Digital Social Hour - The Obama Effect: How It Changed America Forever | Titus Smith DSH #836

Episode Date: October 27, 2024

🔍 Dive into "The Obama Effect: How It Changed America Forever" on Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🎙️ This episode is packed with valuable insights as we dissect how Obama's presidency reshaped race relations in America. Join us and guest Titus Smith from the Heritage Foundation for an engaging conversation covering political shifts, media influence, and the ongoing cultural dialogues sparked by the Obama era. Are you ready to challenge your perspectives and explore new ideas? Tune in now and don't miss out on this thought-provoking discussion! 💡 Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 Join the conversation and share your thoughts in the comments below. #obama #kamalaharris #uselection #barackobama #useconomy CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 05:40 - Obama's Divisiveness, Polarization, Political Impact 08:37 - Obama’s Presidency, Achievements, Legacy 12:38 - Should Porn Be Banned, Ethics, Social Impact 15:41 - If You Could Ask Trump Anything, Questions, Insights APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail] GUEST: Titus Smith https://www.instagram.com/titusellissmith/ https://www.youtube.com/@titusellissmith LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I don't remember his name. He was a black guy. He said that race relations were on an all-time high around 2011, 2013, and then this went down this massive decline. That was during Obama's year as a president's name, because if you're going to sit there and tell black people over and over and over again, you know, this country's racist, and yada, yada, yada, which is so funny because you're the president. How are you a black president and you're trying to perpetrate this lie that we were so behind and the country's so racist, you're the president how are you a black president and you're trying to perpetrate

this lie that like we were so behind and like the country's always you're literally the president right i don't understand that all right guys here with titus smith at the heritage foundation in dc first time here for both of us right yes first no not first time in dc but first time in the heritage oh nice so you're out here a lot probably for your content, right? I've been here. No, actually, no. I've been here a couple times. I remember in like 2018, I went to CUFI. It was a Christians United for Israel thing.

And, you know, I didn't know anything about it. I was going to write it for free. I was like, sure, I'll go to a free trip to DC. And I went to the White House about 10 times. Oh, that's cool. I thought it was not actually, but I went outside just to see it because I'm like, this is sweet. And Trump was in office at the time. Nice. I was like, this is so cool And Trump was in office at the time. Nice.

I was like, this is so cool. That's a life goal of mine to get inside the White House. Yeah. That'd be sweet. I would, of course. I heard they do tours. Oh, they do? I could be totally wrong.

That's surprising because of security. Yeah. I think, I mean, I think it's like, well, maybe I'm completely off. Maybe it's somewhere else. But I could have sworn someone said they did tours. Yeah. Anyways. I mean, we'll get there one day.

It's pretty hard, but in our space, it's it's possible yeah literally so because when we talk about trump i like a video and be like hey you can you can come over to white house if he wins hopefully otherwise you gotta do it the hard way and win an nba championship or something right right or like be super woke and get like some sort of medal from somebody yeah be a veteran or something yeah yeah but maybe we'll interview him one day who knows you know hopefully we're right you guys have a great platform you too man thank you yeah everyone here honestly i know i've met some great people i know i meet people and i'm like dang you're massive how did i not see yeah it's so weird because i just saw your clip with pac-man like the day before i meet you like i saw and i

was like yeah the timing of it was nuts because that was my first big like political interview yeah i've done carrie lake and tul, but those episodes got shadow banned because they're on the right. Yeah, of course. So when I did that one, obviously it blew up on Instagram and YouTube and everywhere. So now I'm like, damn, I got to have on more of these liberals. You got to bring on all the liberals. I got to bring Destiny. Destiny next.

I was going to say Destiny's next. I got to have AOC. I got to have all of them. But you seem pretty nice and chill. So I feel like Destiny, he only combats really hard with people that are like coming at Him as yeah, I try to stay as neutral as possible on the Pacman one It was actually the most I've been tested because he was coming at me Yeah, which I guess has never done before so I had to look defend myself a little bit

I don't like when people do that then I've noticed he does that with a lot of people interviews I don't listen to him what he just comes off very kind of sending it seems rude I'm like, bro, you can just can we have a simple conversation yeah we're trying to understand each other's points of view and size and everything yeah i couldn't tell if it was confidence arrogance or a little of both yeah it was definitely i mean from i saw him on patrick david one time too and i was like bro you're just so condescending like i saw that one you talk to people as if they're like beneath you and like you have this this weird sense of like superiority or moral superiority yeah i don't know it's weird there are some people on the left that i i don't mind like i think cuban's interesting

mark you yeah i yeah i've seen he just um i think banned pbd because pbd oh he banned him i'm pretty sure on twitter because or blocked blocked him i can't speak blocked him because he keeps calling him out for like saying all these good things about trump back in like 2015 or something like that so uh he's like what changed bro why are you so you know woke now you know i'm paraphrasing but no i've seen that i've seen grant cardone say that about him too yeah apparently did you see that thing where he had a tv show that flopped and trump sent him something in the mail mark cuban yeah he had a reality tv show that flopped and trump was doing the apprenticerentice at the time. So he sent him like something in the mail

and was like making fun of him. Oh, no, he didn't. Yeah, I got to send you this. Oh, is that what made him? People theorize that's where it started. I think I did briefly hear something like, I didn't know what it was, but I remember hearing there was something that happened

that made Mark hate Trump. Because it seems personal with him because he's such a smart guy. I know. But just think about it. And this is what frustrates me about people that are like either rich or fam well all the famous people are rich too it's like you make all this money and it's like if that was your reasoning mark cuban how like how can you justify supporting someone whose economic like policies of like you know really hurt americans financially

just because you don't like them just because he sent you something if he like allegedly did this thing where he sent you something in the mail, it's like, you're a billionaire. Like, you're not as effective. You are effective, so a little bit. Your businesses probably falter a little bit. Not falter, but struggle more than they would under a good economy. Like, let it go.

Yeah. Let it go and vote for the person that's going to do better. Yeah, he's got some beef with Elon, too, it seems like. Yeah, the billionaire beef is going on. It's crazy. Yeah, but I like him in the sense of

he'll go on right wing podcasts he's been on Vivek's show he's been on some other big right wing shows and he'll actually

talk with people so I respect that that's good at least you can find some middle ground yeah exactly and I don't know much I watch a few episodes

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I've heard of it, and I remember being like, why do people like this show? And I never knew about what it was. Gaming Ontario. you do it's like oh man it's just so cool to be able to pitch something and it's cool to see like things like the ring doorbell and like yeah things that like even if you didn't work out with them yeah and this is like neuro gum i think that does well too now or something it's like cool seeing people that were on there and either they got you know um invested in or they didn't because they didn't think it was a good deal and then they still were successful absolutely did you see the clip of obama kind of looking upset with the black guys oh, yeah. I just literally just made a video on this. Oh, yeah. That pissed me off. Really?

Yeah. You mean when he was telling them that like, you know, the black men aren't supporting Kamala thing? Yeah. I was like, bro, shut up. I was like, how can you? One, you are the biggest divider of races that any athletic president has ever been, at least in like the modern times.

People say that about Trump. So you think it was Obama that was the biggest father? Oh, for sure. Trump is not divisive in the sense of racist. He says, oh, illegal immigration is bad. We need to get all the illegal immigrants out of here. We need to secure our borders. Say, make merry Christmas again.

Obviously, he'll name call, and he'll like, he's a very, what's the word? Stubborn. Yeah, stubborn. But he just says what's on his mind he's very like you know whatever comes to my head i'm gonna say and some people like us people don't i think it's funny but i understand he's not not everybody's everybody's cup of tea right but like he's not as bad as they try and say but with obama he was so divisive and so slyly divisive because there is some guy who was on the view I don't remember his name but he was a black guy and I think he's independent he said he did he would vote for Republican or Democrat and he said that race relations were like on an

all-time high around like 2011 2013 and then this went down this massive like decline and I was prior to Trump's reign you know so that was during Obama's years of presidency. And I remember him just doing so many things, whether it be like focusing on police brutality and all this stuff that causes a divide within like races. Because if you're going to sit there and tell black people over and over and over again, you're a victim and like, you know, this country is racist and yada, yada, yada. They're going to believe it. This is a president, which is so funny because you're the president you're black how are you a black president and you're trying to perpetrate this lie that like we were so behind and like the country's so racist you're literally the president right i don't understand that and he was super divisive and he's still divisive and he's literally saying vote against your own best interest because she's black and then he said he said

she goes to the same schools as you or schools you like hbcu she's just like you she has same experiences as you and i'm like you don't know my experience what are you talking about how do you mean the same experience is like just because we're black yeah we have the same skin tone not even the same skin tone yeah yeah some yeah who knows what she is she's half black one minute. You need a DNA test on that. Honestly, I mean, she looks like she could be black. I'm not going to sit there and say she isn't. That's not even like, why are we talking about that?

Yeah. That's irrelevant, right? But even still, she never talked about how she was black. At least publicly, the public didn't really know. It was always she was an Indian. She ran on being an Indian. She was making dinners with Mindy Kaling. There was something.

And like, that was her, her heritage and everything that she spoke about from what, from what I had seen. Yeah. Most people had seen. Because as soon as she was black, we were like, huh? She is? Oh, okay. For real. Yeah.

I remember growing up, my parents voted, both voted for Obama. And I was actually really excited when he became president. But I, over the years, I just don't feel the same about him. Yeah. And he, my thing is he's a great speaker. He came off came off so cool like i remember when he was running i mean i was younger obviously and uh i was my parents were pastors so we're considered conservative and i remember my dad wanted mccain and romney when they were opposing obama but i remember thinking like when he did win i was like this is really cool you, he's a black president. That's, that's cool that we've had that, you know, and you would think

that would have been like one of the greatest unifiers for the country. And yet somehow after his presidency, we are all more divided. Wow. I never even thought of it that way, but you're spot on. That's crazy, right? Yeah. Everyone just put the blame on Trump and I never really like looked into the numbers of it. Yeah, no, Trump just pointed out things nobody wanted to acknowledge. Like, I don't think pointed out things nobody wanted to acknowledge. I don't think illegal immigration was something that was really being talked about. Yeah. It slowly started becoming more of a social issue thing.

And the social issue thing makes no sense to me that that's a thing we focus on when that affects small demographics of people. Like whether it be LGBT or like feminism, whatever, although when you focus solely on that, not saying that you shouldn't accommodate certain things to some people, but like our politicians should be focusing on like economy and like border security and foreign relations, things that actually affect everyone. Like with the border secure, there's not illegals coming in,

funneling drugs, killing people, you know, making them scared to like go out the house or and when the economy is like thriving people can do like you know take risk with business or whatever just have more money in their pockets and all that kind of stuff that's what helps everyone so why are you focusing on like small demographics of people to get their vote when you could do things to help everybody yeah i don't understand that thing and obviously both sides pander to some degree but the leftists are like this emotional argument over and over again is super it's i mean at this point i think people are over it yeah that's why like there's so much even more there's more and more support for trump over and over

again but it's just like i don't understand why you would cause so much division um in the name of like unity in the name of like love in the name of acceptance i also don't understand the love and acceptance thing because you can love someone and not accept them yeah like i i love tons of people i don't accept their lifestyle they don't accept what they do like i don't understand the those shouldn't be infused it should be together you can love someone and not accept their lifestyle yeah a parent that loves their child that's a serial killer because that's their child but they don't accept their lifestyle. Yeah. A parent that loves their child, that's a serial killer because that's their child, but they don't accept their lifestyle. I was just like,

I hope they don't. So, I don't know. Right, there's a difference there. Yeah, some people won't draw that line with politics. No, it's like, you must love and accept, and if you don't accept me,

you don't accept my lifestyle, you hate me. Whoa. I don't hate you. I don't hate anyone. I literally do not hate anyone. There's people that annoy me. There's people that I get frustrated with

with things they say publicly online. And I, even myself personally, I'm a christian and like i've been very like jokey and like i'm not going to stop being a joke but and i joke while i was crazy that'll be clipped yeah yeah joke but i'm not going to stop joking but i do want to do better at like not like being cruel to people that have they're're struggling. Like mentally, clearly, you know, I don't, I make these videos and I made a video the other day saying I'm done making fun of these people.

I want to actually help them because that sucks that they're going through some sort of mental decline in like our government and our politicians. They're not doing anything to help them. Actually, they're enabling their, their behaviors and their lifestyles. Um, and then these people like are suicidal and it's just terrible. And then these people, like, are suicidal. And it's just terrible. So I was like, I want to do a better job of that.

Like, I'm not going to be perfect. I'm probably still going to make a joke because some of these people are pioneers for, like, indoctrinating young children to believe that they could be something that they're not and so on and so on. And so I'm just like, that part frustrates me. And so I'm like, leave these kids alone.

But then I'm also like, you obviously were a kid. You obviously have been messed up to some degree in your head over something that happened whether it was molestation or you just like people were telling you something you weren't or whatever the reason may be but um yeah i want to do a better job with how i go about that topic yeah and some of the indoctrination you've spoken up against is in the porn industry right so you're not a fan of porn no and i saw you tweet like should it be banned basically uh i yeah i do think it should be banned for sure um because like from i struggled with that a lot of men i struggled with that like hard i know guys that do it three four times a day yeah i mean when i was in high school it's probably about that you know it's

i was it was a problem and it's because when it's it's accessible and like people oh bro you can't control this and like they want to make fun of people that you know claim to struggle with that but that really affects people a lot and it's really and it's not necessary it's harmful it also makes you look at women in a disrespectful like manner you think like you can treat them the way that they're treated and it's like oh it's a hot and it's this and it's like no i mean whatever you decide to do in the better with your own wife or whatever it's fine obviously like it's just y'all's business but this it's like i think it's tied to like it's a porn addiction side there's so many negative things whether it be the way you treat women whether it be uh becoming like i think

some some serial killers have like been like admitted to being addicted i think ted bundy admitted that he thinks that has something to do with being, uh, becoming what he became was he was addicted to porn and he was raised up because he was raised in a good Christian household. He said, and he said, um, I mean,

this is an interview I watched years ago. So I'm assuming, I'm assuming this is exactly what he said, but it was something around that. And I was like, shoot, that makes sense. You know,

cause you do desensitize yourself to like women's feelings and 100 and like all these things when you're when you're addicted and watching stuff like that because they won't like it's hot to the girl in the in the video but like she's not a real girl yeah you know and so it's just being paid to act that way yeah and it's i don't there's so many more factors someone could explain better but it's just i think it should be banned there's a lot of things i think that's something that would be a net positive yeah for the world it seems like it's heading in the right direction certain states require age verification now right that's great which is great great first step very great step and then obviously the only fans uh people will be pissed at me for saying oh

yeah i've had a few of them on the show oh they make the bread and butter it's like you're you're really harming people in their psyche there There was a clip on the Whatever podcast where there's this Christian YouTuber named Ruslan who I really like. Yeah. And he kind of does what I do, just more in a Christian sense. Even though I am a Christian,

he really talks about and educates young men and people in the faith or whatever. He talked to Adam 22, and I think his wife might have been on too with him. And he just really was like, you could see in Adam 22's eyes that he knew might've been on too with them. And he just really, it was like, you could see in Adam 22 eyes that he knew what he was doing was wrong. Like,

how do you feel that you've like affected so many young men, you know, enable their addictions, enable all these things that like in the long run harm them for temporal, uh, gratification in a small minute moment that hurts them for a long time to come. And it was just like,

I hate that that so many men young men or even older men go through that problem that could easily be gone like wow i know it's a billion dollar business right so but so it's huge business nothing is gonna go away but it would be super beneficial to the world if it was yeah um if you could we're gonna send this to trump's team if you could could ask Trump any question, what would you ask him? Selfishly, can you fix the censorship problem? Facts. That have been banned.

But really, will you do all the things that you said you were going to do? Will you re-implement, secure our border? Will you make our economy thrive? I really just want people to be able to have a better life in America. And will you really deliver on that? Because some people are skeptical.

Like, and I don't think it's necessarily valid skepticism because he did a good job the first time around, but like, you know, I saw Nick Flint just said something about

he's going to do all these things, he's going to start a war, he's going to do this. And I'm like, if he does that, that'd be terrifying. Because he did such a

good time a job at the time before and come out here and says we already know she's gonna be trashed so i really hope that he you know just delivers on what he said he's gonna deliver on absolutely shout out to trump man thanks for coming on yeah thank you