{"id":54132,"date":"2021-02-26T13:16:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T17:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=54132"},"modified":"2021-02-26T13:16:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T17:16:19","slug":"obama-calls-for-reparations-for-all-black-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=54132","title":{"rendered":"Obama calls for reparations for ALL black Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"ext-gen87\">Obama calls for reparations for black Americans because the &#8216;wealth of this country was built on the backs of slaves&#8217; &#8211; but says he couldn&#8217;t get it done as president due to the &#8216;politics of white resistance&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Obama said reparations would have been met with &#8216;white resistance&#8217;\u00a0in a\u00a0 Renegades: Born in the USA podcast episode with Bruce Springsteen\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>During his 2008 presidential campaign, Obama appeared to oppose reparations<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Reparations\u00a0are payments made and programs created to help the descendants of slavery<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Obama said &#8216;the talk of welfare queens&#8217; and\u00a0 &#8216;the und<strong id=\"ext-gen89\">eserving poor&#8217; would have made a reparations program &#8216;counterproductive&#8217;<\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By ADAM SCHRADER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Former President\u00a0<a id=\"mol-06a92d40-7733-11eb-86b6-ef04383153fd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/obama\/index.html\">Barack Obama<\/a>\u00a0claimed reparations for black Americans are &#8216;justified&#8217; but explained in his podcast with Bruce Springsteen that it was a &#8216;nonstarter&#8217; during his presidency because of &#8216;white resistence&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">During his 2008 presidential campaign, Obama appeared to oppose reparations and argued that &#8216;the best reparations we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Obama, 59, has launched an eight-episode podcast series called Renegades: Born in the USA with the 71-year-old rock legend, released\u00a0through Spotify\u2019s partnership with the Obama\u2019s Higher Ground production company.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9298073\/Obama-claims-reparations-justified-explains-nonstarter-presidency.html\">https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9298073\/Obama-claims-reparations-justified-explains-nonstarter-presidency.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama calls for reparations for black Americans because the &#8216;wealth of this country was built on the backs of slaves&#8217; &#8211; but says he couldn&#8217;t get it done as president due to the &#8216;politics of white resistance&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}