Former President Barack Obama raised eyebrows on Wednesday for attempting to link this week’s mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, to the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, Fox News reports.
Nineteen children and two teachers of Robb Elementary School were murdered by an 18-year-old gunman, who was killed during a gunfire exchange with authorities. Tuesday’s tragedy is now among the worst mass shootings in U.S. history. The bloodshed in Uvalde occurred one day prior to the two-year mark of the death of George Floyd, which sparked civil unrest across the country in 2020 after viral footage showed Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on him as he repeatedly claimed he couldn’t breathe until he died.
Obama commemorated Floyd’s passing while tying it to the current national mourning of the children killed in Uvalde. “As we grieve the children of Uvalde today, we should take time to recognize that two years have passed since the murder of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer,” Obama wrote Wednesday. “His killing stays with us all to this day, especially those who loved him. In the aftermath of his murder, a new generation of activists rose up to channel their anguish into organized action, launching a movement to raise awareness of systemic racism and the need for criminal justice and police reform,” the former president continued before plugging an initiative for his foundation.
Critics railed against Obama for suggesting a comparison between Tuesday’s massacre and the police brutality Floyd faced.
“Not a single grieving parent today gives a rip about what happened to Floyd or anyone right now,” Redstate editor Kira Davis reacted. “For crying out loud. This is not the time to be advertising for your favorite activist group. How utterly vile.”
“What in the world does the former have to do with the latter?” Ben Shapiro wondered.
“I don’t understand the connection,” journalist Andy Ngo similarly wrote.
“Bro. Not the same. At all,” Fox News contributor Ben Domenech told Obama.
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The connection is that both died unnecessarily. Barak is always right. Ben S is not my seer.
….wuuut?
Yes, to the great deceiver there is a moral equivalent and since both situations involved minorities worthy of note. This is woke, folks. If you can bash whitey, it’s woke. If you can bash rich, it’s woke. If you can bash, it’s woke. Even the comments on websites, if they bash, it’s woke. It’s all bovine scatology. We have seen the enemy and he is us, saith Pogo the wise.
George Floyd was a lowlife dreg of society. He was no hero. If Obama idolizes this dog, along with Trayvon Martin, it says a lot about the low character person this gold digging Obama is.
Bumbling mumbling Obama for the sheeple who don’t believe he was cv’d.
Twitter account is not a prove he was the one writing it.
Is it a coincidence or perhaps there is a direct or indirect relationship between the fact that recently the MSM and the Democratic party have been going bananas about the right to kill babies and the recent mass killings by vulnerable, unstable and impressionable young adults?
Are you sure it was Hussein Obama who said that? Maybe someone gave him AOC’s playbill. Unless both he and she are of one mindset! I think the latter may טאקע be accurate.
Obama faked his: name, birthplace, religion, wife, kids, nationality, education, career, allegiance – and then he sealed his records in his very first Executive Order to stop the public from finding out.
Here’s my most generous take on what the former President was doing here:
Obviously, he simply wanted to commemorate George Floyd’s death on the Yahrtzeit. But he couldn’t just mention it without the elephant-in-the-room news story of the day, which is what happened in Uvalde. So, he wanted to show everyone that he acknowledged what happened in Uvalde while commemorating the Yahrtzeit.
However, this was poorly done. He should have mentioned them in separate tweets. Because, as they say, perception is everything, and this looks pretty bad.
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New generation of “activist” are just scammers and thieves. Fleecing and exploiting the very victims they are claiming to protect. Two years of activism and nothing to show for it. Obama is their number prototype