Obama: White Men have History of Keeping Women, Minorities from Voting

Identity politics is the Democrats’ favorite game to play.  When they divide everyone up by race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation, and tell them that conservatives are out to get them, it helps build up their voter base.  It is, therefore, no surprise that when President Obama returned to the University of Chicago School of Law — where he once taught — he used his platform to remind students there that white men have historically suppressed political participation by minorities and women, and continue to do so today.

President Barack Obama touted “mandatory voting” and criticized laws at the federal and state level that he said are “unabashedly” intended to keep people from voting – which he said have roots to the earliest days of the United States.

“We really are the only advanced democracy on earth that systematically and purposefully makes it really hard for people to vote,” Obama said Thursday when speaking at the University of Chicago School of Law. “There is no other country on earth that does that. There is a legacy to that that grows directly out of a history in which first propertied men, then white men, then white folks didn’t want women, minorities, to participate in the political process and be able to empower themselves in that fashion. That’s the history. We should be a society in which at this point we should say, yeah, that history is not so good.”

The president went on to say, “That can’t be right. There is no justification for that. You can’t defend it.”

One might point out to President Obama that he — a black man — is currently our twice-elected president.  They might also point out that among the candidates likely to be our next president you have a woman and a Hispanic.  But Obama knows this; he’s just enjoying his role as divider-in-chief.

Source: The Blaze

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