2001 Obama WBEZ Interview Redistribution Wealth Warren Court

If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court. I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as I could pay for it Id be o.k. But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasnt that radical. It didnt break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states cant do to you. Says what the Federal government cant do to you, but doesnt say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasnt shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendancy to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that.

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[nohussein]

Silence is consent.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

What we are witnessing is an old fashioned coup detat by a group of

dedicated communists who have planned this . Understand that we are in the fight of our lives here. We are fighting for the very existence of America. For her very soul. We the people, are now fighting back.

You pledged allegiance to the Flag and the Republic she stands for. Not a person. America is under assault.

Silence no more.

[mahakala]

Remember negative liberties. Those in power want power over you and your life. Who are they to take away your God given right to life, liberty and the persuit of happiness. Don't fall for the lies. So what if he is mixed he is a puppet just like bush. And just like bush he back the bailout, and goverment spying , plus the war over seas. So what change is there? Where in for hell and so are are children if we don't do something

[Grisostomo06]

Does anyone know how to obtain the full unedited interview or transcript? This audio has been heavily edited and it's impossible to determine what Obama is trying to say.

[LucifersAvenger1982]

@TheEvans18  Excellently said

[LucifersAvenger1982]

@michaeljamsmith There is a difference when you Invest willing of your own money, the Wealth Redistribution Ojackass is talking about is the theft of wealth from one man, to give it to another because the other man feels he is owed something.

[Fuctmentality]

@ScrewSocialism Obama is a right wing capitalist idiot.

[ScrewSocialism]

Obama is a pure "Big Banker Puppet" and a disciple of their philosophy of SOCIALISM. The big central bankers love socialism. They invented it. It is the policy used to destroy the middle class while increasing their own wealth. They want a one world, two class system where there are the mega-rich and then the worker bees that get bred in test tubes and killed when they are too old to work or are overcome by flouride, GMO's, and aspertame. Welcome to the New World Order all you Socialist!

[Wolfielou]

The tragedy of the civil rights movement (and I was there) is that the courts did not make clear that blacks would have to pick themselves up by their bootstraps and pull their own weight like the rest of us. I am sick of supporting their sorry butts. Redistribute THIS

[michaeljamsmith]

All economics is about the redistribution of wealth. How do you think many rich people got that way. When you invest in business, the profits (wealth) are distributed. When someone pays FICA and that money is used to pay someone else's Social security, when corporate borad members vote pay raises for each other against the wishes of the shareholders, when Dick Cheney awarded the Iraq war to Halliburton with no bid, when the Fed prints money for bailouts, that is wealth distribution.

[eflaspo]

All he is saying is that redistribution of wealth does not and should not take place by government fiat. Rather, people taking control of their economic situation is how wealth should be "redistributed." Although I find it hard to define more and more people with better and better jobs thus earning higher and higher salaries at the "expense" of the companies they work for as "redistribution of wealth."

[dikhed72]

@TheEvans18 Obam explains that negative liberties restrict the government from acting on your behalf. This would lead to unlimited power for the government to "redistribute wealth" as he goes on to say. In short Marxism.

[xleax]

@happyone813 It was.. but the video came out just a week before the election.