Obama's Mean Times

This is making the rounds, from the counterculture Chicago Reader. At Hugh Hewitt, also here. And LGF. Obama at Farrakhan's Million Man March. This sticks out:

“This doesn’t suggest that the need to look inward emphasized by the march isn’t important, and that these African-American tribal affinities aren’t legitimate. These are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a ‘lock ‘em up, take no prisoners’ mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress. Historically, African-Americans have turned inward and towards black nationalism whenever they have a sense, as we do now, that the mainstream has rebuffed us, and that white Americans couldn’t care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing."

Kind of reminds me of someone else. And how about this:

“But cursing out white folks is not going to get the job done. Anti-Semitic and anti-Asian statements are not going to lift us up. We’ve got some hard nuts-and-bolts organizing and planning to do. We’ve got communities to build.”

Sounds like he's heard it before. Maybe for 20 years.

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