The Obama Diary

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286 Happy Pi Day! wh.gov/iDFzd http://t.co/AbTlNxVJNi

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The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 14, 2025

A million arm curls ✓ Calls with world leaders ✓ All in a day's work. Watch VP Biden respond to @FLOTUS: vine.co/v/O9TEhID2O2U #GimmeFive

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Vice President Biden (@VP) March 13, 2025

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The NYPD has been editing the Wikipedia pages of the people they've killed, like Garner and Diallo. Wow. capitalnewyork.com/article/city-h…

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deray mckesson (@deray) March 13, 2025

Rewriting history won't save the NYPD on.tnr.com/1MAYDNz by @JamilSmith

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The New Republic (@tnr) March 14, 2025

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Five #Ferguson residents file affidavit seeking to recall Mayor James Knowles: abcn.ws/1Ffj2Hx

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ABC News (@ABC) March 14, 2025

Campaign underway to oust Ferguson mayor u.afp.com/jpJ by @romacpher

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Agence France-Presse (@AFP) March 14, 2025

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"I'm not racist but" - White people proverbs

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zellie (@zellieimani) March 12, 2025

@zellieimani @XineLively It's code for "here comes some racism"

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Kristy (@codemonkey37) March 12, 2025

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@codemonkey37 @zellieimani Absolutely. My husband used to carpool w/ a guy who said, "I ain't racist or nuthin but..." Just stop right there

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Christine Lively (@XineLively) March 12, 2025

I'm glad those two #Ferguson cops weren't refused medical care, handcuffed, & left to bleed out like so many victims of police violence.

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Jesse Benn (@JesseBenn) March 12, 2025

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EricFive’s on point commentary about cops in Ferguson

No one knows who shot those cops, all we have is speculation and attempts to deflect blame from the epidemic of cops killing unarmed Black males. The “tension” between cops and minority communities is a decades old problem (police as occupying force instead of public servants). The recent spike in police killings of unarmed Black males is a symptom of the larger issue of White racial anxiety which is reaching dangerous levels. The cop in Atlanta who murdered the unarmed, naked veteran who had mental problems should open up a lot of eyes to what is going on, i.e., Black lives don’t matter to these folks. Being Black is becoming a capital offense in this country. How the response to an obviously mental ill naked man is to use deadly force (not a baton, not a taser, not calling for backup) tells me that they are looking for an excuse to murder Black people (more restrain is shown toward a fucking alligator walking through a golf course than a Black man walking down the street). By the “logic” displayed by the Atlanta cop, the proper police response to a Black man threatening to jump from a rooftop would be to call in the snipers to shoot the man. There will never be any semblance of “equality” in this country until a Black life is deemed by society to be of equal value to a White life. This has never been the case in this country and it most certainly is not the case today. All of this racial shit stems from the mental gymnastics that the institution of slavery required of a White society that had/has an almost pathological need to see itself as “good people” no matter what horrible shit they did. You cannot enslave folks you view as your equals. You cannot enslave a race of people you view as human and still see yourself as “good person”. Instead, to maintain a positive self image, the slaveholder has to convince both himself (and the slave) that the slave is “inferior” and DESERVES the horrible treatment he/she is forced to endure. That the slave is not HUMAN. This inability to see Black people as fellow human beings, the inability to understand the grief of a Black parent mourning for a child needlessly killed by the police is the same strain of racist/White supremacy that allowed for the enslavement of Black people in the “land of the free”.

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I was startled to learn this week that rap music causes racism. I had no idea so many grandparents were into hip-hop.

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Bearded Stoner (@beardedstoner) March 12, 2025

A headline so perfect it requires no article. http://t.co/ItI3DTnGtf

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TOMAS RIOS (@TheTomasRios) March 13, 2025

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Kerry weighs in on Iran nuclear deal, Israeli elections reuters.com/news/video?vid…

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Dan Williams (@DanWilliams) March 14, 2025

Kerry Promises Decisions Soon on Iran Deal and Restoration of Military Aid to Egypt nyti.ms/1DjFgco

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The New York Times (@nytimes) March 14, 2025

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when you get arrested and you know you aint do nothin wrong and the cops are on your last good nerve http://t.co/npnMwbYuy9

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Tracy Clayton (@brokeymcpoverty) March 13, 2025

And the media continues 2b abusive 2 Black People by interviewing Gulliani & asking The Brown family for statements on police shootings....

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Reagan Gomez (@ReaganGomez) March 13, 2025

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