Obama's just jealous that he isn't ordering the drone strikes on brown families anymore
this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2025
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"Uncle Tom" means something very specific, not "black man I dislike/disagree with". Using it like that is just racist.
“Uncle Tom” means something very specific
I've never heard that phrase before (also not American, so probably never would have).
I'm guessing it's some sort of reference for a slave collaboration with slavery owners?
Nailed it in one. It's a term derived from the book Uncle Tom's Cabin, which features a black slave of the same name. The character is widely criticized for diminishing the harm and threat of slavery to black people. In short, an "Uncle Tom" is a black person that takes the side of the oppressors against their own people, usually for little-to-no reward other than being "one of the good ones." To use the epithet so liberally just because the person is black is not ok.
It’s honestly insane to me that Uncle Tom came to mean this, when in the novel the character literally refuses to inform against escaped slaves and is flogged to death for it. A quite unfortunate collapse of an extremely complex character in one of the most important novels in the history of abolitionism.
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Yeah that caught me way off guard.
He may be too middle of the road but to call him a race traitor like that is absolutely wild.
Like this is a headline I expect to see from a hardcore rightwing publication.
Hey, I get it. Obama wasn't a bad President on the scale of US Presidents, but there are a lot of left wing people who have genuine grievances with him.
I could see anyone who is an advocate for or Middle Eastern themselves be pretty damned pissed at him, considering he dropped twenty-six thousand bombs on seven countries. This was AFTER he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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I started reading the comments and it brought a question to mind: if Ms Rachel were to criticize the KKK, would she be a race traitor? Is that how it works?
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Here is what Obama wrote:
After two years of unimaginable loss and suffering for Israeli families and the people of Gaza, we should all be encouraged and relieved that an end to the conflict is within sight; that those hostages still being held will be reunited with their families; and that vital aid can start reaching those inside Gaza whose lives have been shattered. More than that, though, it now falls on Israelis and Palestinians, with the support of the U.S. and the entire world community, to begin the hard task of rebuilding Gaza — and to commit to a process that, by recognizing the common humanity and basic rights of both peoples, can achieve a lasting peace.
Damn what a cunt. He should shut the fuck up.
"In April 2022, there were 4,450 Palestinian security prisoners in Israeli prisons – including 160 children, 32 women, and over 1,000 "administrative detainees" (indefinitely incarcerated without charge"
These people and their families also suffering.
Of course he doesn't gave a shit. If he cannot stand for oppressed kids and women's, it is clearly he doesn't care for oppressed black community in the US.
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I think he meant just the Israeli families of the hostages suffered, not all of Israel, while all people of Gaza suffered.
Obama's take really does smack of bothsides-itis, and is a very clearly diplomatic approach to what was undeniably a one sided massacre. Ms Rachel is not wrong here.
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Instead of merely posting an image of text that
- challenges our ability to verify the message & review context, and
- breaks accessibility, searchability, & fault tolerance for no compelling reason while making the web less usable
could OP provide a link to source? We shouldn't have needed some other commenter to fill in missing context.