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Sat Nov 1, 2025, 07:27 PM

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I hope Obama understands that he is a very important part of how we got here. I hope he feels some responsibility and will finally get off the sidelines and try to help pull together the factions needed to vigorously fight this regime.

The abject and abhorrent racism in this country is NOT Obama's problem. It's the problem of the majority group in this country who ARE the ones who need to "get off the sidelines" and CALL IT OUT.

Whenever some do, in comes the "but that's identity politics" and "that's just a distraction" crowd spewing more of that racist RW nonsense.

It is human nature and it will not be "solved" in our lifetimes but you can't keep demanding that the "victims" of it go out in front and take the hits while everyone else watches and holds the pawn's coat.

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