It's a sad state of affairs


Stop the Black-on-Black Crime
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This post is written in response to several blog posts incorrectly stating I regret voting for President Obama.

First things first: I DO NOT regret voting for President Barack Obama. I DO believe his heart is in the right place. I DO feel that his intent to bring change to America, to improve the lives of the desolate and poverty stricken is, ultimately, what he is all about. That explains and validates why more than 69 million citizens voted for him in the last Presidential Election. None of them envisioned they would regret doing so, either.

But that doesn’t mean they won’t regret it eventually, that they won’t rue the day they voted for Obama to be this nation’s 44th President, if he continues to spend us into oblivion, neglect addressing unemployment, purportedly weakening our national security – and smiling on the television tube entirely too much while doing so.

As I’ve said on many occasions: I am NOT a Democrat nor a Republican. I am an Independent. That means I have no party affiliation. No partisan agenda. No alterior motives, and neither love nor hate for our President — the man.

When I spoke recently on the ultra-conservative, Mark Levin Show, explaining how an historical perspective played a role in my voting for Obama, I was applauding what his Presidency would represent, how far it would illustrate this nation has come. Also, the message it would send not just to our black youth, but to the rest of the world about exactly what black folks were capable of if, indeed, they were presented to anyone with an open mind, with fairness and God in their heart.

It was not meant for anyone to assume I regret voting for Obama.

Just that I will regret having voted for him if he continues down the path he’s going.

That means the jury’s still out.

Since my segment on the Mark Levin Show, quite a few folks in my community have called me a “Coon,” a “Sellout,” and quite a few other incendiary things I won’t waste my time repeating. One dear friend even had the gall to ask if I were “selling my soul” to get a job on FoxNews, evidently having missed my near 30 appearances on MSNBC within the last two months.

Despite my temptation to reciprocate with my own level of bile, I’ll simply ask: What are they paying attention to?”

At this moment, Obama is still in campaign mode. If he isn’t speaking to five (5) networks in one day, he’s talking about Healthcare reform one day, Health Insurance reform the next. He’s giving yet another press conference, one of more than 125 interviews since he’s taken office, thinking his ubiquitous ways – hilariously classified weeks ago as “Elevator Music…we just can’t get away from him,” by George F. Will on ABC’s THIS WEEK – will somehow convince us to think differently.

Meanwhile, unemployment was last reported at 9.7 percent. While it’s at 8.9 percent in the White Community and over 12 percent in the Hispanic Community, it was at 15.1 percent in a black community, which accounts for approximately 12.5 percent of America’s population. That amounts to nearly 1-out-of-7 African-Americans being unemployed in our country while Obama keeps talking about a Public Option with Healthcare devoid of significant Tort Reform.

Yet, these folks have a problem with ME???

Excuse my ignorance. I just don’t get it!!!

It’s one thing to sit around and ask for Obama to be given a chance, but to act like our President doesn’t even deserve to be questioned or criticized by the Black Community makes no sense.

For those – like my own Mother, who’s disgusted with me – who beg for Obama to be given time for his policies to work, are we really at the point where we can seriously justify vilifying anyone who even questions him eight months into the job?

What about the fact that he’s only spent approximately 11 percent of a $787.2-billion stimulus package he swore was needed urgently and immediately his first weeks in office to curb the proliferation of unemployment? What about that 8.1 percent unemployment rate he vowed would not rise if, indeed, he was granted that stimulus money?

What about Vice President Joe Biden’s admission that “We misread the economy”? Or the administrations’ own projections that our Federal deficit will increase by $9-trillion by the time his 1st term is up? What about proclaimations that the recession is over because we’re losing jobs at a clip of over 200,000-plus per month now instead of at more than 500,000-plus per month? Or the fact that Obama’s reluctance to add more troops in Afghanistan could weaken our Military? This is particularly piercing once taking into account that he already cut the missile defense budget by nearly 15% in April – before giving the impression that he’s in bed with Russia by ditching missile defense plans with Poland and the Czech Republic just last week?

These are legitimate questions. Yes! Even from another Black person – one lucky enough not to have perished in 9/11 via cowardice, terrorist attacks.

So when these questions are provoked by the actions of the Obama Administration, it’s time to stop one of the more prevalent diseases sifting through the Black Community anytime one dares stand up and disagrees with our Commander-in-Chief: That somehow we’ve shed our blackness and sold our souls simply because we have the temerity to say, “Mr. President, it just doesn’t look like you’re getting the job done right now.”

I voted for Barack Obama. I gave the maximum $2,300 donation. I campaigned for him. Got a multitude of individuals to vote for him, some of whom were actually Republicans.

Small efforts like that from millions of Americans got him 52 percent of the popular vote and a victory over John McCain.

So who owes who now?

Enough of this nonsense. It is time for Obama to start getting the job done, mainly by getting folks employed — by someone other than the government — so consumers can start stimulating the economy by spending money and helping businesses flourish once again. It is not time to start questioning the motives of those unimpressed by the administration’s body of work thus far, allowing cynicism towards his critics to cloud their judgement about the President’s level of productivity.

Doesn’t anyone in the Black Community remember what Obama said? He said: So long as we can “disagree without being disagreeable” there’s nothing wrong with questioning our President! And he’s right. Especially since it’s easy to surmise that even while one can disagree with what he’s doing, it’s not as if Obama is to blame for a recession that has stripped away more than 6-million jobs. At least most of the 6-million, anyway.

Fact is, no single politician deserves a free pass. Our democracy demands accountability from it’s elected officials. That’s why Congressional figures go through an election every two years. Why Senators endure the election process every six years.

It’s why people should spend more time questioning what’s really going on in this country, at least striving to educate themselves about the issues.


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Great Article and 100% true....

Gunny, the article at the site wont open

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It’s why people should spend more time questioning what’s really going on in this country, at least striving to educate themselves about the issues.

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That's where so many went wrong when they voted for Obama. They didn't educate themselves with the issues but heard and believed only canpaign promises.

I don't see color when I see Obama, but I do see a man who is not doing his job and who is letting his staff do it for him while he is out making speeches and going on vacations and he's only been in office what 8, 9 months?

Thats what I see, he is letting the Democrat Congress run all over him, why? after all he is the President, Bush at least put a stop to it..Obama lets them run wild...

The democrat party will lose this next go around and they only have themselves to blame.

Personally I don't care what color my President is. I am of course, a registered Independent and have been for years. Now, I don't have any quotes to post here about Obama's past at this juncture. If you have not researched the man by now; IMO you missed it.. But I have heard and seen video about some very outrageous comments he made in the past. His associations, who he has surrounded himself with at the White House. The Van Jones incident. If anyone who has researched what is available on him; it should give them some serious pause. Transparency he promised did not materialize either.

From watching and reading all day long for months on end, I can only come to one conclusion about the current Federal hierarchy. A different ideology is on the rise and it is not Democracy.

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Originally posted by 14713742:
Personally I don't care what color my President is. I am of course, a registered Independent and have been for years. Now, I don't have any quotes to post here about Obama's past at this juncture. If you have not researched the man by now; IMO you missed it.. But I have heard and seen video about some very outrageous comments he made in the past. His associations, who he has surrounded himself with at the White House. The Van Jones incident. If anyone who has researched what is available on him; it should give them some serious pause. Transparency he promised did not materialize either.

From watching and reading all day long for months on end, I can only come to one conclusion about the current Federal hierarchy. A different ideology is on the rise and it is not Democracy.

Concur

Words and associations tell all.

I wish Obama would stop the black gangs of Chicago killing black Honor Students. Or at least get Reverand Wright to stop them.

The idea that somebody has to come from the outside and cure all the local problems doesn't work any better in Chicago than it did in Vietnam or Iraq or Afghanistan. If the local people don't have the self-discipline and will to control themselves and civilize themselves and be responsible for what goes on around them, only the sternest military repression can put the lid on, and then it only becomes a pressure cooker waiting to explode, with those in uniform making convenient targets for continued outbursts of barbaric behavior. Chicago - cure thyself...or shut up!!