That Obama backlash may be coming quicker than I thought

[get these nets]

Definitely, all things like this will be complicated and multiple factors go into it. Defunding the police was at least a major key to the turnaround though right? I’m asking more so than telling cause you probably know more of the case than I do.

The end result confirms your earlier comment about the reduced crime rate.
I will always concede the truth.

I think the story (and results) were more about restructuring law enforcement for that city, than it was about defunding.

The mayor of the largest city in the state came out publicly AGAINST the notion of defunding police departments.

 

[I Really Mean It]

I know that.

Still doesn't mean "defund the police" is a winning slogan.

Winning in whose eyes and ears?

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

He’s right. People hear defund the police, and envision no police, and the purge happening.

said rev. wright was trying to get street cred and "keep it real".

I guess stuff like this is why that book came out people got excited to buy it, then shyt got real quiet. nikkas though he was gone unleash the flutes.

He was raised by a white familiar in Hawaii. Not every black person was raised in the same environment. Suburban black people have a different perspective because of their upbringing.

 

[The Minister Of Culture]

He’s right. People hear defund the police, and envision no police, and the purge happening.

But didnt protestors who were saying this get on tv and say that slogan was not exactly what they meant that they meant signifigantly reduce funding and etc to police departments and place it elsewhere.

 

[itsyoung!!]

twitter cancel culture effects no one. he will go on to sell millions of more books.

twitter is so detrimental to actual society i wouldnt lose a second of sleep if they just turned that entire platform off.

I truly miss the days where crazy people kept their crazy thoughts and opinions to themselves confined to the walls in their house.

 

[NZA]

i wonder how skip feels...

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

But didnt protestors who were saying this get on tv and say that slogan was not exactly what they meant that they meant signifigantly reduce funding and etc to police departments and place it elsewhere.

Just like Black Lives Matter, people hear one thing, and run with it.

 

[BaltimoreTwilightMarauder]

Winning in whose eyes and ears?

The eyes and ears of those who can actually do something.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Obama is correct though.


Defund the police has 40% approval with black voters!

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I'm surprised black folks don't go in more on him completely turning his back on Reverend Wright

Obama wouldn’t be President without doing that. Is that what you want?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

red flag was up for me when he turned his back on farrakhan even though he had the NOI as security the early part of his career

So who are you mad at? The game or the player?

 

[voltronblack]

He’s right. People hear defund the police, and envision no police, and the purge happening.
.

Well does he and other centrist demarcates like him support seriously punishing the police who commit police brutality with real jail time and other punishments that fit the crime they commit none of that slap on the wrist stuff like sensitive training because any thing that even look like it would punish the cops for the harm they do will trigger right wing police brutality loving a$$holes that the centrist demarcates are trying to get votes from.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Obama’s background as told in this book should bring understanding as to why he brings a middle child like thought process to issues like race and policing.

Plus deep down we all know he wouldn’t have become President, had he not taken the middle road to these type of issues that a lot of folks tear him down for.

He literally said this in the breakfast club interview

black people gotta decide if they Wanna win or be right.

Obama WON. Biden WON following Obama’s playbook. He’s 3-0 electorally!

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

Obama was right about that defund the police shyt....I always laugh when I hear it

Yeah, unfortunately most people are resistant to the idea or don't understand it. All these black people getting killed, but you mean to tell me we see zero consequences for the police departments time after time.

Only thing we get is a non apology and a photo of a cop playing with some kid

Edcuation can get cut in a second, but the police

Just think of what you will do to yourselves without the police to keep you in line
0 accountability

No other job could get away with this. Like imagine if a firefighters were going around burning down people's houses. Or life guards were drowning people

I swear, Im fed up with this hard on for the police and military in this country

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Nah, the defund police movement came from a legitimate case, the infamous Camden, New Jersey defunding there police and seeing an actual change for the good since then...Camden had the reputation of worst hood for at least a decade, my cousins from New Jersey had stories for daysss about how grimy that place was, now crime has been cut in half and they give the credit to defunding the police.

AOC and Ilhan Omar ran 10+ points behind where they did in 2018. Omar was the worst performing congressperson who actually won.