{"id":387095,"date":"2018-11-29T22:06:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T21:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-video-obama-bashes-america\/"},"modified":"2018-11-29T22:06:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T21:06:11","slug":"prison-planet-com-video-obama-bashes-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-video-obama-bashes-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Video: Obama Bashes America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Former President says Founding Fathers created identity politics; Americans had \u2018great smugness\u2019 after Cold War<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>November 28, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Former president Obama made several inflammatory comments at an event at Rice University in Houston Tuesday, including claiming that the Founding Fathers were responsible for creating divisive identity politics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sharing a stage with ultra globalist former Secretary of State James Baker, Obama said he is disappointed to see a move toward \u201ca politics based on a nationalism that\u2019s not pride in country but hatred for somebody on the other side of the border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou start getting the kind of politics that does not allow for compromise, because it\u2019s based on passions and emotions,\u201d Obama said, after referring to President Trump\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s identity politics,\u201d Baker chimed in.<\/p>\n<p>Obama then claimed that identity politics started in 1787 at the Constitutional Convention between the Founding Fathers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Obama chastises America: Our Founders created identity politics with &#8220;3\/5ths clause&#8221; and Jim Crow perpetuated it \u2026 Americans have suffered a &#8220;great smugness&#8221; about our wealth and post-Cold War hegemony. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P0icpCgr8g\">pic.twitter.com\/P0icpCgr8g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1067751955991277568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhen I hear people say they don\u2019t like identity politics, I think it\u2019s important to remember that identity politics doesn\u2019t just apply when it\u2019s black people or gay people or women,\u201d Obama said.<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe folks who really originated identity politics were the folks who said Three-Fifths Clause and all that stuff. That was identity politics \u2026 Jim Crow was identity politics. That\u2019s where it started.\u201d he continued, injecting race into the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo part of what\u2019s happened is that when people feel their status is being jostled and threatened, they react,\u201d Obama continued.<\/p>\n<p>The former&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/video-obama-bashes-america.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President says Founding Fathers created identity politics; Americans had \u2018great smugness\u2019 after Cold War Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comNovember 28, 2018 Former president Obama made several inflammatory comments at an event at Rice University in Houston Tuesday, including claiming that the Founding Fathers were responsible for creating divisive identity politics. 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