Are Black African Americans Better Off Now, After Re-electing President Obama? (3711 hits)
Are Black African Americans Better Off Now, After Re-electing President Obama?
President Obama lacks the moral courage to stand up and provide justice for Black African Americans who can't afford to “Pay To Play” or lobby his administration. He is an excellent politicians who has mastered the art of political games and he gives great speeches. He never campaigned to solve any problems facing Black African American People, who were his base of supporter. Because of this “Benign Neglect,” policies toward Black African Americans, he might turn out to be the worst President of the last 100 years. At least George W. Bush was not the smartest US President, but he never really pretended to be anything else. Obama played on Black African American’s emotions for real “Hope For Change”. It was a brillient political strategy!
Our group’s chronic suffering continues and we are confused as to whether we should criticize or protect him, by remaining silent about our collective suffering. One Prime Examples: HBO Weekly Documentary Show called VICE, showed how the US Coast Guard help BP spray dispersants (a toxic poison) to break up oil that is now sickening and killing people in the gulf states. President Obama is ignoring their elected representative request for help, which he is very good at doing. VICE also showed why some Yemen Freedom Fighters hate Americans: America is supplying the cluster bombs that are killing men, women and their children. The leftover and unexploded Cluster Bomb materials clearly have "Made In USA" stamped on them. Additionally, the NSA continues spying on All American Citizens: The PBS "Frontline Documentary on Secrets Part I and II” show the corrupt nature of government of the last two administrations. President Obama is a constitutional lawyer and promised to end those unconstitutional spying programs if elected, but after being elected, he lack the moral courage to do so and even increase their usage by spying on All American Citizens without a warrant with to the cooperation of congressional leasders. The one thing that congress and the president could agree on is the spying on its citizens. Don’t forget the $780 Billion Dollars is Stimulus funding given to banks and corporations. His friends like Solyndra Solar Founders who contributed to the Presdent’s election campaign received $535 Million Dollars to make solar panels. The company filed bankruptcy one year later. When have Black African American Companies ever got that kind of access to federal, state, county or city funds. Never, despite being just as innovative and hard working. President Obam is following the unwritten racist policies of denying economic access to Black African Americans.
Even though Obama Care is now working, his administration paid one company over $400 Million Dollars to create a failed website that any group of computer science students could have created for less than 5 million dollars. How much did that company have to contribute (Paid To Play) to get such a reward. Black African American Students, as a collective group, are still failing and his administration has done nothing to close the High School and College Achievement and Graduation Gap, despite pockets of success.
I respect the President, but differ with the results of his leadership and his lack of moral courage to do what is right, ethical, moral, just and fair on behalf of Black African American People, who are directly responsible for his rise out of Chicago. Under his leadership, the rich continued to get richer and the poor have gotten poorer. This is the legacy that he is creating and will be remembered for. That is not a legacy he should want, but if he doesn't find some moral courage soon, it will be his become his reality.
The one thing that I would ask of the President on behalf of Black African Americans is to issue an Executive Order, removing all counterintelligence programs developed in the 1960s by J. Edger Hoover’s FBI and still in use today under Eric Holder Justice Department, designed to destabilize, disrupt, suppress, incarcerate or even assassinate Black African Americans Leaders, who have the courage to advocate for their people. This Executive Order should include a pardon for all political prisoners falsely convicted under Counter Intellegence Program (CoIntelPro) and pay them reparations for their incarceration, pain and suffering. This I know he lacks the moral courage to do this, but he can’t say that no one asked him to do it or he wasn’t aware that it was an issue for Balck African Americans under his administration. Finally, President Obama is not the only example of Poor Black Leadership. We have more Black Politicians, Preachers and Civil Rights Leaders than almost any other group. The condition of our people is directly linked to their poor leadership. They are weak and also lack the moral courage to lead or demand anything be done on behalf of the Black African American People they represent. Columbus Ohio has a three term Black African American Mayor who has presided over a city that spend millions redesigning its downtown, but ignores a Black African American Infant Mortality Rate that is more than twice the national average. This is but one example of Black Mayors, City Council Members, County Commissions and Preachers all across this nation, who should be ashamed of their leadership. Yet they are praised as great examples of Black Leadership and held up as a model of leadership for other Black African Americans. They have been groomed to be safe and none demanding of resouces and economic solutions that would advance the interest of their people.
It is Black African American People’s responsibility to demand representation, resources and solutions to address and solve our problems. If left alone by our own government, we have to ability, resoures and education to come together to solve our own problems. Like most Black African Americans, who are not drunk off the wine of Obama Gin and Jucie (Mezmorized By A Black Face In The Highest Place), we must focus on creating our own economic and social empowerment. To do so, we need a National Black Empowerment Plan like The Quiet Resolution or PowerNomics written by Dr. Claud Anderson of the The Harvest Institute, a Washington DC based Black Think Tank. Our enemies’ goal is to maintain racisit policies at every level of society that have kept Black African Americans in our current status.
Are Black African Americans better off in 2014, after having elected and re-electing President Barack Obama? I personally think not, when I examine the data or Black African American’s Poverty Rates, Income Inequality, Education Outcomes, Unemployement Rates, Infant Mortality Rates, Access to Business Capital, Health Rates, Access To Federal, State, County and City Funding for Economic Development, Home Ownership Rates, Incarceration Rates, Community Violence Rates, Number of Children In Foster Care, and Divorce Rates, ect, ect, ect.. This data should help you answer this question. The entire world is judging President Obama by how he treats his own people and he doesn’t seem to realize it or doesn’t care. He can request billions for Isreal, Poland and other countries, but has no such request to address and solve Black African American Problems. Leadership Solves Problems Without Fear or Excuses!
Charles: The key to answering your question is to research the facts not emotions. This guy Obama was born from a Kenya Hamitic African father and a Caucasian Jewish mother. Now we so-called black people are from Hebrew lineage and that has been documented historically by many sources.
The dude is not part of "OUR" nationality period !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Second we must understand how power works, we as a people need to integrate vertically and horizontally in terms of economics.
This insane loyalty to one part (Democrats) is not helping our cause, not that I'm defending the Republican party either.
Because the way the game is set-up is through lobbying, in effect making sure that the servants in the legislative branch respect and serve our interest.
Now don't expect all so-called black americans to be part of this movement because many lack the knowledge, skill, to understand the process.
That is cool because we all have our own strengths and weaknesses.
We as people need to understand that power respects power and cheering on this Obama guy because he is black is not going to help our cause.
Look at his record according to an article published in the Federalist as follows:
Politics
The Failed Presidency of Barack Obama
He promised to bring us together. Instead, he drove us apart.
Ben Domenech By Ben Domenech June 4, 2014
The events of the past week illustrate the degree to which Barack Obama has become a failed president.
When Obama burst onto the national scene, he almost immediately became an inspirational figure. His promise spoke to our hearts as Americans and our desire for dramatic change in the wake of the fractious Bush years. His personal story and his optimism about the future sounded an affirming and uplifting note at a time when Americans were losing their hope for what tomorrow could bring. For a moment, it seemed like the promise of a uniter, not a divider, could provide leadership which – whatever Obama’s personal ideology – could lead to a healthier politics and a less fractured society.
Obama’s tenure in office has turned all these hopes into despair – despair in the corruption of our institutions, in the capability of our government, in our ability to manage large systems and more. Consider just the events of the past few days: the slow-rolling scandal of how we care for our Veterans, full of mismanagement, denials, and a growing awareness that this problem was shoved under the rug for years; the White House’s decision to embark on a top-down monopartisan environmental policy which will squeeze the working class and make energy more expensive; and of course, Obama’s decision to trade five high ranking terrorists for an apparent American deserter in Afghanistan, a decision which directly ignores the law of the land and will almost certainly lead to future deaths.
In these arenas, we see the Obama administration at its worst: willing to engage in irresponsible and occasionally illegal acts, bowling their way through mismanagement and cronyism and the rule of law to achieve their aims, no matter the cost. It is the same approach they used in his single domestic policy achievement – Obamacare – and they have not stopped using it since.
And there will be costs. Not for Obama, of course – for him, there are no consequences except bad poll numbers. He doesn’t appear to care about those any more. But the latest CNN numbers are as grim as it gets. For Obama on the issues, the poll finds him on the wrong side of roughly 60 percent of Americans across the board: Economy 38-61, Health care 36-63, Foreign affairs 40-57, Budget 31-67, Immigration 35-61, Guns 33-64, Afghanistan 42-56, VA medical facilities 37-58, Ukraine 38-53. His overall approval is 43-55, down to 34-63 among independents. And when it comes to helping the middle class, the main issue Obama has trumpeted with his rhetoric on inequality and class division, he’s upside down to the tune of 40-58. But why would he care? Anna Wintour doesn’t.
So there are no consequences for Obama, other than the occasional dings of the press or jabs from Joel McHale or Jon Stewart. For his party, though, there could be other consequences at the ballot box in 2014 and 2016. The candidates know this – which is why on Obamacare, and on the EPA rules, and on Bergdahl, Democratic candidates in Kentucky and Georgia and elsewhere will be holding Obama at arm’s length, sticking to local issues and promises of pork. But that’s hard to do – John ****erson has this comparison: “Imagine being a short-order cook in an earthquake. Every time you try to flip a burger or try to plate a fried egg, the freezer door flies open or the gas line gets knocked out. That’s what it’s like to be a Democrat running for the Senate this year. When you’re trying to keep voters focused on the local race, a national issue intrudes.” And not in a good way.
In the end, Obama’s legacy will not be a stronger Democratic party or a nation that is happier, more harmonious, and more free. People will not look back on these years as good for the country, for our politics or our people. And as for his policy legacy, the repeal of his only real domestic achievement of significance, Obamacare, will be a core issue accepted by every Republican presidential candidate in 2016. The opposition to Obamacare is motivated, but its supporters aren’t. And Republicans will absolutely make its deconstruction their central aim should they win.
Why did this happen? Why did Obama fail? The typical answer from the left is one of racism or bigotry or Republican extremism. More even-handed analysts seem to believe that Obama tried to do too much, that he was a poor technocrat or struggled with mismanagement, or that the job of the presidency is just too big.
But I would suggest it’s Obama’s inability to actually live up to his promise as a unifier of people which proved his undoing. Maybe it’s not his fault. Coming up in a Democratic state and a Democratic city, he lacked the ability to work across lines of ideology from the get-go, and if he failed to initially convince people to agree with him on something, he had no desire to keep working at it to convince them otherwise or the personal diplomacy to meet them halfway. Charlie Cook’s latest piece nods in the direction of this idea, but this line strikes me as off the mark: “The notion that “where you stand depends on where you sit” seems to cut little ice in our increasingly rigid society, when tolerance for different points of view is becoming increasingly rare.”
The real source of the problem Cook identifies isn’t universal intolerance for other points of view, but intolerance on one side of the debate for any legitimate reasoning to legislate according to their points of view. Where in the absence of national consensus conservatives reject federal law imposing something, typically favoring state level legislation instead, liberals in the Obama era cry racism or bigotry or worse. One side of the American body politic is willing to accept principled disagreement as a signal that an issue is either unsuited to or unripe for a federal response; while the other sees it as authorization to bypass the democratic process and impose their will by any means available.
Under the Constitution, the government is supposed to protect the rights of both the country mouse who opposes cap and trade and the Bergdahl swap equally. But we are seeing the left reject this more and more as it evolves into a formalizing religion of the state, under which error has no rights, dissent must be crushed, and the law can be ignored at whim. Barack Obama has helped drive that process, and that is the legacy he will leave.
“What embitters the world,” G.K. Chesterton wrote, “is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.” The Obama of 2008 promised he would end divisiveness by bringing us together – instead, as president, he has sought to end divisiveness by forcing everyone to accept his views. And in the end, he has achieved neither.
Are Black African Americans better off after Obama's reelection? You are asking a wrong and misleading question!
Black Americans will never be better off in White America no matter who the president is since Black Americans and White Americans are racially to different people, but this country exclusively belongs to White Americans. Black Americans must have our own country to be better off.
