Washington – He may be president now, but Barack Obama says he’s a black man who has been mistaken for the valet.
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“There’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn’t hand them their car keys,” Obama told People magazine in an interview out Wednesday. That happened to him, he said.
First lady Michelle Obama said her husband also once was mistaken for a waiter at a black-tie party and asked for coffee. She said even when she went to Target as first lady, a fellow shopper asked her to get something from a shelf.
“I think people forget that we’ve lived in the White House for six years,” she said. “Before that, Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs.”
The first couple spoke about their experiences with racism amid protests nationwide over the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in State Island, New York. The president said racial relations have gotten better, but more progress is needed.
“The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced,” Obama said. “It’s one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It’s another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed, or worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress.”
Here we go again…
More ways for him to insight violence with his reverse rascism innuendos
What’s worse? Being mistaken as a valet or being mistaken as being a President?
Wow.
If I needed a valet, he’d look just like Obama.
Many people mistook him for an effective president. Now they all realize.
“She said even when she went to Target as first lady, a fellow shopper asked her to get something from a shelf.”
Silly. Lots of tall people get asked by shorter people in stores to get things for them. That’s made-up racism. Besides, in my experience, most Target employees are white, in proportion to the population.
Am I Crazy, or does every article regarding Ferguson and Brown, fail to mention, that, not only were they black, but they were also criminals, with records, who were RESISTING ARREST. Why does anyone tell the criminals that they should NOT resist arrest, black or white, and this NEVER would have happened!!!!!!!
Here he goes again, race-baiting. He implies that protesting this by violence and crime is justified. Perhaps, by the letter of the law, this might not qualify as incitement, but it definitely is so in the moral sense of it. I am ashamed of my President, who is first black, and very secondarily a public servant. Even the African American community is embarrassed.
Decades ago I attended Brooklyn College. I had to type a major term paper and I could not type. I handed it in to a services store that did that for a fee. I picked it up the next day which was a very hot day. I was carrying an open cup of soda. When I entered they told me sorry, they don’t give. They thought I was begging with the cup. Imagine their face had they donated into my cold soda!
I’ve been mistaken for store help before too. So does that mean they were racist against me? But it’s impossible to be racist against white people. Only white people are racist and they can never be the victims… .
When blacks will stop behaving like animals perhaps whites will consider them as equals until that happens the status quo will remain unchanged.
When I wear a yellow raincoat I’m mistaken for a taxi.
As a visibly orthodox Man. I was on mistaken for a Meshulach once! worst day of my life, people kept giving me money. I was also once at a Simcha and was mistaken for the Mashkiach, O and sometimes people call me “Rabbi” this is terrible. I am so glad the Obama’ are going public. I thought I was the only one. So many years of this shame I had to keep private!!! Now I know I am not suffering alone, what a relief. My personal Chanuka miracle!
Reminds me of “BOB GRANT”(zol zayn a gitta bater) saying that David Dinkins, the first black mayor of New York, reminded him of “the men’s room attendant”
When I go through customs at JFK and stopped, I tell them “Look very suspicious:
white, jewish, american”
…no offense to valets, of course. It could be a lot worse for valets taken for Obama.
can someone tell El Presidente that he doesn’t have a son because he keeps forgetting that he doesnt have one
This guy needs to grow up. In the 60’s blacks were harassed and killed just for being black. There is nothing like that today, Bob Marley’s dream of “no difference between the color of a man’s skin and the color of his eyes” has been realized. But imbeciles like Obama and Sharpton who fuel the notion that any black man that’s arrested is due to racism, causes that belief to persist. I myself went to a candy stand in NY last week only to be told by the Pakistani proprietor that we don’t serve your kind. Ok I got angry, then I said this guy will die of hatred but I live in a land that let’s me practice my religion with full freedom. So why be angry? Grow up Sharpton and grow up Obama. Yes there are bigots, always were, always will be. Live with it because it’s not going to change when your people plunder and riot and loot every time a black criminals dies at the hands of police
The insensitive racist clap trap of most of you makes me ashamed to be a Yid.
Based on the posts I’ve read on this bastion of intelligence over the years, many of you see anti-Semitism in things as innocuous as bike lanes in Williamsburg…yet you have the temerity to act as if anti-Black racism doesn’t exist as a serious problem in this country. But oh…others are to be condemned in theological terms if they don’t support Yidden in our struggles.
The way you dehumanize others is no different than the actions of any run of the mill intolerant nationalistic bigot…you’re white trash with yarmulkas.
…yeah…like the paranoiac bug of anti-Semitism.
I am an lawyer who works in law enforcement…I see the reality of this issue all the time. Some of my very best, longest and closest friends are senior law enforcement officials, both civilian and uniformed…many of them are Black…I see what their sons have gone through…a clean cut college kid visiting friends in white neighborhood, getting harassed and beat up by suburban cops – a United States Army Reserve Major driving back to NJ from Ft. Benning, and getting pulled over in Virginia, addressed as “boy” and being made to explain where he was going at 2:00 in the morning in I-95.
I wear black, a yarmulke, and wear my tzistzis out…my friends on the job often comment to me how much they have learned about, and the resulting respect they have for, Yiddishkeit….and I have learned from them the realities of being Black in America…I only hope they don’t see the ignorant crap you know nothings write here.