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By Situation Theatre 19/5/2020
Obama said we need to leave behind all the old ways of thinking which divide us like sexism, racial prejudice, status, and greed, which is why he pulled so many strings for Joe Biden.
America’s most charming, likeable, thoughtful, articulate, intellectually curious, honest, inspiring and empathetic commander of drone strikes killing untold numbers of civilians, Barack Obama, has delivered the most moving pile of horseshit to high school graduates in an online address.
He said the coronavirus crisis has “laid bare a lot of our country’s deep-seated problems, from massive economic inequality to ongoing racial disparities”, which is great because he tried and failed to get more press for those issues by accelerating them throughout his eight years in office.
He said “it doesn’t matter how much money you make if everyone around you is hungry and sick”, which is why he doesn’t much care for the millions he’s paid for speeches to Wall St.
He said “our society and democracy only work when we think not just about ourselves but about each other”, which is why he’s spent so much time blocking Bernie from influencing the DNC in 2016 and getting the nomination in 2020, so as not to get his feelings hurt by the rejection of his centrist legacy.
He emphasised “honesty, responsibility, fairness, generosity, and respect for others”, as seen by his total failure to make Wall St pay for the 2008 financial crisis, implement any meaningful reforms to the economic system, or redistribute wealth to those who need it most, laying the groundwork for the election of President Donald Trump.
He said students should “listen to the truth that’s inside yourself even when it’s hard”, like the truth that Barack Obama’s enduring popularity, despite setting back leftism for a generation, is the apotheosis of the abject failures of the neoliberal spectacle.
He advised young people to “build a community… it’s easy to say be cynical and say, let me just look out for myself…but if we’re going to create a world where everybody has opportunity to find a job, to avoid college, if we’re going to save the environment and defeat future pandemics, then we’re going to have to do it together”, which is why he immediately dismantled his community organising infrastructure when he became President in 2008 and did everything he could to kill the “Not me, us” movement in 2020, the best chance in a century to actually bend the arc of the moral universe towards justice.
Finally, he said students should “be alive to one another’s struggles, stand up for one another’s rights, leave behind all the old ways of thinking that divide us – sexism, racial prejudice, status, greed, and set the world on a different path”: the inspiring path of Joe Biden, of the same intellectually and morally bankrupt hegemonic ideological system of the last 50 years, and of “nothing will fundamentally change”.
He really does remind us of what a US President should sound like.
'Be alive to one another's struggles. Stand up for one another's rights. Leave behind all the old ways of thinking that divide us' — Listen to Obama's powerful remarks to 2020 graduates pic.twitter.com/zxTidh0g3I
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