Obamas on Race: We've Been Treated Like the Help

[Tom Joad]

I'm glad to see them speaking up on this.

I can only image the howling from the right about this.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obama...ry?id=27636612

President and Michelle Obama personally identify with everyday experiences of racial bias in America that have underpinned recent protests across the country, they told People magazine in an interview to be released Friday.

“Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs," Michelle Obama told the magazine.

On one occasion, she said, her husband “was wearing a tuxedo at a black-tie dinner, and somebody asked him to get coffee.”

President Obama said he's even been mistakenly treated as a valet.

“There’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn’t hand them their car keys," he said, according to excerpts of the interview released today.

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[MrPots]

I was wondering when he was going to get honest about the whole thing.

[ZeroJunk]

I have had the same thing happen to me as well as being asked to help get something off a shelf.

Of course, if you are black it is racism

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by ZeroJunk

I have had the same thing happen to me as well as being asked to help get something off a shelf.

Of course, if you are black it is racism

This is what Mr. Obama said.

“There’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn’t hand them their car keys," he said, according to excerpts of the interview released today.

Not someone asking for casual help which happens for all of us. I remember helping an older lady with her bags at O'hare airport a few years back and she insisted on tipping me even after I said, "I am well off and don't need your money, give it to charity".

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by ZeroJunk

I have had the same thing happen to me as well as being asked to help get something off a shelf.

Of course, if you are black it is racism

WTF do you know about racism that you don't hear from Sean Hannity?

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

WTF do you know about racism that you don't hear from Sean Hannity?

And WTF do you know that he doesn't?

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by finnbow

And WTF do you know that he doesn't?

Anyone who's read his posts knows. Unless they prefer not to....

In this thread, ZJ offers a BS apples-to-oranges false equivalency. Why? To try to say that Obama is wrongfully complaining of racial stereotyping. Why.....?

[ZeroJunk]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

WTF do you know about racism that you don't hear from Sean Hannity?

I spend as much time with blacks as I do whites. They live all around me.

[ZeroJunk]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Anyone who's read his posts knows. Unless they prefer not to....

In this thread, ZJ offers a BS apples-to-oranges false equivalency. Why? To try to say that Obama is wrongfully complaining of racial stereotyping. Why.....?

There is definitely racial profiling.

But, somebody thinking you might be a valet , or somebody asking a tall lady to help them get something.

Give me a break.

They are about as far as you can get from real profiling.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by finnbow

And WTF do you know that he doesn't?

You and your buddy Zero are getting real cozy I see.

That's nice because you two have so much in common these days.