Obama Doesn't Owe This Country Shit [View all]

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Barack Obama is not your Magical Negro. I know y’all want him to be, but you have to give the man a break. He just got out of one of the most abusive eight-year relationships imaginable. I’m sure he needs some time to decompress.

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Nolan contends that Obama “sucks as a post-president” because rather than jump immediately into saving the same Americans who demanded to see his birth certificate, called his wife an ape, used “Muslim” as a pejorative against him and questioned every policy decision he made, he’s gone on to quietly enjoy his funemployment, living his best life and not worrying about what you haters think.



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His old job is literally expecting him to come back and fix the fuckups of his replacement for free, just because he used to work there. Sir, please.

Then there’s this:

It is, in a very real way, a chance to pay back America for its belief in you—to use the incredible gift you have been given to do the maximum amount of good that you can in the time you have left.

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The most privileged and entitled part of the entire essay comes in its last line, when Nolan says, “Barack Obama: your life is not just about you. Get your fucking shit together man.”

I would beg to differ. His life is about him. We don’t own him. We aren’t entitled to him. You don’t own him. You aren’t entitled to him. The days of America benefiting off the free labor of black folks are long over.

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Yeah yeah yeah. You voted for him then left him on the first step of the WH and walked away. You heard the GOP say on the day of his Inauguration that they would make him a one term President. You left him alone. I watched it all. From the start he did nothing right, so said some. I watched it all. He did nothing fast enough or good enough. He was quietly saving us from a great depression, yet that sorry black man just did nothing right. I heard the insults hurled at him. I heard him called a POSUCS. I saw what America did and it was not pretty. In fact it was shameful.

Now they want him back, to work for free. Slavery By Another Name?