Posted on 08/22/2011 4:15:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
Election of our nation's first black president is delivering an unexpected message to our black population.
Blacks are discovering that what a man or woman does -- their actions -- is what matters, not the color of their skin.
It seems ridiculous to point out that this was supposedly the point of the civil rights movement. Purge racism from America.
But blacks themselves have been the ones having the hardest time letting it go.
It is not hard to understand why black Americans were happy that a black man was elected president of the United States. It was kind of a final and most grand announcement that racism has finally been purged from America.
But for the highly politicized parts of black America this was certainly not the only message. Because for the highly politicized parts of black America, the point has always been to keep race in American politics.
For black political culture that dominated after the civil rights movement, the point was not just equal treatment under the law, but special treatment under the law. Plus the assumption that more black political power -- defined by more blacks holding office -- would mean that blacks would be better off.
In other words, post-civil rights movement black political culture embraced an agenda exactly the opposite of what the civil rights movement was about. Its agenda was to get laws and policies that were not neutral but racially slanted and to put individuals in power based on their race and not on their character and capability.
So, according to the script of this political culture, election of a black man as president meant more than an end to racism. The conclusion had to be that if the man holding the highest political office in the nation was black, it must follow that blacks would be better off.
Now blacks have a dilemma. We have a black president and blacks are worse off. Not just a little, but a lot worse off.
In the words of longtime Congressional Black Caucus member Maxine Waters, D-Calif., "Our people are hurtin'.."
Blacks now grapple with two possible conclusions.
One, our black president is a traitor to his race. Our struggles put him in power and now he's not taking care of his folks. He's become, in the words of left wing professor and activist Cornel West, a "mascot" of Wall Street.
Or, two, that the man's performance reflects his views and his capability, not his race. He's not delivering for anyone. Blacks are hurting more because they were already in worse shape when Obama got elected. Bad policies hurt the weakest the most.
And it happens that the bad policies that have always failed are the big government liberalism that has defined modern black politics.
With further thought, blacks might realize it's this same flawed idea -- that growing government and electing black politicians would make blacks better off -- that explains why blacks have remained disproportionately "hurtin".
Take the Congressional Black Caucus itself. The average poverty rate in Black Caucus districts is almost 50 percent higher than the national average. Yet, these black politicians have 100 percent re-election rates.
Maybe a real bonus that will have come from electing a black president is that blacks will take seriously Dr. King's dream that we judge men by their character and not their color.
The Civil Rights Movement took blacks to the edge of the Promised Land. But political activism can only remove barriers to freedom.
It's up to the individual to embrace freedom and take on the personal responsibilities that go with it.
Maybe blacks will realize that they should blame Barack Obama. Not because he is black, but because he is a liberal. And because he has grown government to the point where the oxygen necessary for freedom and prosperity is being squeezed out of our nation.
That is very said what happened to your friend
Headline writer apparently can’t spell. Got the facts wrong with the first word. I stopped there.
“our black president is a traitor to his race”
Both his black and white parts.
If only they would have listened to MLK when he said to judge a man by the content of his character, not by the color of his skin.
Everything she says here is true, but come election time, they will go forth and vote for Obama.
They will just listen to the black caucus and decide that it was the other guys making it hard for poor Barack, they were holding him back because they hate black folks.
Why is there an apostrophe in “blacks” in the title?
What did blacks expect from a half-black man who was raised by white people? Al Sharpston?
Should Bill Ayres write another Obama book? Call it "Black Like Me."
The Blackist thing about Obama is that he was abandoned by his Black father, left to be raised by a single mother.
Who is Black?
Please note I did not say they should try to say they are white, either. I totally understand very few “blacks” are fully so throughout their ancestry. The construct of “race” is as much cultural as it is anything remotely related to sciences like genetics or anthropology.
Examining Obama’s own writings verifies my point. He was raised as a child of mixed race in a white world, especially after his grandparents took him and his mother in due to her illness. He only took on the “I’m black” moniker when he determined that it put him in better standing for special consideration in school and politics. However, he had/has no cultural link for “keepin’ it real”. Thus, my point of the first sentence in my first post in this thread.
He is as much white as he is black and I understand he self-identifies as “black”.
Since he was raised by white people, in Hawai I would say he is more white than black.
He is not a Black American and has no concept of what the average Black American heritage is.
He was abandoned by his mother later also, to traipse around....he was raised by his Marxist grandparents for the most part.
More often than not they will be led to the polls by a black preacher. Black preachers benefit big-time from the plantation mentality.
I live in a small town. The black preachers are the black "leaders." Every so often they have preacher Appreciation Day and the poor congregations "throw" hundred dollar bills at the preachers.
It's disgusting to watch how the preachers take advantage.
That must be one of the reasons you came up with your tagline. LOL
Yup. And it’s sad too...... ;-)
...”That is true for ALL Liberals not just blacks
White Liberals are the worst —Especially the Know it All arrogant college educated types
Hell Blacks are no worse than the dumb asses in Mass that kept voting for Kennedy”...
BRAVO! You nailed it!
You don’t know the half of it!!! LOL!
I actually take issue with the amount of soul-searching the author attributes to the average American black. As a group, blacks are extremely insular and racist, with hispanics a close second. As a group, they fail to acknowledge that England and the US were amongst the first nations in history to abolish slavery for ethical reasons. American negro culture has also been poisoned by fifty years of hardcore marxist/socialist brainwashing. It is barely recognizable as anything but a toxic mixture of pseudo-African anti-American identitification with a heavy dose of prison/drug culture and government nanny-stateism. As for Obama, he’s as American negro as a fijian islander. There is no cultural connection, and since he was elected due his melenin content, the joke’s on those who fell for it.
Black conservatives are standing up, speaking, and being noticed, and there are more of them than the media and political elites (of all parties and races) realize or want to admit.
Way to go, Star! Keep up the good work.
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