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Transcript:
Barack Obama: Transforming America
Presented by Carol Swain

Shortly before Barack Obama was elected the forty-fourth president of the United States, he told an enthusiastic crowd of supporters that he wanted to “fundamentally” transform America.

Over the next eight years, America found out what he meant.

Three issues epitomized the transformation Obama had in mind.

Race relations.

Healthcare.

And foreign policy.

Let’s take each one in turn.

Race Relations:

Could it be that when Obama said he wanted to fundamentally transform America, he was talking about a post racial society where skin color didn’t matter? Indeed, as a biracial American, half-white, half-black, he seemed the perfect figure to make this a reality.

But it was not to be. Instead, Obama’s actions fueled racial division in America.

In July 2009, when a white police officer briefly arrested a black Harvard professor as a suspected burglar, Obama accused the police officer, a man with no history of bigotry, of racism.

In July 2013, after a Hispanic volunteer security guard was acquitted of the murder of a young black man in Florida, Obama attributed the verdict to racism.

And then, in August 2014, when a black teenager who had just robbed a convenience store was shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, Obama again charged racism. His own Justice Department later acquitted the officer of