We had a fucking school assembly to warch his inauguration when I was in 11th grade. I’m Canadian. People were tired of Bush and he had the being black thing which meant we could say racism is over. I got kicked out of the assembly for talking loudly with my friend about waiting until he accomplished for anyone other than himself before celebrating. In all fairness to the teachers or whatever my friend and I are white and a lot of the school I went to was black and being a teenager I was not socially aware enough that when in a mostly black high school, criticizing Obama during his inauguration could easily get my ass kicked and I should read the room and talk about it later or more quiet, but I was 16. For whatever reason in biology class the same year we had to debate abortion, which is more of a social studies thing, which i did point out. Anyway, one kid figured abortion was wrong cause you have no way of knowing if that kid ‘might be the next Obama.’. This was pretty easy to counter that they could also be the next Hitler, but what Obama had done fuck all at that point as well, hed been in office for 3 months or so. Gitmo was open, still had a couple pointless wars and Americans still didnt have social medical care, I wouldnt even expect them in that time frame. Being treated like Obama seems like an ADHD dream, getting credit for doing something when all you’ve done is talk about your cool idea. People would think I was DaVinci reborn if I had the same leeway he was given. I had to stick to the abortion topic so I didnt go into Obama at that time, but it came to mind. It was a hella easy debate cause the teacher was already pro choice and the only person against abortion was the one person using the Obama argument, I said there was a whole waste disposal bin for potential Obama’s in the girl’s bathroom and the socks and wastebaskets of every dude in this class is absolutely brimming with potential Obama’s left to waste before given a chance at life. Because I was in high school and was talking about periods and jacking off, it hit really hard with the class and kinda just ended the whole thing which we shouldnt have been doing in bio class anyway