Flashback Fun: Have You Watched Obama‘s ’Black History’ Video From 1991?
- Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:03pm by
Scott Baker
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A video getting viral circulation today certainly isn’t new. But it is a fun flashback. I remember watching it a few years ago — and an easy search of YouTube shows a version from 2009 that has over 20,000 views.
Here’s that version:
Here is how the video is getting play today:
A 20-year-old video clip of Barack Obama hit YouTube on Thursday. The future president appeared on a televised “Black History Minutes” segment in 1991, the same year he graduated from Harvard law school.
The early video, originally broadcast by TBS as a public service announcement, may have been Obama’s first-ever appearance on national television.
The president made this video some five years before running for a state Senate seat in Illinois. The script, which he either memorized or read from a teleprompter, concerned the accomplishments of Charles Hamilton Houston, the African-American lawyer who taught Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.





















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One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:45pmA young whipper prompter snapper…. cutting his Marxist teeth or ‘teeef’ in his Souf side dixtrict! ;)
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:57pmI am sorry, don’t see the problem with the video.
Report Post »ESmith7
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:07pmI despise Obama as much as the next man, but do we need comments like “teef”? No!… There’s no reason for us to stoop low and give the Left ammo for calling us racists.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:25pmI’m sorry… my Brain… DISCRIMATES… Evil from Good; Black from White; Down from Up; Poor from Rich, etc! And, I am going to go Stupid to please the PC!!
Report Post »vladtepesblog
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:27pmI don’t see a problem with this video either. I wish the current Obama was this classically liberal. And he does not speak with a black American dialect. So to mock him that way is racist, although it might not be if he did. Try and Indonesian accent. At least that alludes to potential facts.
Report Post »HYPNOTOAD
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:33pmESMITH7: The leftists don’t need ammo to call us racist. They do it day in and day out. It’s their nature to hate and belittle. You know this to be true.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:35pm@ESMITH
Report Post »I reserve the right to make fun of that marxist POS anytime ,anywhere for anything. Put your purse down and stop worrying about the left labeling you a racist .#1 who gives a damn what the left think ,#2 being labeled a racist nowadays is like a being called a Do Do head back when you were a kid . Stop letting the LEFT ( the poster children of immorality ) control your thoughts and speech by holding you to a higher standard then using it against you . I like to play down in the gutter with them unapologetically . If you can‘t bring yourself to do that I understand but don’t try and sensor those of us who do.
garyM
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:41pmWe can’t help what he seit!
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:20pmGreat…now the college papers please….
Report Post »Founding Father2
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:23pmHere is a flashback video that needs to be looked at. Where Gingrich asked Obama to give back all of Freddie Mac’s money they gave him in 2008. Should Gingrich give back his money as well?
( http://url2it.com/jkmt )
Hollywood
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:28pmUh. Is there some problem here? If so, it sure isn’t apparent to me. I don’t like Obama, but I see nothing here that would make me like,or dislike him. He always has been a good speaker, even though he is not good at speaking extemporaneously,and needs teleprompters.
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:35pmthis is now a part of the historical narrative of the first half black half white all commie u.s. president.
Report Post »Lotus503
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:37pmThis was back when he was also know as Bari Shabazz…among other aliases…
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:51pmIf we only knew then…………………
Report Post »charleyrocks
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:07pmObama is just having a proud moment, there is nothing wrong with that, with what many black people went through, there has to be a proud moment to let themselves know they survived. He actually looks very professional.
Report Post »Spirit 72
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 6:13pmWhat is black and white and red all over?
Either an old newspaper or the Obangster.
Naw… he reminds me of the old cartoon mascot in Cheerios ads…
Report Post »the Cheerios Kid.
Everytime he opens his mouth, little round nothings come out…
Most of them resemble that stupid logo of his.
Irish Eyes Are Smiling
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 7:44pmmy question is – Why was Barak Obama, a nobody, selected to give this Black History Month moment? Usually someone who is known is selected. He hadn’t run for office yet, all he had done was graduate from Yale. So who recommended him for this and why was HE selected? That is the point I think Glen is trying to make and I ask the same question. Who was working behind the scenes. Who paid for his college expenses?
Report Post »The_Deeg_in_Mo
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:42pmNot once did he say umm that entire message that was kind of weird.
Report Post »the_truth_or_not
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:15pm@IRISH EYES. I agree. I find it strange that a Yale Graduate nothing else, was asked to do this Black History piece. I think that is what the conversation should be. Not all this fodder about hatred for Obummer. Even though I dispise the man, this was a respectible piece. That hurts to say. But again why was he selected? I wonder which community he was in that he was not so unknown? Someone has seen his college work. Someone or group asked him. It would be really telling if we found out which person or group it was.
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 2:32amObama was the first black editor of the law revue there. Sorry, but that‘s a noteworthy accomplishment and that’s probably why he was picked. It doesn’t take a PhD to figure that out.
Report Post »DianaGL
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 3:18amI am still laughing at “teef”! YES! We do need comments like that, we all need to loosen up and get over it. Like Jackson Lee said: “It’s life deal with it”. We should all be done with being afraid or concerned about being called racist, or whatever else. WHO CARES??? It is really over used, over done, it is really OLD. Funny is funny, period.
Report Post »Anne G
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 5:42amCan’t stand it when people only spew (sp?) venom. There has to be a better way of getting your point across that won’t make the rest of us look like racists.
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:50pmAXE him a gueesion go ahead AXE him guession.
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:53pmHow many retakes, go very slow and pronounce, this was an all day take, just AXE em
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:25pmWhy was a nobody given the chance to be on TV? I would say exposer the begining of the great setup of hyper-Marxism. The Marxist have been at work in America since the early 1900s.
Report Post »zheng ye
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:52pmMy vote: ‘Teef’ is hilarious and totally enjoyable.
To those who object to that, get over your disgustingly politically-correct selves. What imbecilic babies you’ve become.
Report Post »1babybogie4us
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 4:49pmNobody said it was a problem. For crying out loud, take it or leave it but lighten up. Laugh it off;o)
Report Post »1911HeadBanger
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 5:22amI am not anymore prejudice than Barack Obama or Eric Holder.
Report Post »J_Ind_Boston
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:44pmHe can pronounce his ‘G’s”
Report Post »Patriotson
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:54pmHe can pronounce his G‘s but can’t say Corps when referring to Corps of Engineers; Marine Corps.
Report Post »Stupid idiot, he is.
Patriotson
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:56pmHe may be able to pronounce his G‘s but he certainly can’t pronounce “Corps” as Corps of Engineers; Marine Corps; Medical Corps.
Report Post »A stupid idiot, he is.
karenjerry
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:00pmYou may notice he certainly doesn’t have a problem pronouncing Islamic dialect
Report Post »smokeysmoke
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:09pmi like irish obama more than ebonix obama, but hispanic obama is also quite histarical too….. kinda like poke mon…. gotta love em all
Report Post »Unix
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:38pmdon’t forget aussey obama …
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:27pm1st President to lower flags on 501 “Law Day”Look into the history of May 1st…all his buddies will be there
Report Post »just lil old me
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:09pmWow, he can talk without being all choppy. He sounded like a normal person there. Now when he talks it is so choppy, it is pathetic!
Report Post »jmgair
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:44pmThis guy has been reading from his teleprompter from birth, watch his eyes move while reading the script.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:41pmThis has nothing to do with Obama.
I *despise* the notion of “any race” history, as well as “any race”-American. Such utterly racist claptrap.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:56pmThe best filter for determining racism on a topic is to replace whatever race is being pimped with “white”. If it makes you recoil, rest assured, you’re viewing a racist organization/event.
NAACP becomes National Association for the Advancement of White People. Immediately we see that the NAACP is racist.
Black History Month becomes White History Month. Yep, Black history month is officially racist.
And so on.
Enjoy!
Report Post »REALITYBITES
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:20pmGreat analogy, Ghost. It seems that racism is a one way street in this country.
Ever hear of a black person charged with a hate crime?
Oh damn, now everyone will call me a racist for pointing out the obvious.
Report Post »1389AD
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 7:38pmSame here.
If we MUST have a “black history month” can we at least mention the BAD things that black people have done throughout their (and our) history? Starting with capturing and selling other black people as slaves in Africa? And continuing all the way through to the irreparable damage that the Obama Administration has done to all of us?
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:20pmHe should have given a talk about how the Democrats have been racist since the Civil War. But, other than not smiling and not talking like he was talking to a black crowd (like he does now, talk black to a black crowd and white to a white crowd). I had a shipmate in the Navy who did that….almost said friend, but we weren’t that close. It’s irritating because you want to ask them who the really are?
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 2:36am1389AD
Report Post »That’s what you spend the other 11 months doing.
LibertarianGuy
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:41pmHahaha. As much as I cannot stand the guy… he would make an awesome radio host. He’s got the voice for it.
Report Post »Kaoscontrol
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:01pmCigarettes— Lots of ‘em.
Report Post »karenjerry
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:02pmHe’s got the face for it also
Report Post »calnaughtonjr
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:36pmYep, hey whatever happened to that black guy panhandling by the side of the road that was given a radio job and all that? He was a media darling for five minutes or so. He could be our President some day. And right now, if it was between him and Obama, he would get my vote.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:34pmThat guy had a photo taken of him with the OWS the other day.
Report Post »felix
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:38pmstill got the gay whistle thing goin on !
Report Post »your sensei
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:49pmIt’s a whistle only gays can hear.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:37pmwow. why does “The Stand” and “The Omen” spring immediately to mind?
Report Post »pattybbb1
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 8:51pmIt’s the lighting in the video I think. I felt it too. I can hear them calling: “Dameon!”
Report Post »michael79
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:36pmHow do we know he went to Harvard law school? Nobody seems to remember him there.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:44pm+he hides his transcripts, paying lawyers millions to do so, he has no ‘valid’ birth cert IMHO (the supposed one he produced is a layerd fake), he has a SSN from connecticut, where he has never lived. He went to a church for 20 years and didn’t listen, he started his political career in Bill Ayers and Bernadine’s den (of inequity), and is a Chicago thug, just look at the Hawk rain down missles and bombs?! There is so much behind this shallow man and his teleprompter that we do not know, it is not even funny. It actually makes my blood boil, not to mention the “revolution” we seem to be having on the streets, airwaves and blogaspheres! I be the the air smelled similar in 1861, just sayin’…
Viva TEA
Report Post »God Bless America
lukerw
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:00pmSome Universities have Programs… based upon the English System… where you are assigned an Advisor… and you meet with Professors, who tell you what to Read… then, you present Oral or Written Papers to confirm your Knowledge… and you receive Grades… without ever attending a Class!
Report Post »WeimMom
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:02pmI do believe it was Columbia that he could not be found/remembered.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:08pmWe in the US call those diploma mills, get emails about them all the time. Sad thing is the federal government doesn’t seem to get it, or really gets it and just doesn’t care, they use these bogus degrees to hire unqualified people that help advance their political careers while denying people who actually earned their degrees.
Report Post »desertspeaks
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:18pmto UNIX, to be fair about obama and reverend right.. obama wasn’t listening because he was busy inwardly chanting the Quran.
Report Post »chinable
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:32pmNot sure which sources you have been reading, but he was the editor of the Harvard Law Review.
How about you attack him for political reasons instead of conspiracy theory reasons. There‘s a reason your arguments don’t convince anyone–and it’s the same reason the “Bush planned 9/11″ arguments didn’t convince you.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:35pmyeah sure fun. like watching the first time Der Fuhrer stood up to give a speech in the beerhall in Germany in the 1920s. before he was Anybody.
Report Post »1389AD
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 7:41pmAnd vainly wishing that somebody had a good sight picture on Adolf back then, to spare the world all of the agony that followed.
In both cases: it’s too late. The damage can never be undone.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:33pmLooks like the same turd as he is now,,,,except with gray hair.
Report Post »your sensei
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:50pmYou like turds, eh?
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:20pmNo Sensi he nothing of you
Report Post »thegoldman
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:30pmUsed a teleprompter then and now…
Report Post »garyM
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:30pmCheck out the young Barry and how he is dressed, tell me he look like a poor boy. I don’t think so, there has many much money and training behind Barry since he was planted in America. It has been a plan in progress for many years. I can see how someone could look at the American culture and our laws and make this plan work out just the way it did! The question is, how will we overcome this?
Report Post »zheng ye
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:47pmHe was planted by aliens to see how gullible human beings are.
Report Post »wildchild6
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:28pmHe didn’t say “Let me be clear” or “Fair n balanced aproach”
Report Post »war7412
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:28pmWhat happened to the uh..uh..hm..hm..???????? Where is the big CARDS, don;t theink they had TELEPROMPTERS then???????
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:54pmThey used to be called “cue cards” and were held up by a guy standing just behind and to the side of the cameras. Bob Hope used them exhaustively.
Report Post »zheng ye
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:50pmTeleprompters were originally made to be at the camera, not off camera. They’ve been around for over fifty years.
Report Post »VinceTM
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:24pmWell ALPHAHUSKY teleprompter tech was archaic back then. A person would stand to the side and operate a giant crank that would in turn operate a large wooden wheel that was covered in butcher paper. The wheel also had steps much like a shelf that small children would stand on and write the copy the talent would read. The children where attached to the wheel with velcro suits, just to the side of the paper. Yup, it’s a fact!!
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:34pmObummer is channeling Frank Marshall Davis….
Report Post »Sister_Mary
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:24pmLooks like someone had some dental work done….
Report Post »SisterMary
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:38pmAre there two of us?
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:23pmPrior to ‘Transformation’ ideals.
Report Post »lemmsoil
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:20pmQuestion here,
Report Post »Did he choose to go his current name because it makes him seem more Black? Regardless, through this bum out of the WH!
Gonzo
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:36pmBastard children aren‘t given their father’s name so, he took it.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:50pmthey didn‘t list birth certs on ’race’ as ”african” back then either, they were NOT politically correct. they were all listed as ‘*****’ and mulattoes were ‘mulatto’. even in his books he says he had no record of any marriage or divorce records for his parents.
everything about obama the fraud had first been paid for by his wealthy white communist ”fat-cat” grandparents…. America fails to remember his gramps was a OIL COMPANY EXECUTIVE and granny was a BANKER. rather than deal with chubby little bully obama, his mom ships him back to her folks …and they shipped him off to elite white schools and the family friend, the black communist =pedophile= Frank Davis. he hated them all so much since childhood even tho they bought his way into the best communist elite white schools.
Report Post »your sensei
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:57pmBurtnhills . . Sounds like someone has mommy and daddy issues . . . and it’s not Barack.
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:35pm“Sounds like someone has mommy and daddy issues . . . and it’s not Barack.”
No… That would be the basement troll, Your Sensei…
Report Post »Unix
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:46pmi WILL BACK bURNT ON THIS 100%, DOESN’T the TRUTH hurt Sensei-less, you liberal toads have nothing but sharp tongues with nothing to back it up…amoebas such as yourself should push off back to the water, from whence you came, slime ball. Go back to huff&puff compost, dry up and blow away, make like a tree and leave, whatever your fance, just quit spouting your nonesenes here.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:19pmI wonder if he was indwelt by Satan way back then.
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:40pmNo, that won’t happen until after he comes back to life after someone tries to assassinate him by shooting him in the head.
Report Post »1389AD
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 7:42pmYep.
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:17pmJeez, that initial picture is eerily reminiscent of the Anti-Christ picture in the “Left Behind” movies……
Probably just a coincidence………….
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:40pmwhat a backdrop for him. totally right out of LEFT BEHIND and other wellknowns like THE STAND and THE OMEN… . Carpathian, Randall Flagg, Damian.. obama. it’s pretty great we can still all recognize Evil when we see it portrayed.
Report Post »your sensei
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:16pmGoody goody good. I love flashback fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Vs5570pKw
Report Post »TexasHunter
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:39pmWhat is your point. That Bill Clinton is a cheater and should have been impeached just like Owebama? YES SENSIE !! You got that correct !! Maybe you are coming around for the very first time.
Report Post »your sensei
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:54pmMy point, Texas, is that your half a man W is a lying incompetent Connecticut cowboy whose only interest was in lining the pockets of KBR buddies.
Report Post »umreb78
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:31pmSensei…Can your nose be surgically removed from Barry’s ass or is that a permanent disfigurement? You need to give the computer back to the adults and head out to Zuccotti…You never know…maybe your on the General Assembly’s arrest list for today…Liberalism is an uncurable disease and you might very well be critical.
Report Post »pap pap
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:16pmNo way on earth he could have done that without a teleprompter. He couldn’t tell you his own name without a teleprompter.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:25pmDid you notice that his speech pattern is different than now? .. less pauses and emphasis where they don’t belong.
TEA!
Report Post »JRook
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:26pmYea and I’m sure you could get through Harvard Law school and make law review. But that’s right, when in doubt find fault in his intelligence. Hey, I agree he is a deer in the headlights in terms of Washington politics. But disrespecting him and dumping on him for the sake of doing it, reflects back on the individuals who do just that.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:51pm@JROOK…
Have you heard him without a teleprompter .. speaking the truth is not “dumping on him” .. the man can not speak without it. Obama flubs …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoBh2cHETeI
TEA!
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:58pm@Jrook
Learning to be a paid researcher and person who likes to argue for fun is hardly a challenge. Sorry.
And one does not have to impugn the intellect of Obama, he brings himself down to sub 100 IQ every time he’s off teleprompter.
Report Post »kcares
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:02pmHe doesn’t remember which one he is suspost to, depends on who he is talking to. He just had an Austrialian accent on his latest vacation.
Report Post »Eggcellent
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:01amThat‘s because he has so many different names that it’s difficult for him to remember which one he’s operating under on any given day! For REAL giggles, some news journalist should ask him what his Social Security number is – most of us have THAT piece of information memorized.
As a side note, I wonder if we’ll be seeing a picture of Chairman Mao on the White House Christmas tree again this year?
Report Post »alphahusky
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:15pmI didn‘t know they had teleprompters in ’91… :D
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:27pmFlash cards or TV screen scrolling were common
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:15pmYah… we know… we’re Bad!
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:09pmWho’da thunk….
Report Post »Twenty years later and he has done more damage to this country than anyone before him, including Hirohito…