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Nevilledog

(51,121 posts)
Sat Aug 29, 2020, 12:25 PM Aug 2020

Michelle Obama: 'Systemic racism' coming from the White House

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/28/michelle-obama-white-house-systemic-racism-404528

Former first lady Michelle Obama condemned what she called the “systemic racism” emanating from the White House and elsewhere around the country in an explosive statement on Friday that addressed recent killings and racial unrest in Kenosha, Wis.

“These past few months, I’ve been thinking a lot about what our kids are seeing every day in this country — the lack of empathy, the division stoked in times of crisis, the age-old and systemic racism that’s been so prominent this summer,” Obama said.

“Sometimes they see it on the news. Sometimes they see it from the White House Rose Garden. And sometimes they see it from the back seat of a car.”

Obama’s statement represents another intense criticism of President Donald Trump following her Democratic National Convention speech last week.

It also comes as the violence in Kenosha has emerged as a new flashpoint of the 2020 White House race.

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Michelle Obama: 'Systemic racism' coming from the White House (Original Post) Nevilledog Aug 2020 OP
Encouraged, fostered and promoted by a racist president who created birtherism dalton99a Aug 2020 #1
Do We now totally accept and understand Eliot Rosewater Aug 2020 #2

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
2. Do We now totally accept and understand
Sat Aug 29, 2020, 12:36 PM
Aug 2020

Do We now totally accept and understand that if they could, if traitor and Barr and McConnell could get their way Michelle Obama Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden would all be in jail, do we all understand that?

Or worse. Unlike some others I do not put anything past any of them especially barr, stay tuned for October nightmare.

Who thinks Attorney General barr would NOT use trumped up lies to indict very very prominent Democrats?

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