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🗓️ 13 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Claire worked in the marketing department for an up-and-coming artisan bakery. |
| 0:05.0 | Unfortunately, the artisan bakery in question was so up-and-coming. |
| 0:10.0 | Nobody actually knew it existed. |
| 0:13.0 | But then she had the really good idea to use Canva to create a business plan. |
| 0:18.0 | It looked good, really, really good. Their investors thought so too. |
| 0:23.7 | And now their hotcakes are selling like, well, exactly. Thanks, Canber. Shortly before |
| 0:32.7 | Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States, he told an enthusiastic crowd |
| 0:39.3 | of supporters that he wanted to fundamentally transform America. |
| 0:45.3 | Over the next eight years, America found out what he meant. |
| 0:49.3 | Three issues epitomized the transformation Obama had in mind. Race relations, health care, and foreign policy. |
| 0:58.0 | Let's take each one in turn. |
| 1:00.0 | Race relations. |
| 1:02.0 | Could it be that when Obama said he wanted to fundamentally transform America, |
| 1:06.0 | he was talking about a post-racial society where skin color didn't matter. |
| 1:11.6 | Indeed, as a biracial American, half-white, half-black, he seemed the perfect figure to make this a reality. |
| 1:19.6 | But it was not to be. Instead, Obama's actions fueled racial division in America. |
| 1:25.6 | In July 2009, when a white police officer briefly arrested a |
| 1:30.7 | black Harvard professor as a suspected burglar, Obama accused the police officer, a man with no |
| 1:37.5 | 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. |
| 1:51.6 | 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. |
| 2:03.5 | His own Justice Department later acquitted the officer of racial animus. |
| 2:08.5 | Whereas, in the decade leading up to Obama's presidency, racial tensions had sharply declined. |
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