{"id":363922,"date":"2020-09-14T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=363922"},"modified":"2020-09-15T16:36:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T20:36:46","slug":"barack-obama-deliberately-exacerbated-racial-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/09\/14\/barack-obama-deliberately-exacerbated-racial-division\/","title":{"rendered":"America Voted to End Racism in 2008, But Barack Obama Didn\u2019t Let It Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: We go to Peter in Ontario, Canada, to get started on the phones. Welcome, sir. Great to have you with us today.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, Rush, you\u2019re in our family, you\u2019re in our prayers. Rush, two points very quickly. First of all, 23 years I lived in downtown Philly. I had a lot of Philly cop friends. You know Nick\u2019s on 19th, the roast beef spot<\/a>. All those cops always around there. I know you\u2019ve been there. But I gotta tell you something. Those good old boys, they\u2019d be pulling the people out in front of that hospital quicker than you can say jack. You know, Rush, that it\u2019s the Obama administration that started all this. Instead of policy, all they could do was, you know, pull the race card on everything around them.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Give me an example of what you mean when you say that Obama\u2019s administration is responsible for what is thought of the cops today. Give me an example. You sound very certain, but I want to know exactly what you mean.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, it was always the cop\u2019s fault. Look at the beer — you remember the beer thing with the —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah, the Skip Gates. Skip Gates. Skip Gates gets arrested, his house was broken into, get arrested for it. Obama called the cop stupid, and the Cambridge policeman in Boston stupid and then arranges a beer summit in the White House for Skip Gates and the cop to talk it out.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He would go against the cops before he even had facts.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s true. In that instance —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Every time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, see this —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Every time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The thing about Obama, the reason I wanted just one example, just one example so the caller can be validated and verified — look, I can\u2019t be expected to do everything here. And this a great example. And one of the things that I don\u2019t think gets enough comments — and it didn\u2019t at the time — is the racial division created in this country by Obama and the Obama administration. And it was done purposefully. And it was a strategic part of implementing whatever aspect of the Obama agenda.<\/p>\n

Now, a lot of Americans — let me position it this way. There were a lot of white Americans who are not racists, they\u2019re not bigots, they don\u2019t even know what white supremacy means, and this white privilege stuff. All they knew was they\u2019re sick and tired of being called racist just \u2019cause they\u2019re white. They\u2019re sick and tired of the countries being labeled as racist.<\/p>\n

So they couldn\u2019t wait to vote for Obama. They didn\u2019t care if Obama was a communist, a Marxist, or whatever he was. He was black, and so they were gonna vote for him. The reason they were gonna vote for him was so it could be proven that they were not racist and that the country isn\u2019t racist. How could a racist country elect an African-American president, is the way they thought about it. And there were millions of white Americans who thought about it exactly that way.<\/p>\n

And the purpose, the reason, the objective for voting for Obama was to, for once and all, get rid of this silly idea that America has made no progress whatsoever in race relations because these people believe the exact opposite, that lots of progress has been made. There\u2019s still more to go. Nobody thinks we\u2019ve reached perfection on this. But there is no case that can be made that we haven\u2019t done a thing. We\u2019ve done lots.<\/p>\n

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So they wanted to prove it. They wanted there to be no doubt. So many white Americans voted for Obama hoping that his election would end forever the debate and the assertion that America is a racist nation. What those people didn\u2019t know because they are not ideologically, shall I say, trained, they were not ideologically awakened. They didn\u2019t have the slightest idea that such an assertion was never, ever gonna be permitted.<\/p>\n

In fact, the election of Barack Obama was gonna be used to divide the people of the country even more, because dividing the people of the country was Obama\u2019s objective. How\u2019d they do it? Very simple. Any Obama proposal that was not universally agreed to and accepted by everybody was said to be racist. The opposition to Obama\u2019s agenda was said to be racist by people who had voted for him, by people who had voted for him to wipe out this whole idea. Any criticism of Obama was said to be racist.<\/p>\n

You were not even allowed to criticize. The president of the United States. It was impermissible to criticize him. It was impermissible to criticize his policies. Imagine, folks, to not be able to criticize the president of the United States, the most powerful man in the country to not be able, using the First Amendment, to criticize policies, you have to shut up, otherwise you\u2019re a racist?<\/p>\n

They milked it. They used that to the maximum ability they could. Racial division led us to Black Lives Matter and Antifa. Racial division is exactly what the left wanted. And we see now why.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sterling, Massachusetts. This is John. You\u2019re next. It\u2019s great to have you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon, Mr. Limberg. [sic] Two segments ago you made a statement of why people, especially white people, voted for Mr. Obama. I\u2019m a retired police officer, and I felt in my heart it was time to give a black person a chance, and that\u2019s exactly why I voted for Mr. Obama. And I voted for him the first time and then I realized that I made a big mistake and I did not vote for him the second time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But you did vote for him the first time because you hoped doing so would prove to one and all that we are not a racist nation?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly true. You were right on the money. You said it exactly —<\/p>\n

RUSH: So what went wrong? The guy was elected. Why, look it now. After electing the first African-American, now it\u2019s worse than ever in America. How do you explain that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. And especially what\u2019s happening to police officers. I\u2019m glad I\u2019m retired. I don\u2019t know what to say. I\u2019m just glad I\u2019m retired.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, I know a lot of people with that sentiment. A lot of people are glad they\u2019re out of it now. But, folks, it\u2019s still a serious question. Thank you very much, John, for the – (interruption) I heard how he pronounced my name. I got that, but that\u2019s no big deal. He\u2019s probably been talking to Brian Stelter.<\/p>\n

\"\"Look. This is a serious question. In 2008, a tremendous number of white Americans, many of them Republicans, voted for Barack Obama for one reason: African-American. They wanted to vote, they were eager. They couldn\u2019t wait. They wanted to vote for the first African-American candidate for president because they were fed up. They were fed up, as white Americans, of being accused of being racists.<\/p>\n

They were accused of being racists and bigots, and they were fed up with it. They are not racists, they\u2019re not bigots, they\u2019re not white supremacists, and they don\u2019t know any white supremacists. So they thought the fastest way to disprove those allegations was for America to elect an African-American president. Most powerful job in the world. And that\u2019s what happened. America, with the support of untold millions of white voters, elected the first African-American president.<\/p>\n

And now we got eight years of Obama from 2009 to 2016. After those eight years, America\u2019s race problems are arguably worse than ever, since the Civil War. Since the 1860s. Now, how can that be, folks? The first African-American president could not have been elected with black-only votes. The first African-American president needed millions of white votes, and he got them.<\/p>\n

So these white voters, they didn\u2019t care about policy, they didn\u2019t care about anything other than showing that America isn\u2019t racist by electing an African-American president. So after America has demonstrated that it has elected the first African-American president and that racism would not permit that, then how in hell can it be worse than it has since the 1800s?<\/p>\n

Somebody needs to try to explain this to me. Because those white voters, they thought it would be the end of this. That\u2019s why they did it. They thought it would be the end of racial strife. They were trying to end it. They were trying to show that there isn\u2019t racism in America, not like the left has claimed. They\u2019d already made Oprah Winfrey the most popular and wealthy television performer in America. There were countless African-American athletes that were among the wealthiest athletes in America.<\/p>\n

And yet that didn\u2019t matter. The charge still came that there was white supremacy, that there was white privilege, and that there was blatant racism everywhere. And so these voters said, “All right. We\u2019ll elect the first African-American president. And they did. And after that, after that statement, after America going to that length to prove its not racist, look at what is being said about America today. That it is racist and it is bigoted, that there is white supremacy, that there is white privilege. And it\u2019s worse than ever. We need reparations.<\/p>\n

So how, folks, does all that happen? You know, it\u2019s no small thing for a bunch of white people to band together to elect somebody on the basis of race so as to show that they\u2019re not racist, that\u2019s a big, big thing. And now it counts for nothing? Now it doesn\u2019t mean anything? Now it\u2019s almost as though it never happened. Now America is a worst racist nation than it\u2019s ever been since the Civil War?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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