(06-19-2024, 09:05 AM)Sneakers Wrote:

(06-19-2024, 07:13 AM)mikesez Wrote: I went to church with a guy who was, and probably still is, outraged by the one time Obama said that if he had a son, his son would look a lot like Trayvon Martin.

Obama, as a young man, did look a lot like Trayvon Martin. 

If a simple and objectively true comment like that is all you need to start a race war, buddy you were rearing to go already...

How many young black men, who roughly resembled Obama, were arrested and/or convicted of rape, murder, drug trafficking, etc. throughout the country during his time in office?

Of all those young men, about how many did Obama comment that, if he had a son, his son would look a lot like that individual?

The comment was obviously intended to elicit sympathy for Trayvon Martin, at the expense of George Zimmerman, whom police had already determined to have been acting in self-defense.  Coincidentally, the incident occurred in the middle of the Presidential election cycle and Obama was quick to play the race card for his personal political gain.


There was also another incident, when a friend of his (who was black) was arrested and Obama spoke out immediately, stating the police (who were white) had acted "stupidly".