Obama 12 Years Ago
Barack Obama, the uniter across party lines, across religions, across racial divides, wasn’t always Mr. Sunshine. He had a different view 12 years ago, when his campaign was more localized.
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“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.”
The right wing, the Christian right, has done a good job of building these organizations of accountability, much better than the left or progressive forces have. But it’s always easier to organize around intolerance, narrow-mindedness, and false nostalgia. And they also have hijacked the higher moral ground with this language of family values and moral responsibility.”
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Sound familiar? Today, he claims to be singing a different tune.
