I promised my mum that I wouldn’t publicly criticise Barack Obama…but he couldn’t help himself, so neither can I. The former president’s latest intervention was to lecture activists that calls to ‘defund the police’ may be “snappy slogans”, but are bad politics because they risk alienating people. This kind of pandering to racists should come as no surprise. After all, he launched his presidential career by embracing the post-racial delusion that there is no ‘Black America and a White America…there’s the United States of America’. At the first chance he got, he threw his Pastor, Jeremiah Wright , squarely under the bus of the white public opinion, when Wright’s services condemning American racism came to light. Perhaps his most indefensible act of political coonery was publicly sipping Flint water at the height of a crisis that had left disproportionately African American families with a poisoned water supply.
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