Obama Blasts Trump’s C****av***s Response During Virtual HBCU Graduation Speech
May 17, 2020 13:57:02 #
Barack Obama's graduation speech at a black college, HBCU.
By Anita Bennett
May 16, 2020 5:02pm
Former President Barack Obama delivered blistering criticism Saturday of President Donald Trump’s handling of the C****-** p******c, during a virtual commencement speech to graduates of historically black colleges and universities.
Obama did not mention Trump by name, but it was obvious he was referring to the Trump administration.
“More than anything, this p******c has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing,” Obama told the Class of 2020. “A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge.”
[Watch the video below]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxFkEj7KPC0
Thank you @BarackObama for your support for HBCUs—and for believing in the Class of 2020 as they set out to change the world. #ShowMeYourWalk pic.twitter.com/dqgqvbmksS
— UNCF (@UNCF) May 16, 2020
Obama’s comments followed his recent criticism of Trump in a recorded call to former Obama administration employees, when he described the White House’s response to the p******c as “an absolute chaotic disaster.”
During his remarks today, the nation’s 44th president urged graduates to give back to their communities
“If the world is going to get better, it’s going to be up to you,” Obama said, while also praising the graduates for completing their studies during these unprecedented times.
“You’re being asked to find your way in the world, in the middle of a devastating p******c and a terrible recession,” he stated. “The timing is not ideal, and let’s be honest, a disease like this just spotlights the underlying inequalities and extra burdens that black communities have historically had to deal with in this country.”
He went on to speak publicly for the first time about Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old African-American man who was shot and k**led while jogging on a residential street in Brunswick, Georgia on February 23. Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis McMichael, 34, were arrested two months after the shooting, amid public outcry, and charged with murder and aggravated assault.
“Injustice like this isn’t new,” Obama said. “What is new is that so much of your generation has woken up to the fact that the status quo needs fixing.”
His speech came during “Show Me Your Walk, HBCU Edition,” a two-hour streaming event for graduates of 74 HBCUs across the United States.
This evening, Obama is speaking at “Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020,” a one-hour multimedia event hosted by the XQ Institute, the LeBron James Family Foundation, and the Entertainment Industry Foundation.
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The Legacy of Barack Obama that changed our country in the darkest reign that no prior presidents before him had done.
Unfortunately the world has gotten worst under the black administration. E.g. Baltimore, Chicago.
During the 8 years of t***sforming our country, Obama after his term is over, did not want to give it up his vision continues of changing America.
Using the federal government powerful agencies, he was successful destroying his political opponents thru his administration carried forward via the Deep States, and the ObamaGate, armed with tools and schemes they’ve applied relentlessly to disarm president Trump and his administration.
No prior presidents had done this, except Barack Obama from Kenya.
By Anita Bennett
May 16, 2020 5:02pm
Former President Barack Obama delivered blistering criticism Saturday of President Donald Trump’s handling of the C****-** p******c, during a virtual commencement speech to graduates of historically black colleges and universities.
Obama did not mention Trump by name, but it was obvious he was referring to the Trump administration.
“More than anything, this p******c has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing,” Obama told the Class of 2020. “A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge.”
[Watch the video below]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxFkEj7KPC0
Thank you @BarackObama for your support for HBCUs—and for believing in the Class of 2020 as they set out to change the world. #ShowMeYourWalk pic.twitter.com/dqgqvbmksS
— UNCF (@UNCF) May 16, 2020
Obama’s comments followed his recent criticism of Trump in a recorded call to former Obama administration employees, when he described the White House’s response to the p******c as “an absolute chaotic disaster.”
During his remarks today, the nation’s 44th president urged graduates to give back to their communities
“If the world is going to get better, it’s going to be up to you,” Obama said, while also praising the graduates for completing their studies during these unprecedented times.
“You’re being asked to find your way in the world, in the middle of a devastating p******c and a terrible recession,” he stated. “The timing is not ideal, and let’s be honest, a disease like this just spotlights the underlying inequalities and extra burdens that black communities have historically had to deal with in this country.”
He went on to speak publicly for the first time about Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old African-American man who was shot and k**led while jogging on a residential street in Brunswick, Georgia on February 23. Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis McMichael, 34, were arrested two months after the shooting, amid public outcry, and charged with murder and aggravated assault.
“Injustice like this isn’t new,” Obama said. “What is new is that so much of your generation has woken up to the fact that the status quo needs fixing.”
His speech came during “Show Me Your Walk, HBCU Edition,” a two-hour streaming event for graduates of 74 HBCUs across the United States.
This evening, Obama is speaking at “Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020,” a one-hour multimedia event hosted by the XQ Institute, the LeBron James Family Foundation, and the Entertainment Industry Foundation.
=================
The Legacy of Barack Obama that changed our country in the darkest reign that no prior presidents before him had done.
Unfortunately the world has gotten worst under the black administration. E.g. Baltimore, Chicago.
During the 8 years of t***sforming our country, Obama after his term is over, did not want to give it up his vision continues of changing America.
Using the federal government powerful agencies, he was successful destroying his political opponents thru his administration carried forward via the Deep States, and the ObamaGate, armed with tools and schemes they’ve applied relentlessly to disarm president Trump and his administration.
No prior presidents had done this, except Barack Obama from Kenya.
May 17, 2020 14:01:04 #
Radiance3 wrote:
i Barack Obama's graduation speech at a black col... (show quote)
As with most 'liberals', he has 20/20 hindsight about what President Trump should have done.
May 17, 2020 14:05:06 #
Radiance3 wrote:
i Barack Obama's graduation speech at a black col... (show quote)
Amen and Amen right on there Radiance3 thanks for that timely rebuttal you are spot on as always.
May 17, 2020 14:16:15 #
May 17, 2020 14:16:35 #
Noraa
Loc: Kansas
Radiance3 wrote:
i Barack Obama's graduation speech at a black col... (show quote)
He should talk! Depleting our supplies and not restocking. Yeah, he would have handled it better, buying supplies from China and Iran and probably defending China about the outbreak.
May 17, 2020 14:38:11 #
May 17, 2020 15:01:24 #
So Kevyboy has no rational response - and he again resorts to junior high potty humor. OTOH, that's usually about the best he can do.
May 17, 2020 15:42:37 #
Noraa wrote:
He should talk! Depleting our supplies and not restocking. Yeah, he would have handled it better, buying supplies from China and Iran and probably defending China about the outbreak.
Really trumps been president over 3 years and you want to blame Obama .
Why did trump send 17 tons of it to his bloody dictator in China when we were going to need it?
Then he sat on his hands for months as American died and to this very day our healthcare workers don't have the protective gear they need.
Now 5 months later he appoints some people to try and find a v*****e this is blatant incomptence,
May 17, 2020 16:11:21 #
Noraa
Loc: Kansas
Lonewolf wrote:
Really trumps been president over 3 years and you want to blame Obama .
Why did trump send 17 tons of it to his bloody dictator in China when we were going to need it?
Then he sat on his hands for months as American died and to this very day our healthcare workers don't have the protective gear they need.
Now 5 months later he appoints some people to try and find a v*****e this is blatant incomptence,
Why did trump send 17 tons of it to his bloody dictator in China when we were going to need it?
Then he sat on his hands for months as American died and to this very day our healthcare workers don't have the protective gear they need.
Now 5 months later he appoints some people to try and find a v*****e this is blatant incomptence,
May 17, 2020 16:20:15 #
American Vet wrote:
As with most 'liberals', he has 20/20 hindsight about what President Trump should have done.
Actually there is a tremendous amount of actions Trump could be taking right now that would make differences that he is not doing. No president ever in history has managed to ignore the advice of experts and examples all over the world of what successful actions look like and manage to do things intentionally so badly...all because he thinks this is his only shot at winning the e******n.
I can't wait for MAGA rallies, it should be entertaining as all hell... the only thing being that it will be so obvious by summer that Trump seriously got this wrong that it is unlikely they'll be happening.
May 17, 2020 16:24:51 #
woodguru wrote:
Actually there is a tremendous amount of actions T... (show quote)
Feel free to post what things he should do differently. When you do, please look at the countries below and see what they are doing better....
https://c****av***s.jhu.edu/data/mortality
May 17, 2020 16:26:05 #
Noraa wrote:
He should talk! Depleting our supplies and not restocking. Yeah, he would have handled it better, buying supplies from China and Iran and probably defending China about the outbreak.
Trump had three years to set up for the p******c responses both Bush and Obama had instituted as well as set up response teams that Trump disbanded (oh I know, he didn't, but where are they if he didn't?)... three years to stock supplies back up if he could see there were none, months to get testing going where all he got was failed starts and blocking hundreds of other labs that could have done the job the CDC was not...
...and I.m pretty sure Obama would have taken control of the manufacturing and distribution of critical supplies as opposed to supporting massive profiteering and price gouging, as well as giving red states what they want and depriving blue ones of what they needed.
May 17, 2020 16:26:39 #
woodguru wrote:
Trump had three years to set up for the p******c r... (show quote)
Of course you are "pretty sure".....
May 17, 2020 17:51:46 #
May 17, 2020 18:31:22 #
woodguru wrote:
Trump had three years to set up for the p******c r... (show quote)
Let's see now, you said:
"Trump had three years to set up for the p******c responses both Bush and Obama had instituted"
It seems to me that Obama had EIGHT YEARS to set up for the p******c responses Bush had instituted!
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