By the early years of the twenty-first century, it looked as if America’s traumatic racial divisions really were receding into the past. It seemed as if genuine equality of opportunity had finally been achieved, and that Americans of whatever background had a level playing field upon which they could make as much of their talents as they wished, depending on how hard they were willing to work.
But then came the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama.
Obama, who is, of course, the child of a black father and a white mother, seemed to herald the dawning of the new post-racial America. He couldn’t have been elected, of course, without the votes of millions of white Americans, and his victory in itself showed that the nation was not racist. Many white Americans voted for him in order to show that they were not racist, but others voted for him because they were not racist and simply favored his policies. Still others voted for him because they were thrilled at the prospect of showing the world that the United States really was the land of opportunity, in which a member of a once-despised and discriminated against racial minority could become president. And so when he became president, Obama embodied the hopes of many Americans — and promptly dashed them.
Throughout his disastrous eight years as president, Obama did not work to heal what remained of American’s racial divisions. Instead, he stoked racial tensions repeatedly. When he took office, the Justice Department was pursuing a case against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation in Philadelphia. Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder, abruptly dropped the case in May 2009 and refused to cooperate with further investigations, giving the impression that the Black Panthers were getting away with voter intimidation because of their race.
Obama’s response to several widely publicized incidents exacerbated racial tensions even more. On July 16, 2009, black intellectual Henry Louis Gates found himself locked out of his Massachusetts home and began trying to force his way in. An officer, who was white, arrived to investigate a possible break-in; Gates began berating him and was arrested for disorderly conduct. Obama claimed that the police “acted stupidly” and noted the “long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by police disproportionately,” although there was no indication of racial bias in this case.
Obama ultimately invited Gates and the police officer to the White House for a “beer summit,” which the media hailed as a manifestation of his determination to heal racial divisions, when in fact it was just the opposite: he was taking a case of misunderstanding and disorderly conduct and portraying it as a racial incident that was indicative of lingering deep racial divisions and prejudice, and that required presidential reconciliation. --->READ MORE HERE
125,000 Christians murdered and 19,000 churches destroyed.
Beginning with the Obama administration, Muslims murdered over 125,000 Christians in Nigeria. This revelation in the latest report from the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law documents a Christian genocide that has been taking place in Africa, enabled by Barack Obama and the State Department, and carried out with the complicity of the media.
Even as over 125,000 Christians were murdered, over 1,000 Christian communities shattered and 19,000 churches destroyed, the media has buried the regular massacres, including the latest massacre in which 160 Christian villagers, many of whom were burned alive, were killed, on the ‘back pages’ even as it trumpets false Muslim claims of a genocide taking place in Israel.
Every Hamas claim appears on the front pages even when there’s not a single shred of evidence to sustain it, but actual massacre scenes in Nigeria, burned churches, bullet-riddled bodies and child survivors, rarely make the evening news. And when they do, the term ‘genocide’ is never used the way that it is constantly deployed in Gaza on behalf of Hamas.
Instead the media denies that the massacre of over 125,000 Christians is a genocide, denies that the Muslim killers, no matter how often they declare this, are motivated by Islam, and rejects the idea that there is any role for America in preventing the genocide except by defusing Muslim grievances by allowing them to seize power and turn Nigeria into an Islamist tyranny.
This ‘Arab Spring’ playbook took off under Obama and it is no coincidence that the beginning of the Christian genocide dates back to the first year that he took office. Rather than condemning the massacres of Christians, the Obama administration claimed that the real problem was that the Nigerian military and law enforcement were too aggressive in fighting Islamic terrorism.
According to the Obama administration, Muslim massacres of Christians were really a retaliation for excessive force being used by the military against the Jihadists. The State Department pressured the Nigerian government to address Muslim grievances, made aid conditional on ‘reforms’ and the reduction of the use of force, and denied that religion was the root cause.
Even as Republicans urged the Obama administration to designate Boko Haram, an Islamic Jihadist group affiliated with Al Qaeda, as a terror group a parade of State Department officials told Congress that “religion is not driving extremist violence”, argued that Nigeria’s “religious and ethnic diversity is one of its greatest strengths” and contended that the answer was “to press for a change to its (Nigeria’s) heavy-handed approach to the security threats in the north”.
Two years before the kidnappings of girls by Boko Haram that made #BringBackOurGirls into a hashtag, the New York Times ran an op-ed titled, “In Nigeria, Boko Haram Is Not the Problem” which described the group as “peaceful”, claimed that “there is no proof that… Boko Haram even exists” and blamed Nigeria’s Christian president, Jonathan Goodluck, for the violence.
They got their way when former Muslim dictator Muhammadu Buhari returned to power with the assistance of the Obama administration. Buhari, a ruthless killer, had previously warned that if he were not allowed to take power, “By Allah, the dog and the baboon will be soaked in blood.” His Muslims followers had lashed out after previous election defeats by assaulting Christians. --->READ MORE HERE
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