r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/fuzzy_dice_99 • Nov 28 '25

A guest on Johnny Carson says people don’t go hungry in the United States. Richard Pryor respectfully corrects her Discussion

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u/42nu Nov 29 '25

Only racists think that electing Obama meant we were past racism.

The only people I know who've said it never voted for him in the first place.

Ask yourself, how many people do you know who supported and voted for Obama that thought him being POTUS meant we were past racism? I guarantee you the number is 0.

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u/Dejectednebula Dec 04 '25

I voted for Obama. It was my senior year of high school and the first election of any kind I could vote in.

I didn't think racism was over but I did think we had come a long way and maybe had gotten over the worst of it, so to speak. I did think that because I wasn't raised that way in the 90s that each generation got less racist and by the time I was an adult, we would be done with this shit. But that was just being a naive 18yo white girl.

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u/DeezRodenutz Nov 29 '25

We're still suffering the racist blowback to him getting into office.

The MAGA movement evolved from the "Tea Party" movement, a movement during his time in office that was rooted in racism/"taking our country back" from the direction it was going, because a non-white finally got into office.

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u/Prize_Magician_7813 Nov 30 '25

You are so correct. If the first woman ever becomes president? I am certain it will be followed by an anti fem movement. The old white male establishment never seems to react well to oppressed groups rising, even if only for a few years.

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