MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry says Obamacare is ‘derogatory’ term, compares it to N-Word
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry began her program over the weekend with a commentary about the Affordable Care Act’s nickname: “Obamacare.”
She asserts that the word was originally created as a “derogatory term,” designed by white men as a way to attack President Barack Obama and his achievements. She even makes comparisons to the use of N-word.
“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,” Harris-Perry opened. “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 to diminish his accomplishments,” she continued.
“At first, he rose above it, hoping that if he could just make a cause for what he achieved, his opponents would fail in making their label stick,” Harris-Perry added. “But no matter how many successes that he had as president, he realized there were still many people for whom he’d never be anything more than that one disparaging word.”
Real Clear Politics has the full transcript and supplied the full video clip
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