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Obama In 2002: ‘Rich’ Americans Suppressing Powerless – Blacks, Poor Seniors Suffering Because ‘The Powerful’ Lack Empathy
Aaron Klein / WND
In a 2002 speech charged with racial and class warfare undertones, Barack Obama asserted the “rich” in society are using accountants and tax loopholes to keep people down.
Obama also claimed the country’s “powerful” lack empathy for minority schools, poor seniors and “black men and the Latino men” in the “burgeoning prison industrial complex,” since those affected are not like the purported “powerful” citizens.
Obama, then an Illinois state senator, was speaking on Jan. 21, 2002, at the University of Chicago’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day memorial service held in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel.
The future president adopted a Southern preacher’s accent and used a cadence that is likely not familiar to most Americans who have heard his many other public speeches.
During the speech, Obama extolled King’s virtue of empathy, which he described as being “willing to walk in someone else’s shoes.”
Obama criticized the “powerful” and “rich” in society for lacking empathy.
Stated Obama: “Yet today no less than 40 years ago [empathy] seems to be so hard to put into practice. It’s hard to imagine that the powerful in our society would tolerate the burgeoning prison industrial complex if they imagined that the black men and the Latino men that are being imprisoned are something like their sons.”
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http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obama-in-2002-rich-americans-suppressing-powerless/
The only person I see keeping anyone down is Obama.
everything he says is a lie., He hates our country.