Karen Attiah
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405 appearances
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard 19 Nov
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In some ways, I'm scared, yes, but, like, what is courage?
Ah, yes.
what the last political column i was allowed to publish at the washington post was a piece criticizing obama and his immigration policies basically because everyone remember like everyone was like we need a barack obama to come save us we need barack obama please please magical negro come right
And I was like, you guys, Barack Obama, y'all ever seen kids being snatched up from the streets?
You're like, what should we do about ICE?
What should we do about ICE?
I'm like, y'all know Barack Obama's record was not spotless.
He was the deporter in chief.
He was the one who gave the current head of ICE, Tom Holman, a presidential medal.
So I just wrote a piece.
calling that out and doing my job in terms of saying, look, I get it, you know, you guys are wanting a hero right now, but we still have to look at facts and we still have to look at policies.
And Obama's policies were... set us on a path, I would have to say.
Barack Obama gets that.
Like I said, they called me up.
They emailed me.
They were like, you know what?
Nice piece.
Thanks.
Yes, absolutely.
It feels like watching everything converge into state media, national media happening in real time.
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