I got a good laugh reading this one, at the unintentional comedy:
5 WAYS AMERICA CHANGED DURING THE OBAMA YEARSIt seems pretty obvious that the two writers are Obama voters, trying to put the best possible spin on his failures.
Especially obvious for me in this part:
5. Race Relations
Former President Obama will occupy a place in history as the nation's first African-American president. But while his election would seem to signal that American society has overcome its past history of racial discrimination and tension, Americans' views of race relations in fact became far less harmonious during Obama's tenure in office.
In 2010, slightly more than one in 10 Americans said they worried about race relations "a great deal" (13%). By 2016, 35% of Americans said they worried about race relations, following a number of high-profile cases involving police officers shooting unarmed black men and several instances of white police officers being targeted by blacks.
More Americans over the past eight years came to believe that Obama's election and his presidency made race relations "worse" in the U.S. rather than better, with 46% believing the former in 2016 and 29% saying the latter. This represented a sharp reversal of opinion from 2009, when 41% of Americans believed Obama's election and presidency made race relations better and 22% said worse.
Relatedly, Americans became less certain about whether Obama's presidency in and of itself represented "one of the most important advances" for black Americans. In 2009, 71% of blacks and 56% of whites thought this; by 2016, the figure had fallen to 51% for blacks and 27% for whites.
Bottom Line: Many spoke of Obama's election ushering in a new "post-racial" period in America. But as even Obama himself admitted in his farewell address, this has not been the case. If anything, his presidency appears to have illuminated the previously hidden fault lines that still exist in U.S. race relations.
I love the way they offer wild speculation as fact of what Americans think!
And that worsening race relations during the Obama years, as widely percieved across all ethnicities, just magically became visible during Obama's presidency, and couldn't
possibly have been caused by Obama's relentless racial demagoguery.
Such as "If I had a son he would have looked like Trayvon", such as inviting Al Sharpton and Black Lives Matter to the White House,
even after they were killing cops. Such as Eric Holder's "revenge/payback" DOJ, where they would only prosecute cases where people of color were the victims of whites, and not cases where whites were discriminated against by minorities. Including the slam dunk New Black Panther voter intimidation case that Holder refused to prosecute and let skate, over which U.S. attorney Christian Adams resigned in protest. And by the way, New Black panthers are out on the streets yesterday and today brandishing AK-47's during the 2018 midterm election, an escalation over their previous intimidation, emboldened with greater defiance by the fact they should have been prosecuted the first time, but a leftist radical and racist black attorney general would not.
Perhaps these factors "illuminated the previously hidden fault lines".
Or more obviously, threw kerosine and a match on them.
