall of 2013, media outlets like Breitbart News, Truth Revolt, and Fox News reported extensively on the growing prevalence of the so-called "knockout game," whereby groups of black teenagers were targeting defenseless and unsuspecting white, Jewish, and Asian pedestrians and blindsiding them with roundhouse punches designed to render the victims unconscious. Accomplices to the perpetrators commonly captured these attacks on video and posted them, as a form of celebration, to the website YouTube. Hundreds of these knockout-game incidents had occurred in cities nationwide since 2010. Many had resulted in serious injuries, and in several cases the victims had died.
The Obama administration, however, never took action against any of the perpetrators until December 2013, when Obama's Justice Department filed a federal hate-crimes charge against a 27-year-old Texas white man who targeted a 79-year-old black man with a "knockout-game" attack (which he also videotaped and subsequently boasted about to strangers).
Obama Says Racism Causes Some Voters to Dislike Him: In the January 27, 2014 issue of the New Yorker magazine, President Obama said: "There's no doubt that there's some folks who just really dislike me because they don't like the idea of a black president." "Now, the flip side of it," added Obama, "is there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because I'm a black president."
Obama Lauds Al Sharpton and Warns That Voting Rights for Blacks Are in Peril
On April 11, 2014, President Obama spoke at Al Sharpton's National Action Network convention in New York and said to Sharpton: "Of course, one thing that has not changed is your commitment to problems of civil rights for everybody and opportunity for all people."
Focusing also on the issue of Republican proposals to tighten ID requirements for voting in political elections, Obama claimed that such measures would unfairly make it more difficult for millions of Americans to cast their ballots. Said Obama, to thunderous applause: "America did not stand up and did not march and did not sacrifice to gain the right to vote for themselves and others only to see it denied to their kids and their grandchildren. The stark, simple truth is this: The right to vote is threatened today."
Obama Denounces the Death Penalty and Laments the "Significant Problems" Associated with the Execution of a Particular, Remorseless Black Murderer
On April 20, 2014, a 38-year-old, black Oklahoma man named Clayton Lockett was executed by lethal injection because he had raped and murdered a 19-year-old girl named Stephanie Neiman fifteen years earlier. The injection procedure was botched, however, and it took a full 43 minutes after the drug was administered before Lockett died. A TulsaWorld.com report provided background on the crime that had led to this execution:
Stephanie Neiman ... was dropping off a friend at a Perry [Oklahoma] residence on June 3, 1999, the same evening Clayton Lockett and two accomplices decided to pull a home invasion robbery there. Neiman fought Lockett when he tried to take the keys to her truck.A few days after Lockett's execution, a foreign reporter raised the issue with Obama and compared America's use of the death penalty to that of Iran, Saudi Arabia, and China. After conceding that the death penalty might be appropriate in a very "terrible" crime such as "mass killing" or "the killings of children," Obama went on to denounce the capital punishment generally:
"The application of the death penalty in this country, we have seen significant problems — racial bias, uneven application of the death penalty, you know, situations in which there were individuals on death row who later on were discovered to have been innocent because of exculpatory evidence. And all these, I think, do raise significant questions about how the death penalty is being applied. And this situation in Oklahoma I think just highlights some of the significant problems there.Obama Speaks about White Police Officer's Killing of Black Teen
On August 14, 2014, Obama addressed the riots that had been raging in recent days in response to the August 9 kiling -- by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri -- of an unarmed 18-year-old black male named Michael Brown in circumstances that were not yet clear. While he called for "unity" and calm, the president also issued a sternly worded reprimand to the police:
"This morning, I received a thorough update on the situation from Attorney General Eric Holder, who's been following and been in communication with his team. I've already tasked the Department of Justice and the FBI to independently investigate the death of Michael Brown, along with local officials on the ground. The Department of Justice is also consulting with local authorities about ways that they can maintain public safety without restricting the right of peaceful protest and while avoiding unnecessary escalation. I made clear to the attorney general that we should do what is necessary to help determine exactly what happened and to see that justice is done....On August 18, Obama said: "In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and left as objects to fear. Part of the ongoing challenge of perfecting our union has involved dealing with communities that feel left behind." And in light of the fact that some police in Ferguson were employing tanks and riot gear in order to deal with the looters, Obama stated: "There is no excuse for excessive force by police.... I think it's probably useful for us to review how the funding has gone, how local law enforcement has used grant dollars, to make sure that what they're purchasing [such as military equipment] is stuff that they actually need. There is a big difference between our military and our local law enforcement, and we don't want those lines blurred."
"Of course, it's important to remember how this started. We lost a young man, Michael Brown, in heartbreaking and tragic circumstances. He was 18 years old, and his family will never hold Michael in their arms again. And when something like this happens, the local authorities, including the police, have a responsibility to be open and transparent about how they are investigating that death and how they are protecting the people in their communities. There is never an excuse for violence against police or for those who would use this tragedy as a cover for vandalism or looting. There's also no excuse for police to use excessive force against peaceful protests or to throw protesters in jail for lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights. And here in the United States of America, police should not be bullying or arresting journalists who are just trying to do their jobs and report to the American people on what they see on the ground."
Obama Meets with Sharpton Regarding Police Department Reform
On December 1, 2014, President Obama met with Al Sharpton at the White House to discuss matters related to the Michael Brown shooting and police-department reform. News reports indicated that Obama would demand $263 million from Congress to put 50,000 body-worn cameras in U.S. police departments and train local officers in the proper use pf surplus military equipment. Brown's parents had pushed for the use of cameras as one way to reduce distrust between police and nonwhites. In August, the administration had said that it agreed with the idea in principle, writing: "We support the use of cameras and video technology by law enforcement officers, and the Department of Justice continues to research best practices for implementation."
Al Sharpton Has Become Obama's Chief Advisor on Racial Issues
In August 2014, Politico.com published a feature story titled, "How Al Sharpton Became Obama's Go-To Man on Race." The piece stated that "Sharpton not only visits the White House frequently, he often texts or emails with senior Obama officials such as [Valerie] Jarrett and Attorney General Eric Holder." It quoted Jesse Jackson saying, "I've known Al since he was 12 years old, and he's arrived at the level he always wanted to arrive at, which is gratifying. He's the man who's the liaison to the White House, he's the one who's talking to the Justice Department." Sharpton himself, meanwhile, offered his own assessment of how he had bonded with Obama: "The relationship evolved over time.... The key for him was seeing that I wasn't insincere, that I actually believed in the stuff I was talking about."
In a subsequent New York Times piece, Obama was quoted as having said of Sharpton: "You can do business with that guy."
Obama Sees Racism As the Cause of Opposition to Immigration Reform
In an August 2014 interview with The Economist, President Obama derided "the dysfunction of a Republican Party that knows we need immigration reform, knows that it would actually be good for its long-term prospects, but is captive to the nativist elements in its party."
Obama Says Racism in America Is "Deeply Rooted"
In a December 2014 interview with Black Entertainment Television, President Obama said that racism "is something that is deeply rooted in our society, it's deeply rooted in our history." He added: "When you're dealing with something as deeply rooted as racism or bias, you've got to have vigilance but you have to recognize that it's going to take some time, and you just have to be steady so you don't give up when we don't get all the way there. This isn't going to be solved overnight."
Obama Cites the Continuing "Legacy of Slavery"
In an October 2014 New Yorker article, President Obama was quoted saying thatthe biggest issues concerning race are "rooted in economics and the legacy of slavery," which have created "vastly different opportunities for African-Americans and whites." He added: "I understand, certainly sitting in this office, that probably the single most important thing I could do for poor black kids is to make sure that they're getting a good K-through-12 education. And, if they're coming out of high school well prepared, then they'll be able to compete for university slots and jobs. And that has more to do with budgets and early-childhood education and stuff that needs to be legislated."
Obama Discusses Society's Continuing Racism
In A December 2014 interview with People magazine, Obama said: "The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced. It's one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala [an alleged incident that Mrs. Obama had just recounted to the interviewer]. It's another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed, or worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress."
Obama also told People: "There's no black male my age, who's a professional, who hasn't come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn't hand them their car keys."
The President also said that he and Mrs. Obama had often encouraged their daughters to reflect on racial stereotypes, particularly "how they think they should have to act as African-American girls." "Around the dinner table," he added, "we're pointing out to them that too often in our society black boys are still perceived as more dangerous, and it will be part of their generation's task to try to eradicate those stereotypes."
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Women's Earnings: "For every $1.00 earned by a man, the average woman receives only 77 cents," said an Obama campaign publication in 2008. "A recent study estimates it will take another 47 years for women to close the wage gap with men." To rectify this, Obama "believes the government needs to take steps to better enforce the Equal Pay Act, fight job discrimination, and improve child care options and family medical leave to give women equal footing in the workplace."
Obama Supports Georgetown Law Student Sandra Fluke: On February 23, 2012, Sandra Fluke, a third-year law student at Georgetown University and an experienced women's-rights activist, testified about Georgetown's policy on contraception during an unofficial hearing that was led by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Fluke argued that birth control should be covered by health insurance policies, even at religious institutions that objected to contraception on moral grounds. After radio host Rush Limbaugh harshly criticized Miss Fluke for her comments, President Obama called the young woman to express his support. In an interview with CBS News, Fluke reported that Mr. Obama had thanked her for "helping to amplify the voices of women across the country," and had expressed concern "that I was okay." Added Fluke: "He expressed his support me, thanked me for helping to amplify the voices of women across the country who are very concerned about the very dangerous bills that we've seen and their support for the contraception policy and how much it means to them. Beyond that, he also just wanted to express concern and make sure that I was okay, which I thought was very kind and I assured him I was."
This incident laid the groundwork for the Obama administration and the Democratic Party to accuse the Republican Party of waging a "war on women," a hallmark of which was Republicans' refusal to mandate that all health insurance plans cover the cost of women's contraception and abortion services.
Obama Says the Augusta National Golf Club Should Allow Women to Attend: In April 2012, Yahoo News reported: "President Obama believes that women should be admitted for membership to the all-male Augusta National Golf Club, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters today. 'His personal opinion is that women should be admitted,' Carney said of the president. 'It's obviously up to the club to decide. But his personal opinion is that women should be admitted to the club.'"
Obama Speaks at White House Event on Women and the Economy: At an April 6, 2012 White House event on women and the economy, President Obama said: "When more women are bringing home the bacon, but bringing home less of it than men who are doing the same work, that weakens families, it weakens communities, it's tough on our kids, it weakens our entire economy."
Obama Speaks about the Need for "Pay Equity": On April 17, 2012, President Obama stated that "women who worked full-time [the previous year] earned only 77 percent of what their male counterparts did." "The pay gap was even greater for African American and Latina women," added Obama, "with African American women earning 64 cents and Latina women earning 56 cents for every dollar earned by a Caucasian man."
Obama Campaign Urges Female Voters to "Vote Like Your Lady Parts Depend on It":
On October 2, 2012, the Obama campaign posted an e-card, targeting women, on its Tumblr site. It read: "Vote like your lady parts depend on it." Just hours after bloggers began criticizing the ad, the campaign deleted the e-card.
Obama Mocks Romney's Reference to "Binders Full of Women"
During an October 9, 2012 presidential debate, Republican Mitt Romney described how, when he began his tenure as governor of Massachusetts in 2003, he sought to increase the number of women in his cabinet: "I had the chance to pull together a cabinet and all the applicants seemed to be men. And I went to my staff, and I said, 'How come all the people for these jobs are all men?' They said, 'Well, these are the people that have the qualifications.' And I said, 'Well, gosh, can't we find some women that are also qualified?'" This, explained Romney, led to a "concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members" of his cabinet. "I went to a number of women's groups and said, 'Can you help us find folks?' And they brought us whole binders full of women" (i.e., women's resumes).
At a campaign rally in Iowa the following day, Obama made a disparaging reference to Romney's remark: "We don't have to collect a bunch of binders to find qualified, talented, driven young women ready to learn and teach in these fields right now," said Obama. "When young women graduate, they should get equal pay for equal work. That should be a simple question to answer." He repeated a similar assertion later that day at a campaign event in Ohio.
Obama Says Women Are Underpaid: During his second inaugural address as president on January 21, 2013, the newly re-elected Obama emphasized his belief that female workers in America are not treated or paid fairly: "Our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their
efforts."
Obama Laments America's Historical and Continuing Injustice Toward Women: In a December 4, 2013 speech on the U.S. economy, President Obama said: "It's also true that women still make 77 cents on the dollar compared to men.... It's time to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act so that women will have more tools to fight pay discrimination."
Obama Says Women Are Underpaid: During his State of the Union address in January 2014, Obama said: "Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it's an embarrassment. A woman deserves equal pay for equal work."
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Biography of Frank Pierce
Frank Pierce is an old time citizen of Hopkins County, he came into the county in the early forties. He married Miss South at an early day and reared a large family in Hopkins County. This family was unfortunate and died in early life. J. K. Pierce, a prosperous farmer and stock raiser and a wealthy citizen of the county, is his son. Frank Pierce Jr. is another son. They had different mothers. In the year of 1848 Frank Pierce was a member of the Grand Jury, during the sitting of the District Court at old Tarrant, John T. Mills presiding judge. Discover your family's story. Enter a grandparent's name to get started. choose a state: Any AL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DE DC FL GA HI ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA WA WV WI WY INTL Start Now The courthouse was built of logs and the Grand jury occupied a small log cabin which was built of poles upon the banks of a little dry branch some three hundred yards east from the court house building. Eldridge Hopkins, who was county clerk, ran a boarding house; this house consisted of a couple of log cabins with...Read More

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Hi Everyone
Well as its winter here in Niigata and not a lot of riding can be done my cycling pal Brian & I decided to build a new website dedicated to cycling in Niigata ken - called Niigata By Bike . The main aim of the website is to introduce Niigata ken to cyclists from abroad or foreigners living here in Japan as it is often very difficult for non Japanese to find basic information such as camp sites, bicycle shops and touring routes. On Niigata By Bike we have listed some of the many rides we have done in Niigata ken over the last 15 years and we will be updating the site with more info later on. Please feel free to check out the site listed at the link below and we welcome any other ideas you might have to make the site even better. Both Brian & I have toured extensively throughout Niigata Ken over the past 15 years and we have discovered some fantastic places to ride and will be out on the bicycles exploring again as soon as spring arrives . If you are interested in coming to Niigata and would like some advice on cycle touring please check out the website first and if you have any further questions please get in touch with us.


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I recently replaced the housing on my iPhone 3g in the effort to make it more valuable on eBay (not worth the time and money spent).
Now the speaker and the proximity sensor do not work
Display, touchscreen, mic, headphone jack, etc all work fine.
Any ideas on what's wrong?
I think it might have something to do with cable 3 (but that doesn't explain the speaker).


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Necklines - which is your favourite?
Posted on October 20 2016
The neckline of a garment can be the sole reason as to why one person loves a particular garment and the next person doesn't. It can change the entire look and fit and depends on your body shape as to which neckline will suit you. To make it easy for you we have categorised our popular tops by their necklines. This is a summer selection of essential tops to build your wardrobe from, dependent upon whether you prefer bamboo jersey or organic cotton.
Low: A low neckline gives a deep scoop and offers less coverage. This style often suits if you have a larger bust as it is a flattering fit.
Yvette Greta Eva Odele Isadora
In-between: This is our 'in-between' neckline. This style suits most bust sizes and comes in a scoop and v-neck. It provides more coverage than a low neckline.
Slant Dana Viola Viv
High neck: This neckline sits around the collar bone area and gives the most coverage. Certain customers like this if they want to cover the decolletage. This style generally suits a smaller to medium bust.
Perla Kalinda Obsidian Weft
Tansy Copper Terri
Cami tops and slips:
The Lila and Nasturtium both come in a cami top and slip. They are perfect to layer underneath in summer as both are extremely light and cool. Lila is made out of the bamboo jersey and Nasturtium out of the organic cotton.
Lila cami Lila slip Nasturtium top Nasturtium slip
The above styles are both from Rant and Bestowed and more information on each garment are in the individual product descriptions. The recommendations given above regarding shapes and size is just a guide, everyone's body shape is different and you know what suits you. If you need any further guidance please email us and we are happy to help!


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Re: AI-GEOSTATS: spatial statistics for small data sets
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- Dear Raechel
The answer to your question is a bit
If your data is well behaved (simple distribution,
pretty continuous) then you can get meaningful results
from very few samples (probably not less than 20 or
We have examples in the book with data sets of 27 and
up. The 27 one is no good for geostatistics but this
has more to do with the fact that the samples are 1km
apart when the range of influence is probably about
125 metres. The main tutorial set in the old book
(available free at
which we now call "Page 95" has 50 samples very
inefficiently placed which still yield good results
for interpretation and estimation purposes. Even more
so for simulation basis.
So, I would say, go ahead and try it but look at your
distribution before you go to geostatistics. Small
data sets will give much better results if Normal
(Gaussian) or normalised or transformed in some other
If I can be of any more help, please let me know
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Nearing your delivery date, expecting mothers probably feel a mix of emotions. Excitement. Anxiousness. Happiness … all perfectly normal, considering that your bundle of joy will soon be here. But, in all the midst of the excitement, don't forget to pack your hospital bag!
You'll be staying overnight after giving birth, so be sure to have all the essentials for you and your little one covered. Here's a checklist just in case.
For you:
- A picture ID, insurance card and any necessary paperwork.
- Your birth preference sheet, if you have one! It's helpful to have it ready to review with your labor team. Here's a great helpful worksheet.
- Eyeglasses, if you wear them. If you normally wear contact lenses, bring your glasses just in case. It might be too much of a hassle to be dealing with contact lenses in the hustle of bustle of delivery.
- Toiletries & natural beauty products— We know you'll still want to look beautiful, even post-labor while you're in the hospital. So don't forget the basics! Toothbrush, toothpaste, hairbrush, shampoo, deodorant. And, remember, you'll still want to be using natural products while you're breastfeeding.
- Pillows of all kinds. Yes, the hospital will have them but hospitals aren't hotels. Bring a pillow from home. It will be undoubtedly cushier and also smell a bit like home,. And, if you're breastfeeding, you'll probably want a breastfeeding pillow; we prefer the kinds that have not been treated with flame-retardant chemicals.
- Flip Flops. Or comfortable shoes in general. Pack a pair of house slippers if that's what you prefer.
- Camera. A cellphone will suffice. Just remember, there'll definitely be at least one moment you will want to capture on film!
- Chargers: You probably have at least a camera and a phone in your bag – no to mention a tablet – so don't forget your chargers.
- Playlist + travel: Many women find music soothing during labor so consider finding time to put your labor playlist together to play on your phone or tablet.
- Pajamas/Robes. Hospital gowns will be provided but, for extra comfort, bring along a set of pajamas and a snuggly robe. Breastfeeding? You might want to debut your breastfeeding pillow for you and your baby to enjoy while you're at the hospital. Boppy has a number of great choices – each of them made without the addition of flame retardant chemicals.
- Organic Sweets. Your mouth will tend to get dry and you'll be hungry during labor, so keep some small, sweet snacks for you to munch on – we love candy from YummyEarth. Sour candy also helps alleviate nausea.
- Witch Hazel Pads. If you have an episiotomy or vaginal tearing from giving birth, the wound might hurt for the next few weeks. During this time be sure to take care of the wound to prevent infection. Place a chilled witch hazel pad between the wound and a sanitary napkin to help with pain relief and recovery.
- Underwear Briefs. Leave your thongs at home. They'll be very uncomfortable after giving birth—leave them at home. For the hospital, pack a couple of pair of cotton underwear briefs that you won't mind throwing away later.
- Organic Overnight Maxi Pads. After a vaginal delivery, you will vaginal discharge (lochia) over the next few weeks. The bleeding will be the heaviest for several days right after giving birth,. The hospital will provide pads but we suggest bring your own organic cotton ones – we like these chlorine-free maxi pads from Seventh Generation.
- Change of clothes. You're going to have to wear something when you leave the hospital. Sure, you can wear your PJ's if you'd like, but if not pack something comfortable to wear for the trip back home. Realistically, you'll probably wear maternity clothes for the first month or two after your baby is born. Think Kate Middleton and her post-baby bump.
For your baby:
- Baby swaddle blankets. What's better than a soft, warm swaddle blanket so your little one can brave the new world?
- Diapers. Some hospitals will provide them, but you probably prefer to use a more natural, non-toxic option like Seventh Generation's newborn diapers.
- Newborn hat. It's nice to have a cute, snug cap to keep your baby's head warm. It's also a nice way to distinguish your baby in the nursery.
- Baby clothes. Keep it simple and dress your baby in an onesie or a gown. We like kimono tops with snaps that don't hug too tightly to the baby's belly button.
- A car seat. For the trip back home. Be sure to learn how to properly install and the car seat before the baby is in it! And don't forget to get the stroller ready for action – practice folding and unfolding it! For more information, checkout the Carseat Lady!


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A stories episode would have been cool taking place in 1987, You play as Ryder when the GSF are an important gang of the city, you're blackmailed by the ballas, take some contacts with the CRASH, explore the whole state of San Andreas and the game ends when Brian Johnson dies and CJ leaves to Liberty City.
If there was a "Stories" game for San Andreas...
Posted 10 April 2017 - 03:34 AM
system, u know in San Andreas Mike Toreno talks to T-Bone then to the family. Export - import of merch. the
Yakuza double crosses the Triads.
Then the Andolfinis are out to whack the GSF Sweetie really mad story.
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Posted 29 April 2017 - 09:15 AM
All of our protagonists so far have been fairly strong, but sorta f*cked up people. We've already played as a Johnson, and Sweet isn't such a hardcore career criminal like CJ or Tommy or Niko, so I don't want any more of his perspective.
I've always thought Ryder was pretty interesting though. Strong willed, crazy enough, and gets into a variety of sh*t.
San Andreas Stories could start in 1988, with Ryder walking out of a rehab clinic after a two year stint, into another sunny day in Los Santos...
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Are you promoting your salon business through your website? Do you want to get your salon website to get into the higher page ranks of popular search engines? People these days use the internet to find anything and everything. They will always check out the things they need by searching in popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. They do not have the patience to check out more than 2 to 3 pages of the search engine to find the link to what they are searching. So, if your salon website is in the 5th or 6th page a popular search engine result, the chances are that not many people will be visiting your website. You should create your website in such a way that it is SEO friendly and features in the top two pages of the search engine.
Why use salon websites?
As people look to gain information about anything through the internet, it is vital for even small businesses to have a website of their own on the internet to reach out to many people in the shortest possible time. Salon websites are one of the best ways of taking your business to millions of people all over the world. There is no point in just creating a rocking website with many attractive images and write up. You should make sure that your website is SEO friendly. Only if you feature in the top of the charts of popular search engines will you show up on the first page of a 'salon search' web inquiry. If you are not there, then you are failing miserably and your competitors will get your businesses.
Hiring professional
If you are not well versed with carrying out do-it-yourself methods to increase your website's page rank, then you can make use of professional SEO service providers to help your website reach the first or second page of popular search engines. The professionals will know how to increase your business visibility online. They know that new and updated content is what search engines will be looking for and will make sure that your salon website content is updated regularly.
Methods to adopt
The following are some of the methods they will adopt to increase your website presence online and to gain more traffic to your salon site.
- You can start a blog section in your salon website that will have high quality informative articles. You should add a minimum of 4 articles a month in the blogs to create a traffic diversion to your website.
- You can create a unique title for each page of your website that will have SEO keywords as well as the location of your salon.
- The image files will also carry the salon keywords as well as location.
- The image 'alt' tags will be re-tagged or tagged with the same keywords.
- You need to anchor most popular pages of your website with some pages of your site.
- The SEO keywords will be used judiciously all over the site as well as in the headlines of each page.
These are the few techniques that will help you in increasing traffic to your site by making use of SEO for salons.


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Open House On 10th Ave Culvert Construction Will Be Aug 22
The aging metal culverts that carry Bassett Creek under 10th Ave and the Union Pacific Railroad tracks are set for replacement starting late this month. The City has scheduled an informational open house Aug 22, from 5 to 7 pm, in the City Hall Council Chambers, to give residents and business owners the opportunity to ask questions regarding the schedule and impacts of the project.
Southbound Winnetka Ave Closed From 10th Ave To Bassett Creek Due To Emergency Storm Sewer Repair
Southbound Winnetka Ave is closed from 10th Ave to Bassett Creek while City crews make emergency repairs to the storm sewer. The segment will remain closed until repairs are completed. Traffic will be detoured west on 10th Ave, south on Wisconsin Ave, and east on Golden Valley Rd (see map).
Five File For Two City Council Seats
Five Golden Valley residents have filed to run for two Golden Valley City Council seats for the Nov 7 election.
Tonight's Movie In The Park Postponed To Aug 23 Due To Weather
The movie "Rogue One" will be shown at Medley Park Wed, Aug 23, at 8:30 pm. It was originally scheduled for tonight but has been postponed due to weather.
Camp Valley Is A Hit With Families
Parks and Recreation's Camp Valley, an action-packed week of activities, including swimming, archery, capture the flag, puppet shows, obstacle courses, rock wall climbing, birdhouse building, team challenges, pancake cookouts and other outdoor experiences, drew 16 participants, ages 7-12, for its inaugural run. The week was supervised by Golden Valley's playground staff.
Douglas Dr Now Open North Of Duluth St
Striping on Douglas Dr (County Rd 102) between Medicine Lake Rd (County Rd 70) and Duluth St (County Rd 66) has been completed, bringing to a close all the major activities for this segment of road.
Sign Up Now For The Battle Of The Badges Blood Drive Aug 23
There's still time to sign up for Golden Valley's fourth annual Battle of the Badges community blood drive Wed, Aug 23, 1- 4 pm, at 7800 Golden Valley Rd (check in at the Public Safety Building foyer).
Douglas Drive Reconstruction Project Progressing Steadily
This past week, crews completed final paving on Douglas Dr (County Rd 102) between Medicine Lake Rd (County Rd 70) and Duluth St (County Rd 66). They will now focus on rebuilding Douglas Dr between Duluth St and Golden Valley Rd, beginning roundabout construction at the Golden Valley Rd intersection, and starting reconstruction between Frontage Rd and Hwy 55.
Street Banner Art Enters Public Review And Comment Period
Artwork for the City's new street banners in downtown Golden Valley is now available for a 30-day public review and comment period. The banners will replace the old, damaged ones that line a few streets near City Hall campus.
Golden Valley Reads Announces 2017 Book Events
This year's book selection for the second annual Golden Valley Reads program is "The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir," by award-winning Hmong-American writer Kao Kalia Yang. Golden Valley residents are invited attend free book-themed events in August and September.


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Hylands Hotel offers a warm and comfortable base next to Coventry train station, 5 minutes walk from the city centre. The comfortable lounge bar is open 24 hours a day and offers free wireless internet access. The Hylands Hotel has friendly, professional staff available 24 hours and is only 10 minutes walk from the Central Bus Station. There are 4 well-appointed meeting rooms and a dedicated coordinator.
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