See What Barack Obama Thinks About African-Americans

Last week, as a part of a series of conversations, President Barack Obama spoke to author Ta-Nehisi Coates about a variety of topics, with one of them being reparations for African-Americans. Many African-Americans have voiced their opinion about the idea of reparations being given to their people, especially considering the lasting impact of the Jim Crow era and slavery on the community. During the interview, Barack Obama mentioned that he felt African-Americans deserved reparations, but that he did not think it would be politically achievable. Obama said that wrongs done to the black community should be acknowledged, and that "society has a moral obligation to make a large, aggressive investment, even if it’s not in the form of individual reparations checks, but in the form of a Marshall Plan, in order to close those gaps [of wealth and education]."

Obama kept it real about getting support from Congress for reparations, saying, "I’m not so optimistic as to think that you would ever be able to garner a majority of an American Congress that would make those kinds of investments above and beyond the kinds of investments that could be made in a progressive program for lifting up all people." He then went on to put his entire idea into a clear perspective, saying, "I have much more confidence in my ability, or any president or any leader’s ability, to mobilize the American people around a multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment to help every child in poverty in this country than I am in being able to mobilize the country around providing a benefit specific to African Americans as a consequence of slavery and Jim Crow."

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Would Obama Have Beaten Trump?

Fair Game Is That, Donald is a straight up kind of guy, He speaks strait out of his mind without thinking. Look at the picture above, it tells a'lot. For Trump, Obama was to look him in the eye during the shake, to Donald, since he did not, Trump wish's he would have ran against Obama instead of Romney.

In an interview with David Axelrod released yesterday, December 26th, President Obama claimed that he would have defeated Donald Trump had he been allowed to run for a third term. "I'm confident that if I — if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could've mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it," Mr. Obama said.

President-elect responded on Twitter with a firm denial that Obama could have beaten him.

It's an interesting debate: President Obama won the popular vote in both the 2008 and 2012 election, while Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 but did not defeat Hillary Clinton in the popular vote.

Obama stressed his admiration for Clinton and said she had been the victim of unfair attacks. But, as he has in other exit interviews, he insisted that her defeat was not a rejection of the eight years of his presidency. To the contrary, he argued that he had put together a winning coalition that stretched across the country but that the Democratic Party and the Clinton campaign had failed to follow through on it.

 "Look, the Affordable Care Act benefits a huge number of Trump voters. There are a lot of folks in places like West Virginia or Kentucky who didn't vote for Hillary, didn't vote for me, but are being helped by this . . . The problem is, is that we're not there on the ground communicating not only the dry policy aspects of this, but that we care about these communities, that we're bleeding for these communities."

Nonetheless, the president, who has done relatively few interviews with mainstream media organisations, repeated his long-stated complaint that the media has filtered his message and that he is subject to unfair criticism by outlets such as Fox News.

 Donald Trump responded to Barack Obama on Monday after the president claimed he could have won a third term in the White House if he had been the Democratic nominee instead of Hillary Clinton.

"President Obama said that he thinks he would have won against me," the president-elect tweeted. "He should say that but I say NO WAY! - jobs leaving, ISIS, OCare, etc."

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+Teyana Taylor has been featured in The Wrap-Up Magazine's Top 5 Hottest Photos. Teyana Taylor (born December 10, 1990), is an American recording artist and actress from Harlem, New York. In 2007.

New Air Jordan XX3 Chicago

Dressed in a University Red and Gum Yellow color scheme. This “Chicago” edition of the Air Jordan XX3 feature a full Red leather. Should this Air Jordan XX3 "Chicago" surface as a retail offering (perhaps at Jordan Brand's new stand-alone store in Chicago?)

They include upper that includes the city’s skyline graphic near the heel, along with Gum Yellow detailing throughout as well as the outsole. Other details include “CHI” and “CITY” embroidered on the sides, as well as Chicago’s area codes of “773” and “312” seen on the inside of the tongues.

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This had been a debated decision all over the globe. Tupac Shakur has been inducted into the Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame. Tupac "2Pac" Shakur will be officially inducted in April 2017 as part of the incoming class of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

New Nike Air Force 1 Leather Collection

Nike Air Force 1 Low Leather Tongue is currently available at select Nike Sportswear retailers for a retail price of $100. Basketball leather has a very specific texture and it’s not often thought of as luxurious until it’s repurposed. Nike has taken the special cloth to the next level with this cool take on their Air Force 1.

 The Basketball Leather Nike Air Force 1 is a pair that features pebbled leather covering its entire upper with a hit of tonal textile laying below the swoosh. The pair gets a bit of varsity dealing by way of the outlined swoosh and fuzzy chenille tongue tag. Two colorways including tan and red or black and grey are both given white outsoles to keep the continuity.

Kirsten Price Top 5 Hottest Photos

Kirsten Price (born November 13, 1981 is the stage name of a U.S. pornographic actress, model, and cable television show host. Price was born in Providence, Rhode Island and is of French and Italian descent.

 She was raised in Massachusetts. She has also lived in New York City, where she worked as a go-go dancer and cocktail waitress. Price attended Fisher College for 18 months and was a criminal justice major.

 In 2006, Price appeared as one of four finalists (and the eventual winner) on the first season of the reality TV program My Bare Lady. In March 2006, Jesse Jane and Price became the hosts of Playboy TV's most popular live show, Night Calls, and Price has previously hosted the Playboy TV series The Bang.

 Price co-hosted the 2010 AVN Awards show, along with porn actress Kayden Kross and comedian Dave Attell. In 2010 and 2011, Price appeared several times, including as an extreme sports correspondent, on the G4TV late-night program "Rated A For Adult.

 So The Wrap-Up Magazine would like to welcome +Kirsten Price to our Top 5 Hottest list.

Would You Like To Visit The Bamboo Forest?

The walking paths that cut through the bamboo groves make for a nice walk or bicycle ride. You can also take a rickshaw ride from the young Japanese men and go through the bamboo forest path and around Arashiyama if you want.

New Nike Air Jordan 8

The new Jordans are here. This time, Nike hits us with the Bugs Bunny edition. You can pick this pair up for $190 on February 25th, 2017. Michael Jordan strapped up the most unique pair of his signature sneakers for the 1992-93 season, literally.