“I strongly condemn the horrific shootings in America of unarmed Black men in the streets across America. Since lynchings began, and even before then on hundreds of plantations across the American northeast and southern states, thousands of men and women have died at the hands of terrorists in America for doing nothing more than acting like normal human beings.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of these horrific terrorist attacks and the African American people of the United States in these difficult times.
Black people are America’s oldest allies and generations of African Americans have stood shoulder to shoulder with the United States in the fight for our freedoms, freedoms which they have not truly gained themselves.
Time and again, the Black American people have stood up for the universal values that generations of our people have defended.
African Americans and Black people, across the United States for centuries, have been subjected to the most outrageous attacks against their persons and their characters, though they have offered the world a timeless and universal example that will endure well beyond the hateful visions of their murderers.
We have not contacted any American officials to issue condolences and our sympathies at this time, but I have directed my Administration to provide any assistance needed to help bring these terrorists of Black people and their relatives, fathers, brothers, sons, mothers, children, uncles, aunts, nieces, cousins, and peacekeepers to justice.”
—President Obama on the Terrorist Attacks on Black People and African-Americans across the nation and the world
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NO. He did not say it.
President Obama said no such thing.
Not about yesterdays NAACP office bombing in Colorado, or any of the other bombings of churches, etc., or even about the hundreds of thousands of lynchings that have happened and still happen in America today.
He didn’t even say, of the shootings of a 12 people in a satire publications office building in Paris, “French people kill French people.” But we know they do.
Wouldn’t that be something else all together if he actually recognized all of the contributions Black people have made in and to the U.S.A. and how we are continually attacked, harassed, assaulted, and murdered right here on his own sacred ground -American soil- and the only answer from their kind, no matter what really happened or how it went down, is “They deserved it.”
However, ESPN NFL reported that President Obama did say this:
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he would be “pretty aggravated” if he were a Detroit Lions fan after the team lost an NFL playoff game to the Dallas Cowboys following a disputed penalty call.
But because he is a long-suffering fan of his hometown Chicago Bears, Obama says he can’t have “too much sympathy for the Lions.” The Bears had a losing season and missed the playoffs.”
Black and afrocentric Americans, in his own mind, must be ‘the Lions.’
Great read