Editor’s Note: Barack Obama, who served as the 44th President of the United States, spoke at a post-election gathering of black voters. Matt Manochio of The American Spectator was present and submits this transcript of Obama’s brutally honest speech.
African American men, as your undisputed leader and messianic father figure, I, Barack Obama (he/him), am disappointed in the 24 percent of you who disrespected me by voting for Donald Trump.
As my former pastor Jeremiah Wright would say, God damn America. I say that daily, but say it now out of rage rather than habit because of your selfishness.
African/South Asian/Jamaican-American Vice President Kamala Harris was destined to be our next historic president until she started speaking and voters listened. Not everyone possesses my gift for oration. Kamala’s inability to speak substantively should not have disqualified her, given the state of our public education system.
Frankly,…