“What’s going to happen in this next election? I’m terrified about what could possibly happen, because our leaders matter. Who we select, who speaks for us, who holds that bully pulpit, it affects us in ways sometimes I think people take for granted,” Obama told Jay Shetty on his podcast “On Purpose.”
“The fact that people think that government — ‘eh, does it really even do anything?’ — and I’m like ‘Oh my God, does government do everything for us, and we cannot take this democracy for granted.’ And I worry sometimes that we do. Those are the things that keep me up,” she said.
“The bars are different for people in life. That I’ve learned,” she said.
Without naming Trump, she continued: “Other people can be indicted a bunch of times and still run for office. Black men can’t. You just learn to be good. And in the end, you benefit from that extra resilience.”
Yeah because when Palestinians at home are being lynched and called sand niggers and towel heads because Trump emboldened the racists again, that’ll teach the establishment for checks notes negotiating the release of Palestinians being held hostage in Israel and securing the right of the PA to access Palestine’s natural resource wealth.
Literally the only person dumb enough to be offended in defense of that kind of logic is the dumb white college kid who can’t tell what all the little dots and lines are there for on Arabic script.
You prefer us as martyrs to your cause than as agents for our own.