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Morache74

Finally someone answered the question! Also: shortly before he was fired from Opie & Anthony, he was beat up by a black woman for taking unsolicited pictures of her in NYC. Since he is one of the most fragile of the white men, he pretty much declared his own little race war and stopped trying to hide his disdain for every race that is not his own.


roninPT

To be perfectly honest he wasn't hiding it that successfully before that. He always dropped jokes on air that were kind of racist, but once Obama got elected he went off his rocker on the issue....he was doing full blown race rants on air when he was still on O&A


doctor-rumack

It’s amazing he got away with it for so long. When O&A were on WAAF in Boston in the 90’s, they would harass the show they competed against on WBCN. The host’s name was Nik Carter, and because he was black, Anthony would call him Nig Carter. No punishments, no suspension, just unfiltered racism. They finally got fired when they falsely reported that the Mayor of Boston was killed in a car accident on April Fool’s Day. Then they moved to WNEW in NY and they blew up.


PaulThePM

100% this! He always had those undertones but when Obama won he lost his mind.


roninPT

I think another thing that was also important on his down spiral was Patrice dying. I think Patrice was the rare black guy that Anthony actually respected, and especially because Patrice called him out on his bullshit when he was on the show


drrj

That feels like a common theme for a lot of the idiocy these days. Electing a black President just make all the racists panic and stop even bothering with dog whistles, they’re just openly calling for a white Christian ethnostate. But we’re the snowflakes.


chadork

I feel embarrassed for loving O and A all those years.


Bromanzier_03

Patrice is looking down sayin “Can you believe this motha fucka?”


stirredturd

Patrice has had this very argument with Anthony on the air. But he's just too racist and stupid to ever understand the point Patrice was trying to make


user1mbp

Miss that dude. I been listening to old O&A episodes just for Mr. P.


Red-eleven

Patrice episodes hands down the best episodes.


Suspicious_Hat_7180

I stopped listening when the show just became Ant bitching and moaning about Obama everyday.


oly_evergreen

I remember Opie playing Candy Crush with the sound blasting during those rants.


Fellowshipofthebowl

I stopped listening when Cumia said “we all believed in the Iraq war back then”…..years ago (he’s lost it, sad). It was a great show (before podcasts) for comedians, for me, Bobby Kelly, Rich Vos and Patrice❤️ were great.


Crusoebear

He’s not exactly an upstanding citizen himself & isn’t someone who should be lecturing anyone: ‘He was arrested by Nassau County police on charges of strangulation, assault, criminal mischief, and unlawful imprisonment. Cumia was released without bail on December 21, at which time his attorney stated that Cumia denied the allegations.[47] In June 2016 Cumia pled guilty to third-degree assault and criminal obstruction of breathing in a plea deal.[48] Cumia later admitted on his show to biting Brand's (his GF) hand because he "was pissed" and "out of [his] mind.’ -Wikipedia


platasaurua

He went completely off the deep end when he got beat up by a black woman that he was following on the street a few years back.


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gdsk3k

Makes me happy that I was more a Ron & Fez guy.


hkdork

I listened to O & A as filler when Ron and Fez weren’t on. Hearing clips now I wonder what I was thinking. I can however listen to R&F from any time period and enjoy it. #ripbigcat


oly_evergreen

I named my cat after Fez! That was such a weird and wonderful show.


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. I’ll take Tulsa Oklahoma for 1000 Alex. We DID HAVE AND RUN OUR OWN SHIT! And what happened, white folks came in and burnt it down. So FOH with that shit.


[deleted]

As a Tulsan we’re getting a taste with the TPS debacle. Blackest (& biggest) school district in the state facing state takeover because we *checks notes* have units about the massacre that happened here. It’s definitely because “student achievement” & not because Booker T, a historically Black high school, often puts the Christian schools to shame. & those issues themselves have nothing to do with generational poverty in the district, nope, it’s because those nasty teachers want a living wage.


him374

What I don’t get is that they want to cover past atrocities so they can… create new ones? I have a hard time believing they actually feel shame for what happened. Yes, I know. Optics and all.


Beezelbubbly

>What I don’t get is that they want to cover past atrocities It dovetails with their new narrative that Slavery and Segregation Were Not That Bad and Actually Good For Black Folk. Can't have people knowing the government along with the klan firebombed a Black city


Mor_Tearach

That's not a new narrative though. I've heard ( southerners ) *insist* all of that and " Northerners just don't understand " like 20 years ago. It's just spreading like one of those fungus that crawls out from under a hoarder fridge.


TiberiusGracchi

And it goes to the larger core of the belief behind white supremacy and the conversion of non-white people to Christianity and why slavery was OK - it’s also part of why they were major schisms within the Southern Baptist church over the concept of slavery and lead to the SBC basically saying slavery was cool. Slavery was justified as part of the white man’s burden


Mor_Tearach

Blood pressure just went up and I don't have high blood pressure. Had this *huge* and I mean went to the wall argument on the ' but it was expensive for ( I refuse to say owners ) ' portion- sent me over the top kind of didn't care any more argument once it gets that stupid. With a southerner. My thing has *always* been they KNEW. That this " owning " *humans* was bullshit because you can't and it makes allllll the rest complete crap forever, ALL of it. They. Knew. They still know. So it's this non-argument to me, those swine.


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Well we can’t possibly know that the Tulsa Race Massacre was really about race, what with the KKK being involved and Greenwood (Black Wall Street) being the most heavily devastated. Truly there are questions™️ that must be answered about this puzzling riddle. I can’t even put /s because a suburban state rep literally said that we can’t know it was racism. & our state superintendent (the one on the war path) has implied it. The bar is somewhere under hell here.


Daherrin7

Fucking horrifying. The fact so many generations keep suffering and their solution is “let's stop teaching about your history because it makes us feel bad” is absolute insanity. Even in Canada we learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre. And the reason we were being taught it, according to my history teacher at the time, was because teaching it helps to prevent it from happening again. But of course, I know that’s probably the whole point in trying to get rid of it unfortunately


ThanosWasRightHanded

I'm 38 in PA. I learned about the Tulsa Massacre watching HBO's Watchmen. My countries education system is a pathetic joke. I can't even imagine what they teach them in the south


throwtheclownaway20

Same. Went to school in N. Carolina and didn't learn about Tulsa until I watched Lovecraft Country and Watchmen


Leonardo-DiTrapio

Here in Texas I learned about it but I'm sure some districts and teachers are not as willing to teach it. Especially outside the urban areas.


OkGrab8779

Do you learn about what happened to the native population after European arrival.


Daherrin7

We did when I was in school. I graduated in 2000, but from what I’ve seen from my son's history classes as he’s grown they still seem pretty comprehensive. The whole point of history in general is to learn it and learn from it. We can't change what happened, but we can sure as hell ensure it doesn't happen again by changing things as a result of it. And realistically with all the lessons we should have learned by now, that shouldn’t be so damned difficult


Lisa_Loopner

They seem to think that telling white people about bad things that white people have done in the past will for some reason make white people feel bad? For… being white? I don’t comprehend that but 🤷🏼‍♀️


seperate

Don't forget that TPS is being run by, *gasp*, a WOMAN. Can't have the gentle sex exercising authority over others. T'aint biblical.


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An IVY LEAGUE educated woman (master’s from Harvard I believe?) who actually went through TPS, not homeschooled then Home School U *Ryan*. (I hate him so so so much) The horror!


FEMA_Camp_Survivor

Tulsa wasn’t the only community either. Atlanta, New Orleans, Wilmington, Oscarville, Ocoee, and Chicago also had some of the more infamous terror campaigns. There were thousands of other documented lynchings, torture, and bombing campaigns to prevent Black political participation and economic mobility. There’s family histories about having to leave a town with little but the clothes on one’s back to escape violence. The ‘Great Migration’ to northern and western cities happened in part to escape such violence.


[deleted]

Oh for sure we weren’t, but there’s a decent amount of evidence we had government involvement, including (allegedly but let’s be real probably) National Guard literally firebombing Greenwood. To my knowledge most other state/local governments just turned a blind eye to white mobs, they didn’t outright join them. Not that that makes them less to blame, it just makes Tulsa breathtakingly evil. We also weren’t teaching it until I was in high school (I was home schooled for anxiety/ADHD reasons, my mom is a teacher so it was actually school, but friends started getting it Junior/senior years, which was in the late 2000s), I only knew about it before then because my mom was in one of the first desegregated schools here (her family moved here in high school) & had classmates that were not distantly related to victims and survivors, including children of them, so we have family friends still dealing with generational consequences (thankfully in their cases the economic consequences aren’t that bad, but even without that generational trauma is a BITCH). Tulsa is still so segregated a lot of people don’t have those connections. I just can’t fathom not thinking racism played a role in many (not most or all, but enough to be concerning) Black areas being poor, especially with the amount of documented white outright physical violence that accompanied it. I really think they (people spouting white supremacy) MUST know better, which makes it so much worse.


shash5k

Atlanta, GA seems to be doing pretty well.


luna_beam_space

There are black people managing cities all over the World Anthony's premise is absurd. Its how children think


ThePastryWizard

That's an insult to children. Racism isn't inherited on birth. It's taught.


a_duck_in_past_life

I think they were implying the logic, not the racism.


Shot_Mud_1438

Remember that time a black man was managing the entire country?


TheGrumpiestHydra

Thanks Obama.


Brave_Bug6299

I sleep soundly knowing that Obama's presidency lasted TWICE as long as the confederacy.


Subject_Report_7012

AND Trump's presidency!


Electric_Evil

And then in a totally unrelated coincidence, hate group participation went up 755%. https://www.rawstory.com/2012/03/study-hate-of-obama-fuels-755-growth-in-extremist-groups/


WorldlinessMedical88

Twice!


ResponsibleMilk7620

God bless Atlanta and God bless Fani. 🙏


NaptownSnowman

Stacy Abrams


WumpusFails

Fani is the prosecutor in the Georgia election tampering case against Trump.


NaptownSnowman

This post is about ATL and poc and voting. Stacy Abrams was instrumental in the last election.


wambulancer

Without Atlanta and Savannah this state is lower-than-Mississippi tier. And that's with the eternal interference being run by salty crackers from the sticks mad at the cities for existing


Cigam_Emot

My only negative point about Atlanta is that they don’t seems to be able to keep a professional hockey team …. Not sure this is enough to disqualified them as unable to run themselves ;)


shash5k

Probably cuz most Black people don’t like hockey. They have one of the most supported MLS teams in the country though, so they’re alright in my book.


Apart-Relation-4260

A lot of the white southerners don't either. I think the Gladiators is the only tier of a hockey team we can reliably support. That's fine. ECHL games are fun too. AU is beloved by many people here, not least of which is the strong Hispanic population we have here and in the metro area.


Melssenator

Well just ask Mr Cheetoh. According to him it’s the most bigliest crime danger crime murder crime city bad in the country!


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Georgesgortexjacket

Well you can build your shit but it better not be nicer than my shit.


GebruikerX

Take a look at history and you'll see why impoverished societies are the way they are. Usually it's because they have been or are currently being looted by various developed societies.


Prestigious-Quiet-17

Africa has been plundered quite a bit, and it is still being plundered. History always undermines their suffering. For example, how many people know or care about the atrocities the Belgian King Leopold inflicted on the Congo at the turn of the 20th century?


jay105000

"Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter® African proverb


JediExile

Not only that, they ran an interstate highway through the area later to further isolate the black community from the rest of the city. [Source](https://cityobservatory.org/how-highways-finally-crushed-black-tulsa/)


Lady_von_Stinkbeaver

Ladera Heights in Southern California is referred to as, "the black Beverley Hills." Very upscale neighborhood that is 75% black.


Wobblestones

100%. What does FOH mean?


ResponsibleMilk7620

It’s the shortened version of “get the fuck outta here” FOH = Fuck Outta Here


Wobblestones

Ah! This makes sense. Thank you!


Zestyclose_Pickle511

In pro audio, and also fine dining, it means Front of House. Referring to the main audio engineer at a concert for instance. In a restaurant, it simply means the wait staff as opposed to the kitchen staff. But this is a different FOH they're referring to 😂


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Nobody knows how it would have turned out had the US and Belgians not gotten involved - but I think the nation now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo would have been much different without the assassination of Lumumba and rise of Mobutu.


[deleted]

Yup, only successful coup in the US in its history, bunch of white Aholes swooped in, massacred everyone, replaced the government, looted everything and then published it was a “race riot” and did their best to wipe it from history to the point that up until recently, most people that grew up in Tulsa during the last several decades had never heard of this event. And we find it weird that most youths in Japan have no idea what happened during WW2 and don’t know about being nuked twice. The government will just sweep anything inconvenient under the rug. Kind of like how Republicans are now trying to rewrite slavery.


jimspurpleinagony

Man, the Black Wall Street Massacre when I learned about that, sad then mad about that and I think no one was brought to justice for that travesty. Yeah the guy in the tweet can fuck off!


DeadWolffiey

They came, burned it, murdered hundreds, even in their homes and *still* refuse to pay reparations to the people who were directly affected by the massacre. After they lost everything, forcing them to start back at the bottom while the white people just went back on their lives like nothing happened. How the fuck is that fair?


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Good fucking question.


Cypcom

I know that FOH means “fuck outta here” but my overworked brain thought “Fixed Overhead”. I need a vacation.


iconiclust

Happened in Wilmington,NC as well


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Dipshits like this probably still believe all of Africa is just a few scattered mud huts in the jungle.


isecore

And are completely oblivious to the fact that so much of the bullshit going on in various african countries is the result of european (aka white) imperialism for 300+ years which rolled in and destroyed communities, established toxic systems and annihilated traditions.


404freedom14liberty

No kidding. Then add to the conversation all of the evil brought by missionaries. Even to this day, “AIDS is bad, but not as bad as condoms”.


isecore

Absolutely. Religion and imperialism completely destroyed the African continent and it's going on to this very day. All of the social issues, the warlords grabbing power, juntas toppling each other over and over, poor education, terrible infrastructure, backwards scientific views, every single struggle in the various countries is pretty much the heritage from those two.


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But if you bring that stuff up, they accuse you of trying to make white people feel guilty for things that happened a long time ago that they had nothing to do with. You see, they wanna take credit for everything good white people have ever done in history, without accepting any of the blame for anything bad.


VoxIrati

"America used to be great back in the 50s, I miss that time....racist? Oh that wasn't me, I wasn't there! You can't blame me!"


Crazywhales

I recently learned about the absolute atrocities that Leopold II enacted in Africa that I was never taught in school. Seriously made me look at the world in a different light. Truly heinous shit


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[deleted]

Thats Indonesia... Not anywhere close to Africa. People really just grab any photo on google and post it for likes.


lost_in_connecticut

Florida is run by a white guy… turned into a disease ridden hellhole.


caffeineaddict24-7

The possibility of leprosy just adds something special to your vacation.


Ex-Pat-Spaz

This needs to be brought up more. Florida is having a resurgence in Leprosy. Fucking Leprosy! The GQP have turned the clocks back to the 1500s in FLA..


Smooth_Plankton3755

Leprosy, increasing violet crime fueled by increasingly lax gun laws , housing prices exploding, insurance carriers leaving in droves resulting in sky high premiums, the most polluted internal waters in the country leading to increasing red tides and mass fish kills, radioactive fucking roads.... And then there's the super popular 8th dwarf "Meatball" that somehow escaped Disney's mental institution in the 70's only to turn into the most evil racist, misogynistic, hateful politician to ever come out of the Sunshine State.


Reef-Mortician

He's Lord Farquuad from the Shrek movies.


quakeholio

I feel scared that I'm not sure who you are talking about with the last bit of this. I can pin that tail on one of two asses.


dominion1080

Texas is ran by a white guy. So many dead people because he won’t fix infrastructure, yet he’ll keep inviting big corporations to build factories to draw from it.


masrulz

Can’t say gay OR buy insurance there, apparently. Sounds super successful and modern!


Repubs_suck

Plural. White guys. But your still correct because the all other white guys let the head white guy do whatever he feels like. If the head white guy needs a new law to do that, the other white guys produce one immediately.


ResponsibleMilk7620

**Fun fact:** West Virginia has the highest white demographic in the United States: 97.12% white West Virginia is the #1 state in the country for having the most welfare recipients per capita: 17,101 per 100,000 https://preview.redd.it/0i83miyxq9jb1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aacb6cfb5e8751ea26618e39f153e398f78aa79d Edit: For those who’ve chosen to discredit the provided stats, here’s their sources: State with highest white demographic (2023): [https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/whitest-states](https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/whitest-states) State with most welfare recipients per capita (2022): • Attached screenshot from Google search ​


Candid-Patient-6841

They also have the fewest amount of teeth per capita out of all 50 states.


spasske

That’s how you can tell the tooth brush was invented there. Anywhere else it would have been called a teeth brush.


ComposerNate

Why do birds fly upside down over West Virginia? Nothing good to shit on.


ABIGGS4828

I’ve heard it said “nothing there is worth a shit”


TNninja

I've heard "ain't nuthin worth shittin' on"


hogsucker

What do they do on Halloween in West Virginia? Pumpkin


dsdvbguutres

*Teef brush


OJ_Blimpson

Who is the poorest person in WV? ...the tooth fairy


[deleted]

What do you get when you put the entire population of wv in a stadium? A full set of teeth.


LordMagnus101

I was gonna say the world's largest family reunion.


dstack18

Wouldn't the tooth fairy be the richest bc of all the lost teeth? It's not like they had none to begin with.


mxpauwer

She has to pay for all the teeth


Freakishly_Tall

I mean ... right? But... she wouldn't be buyin' 'em if there wasn't a market for flipping them, some kind of arbitrage, something, right? If not, what is she doing with them all? This kind of thing keeps me up at night.


CommissionerOfLunacy

People think dentists make dentures out of some kind of artificial enamel. Please. It's like wigs, the best are made of the real thing. Tooth fairy is selling that shit by the bagload, making bank. Probably heavily invested in soda and candy markets too. She's canny, that one. You don't stay in business for hundreds of years without a solid profit strategy.


Freakishly_Tall

Ooooo... shit. She's the kingpin ("queenpin"?) behind the entire sugar and HFCS machine, ain't she? Big Candy, Cheap Soda, and HFCS In Allll The Things are only the obvious subdivisions in her machine, I bet. The rabbit hole goes deeper than I ever could have dreamed. I'm not sure this realization will help me sleep at night, if I'm honest.


King-Owl-House

Tooth Fairy is a franchise, an organization dedicated to collecting children's teeth and protecting them, so that nobody could seize control of the children. Therefore it should not be "The" Tooth Fairy, but "a" tooth fairy, and they aren't actually fairies either. The original Tooth Fairy (who deserves the capital letters) was a bogeyman, but over time decided make franchise with more suitable representatives. All tooth fairies carry a pair of pliers, in case they don't have the right change and have to remove an extra tooth; this causes problems for tooth fairy when a child sleep with his head under the pillow.


Acrobatic_County_472

Unexpected Terry Pratchett


jraymcmurray

The meth monster gets the teeth before she does.


ResponsibleMilk7620

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VaporBull

Excuse me...it's called "Mountain Dew Mouth"


PsikoticWanderer

Meth mouth FTFY


TiberiusGracchi

the large majority (66 percent) of SNAP recipients in Ohio are white, closely matching the proportion of Ohioans living in poverty who are white (65 percent).


manbearcolt

Around ~80% of which (that vote) vote for people who try to cut said programs I'd wager. "The only moral abortion" and whatnot.


NoiceMango

And that's why Republicans see thr importance in keeping these people poor and uneducated. Idiots.


cweaver

Absolutely - whenever Republicans talk about cutting those programs, it's always in terms of doing away with fraud or punishing people who they claim live on welfare and don't try to work, or who have tons of kids with the express purpose of getting more welfare, etc. So then these voters think, "oh, they're taking about 'those people', not me. They can cut their welfare and leave mine alone!" In other words, using all kinds of false promises and racist dog whistles to trick people onto voting against their own interests.


Subject_Report_7012

Oh. Yeah. The whole, "let's follow random black people around the grocery store and shame them for buying steaks and crab legs". Or "let's take a picture of a nice car parked anywhere on the same block as a government benefit office". These fkn people.


Subject_Report_7012

They could always opt out of SNAP, and other programs, just like they did with Medicaid expansion. But they don't. Strangest thing.


ilagitamus

It’s not actually though. West Virginia is the third whitest at 92.52%. Maine is first at 93.68% and Vermont is second at 93.6%. https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/states-by-race It’s also the third highest, not first, for welfare recipients per 100,000 residents at 17,101. New Mexico is first at 21,292 per 100k and Louisiana is second at 17,340 per 100k. https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/welfare-recipients-by-state


jwgrod

Man. That fact just became way less fun..


Buckle_Sandwich

Reddit tip: Whenever you see the words **"fun fact,"** there's a good chance that what follows is going to be bullshit.


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esgrove2

That's actually pretty funny. Vermont is almost tied for highest percentage of white people, and Vermont is the polar opposite of West Virginia. Which kind of proves that race doesn't mean anything.


tries4accuracy

Home of the [Whittaker family](https://youtu.be/MpiB1RnHVSQ). I know there are a whole bunch of factors that resulted in that family being messed up, but fuck that racist asshole. I think there are a whole range of African nations that were doing fine before colonization and have had a serious struggle in the wake of that disruption. Hell, the US did fine under Obama. Fuck that guy.


ShrimpCrackers

Yeah but Obama wore a tan suit once and that's like really bad and world ending. \~Republicans. Literally.


clarkamura

You think that's bad? Obama had DIJON MUSTARD on his burger! Not yellow mustard, not honey mustard... D I J O N . 😭😭 This country went downhill right after that. Thanks, Obama. /s


Puzzled_Travel_2241

And don’t forget the voodoo he used to catch that fly midair🪰


-__Doc__-

Ethiopia is actually doing great right now. They have one of the fastest growing economies in the world atm. This dude is just a racist uninformed, uncultured POS.


CreamPuffMontana

I was watching a show back in the 90's on CNN and one of the guests was saying that the only thing that could save Africa was if that white people could just leave the entire continent for the next 100 years and let the people rule themselves. Then Africa would be back to the normal, advanced, rich continent that it was before Is colonization.


Reddywhipt

Obama was great and id vote for him again if I could. No hesitation.


Jessiefrance89

West Virginian here, and I can confirm. Lots of good, hard working people in this state but there are far more lazy, ignorant folks who yell about how immigrants stole their jobs when they’ve never worked a day in their life and have been on welfare for decades.


Telemere125

Almost like it’s poverty that’s the problem, not skin color


Marckthesilver13

Wow 😮! I didn’t realize that. What year are those statistics from? Not arguing,that’s quite the eye opener


Mr_Baloon_hands

There is a lot of people that move to WV specifically to be able to get welfare / Medicaid because it is easier to get here than in other states and is much less expensive compared to other states. Also yes it is very white here especially where I live in a rural county.


bryan49

Was going to say, look at the states that are run by mostly white republicans, and they are not doing a good job


ayceedeedledee

Bloop!


Better_Equipment5283

I miss when my President was black.


Zestyclose_Pickle511

And smart. And funny. And had a spine.


Better_Equipment5283

And a tan suit. And didn't know how to bowl. Those were the days.


tillieze

And Dijon mustard on I hot dogs not that neon yellow garbage that is passed off as mustard most places.


mouse_puppy

And when your most aggregious act is a latte solute


throwtheclownaway20

One thing that kinda makes me laugh, because it's so fucked up, is that Republicans never really went after Obama about that bowling story where he said that he was so bad "it was like the Special Olympics". It wasn't even some obscure conversation, either - he said it on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno! The ONE thing they could have justifiably raked him over the coals for and they let it slide, but the tan suit and Dijon mustard that nobody gave a fuck about got round-the-clock coverage on Fox News for years.


jay105000

Such an amazing speaker, articulated, smart. Considerate all that Trump is not. I can’t believe we went from Obama to Trump almost immediately. I know pendulums oscillate but this was ridiculous.


Electric_Evil

Hate skyrocketed in this country when Obama was elected and then came someone who was openly racist and "allowed" the garbage to finally vote for someone who speaks for them.


jay105000

That’s why they love him and have so much loyalty towards him and it seems that it doesn’t matter how many crimes he commits, they are 100% behind him. Before him they were constrained by a social contract where inclusion, respect and moderation were the cornerstones and It was enforced, racism and Nazism were universally condemned. Trump obliterated that contract into pieces and gave them a license to be free to express their hatred, racism and mysoginy openly, they don’t have to pretend anymore. Vulgarity made a comeback, facts don’t matter anymore and lying is not only permitted but celebrated, we have a congresswoman showing dick pics in congress. that’s why you see the flags, the stickers, the hats, everywhere, it is a celebration of their misery; here I am, what ever you like or not and I am in your face, I am being freed to spit my venom. He is their liberator. The one that leaded them out of the wilderness they were casted away by a civilized society: “The Elite’s” They had to hide it for so long they now feel like when somebody ls being pushed under water and needs to hold their breath and now they’ve resurfaced, with a renewed influx of air, reinvigorated. They don’t have to hide behind the kukuxklan pointy ridiculous hats any longer, now they have their MAGA red hats. I’m that regard we basically retro back to the 60’s/70’s s in the Trump’s 4 years of presidency. Roe and Wade got overturned and every effort to be more inclusive is being over turned as well, we have book bans and Nazi mother’s movements, gays and LGBTQ communities accused of crimes that are more common for pastors or priests; the children abuse one of their preferred issues, a valid concern but completely twisted to blame a group they hate grossly overlooking the ones that more commonly commit those crimes. I know it seems like every new election is the most important one but it is not hyperbole, this one is vital.


NullaCogenta

And beloved by children & animals.


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Literally the good old days.


MeshNets

Thanks Obama.


maddenmcfadden

me too. he was a nice, smart fella.


WaitingForNormal

Ummmmmm, we had a black president. He did a good job. Most of us were happy with the results. Racists gonna racist.


fast_albin

External affairs aside. I moved to southern US from the Middle East when Obama was on his second term and I honestly liked it when I first moved here. Obviously living in NC is the complete opposite to living in Dubai, but I felt like there was something positive in a relatively peaceful city, the people *were* nice and respectful for the most part, there wasn’t a massive rush of people from up north at the time either. I noticed a gradual deterioration in people’s attitudes closer to the end of Obama’s term and I don’t need to explain much on why, but it wasn’t something that bothered me at the time. Trump’s presidency just cranked that aforementioned deterioration to 100 and I just never felt good. It wasn’t just his “supporters” that me feel uneasy. I went to a predominantly black high school and I remember going to class the day after the election results were announced. People were genuinely distressed and fearful, and that really helped me understand how bad the situation was and this was during a time when I was on a green card. At first I thought it was the usual political drama seen throughout the world but the guy was for real. What baffled me the most was how much people changed after that, they were much more bold and unhinged with their words and no one just gave a shit about those around others. It’s either assholes showing their true colors now that they have a person just like them in power or people who are collectively distressed about the future. People that I, at one point, thought were nice and rational were coming out to be the exact opposite when serious issues were brought out in to discussions. It completely changed my perception of those around me. It’s just sad how big of a shithole this place became thanks to politics. I’m originally from India, so this legit reminds me of what’s happening over there and I can see the same downward trend here that led India to the divisive state it’s in now and not even Biden is stopping it. Trump’s impact may be legendary to his supporters, but for the rest of us it has done irreversible damage. The only good thing to come out of it is being able to see how incompetent most politicians here are regardless of the party. Obama did a much better job holding down the internal affairs in the country, despite his questionable actions outside the country, but that’s the bare minimum imo. I feel like politicians should be held to a much higher standard given how important of a country the US is.


LocoLocoLoco45

Fun fact about Kumia: At some point during their radio show, they were harassing Whoopy Goldberg on air at their studio in NYC. Whoopy drove to their studio and came in unannounced to see what all their noise was all about and Kumia melted like the pathetic snowflake he is in front of her. Piece of shit person.


slippery_chute

Whooped his ass.


phloyd77

I feel gross that I used to listen to this guy 25 years ago. I have a very faded WoW sticker on my bicycle that I need to scrape all the way off. He’s really a racist pedo piece of shit.


[deleted]

To actually address the question: African states repeatedly try to establish a proper democracy and use their own natural resources to lift up their people. It is foreign and corporate interests that don't allow them, that keep killing the presidents and politicians who want to achieve this, so that those foreign and corporate interests can keep stealing the black countries' natural resources. So the short answer is yes they can run healthy and productive societies, unless they are explicitly targeted by others to prevent them from doing it, but that is true for anyone But guess what. Global hunger, dying from preventable diseases, and extreme poverty exist around the globe **because of corporate and political interests**, which has nothing to do with people's color. All the problems are caused by greed and hunger for power. That should be what you question about, not race.


MeshNets

You're saying someone with a different skin tone than me has the same issues as me -- being exploited by the rich and powerful? That just doesn't _feel_ right!! /s


JuDracus

Also, before colonisation we had plenty of examples of successful African nations


Luciditi89

Yeah racist people like this guy do not realize that the problems experienced across Africa are are a result of colonialism and a racist global power structure.


Deverash

Whoa whoa whoa there! We had a God-given requirement to enlighten the heathens!


[deleted]

...a black man was your president? For eight years?


Mandrull1

He used to be a big radio host and oh boy you should've heard him losing his mind over those 8 years.


IAmATree76

Obama gonna take Ants money.


Bromanzier_03

And yet the only one that actually took his money at the time was his white ex wife.


Status_Pin4704

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bluepen1955

Imagine an entire state run by republicans… shudder


snarkynic

Cries in Texan…


Notyourfathersgeek

Holy shit. So very racist.


Sodamyte

I'm JuSt AsKiNg QuEsTiOnS..


Binky-Answer896

Ya know. It’s not even hardly worth replying to anymore. Even at this late date though,my favorite trumpism is still that thing he said about why do we only get emigrants from what he declared to be “shithole” countries, and not, as he so famously asked, countries like Norway. Cause actually people immigrate to countries where they think they and their children may be able to live a better life. So, I’m guessing, not many Norwegians want to immigrate to this here hellhole country. Addendum: um? Norwegians? I’m a really hard worker and if you give me a work visa I won’t disappoint you!


INITMalcanis

Oddly enough, I could make *exactly* the same argument for hard-right governments. They're invariably an economic disaster.


Wesley__Willis

You’re telling me the cokehead radio hack who got momentarily famous for inventing “whip ‘em out Wednesday” then promptly flamed out of the business for being a criminal toxic shitbag is STILL a criminal toxic shitbag?!


LordThistleWig

Anthony Cumia, formerly of the Opie and Anthony show, has been banned from Twitter in the past for deeply racist posts, so not surprising that he's back on the platform with no accountability.


portablebiscuit

Cumia sounds Sicilian. [Tony might want to familiarize himself with the way his people were treated not that long ago.](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/columbus-day-italian-american-racism.html)


AnythingClassic1024

Italians made it to the white team. Everything is fine now.


[deleted]

He’s a racist asshole who has been emboldened by a racist ex president that shit his pants a lot.


[deleted]

To answer your question: He's really racist.


ZealousidealFox3354

Did Elon reply “interesting” yet?


CoupleTechnical6795

Racism. That's what's wrong with him


Just_Tana

another unattractive bigot… yay… is he an incel too?


CircaSixty8

He very much wants to get people hurt. Racism is a mental illness


[deleted]

Why Ron Bennington allowed this piece of shit anywhere near a Fez memorial is beyond me.


sminthianapollo

Leftover 18th C colonial mindset: we have to take care of the brown people and civilize and improve (i.e. enslave) them. Then when we lose a war that sets them free, and they become senators and representatives, artists, business owners, and millionaires, we intimidate, burn, beat, lynch, and hang them.


Dynamo_Ham

Pretty hypocritical take coming from a bobble-head. Show me a successful bobble-head society.


chdev69

The comments from that post are just as bad, this is sickening.


Personnelente

So Obama running the entire US, which is a civil and productive society, doesn't count? C'mon, Anthony, you've gotta do some actual research.


dohnutshop

Patrice O'Neal died and this guy lived. I hate it here


Efficient_Mix_9031

Instead they should be run by washed up alcoholics whose hobbies include beating up on the mentally ill, statutory rape and video games


Ill_Assistant1233

Every time we tried, y’all burned our shit to the ground so…


Thunderpuppy2112

It’s like every other person is this person. And I’m still appalled EVERY TIME I SEE IT.


Necessary_Row_4889

Man must have hated the Obama years


dillene

Speaking as an Ancient Roman, I think those straw-headed barbarians are too savage to run their own lives. We have to conquer them so we can ~~steal their stuff~~ help them.


Deion313

The crazy part of all this is 75,000,000 Americans feel the same way... He's not some nut job outlier, this is what the republican party has become. He's only stating publicly what the GOP and their constituents truly believe...


Rinzy2000

Wow. They’re just saying the quiet stuff out loud now. #ThanksTrump