There wasn't this big race issue before Obama came along. True or False?

We've come a long way, and we have a way to go, but the race issue was not the same before Obama. The senseless deaths from gang violence was here. The volatile resentment and subculture bullying was not here. I say Obama was key in causing all the bullshit.

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SW-User

When I consider some social problem being a president's fault (Obama, Trump, anyone past or future)-- my gut feeling is that no single man or woman is so powerful.

hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

@SW-User I agree with you in the main but one has to admit that Obama did everything he could to incite racial tensions. Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Clinton, Bush didn't try to get one race angry with the other. The racial tensions and divide were lessening until Obama stoked the fires of the great divide. Kind of sad really. Obama was elected because of his skin tone.

SW-User

@hippyjoe1955 Obama was elected for the same reason Trump, Bush, Clinton, etc. were. He got more electoral votes.

hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

@SW-User He was the choice of the voters based on the color of his skin. He certainly had no accomplishments in life.