Richard Trumka on Obama and Race

Richard Trumka, the Secretary Treasurer of the AFL CIO discusses Barack Obama and the issue of race at the Democratic National Convention.

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[luvobamas]

Richard Trumka you have good judgement and you speak straight to the point.

[Kflash3782]

Great video!!!

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From Obama’s speech in San Fransico:

"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them," he said.

"And it's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,"

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From Obama’s Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the {Muslims} should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.' page 261.

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2 /4

From Obama’s Dreams of My Father: ; 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'

From Obama’s Dreams of My Father:

I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Dubois and Mandela.'

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1 /4 Obama’s Anti-American sentiment.

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From Obama’s Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating> myself to whites.'

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From Obama’s Dreams of My Father: 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race.'

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From Obama’s Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'

[nognilk]

rhetorical question:

Why is it that if you have one oz of black blood, you black. What if you have one oz of white blood...are you veiwed as white?

[shadhom]

How does God view racism? If one find themseleves on the wrong side of the fence opposing God, then u have a problem, so the next question should be-What r u going to do about it?

[Dawwwn09]

More white people should take this kind of stance. White people have to get the message out to one another about race.

[tonyfears]

Look Obama is half white. Or does the one drop rule apply that shouts if you have one oz. of black blood in you then are black! If you think that then check your family tree bro.you may be surprise. Over 90% of African Americans have European Relatives because of the slave trade.

[tonyfears]

You think your white but you could be black..oh! Dont know ha! Got you thinking outside the boxes could you be ¼, 1/3, 1/2, black? OH! And by the way raciest withes people made that rule!