{"id":168643,"date":"2021-02-24T14:08:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T19:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=168643"},"modified":"2021-02-24T14:29:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T19:29:30","slug":"obama-politics-of-white-resistance-prevented-administration-from-pursuing-reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-politics-of-white-resistance-prevented-administration-from-pursuing-reparations\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama: \u2018Politics Of White Resistance\u2019 Prevented Administration From Pursuing Reparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobama-politics-of-white-resistance-prevented-administration-from-pursuing-reparations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=168643&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1282032908.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former President Barack Obama told his podcast co-host, Bruce Springsteen, that he would have liked to pursue reparations for slavery as part of his presidential agenda, but that the \u201cpolitics of white resistance\u201d made the issue a \u201cnon-starter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obama and Springsteen recently launched a podcast together where the pair discuss how to pursue \u201cunity\u201d among Americans and forge friendships across party, class, and racial lines. The podcast is billed as two friends from polar opposite backgrounds coming together \u2014 Springsteen from a working-class New Jersey upbringing and Obama from a childhood spent in Hawaii and later, in Chicago \u2014 but both Springsteen and Obama are now wealthy Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>In the podcast\u2019s second episode, which dropped Monday, the pair chatted about improving race relations, and Springsteen ended the discussion by asking Obama whether he considered pursuing reparations for slavery during his time in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Obama told Springsteen that he considered the idea but ultimately felt it was a losing battle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObama said he believes reparations are \u2018justified\u2019 and that \u2018there\u2019s not much question that the wealth\u2026 the power of this country was built in significant part \u2014 not exclusively, maybe not even the majority of it, but a large portion of it \u2014 was built on the backs of slaves,&#8217;\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/obama-springsteen-podcast-reparations-white-resistance\">Fox News reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe former president claimed that a reparations proposal didn\u2019t make its way through the lawmaking process during his presidency due to \u2018the politics of White resistance and resentment,&#8217;\u201d the outlet continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd what I saw during my presidency was the politics of White resistance and resentment. The talk of \u2018welfare queens\u2019 and the talk of the \u2018undeserving\u2019 poor. And the backlash against affirmative action,\u201d Obama said. \u201cAll that made the prospect of actually proposing any kind of coherent, meaningful reparations program struck me as, politically, not only a nonstarter but potentially counterproductive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obama seemed, later, to walk back some of his criticism, saying he understood that the working poor would be justly concerned about a proposal that addresses the past rather than the present or future.<\/p>\n<p>It was, he said, \u201cperfectly understandable why working-class White folks, middle-class White folks, folks who are having trouble paying the bills or dealing with student loans, wouldn\u2019t be too thrilled\u201d about \u201ca massive program that is designed to deal with the past but isn\u2019t speaking to their future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congress has considered the issue of reparations repeatedly over the course of the last half-century, but generally, the idea of reparations does not get further than a study committee.\u00a0Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) introduced a bill to commission yet another committee to study the possibility of issuing reparations recently and President Joe Biden reportedly backs the effort, though it\u2019s not clear on whether the president would support actual reparations.<\/p>\n<p>Several black leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/herschel-walker-and-others-say-no-to-slavery-reparations\">questioned Lee\u2019s proposal in Congressional hearings last week<\/a>, criticizing reparations as \u201cwealth redistribution\u201d and questioning the practicality and fairness of issuing reparations checks, given that the program would necessarily involve recipients demonstrating some genetic proof of a connection to slavery in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/herschel-walker-and-others-say-no-to-slavery-reparations\"><strong>Related: Herschel Walker And Others Say No To Slavery Reparations<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Barack Obama told his podcast co-host, Bruce Springsteen, that he would have liked to pursue reparations for slavery as part of his presidential agenda, but that the \u201cpolitics &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274147,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1282032908.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Obama: \u2018Politics Of White Resistance\u2019 Prevented Administration From Pursuing Reparations","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1282032908.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Obama: \u2018Politics Of White Resistance\u2019 Prevented Administration From Pursuing Reparations","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}