Barack Obama performed a virtual commencement ceremony on Saturday, 74 historically black colleges and universities across the United States.

And even though many feel that his time up with #Obamagate on the horizon, the former Oval Office sitter took a shot at the Trump administration when he said “More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that the folks in charge know what they’re doing. A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge.”

TRUMP IS STILL DOING BETTER THAN OBAMA OVERALL

Oh, but wait. Despite having billions of dollars and many years to prepare Obama’s launch of the Affordable Care Act proved to be the nadir of government incompetence. This shocking embarrassment will go down in history.  Despite Trump’s missteps, not being a politician and all, he has done a much better job with the American economy and handling of the coronavirus than the Obama administration could ever dream of.

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[Washington Post] Obama touched on the major headlines of this moment, including the government’s response to the novel coronavirus, the way the pandemic has hit black people especially hard and the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old black jogger named Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia by two white men.

“You’re being asked to find your way in the world in the middle of a devastating pandemic and terrible recession. The timing is not ideal,” Obama said. “And let’s be honest. A disease like this just spotlights the underlying inequalities and extra burdens that black communities have historically had to deal with in this country. We see it in the disproportionate impact of covid-19 on our communities, just as we see it when a black man goes for a jog, and some folks feel like they can stop and question and shoot him if he doesn’t submit to their questioning.”

“Injustice like this isn’t new,” Obama continued. “What is new is that so much of your generation has woken up to the fact that the status quo needs fixing; that the old ways of doing things don’t work; that it doesn’t matter how much money you make if everyone around you is hungry and sick; and that our society and democracy only works when we think not just about ourselves, but about each other.”

Obama took direct aim at government officials managing the coronavirus response in the United States.

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Easy for Obama to talk about Latinos, and other minorities, while in truth and fact, he was the worst enemy of Latinos, deported over four million Hispanics, even those with green cards.  This guy is a joke.  Wait a few years he will be like Bill Clinton, the former God of Democrats.

If these guys think they will win in the four states that count, talk to them, which I have not seen these people even visit.

OBAMA COULD CARE LESS ABOUT MINORITIES

It’s great that he spoke to the young graduates, but Obama uses African Americans as a prop.  He no longer lives in the neighborhood that elected him in Chicago; he moved in with the white folks that he blames and bought a 14 million dollar home in Martha Vineyard.  If he were so concerned, he would have done something like criminal justice reform when he was President.

The reform has only taken place on Trump’s administration.  He could have done a lot; hope and change were just that just hope with no change. Get real and see if he could care less about minorities, he deported more illegals than Trump has and more than any administration.

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MY MESSAGE TO THE GRADUATES

This world needs your energy, vision, and values.  We are in a very bad moment with this coronavirus pandemic situation. Still, I believe you are learning from this and will shape the world into a much finer place, based on your insight and idealism, for your children and grandchildren and each other.

This will take time, but I know we will do the work necessary to fix our formidable problems, and you will rise.  Congratulations to you and your families on your accomplishment, and God bless you.

 

 

This piece was written by Wayne Dupree on May 16, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com and is used by permission.

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