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Samuel L. Jackson To Obama: “Stop Trying To ‘Relate’” and “Be F**king Presidential”

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12:14 pm, September 24th, 2013

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Samuel L. Jackson criticizes President Obama in the October issue of Playboy, telling the leader to “stop trying to ‘relate’” to the public and “be f**king presidential.”

After ranting about the importance of good grammar, the interviewer asks the star what he thinks about “President Obama or other highly educated Americans consciously drop[ping] gs off the ends of words to sound like Joe Average.”

Jackson replies, “First of all, we know it ain’t because of his blackness, so I say stop trying to ‘relate.’ Be a leader. Be f**king presidential.”

The actor continues, “Look, I grew up in a society where I could say ‘It ain’t’ or ‘What it be’ to my friends. But when I’m out presenting myself to the world as me, who graduated from college, who had family who cared about me, who has a well-read background, I f**king conjugate.”

What do you think about Jackson’s advice for Obama?

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Azealia Banks: If Obama Invades Syria, U.S. Will Never Have Another Black President

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6:11 pm, September 7th, 2013

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Azealia Banks has recently feuded with Lady Gaga — and now she’s speaking out against President Obama’s plans for military intervention in Syria.

On Saturday, the rapper expressed her disapproval with a series of tweets in which she questioned whether the Obama administration might be in a “diabolical ego race” with rivals like Russia and Iran, and declared, “America should mind it’s [sic] business this time.”

She then wrote, “And FORREAL, Obama is like the black American superman. He can’t ruin the end of his presidency with this. I THINK: If Obama invades Syria, America will never have another black president.”

Check out Banks’ full rant below, and tell us what you think.

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President Obama: “I Did Tear Up” Watching Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Oprah “Can Act”

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8:44 pm, August 27th, 2013

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President Obama revealed he shed a few tears while watching Lee Daniels’ The Butler.

The movie, which is based the life of late White House butler Eugene Allen, who served under eight presidents, has topped the box office for the last two weeks.

Speaking on “Tom Joyner Morning Show” in a radio interview broadcast Tuesday, the President shared how the film moved him.

“I did tear up,” said Obama, explaining, “I teared up just thinking about not just the butlers who have worked here in the White House, but an entire generation of people who were talented and skilled, but because of Jim Crow (segregation laws), because of discrimination, there was only so far they could go.”

Obama also praised the acting in the movie, which has garnered early Oscar buzz.

“All of the acting was terrific, and I thought Forest Whitaker was wonderful,” he said. ”And Oprah, my girl, she can act.”

Of his own White House staff, the President says, “I will tell you that the butlers who are now here in the White House, when we first arrived, when Michelle and the girls just — first arrived, they could not have been kinder to us and warmer to us.”

He continues, ”And part of it, I suspect, is they look at Malia and Sasha and they say, well, this looks like my grandbaby, or this looks like my daughter.”

“And I think for them to have a sense that we’ve come that far was a powerful moment for them, and certainly a powerful moment for us,” says Obama, adding, “We love them to death.  They look after us just wonderfully.”

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