The White House’s chief mouthpiece, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry took to the airwaves to defend Obamacare by comparing the word to the racial epithet “ni**er.”
Perry says,
“I want to talk today about a controversial word. It’s a word that has been with us for years. And like it or not, it’s indelibly printed in the pages of American history. A word that was originally intended as a derogatory term, meant to shame and divide and demean.
The word was conceived of by a group of wealthy white men who needed a way to put themselves above and apart from a black man, to render him inferior and unequal and diminish his accomplishments.
President Obama has been labeled with this word by his opponents, and at first he rose above it, hoping that if he could just make a cause for what he’d achieved, his opponents would fail in making their label stick.
Harris-Perry said Obama, “embraced the word and made it his own, sending his opposition a message they weren’t expecting: ‘If that’s what you want me to be, I’ll be that.’”
“Y’all know the word that I’m talking about: ObamaCare!”
“That’s right!” she continued: “I said it and I’m not ashamed, and neither is President Obama!”
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