Obama is brilliant &, from his past books, has a quite sophisticated grasp of racism, so we then must conclude arguing police racism is confined by slinging the n-word, water hosing children was carefully calculated to comfort white Americans, once again, at expense of Black ones https://twitter.com/daniel_dsj2110/status/1333874806228480003
The contrast with how he described the white officer who arrested a man trying to enter his own home, & the renowned Harvard professor who had every right to be irate, combined w his description of Rev. Wright, is so dismissive of a certain type of Blackness that it's painful.
Thoughtful and decent compared to loud and cocky and "on his best behavior." Just wow.
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