RSSPresident Barack Obama in his own words, but they gotta sit in back.”
Carolyn Hileman | October 28, 2010
President Barack Obama in his own words, but they gotta sit in back.”
Carolyn Hileman
President Barack Obama, marking the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, said the best way to honor those who died is to “stay true to our traditions here at home as a diverse and tolerant nation.” He said the U.S. is at war with al Qaeda and its allies, but it “never will be at war with Islam.”
“We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for a ride, but they gotta sit in back.”
“It requires all Americans to realize that your dreams do not have to come at the expense of my dreams; that investing in the health, welfare, and education of black and brown and white children will ultimately help all of America prosper.”
“We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for a ride, but they gotta sit in back.”
Obama: Whites and blacks must take responsibility “if we’re going to get beyond the kinds of divisions that we face right now.” In an August 1995 interview with Bill Thompson
“We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for a ride, but they gotta sit in back.”
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Wednesday that police acted “stupidly” in the arrest of prominent black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and that despite racial progress blacks and Hispanics are still singled out unfairly for arrest.
“We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for a ride, but they gotta sit in back.”
This was one of the tasks we set forth at the beginning of this campaign – to continue the long march of those who came before us, a march for a more just, more equal, more free, more caring and more prosperous America.
“We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for a ride, but they gotta sit in back.”
I chose to run for the presidency at this moment in history because I believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together – unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction – towards a better future for our children and our grandchildren.
“We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for a ride, but they gotta sit in back.”
Throughout the first year of this campaign, against all predictions to the contrary, we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity. Despite the temptation to view my candidacy through a purely racial lens, we won commanding victories in states with some of the whitest populations in the country.
“We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for a ride, but they gotta sit in back.”
On one end of the spectrum, we’ve heard the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action; that it’s based solely on the desire of wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation on the cheap.
“We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for a ride, but they gotta sit in back.”
“I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites….I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.”
“We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for a ride, but they gotta sit in back.”
Although this president views anyone who does not have an Ivy League education as backwards, ignorant hicks we know what this comment refers to. We are reminded of every single year during black history month, it refers to Rosa Parks who fought justly to ride in the front of the bus and we now know that this president believes that those who disagree with his policies should be banished to the back of the bus. Personally for most of us that would be very refreshing since we have felt the tire marks from being thrown under that bus from the moment he took office. I cannot imagine the uproar, the disgust, the screaming headlines had a white president said this and yet as with everything else the major media will either explain it away or ignore it, but we won’t, we heard what you said, you said:
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