Obama "could have been me"

[blueboss]

I won't retort with the obvious

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news...years-ago?lite

[KeithKSR]

If Obama were a young black male during his presidency he would have seen black on black murders increase, and the unemployment rate among young black males skyrocket.

[CitizenBBN]

There are so many responses to that statement I wouldn't know where to start.

Suffice to say when he was 17 Obama was living with his upper middle class white grandparents in Hawaii attending one of the finest private schools in the state. He has no real understanding of an existence like Martin's or his family's and has more in common with me than this young man, and that's no exaggeration.

It "could have been" him I suppose, but no more than it could have been me or anyone else really. It makes the whole statement pretty meaningless, but I admit to a chuckle thinking of 17 year old Obama texting pics of him with his "Nine" handgun given his current view of gun ownership.

[jazyd]

Citizen, based on what you have told me about growing up and your mom, Obama couldn't relate to you nor how you and your mom had to work for what you got vs getting private schooling and scholarships based on maybe untrue statements and for sure being white-black.

you are way ahead of him in every way.

There are so many responses to that statement I wouldn't know where to start.

Suffice to say when he was 17 Obama was living with his upper middle class white grandparents in Hawaii attending one of the finest private schools in the state. He has no real understanding of an existence like Martin's or his family's and has more in common with me than this youngest man, and that's no exaggeration.
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It "could have been" him I suppose, but no more than it could have been me or anyone else really. It makes the whole statement pretty meaningless, but I admit to a chuckle thinking of 17 year old Obama texting pics of him with his "Nine" handgun given his current view of gun ownership.

[Doc]

Its amazing that we live in a country where a 17 year old wanna be gangsta can become president, or at least that the reasonable message we can infer

[KeithKSR]

Its amazing that we live in a country where a 17 year old wanna be gangsta can become president, or at least that the reasonable message we can infer

Seems to be a reasonable inference to me.

[dan_bgblue]

Its amazing that we live in a country where a 17 year old wanna be gangsta can become president, or at least that the reasonable message we can infer

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