THIS IS WHAT DESPERATION LOOKS LIKE!! Obama in Pittsburg

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Before he gave a speech at a Pittsburgh rally on behalf of Kamala Harris, Barack Obama spoke to a gathering of black Harris supporters and turned it into a condescending lecture to black men about their failure to support her. It was a remarkable declaration of frustration, and a truly revealing one. Watch how he switches his speech to address them.

TRANSCRIPT:
I’m here to go ahead and speak some truths if you don’t mind. Because my understanding based on reports I’m getting from campaigns and communities is that we have not yet seen the same kind of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running. Now, I also want to say that that seems to be more pronounced with the brothers.

So if you don’t mind just for a second I’m gonna speak to y’all and say that when you have a choice that is this clear, when on the one hand you have somebody who grew up like you, knows you, went to college with you, understands the struggles and pain and joy that comes from those experiences, who’s able to work harder and do more and overcome and achieves the second-highest office in the land and is putting forward concrete proposals to correctly address the things that are vital in our neighborhoods and communities, from housing to making sure that our mothers and our fathers and grandparents can afford medicine, and making sure that we are dealing with prices that are too high, and rents that are too high, and is committed to making sure we maintain the Affordable Care Act so everybody’s got healthcare, and cares about things like education, and entrepreneurship in our neighborhood.

And that’s on one side and on the other side you have someone who has consistently shown disregard not just for communities but for you as a person. And you’re thinking about sitting out? And you’re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses? I’ve got a problem with that. Because, because part of it makes me think – and I’m speaking to men directly – part of it makes me think that well, you just aren’t “feeling” the idea of having a woman as president. And you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for it. And I think anybody you’re talking to in a barbershop, anybody you’re talking to in your house, in your family, at church who is coming with that kind of attitude? I think you have to ask them, “Well how could that be?” because the women in our lives have been getting our backs this entire time. They’ve been raising us and working and having our backs and when we get in trouble and the system’s not working for us they’re the ones who’re out there marching and protesting, and so now you’re thinking about sitting out, or even supporting somebody? Who has a history of denigrating you? Because you think that’s a sign of strength? Because that’s what you think being a man is, putting women down? That’s not acceptable. That’s not—this shouldn’t even be a question.

Black guys weren’t impressed