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"Things were fine before minorities started being able to express themselves without pushback." - old white guys
Exactly. When people say Obama hurt race relations it's because those white people hated seeing black people succeeding where only whites could, triggering them into hating them more.
What he meant to say was that Republicans would have continued to pretend to not be racist and stuck to their wink wink dog whistles, but electing a black man president drove them so insane that they regressed 50 years and returned to being openly racist.
drove them so insane
This Onion story/video from right after Obama's ~~2016~~ 2012 win is very relevant and oddly prescient:
Electing ~~Obama~~ Trump has 'taken us back 40 or 50 years on race relations'
fixed that for ya, Rudy
Like, this is the laziest attempt at projecting I've seen in a while. It's like watching someone become more bigoted as their facilities deteriorate from dementia, and it's just sad to watch.
That's a funny way to say you hate black people, Rudy.
Yeah, because all those tiki torch marches happened under Obama? Hmmm... good people on both sides? Well all the Black Lives Matters protests... no? Not Obama either?
See, if you just hadn't scared those white people by electing a black president, things would've been so much better!
It's basic abuser mentality. "Because a black person has dared to become president, you forced us to be more racist and divisive."
I think it’s time we send Rudy to live on a farm upstate.
I live upstate and we don't want him up here
Conservatism = Racism
Thats not fair. Theres more to conservatism than Racism.
Theres also the misogyny, and xenophobia, hatred for the lower classes.
You're absolutely right! Thank you for the clarification!
Maybe it took Guiliani back 40 years. He was at about 1920 before but he seems closer to 1880 now.
This feels like an onion article
He's as much a history buff as a computer security expert
I thought crazy pillow dude was the cybersecurity expert. He hosted those cyber symposiums after all. Clearly he must know something us lowly IT folks don't.
Speaking of which, did he ever pay out that 5 million dollar prize for the guy who proved his election interference data was literally garbage files?
Last I knew, no. But I haven't kept up with the case: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-lindell-5-million-contest-winner-federal-court/
I can't imagine being so utterly convinced you have something that you'd offer a prize you don't intend to pay for proving it false, AND THEN NOT EVEN BOTHERING TO VERIFY IT IS WHAT YOU SAY IT IS. I imagine someone sold him the data under false pretenses, because if Mike knew it was bullshit he might not have offered the prize. If that is the case, I wish that scammer all the best.
“We would have all stayed under our rocks if YOU hadn’t forced us to freak out by electing a black guy”.
Yeah, because all the creepy weirdos on the right absolutely FREAKED OUT that a "Kenyan usurper" was selected by We, The People to run the country.
Remember how ecstatic all these freaks were when OJ won just the EC? The memes of showing how OJ - King of the Birthers - was eclipsing Obama?
I'm sure none of those feelz from the right had anything to do with racism.
The right-wing reactionary response to Obama's election set race relations back.
Why does Rudy think he has an opinion worth listening to on this matter?
Or anything else, really.
Hey Rawstory, less reporting on what they say, more reporting on what they did, thanks.
Translation: when we elected Obama it upset the racists so badly they had a great big meltdown about it
Wait...it was just about ten years ago that they were saying racism was over because we had a Black president. Make up your mind, Rudolph.
So elected Obama made fun of Trump. It made him flip and get into the race. That put him in a position to become a president which fucked up the race relations. So yeah, checkmate.
Thanks Obama!
The race relations Rudy is talking about is MAGA related and means segregation returns. We moved away from that. Magats don't like that.
Well, his idea of "race relation" is going back to colored people in chains and white people with whips. Getting 40 or 50 years away from that is a good thing.