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- President Barack Obama spoke in Selma, Alabama on Saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day civil rights protesters were brutally beaten by police officers when they tried to march in support of voting rights. Obama addressed racial progress in America, called on Congress to restore the Voting Rights Act (which protests in Selma helped pass), and articulated his vision of what America is.
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Sometimes I really cannot see why everybody does not love Obama. Then I take myself out of my fantasies of an American utopia and understand perfectly.
That was one of the most beautiful speeches I have ever heard.
because america is also the crusty land holder who benefits and steals of those less fortunate who toil and scrape and suffer, who say thanks just for the chance to feed their family. exploited are the masses, rewarded are the few. this too is america, and why not everyone loves obama.
It's probably a mixture of racism and the extreme polarization that the United States is currently experiencing. It doesn't matter what Obama does or who he actually is. He's a liberal, so many conservatives believe that that automatically makes him a bad president. I really hope to some day see an America that isn't so politically polarized, but I'm not sure that we're even remotely beginning to turn in the right direction.
xGray3x I don't think we are. Still, the younger generation seems to be more liberal and many of the extreme conservatives are older... maybe politics 20 years from now will be better.
Well its a country of 316 million, there will always be a hater of something or someone. It's just like war, it never changes
doesn't mean he's a great person if he's done one good speech... he's done wrongs which upset people, thus people do not always like him
man ive begun to realize what a privilege it was to grow up with obama as the only president i had known. i wasnt even out of elementary school when he was elected, and last year, as a freshman in college, i got to witness so many voters turned their backs on what his administration stood for. i really took him for granted.
Yes im not american but we respect ur president he s the greatest but u despise without cause u r idiots u hurt him so much while he always thinking for ur own good he loves u
Why aren't these speeches ever viral, but the one's where he messes up and the comedic ones are?
All his speech r very giid n very correct u american r just blinded by ur egos n jealous ignorant n some r u r idiot like the ine u put in ur wh now
Time forgets the slip ups and errors. But remembers the great.
this is a pretty famous speech now
I’m not American but this give me goosebumps. Thank you President Obama for your wonderful speech as always. ❤️
This was the best speech I've heard from Obama since his election (really, it has so much passion that we usually don't see)
Ritvik Miglani yep, with nazi-like fashion.
Martin Benek So like every other leader in the world who speaks with passion. Ok cool.
I wish people would stop comparing obama to stalin and hitler... it just really makes you seem alarmist and unintelligent.
+Ritvik Miglani. Speaking with passion doesn't mean speaking like Hitler... Just think about it.
Arber Brestovci No, I'm not a Republican, nor I'm racist and yes, I know what has Hitler done... The fact that you are saying that I don't like Obama just because he's black probably means that you are racist yourself.
I am a Republican who has been disappointed in President Obama but he is an amazing motivational speaker. I respect him so much and believe he will be more effective as a political figure than as President. He will accomplish much.
America, you have one hell of a President!
Yep ._.
carrierpidgeon3211 *had
*had :*(
His whole message--and I mean his life's message--is, quite simply, hope.
Hope.
When Presidents were actually Presidential..
In the end it was on that "Bloody Sunday on the Edmond Pettus Bridge where the mercy of God defeated the misery of the wicked. Where Abraham Lincoln's Just Cause vacated Andrew Jackson's unlawful Jim Crow Laws..
Where Good defeated Evil and men and woman carried bloody crosses over this bridge where Love conquered hate.
The most energetic speech I've seen from him in years. Seemed to of lost that in recent years.
Easily one of the best speeches of the last 50 years, outstanding. Trump could never have made a speech like this. He probably can’t spell Selma.
Yes, we can!
One of the greatest speeches in modern history
Obama is going... he's actually going and the U.S and the world is going to get 4 years of Trump as president... *shivers*
I'm going to miss you President Obama, take care.
He gets it.He understands what makes America great. He speaks of the values and suffering that is needed to make a more perfect union. The journey continues and while I respect the diversity of political opinion, those who heap insult on the President purely to discredit him , should be ashamed.
Martin Benek That talking point was from 2011, catch up with the times, Donald Trump was already embarrassed for going down this road.
Martin Benek LMFAO OKAAAAAY DUMMY
Martin Benek Newsflash: The president has to be born in the United States. And I would be quite surprised if you knew something that the entire United States government somehow overlooked. Believe it or not, presidents probably have more background checks than any other job in America. So cut it out with that loony conspiracy bullshit and have some serious discussion.
xGray3x NSA?
You have no idea what Obama has done, please research the terrible things he has allowed then tell me that people should not insult him.
No doubt about it that man was good at stringing words together
Watching in memory of John Lewis. So much has changed, and so much hasn't.
The best President of USA ever!....This is the kind of politician we need in this country, and in the world.
I needed this today.
Wao. It does not get more clear than that. This the Obama I voted for twice.
He is my President. God blessed you Mr. President The Best is yet to come.
Great!
he's absolutely amazing! another powerful inspiring motivating awesome speech from the best world leader of our times!
I love how most of the comments are positive and filled with patriotism.
Yet people fail to understand that a great speech is not a great deed.
I'll convey this is a political manner:
Action speaks louder than any voice.
***crying***
Isaac Davis For the childern he drone-bombed?
Martin Benek
We ain't really change that much bruh. We are still SUFFERING
One of Obama's best speeches. I love this guy.
I loved that picture
Since some of you decide to trash talk about world leaders, that WE voted for, then tell me something. What would YOU do?
If he can somehow build up the momentum to restore the Voting Rights Act, I'd almost be willing to forgive his drone program.
Nah, I'm kidding. Fuck the murdering bastard. But still, glad to see him talk about this. This is definitely one of his better speeches. The fact that a president is saying any of this stuff is at least a sign of progress.
Damien Castro Uh . . . didn't say we should kill him. I'd gladly see him go to jail for having American citizens killed without trial, as well as murdering civilians in countries where we haven't declared war, but that's another story.
Damien Castro
***** I'd happily have Bush thrown in too, but he's not the guy in the video.
Damien Castro (He said "fuck the murdering bastard", not "murder the fucking bastard")
Best American speech ever...
i still like president obama he is a good man and did his best to help people in our own country
Obama is going to go down in american history.
Great speech
POP HOLD IT DOWN MAMA I LOV U
That’s why all our young black people need to vote. A lot of blacks suffered for our right to vote. I wish Obama could have stayed President. That Black Man is very intelligent and they can deny him. And if we trust in God no one can stop us.
Make America better is better than make America great again bc let's be clear. America was never great but its getting better with time
Can someone tell me why he keeps looking down at the podium so damn much? He does it like every 5 seconds! Pissing me off!
He's looking at his speech paper so he can speak.
I don't know what to think about this comment section.
Very well
That's American culture
Great speech but I'm still moving to Brazil
Time for Hemp Justice
Doesn't get much worse then that...
Certainly the insipid measures Obama has taken will not make a dint in the toll. Strangers to American society simply cannot imagine how many guns are floating around there. A recent Small Arms Survey estimated 270 million small arms, but there are a remarkable number of military-grade weapons in private hands as a result of exposure to a vast armed services with its galaxy of local military bases, major national guard organizations and facilities in every state, and the past heavy arming of police and numerous agencies such as the TSA. The kind of police who beat up drug suspects and take their money are also the kind of police who illicitly trade in guns, and America has large numbers of them amongst its rag-tag collection of a million or so.
America swims in guns, and there is a vast market just in private sales and stolen guns. There will always be a market under such conditions no matter what regulations Washington may impose. And increasingly, the individual states have permitted what was in my day in Chicago a serious felony, the concealed carrying of guns. Some also allow citizens to carry them openly in holsters.
Remember, there is not just the matter of thousands of murders and countless maimings each year. There is, as was revealed by The Guardian for the first time ever, 1,134 people killed by their own police in 2015. It all charges the atmosphere of the United States with a kind of regular, low-grade terror. And America’s prisons have an international reputation for brutality. They include such barbaric innovations as super-max prisons (in which prisoners live out entire lives in total isolation), private profit-motivated prisons, and a prison population whose total size dwarfs that of all other advanced countries.
I read in British newspapers, discussing Obama’s efforts, expressions from readers such as "it's about time" or "those awful Republicans," and I know they reflect views of people who just really do not understand America.
America is a country which has killed at least 6 million people over the last half century abroad, virtually all the killing to no purpose other than America's trying to have its own way in places as distant as Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Chile, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, and still others. If you think violence officially sanctioned on such a scale has no effect on the country responsible for it, you are extremely naïve.
Much of the killing was savage beyond description, employing fire bombs, napalm, white phosphorus, Agent Orange, carpet bombing, and that truly hideous invention, cluster bombs.
America also remains the only country ever to use nuclear weapons, twice, on civilian targets of no military significance, and this after Japan had made strong feelers for its surrender. No, for America only unconditional surrender was acceptable. And a series of 12 atomic bombs for 12 cities was scheduled. Some sensible minds questioned the lunacy, considering that Japan had been almost flattened by a ferocious campaign of fire-bombing, so that not one primary or even secondary military target was left standing.
The fact that only two atomic bombs were used had nothing to do with America’s humanity. In later years, detailed plans for massive atomic attacks on Russia and China were drawn up, the last of which so far as I am aware was in 1961, being earnestly advocated to President Kennedy by the insane men then running the Pentagon. Nuclear weapons also were seriously discussed as options during the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War.
America is, far and away, the world’s largest arms dealer, literally dwarfing the trade in death machines of any other country, and it sells its arms to tyrants and madmen across the planet enabling players like Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, or Egypt to hugely expand the total number of deaths for which America is responsible.
America also spends as much on its military as all the world’s militaries combined. It is an obscene amount of money dedicated to killing and oppression.
American advisors are in the business of advising kings and tyrants how they can control people and efficiently kill them if needed. America had an outfit called The Army School of the Americas which became infamous for its teaching military personnel sent from Latin America in the fine points of killing and torture. Today it’s been reborn as the bland-sounding Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
In a county like contemporary America, with its often poor employment prospects for young adults, the military is a major employer. It has an elaborate enticement system to attract young people. General military training anywhere consists of just two central matters: how to be doggedly obedient and how to kill people. So every year in America, many thousands of such young people are dumped back into the general population. Many of them then go on to become police because military service is a favorite entry qualification. Many of them remain unemployed. Some even homeless.
There are not just the regular armed forces involved in saturating the country with military values and attitudes, there are also the huge national guards and reserves and high school and college ROTCs. It is a massive effort, blanketing a supposedly democratic society with undemocratic and violent ideas. You might view it as kind of a national immunization program, immunization against democratic and human values, conducted year-in, year-out. So the young generation of Americans is constantly immersed in the concepts of blind obedience and killing. And all this is further reinforced by the vast numbers of Americans dependent upon work at its many regional military bases and other facilities.
Just a portion of this avalanche of annual spending on murder might have created countless new opportunities in America with new and better schools, better medical facilities, improved housing, and intervention into troubled families. No, instead, everything is just allowed to rip, and on the streets of Chicago and other cities, week-in and week-out, the toll of young blacks resembles minor battle scenes with as many as twenty-five shot (not all killed) on a single week-end.
That brings us to yet another aspect of American violence and passion for guns. America remains in many respects just as divided a society on racial lines as it was a century ago. The unspoken reason for many Americans keeping guns is the same one that caused Southern plantation owners to sleep each night with a knife and a pistol under the pillow. It rarely is openly discussed, but it is there like a great unnerving presence in a thousand dark places.
There is yet one more dimension to American violence. About half a dozen years ago, a study, led by a Harvard Medical School researcher, found evidence of mental problems in 26.4 % of people in the United States, versus, for example, 8.2% of people in Italy. The researchers were concerned with matters such as lack of access to treatment and under-treatment, but for those concerned about a safe and decent world, I think the salient finding is simply America's high percentage. The world is being led by a nation where more than one-quarter of the people have genuine mental problems.
I’m afraid America’s movie industry has created sugary fantasies about America which still influence the views of many abroad. There really are no Jimmy Stewart types, with tears in the eyes and benign expressions, running America.
And in case you missed it, even in as sugary a confection as “It’s a Wonderful Life,” sobbed over by millions every Christmas season, some raw truth creeps in. Jimmy Stewart’s run-in with Bert the cop ends with Stewart running madly away in the snow and good old Bert pulling out his pistol and firing several times, trying to hit Stewart in the back and putting at risk pedestrians up and down the charming street. That’s the truest scene in the film.
And that is America. Fine-tuning and tears are about as fitting for the state of America as they would be on the Russian Front in World War II, the most horrendous conflict in all of human history in which 27 million Soviets and millions of Germans perished.
A brilliant Man
Was fergusen a racial crime?
Bernie Lomax Are you serious?
Yes, it was a racially motivated act of police brutality (extrajudicial murder) against an unarmed African-American.
OBAMA IS YO MAMA AMERICA!
Wow, a potus that can put an intelligent thought into sentence form! He should trying lying constantly, sneering and threatening violence to those who oppose him. Maybe say a couple of things that make zero sense and then repeat himself a few times - so much better.
Obama did that a few times. Also, would love to hear where President Trump threatens violence. Sounds like more of a Hillary thing :)
Liked the moment he quote a newspaper report the increase of white people at the march decreased the quality of singing
What happened to the list of inventors in American history? Do they not deserve equal credit in the president's speech?
What happened to those who funded many projects such as the White House?
What happened mentioning those who designed and directed how the White House was to be built?
Since we are focusing on immigrants, why was there no mention of the Founding Fathers and their accomplishments?
America is truly a nation comprised of immigrants from small great. All of them contributed.
It's Called time and place. That was nit the time place or setting for that type of speach giving the right time and place an equally if not more emotional speach can be given
Gareebi Dekho hai isi liye
Great Speach, Obama...
This frickn dude makes me SICK.
How so?
*The dividing of the races was basically a part of the past until he came along.*
Get a ID to vote, you need one to get a Library Card
The difference between checking out books from the library and voting is that using the library isn't a right guaranteed by the constitution.
I would think that voting is a little more important than checking out a book. Showing that you have a ID to vote is not asking much. You have to have one for a bank account, food stamps, and I could go on and on.
Jim Petrovich But the point is that voting is a RIGHT. It shouldn't require any form of ID. Those other things that you mentioned aren't rights. Imagine if you had to present an ID to speak your mind, to go to church, or to meet with friends in the park. The Constitution doesn't guarantee you a right to a bank account, food stamps, etc.
This cult sounds fancy
This guy is a disgrace.
The content of Obama's character, he is an habitual liar. Now what?
Well said Obama, well said.
i still like president obama he is a good man and did his best to help people in our own country