Posted on 10/20/2011 5:15:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
At the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Sen. Barack Obama said, "...There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America -- there is the United States of America."
Those were welcome and commendable words. Unfortunately, they appear to be only words. Since then, Obama has divided us along race and class lines more than any modern president.
Some of his strongest, high-profile supporters in the black community are now saying that Obama's race, alone, should be enough for black voters to vote for his re-election.
Krissah Thompson of The Washington Post reports that on "The Tom Joyner Morning Show," which has an estimated 8 million radio listeners, Joyner, who is black, said, "Stick together, black people." The show reaches one in four African-American adults.
Rev. Al Sharpton, who also has a radio show and a gig on MSNBC, admonished blacks who have been critical of the president, "I'm not telling you to shut up. I'm telling you: Don't make some of us have to speak up."
The attempt at poetry is getting tiresome, Al. Why don't you leave that to Jesse Jackson?
Joyner went even further on his blog, writes Thompson: "Let's not deal with the facts right now," he said. "Let's deal with just our blackness and pride -- and loyalty. We have the chance to re-elect the first African-American president, and that's what we ought to be doing. And I'm not afraid or ashamed to say that as black people, we should do it because he's a black man."
Try that in football. Never mind that the black quarterback continues to throw interceptions or drop the ball, keep him in the game simply because he's black. If that happened, he'd be booed until the coach pulled him off the field, and those boos wouldn't just be coming from whites.
In the same week the memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was dedicated in Washington, Joyner and Sharpton are saying that Barack Obama should be judged not on the content of his character and policies, but rather on the color of his skin. How sad. How racist.
If a black president cannot be held accountable for his policies and must receive the votes of African-Americans solely because of his race, then all of the marching for equal rights has been for nothing. The question ought to be this: are African-Americans, indeed, are all Americans, better off than they were when Barack Obama took office? By any objective standard, the answer must be "no." How do black people expect their circumstances to improve if Obama is elected for another four years? If they conclude they will not, why not vote for someone who can create the conditions under which more of them might get a job, for example? Black unemployment is 16.7 percent, the highest it's been in 27 years.
Sharpton and Joyner don't have to worry too much about their financial futures. But too many African-Americans remain mired in conditions that have characterized many in their community for decades. Why would they want to continue their lifestyles out of "pride" and "loyalty" when the Democratic Party has been disloyal to them and a better way is available?
Recent Washington Post-ABC News polls reveal a decline in the number of blacks with "strongly favorable" views of the president and his efforts to improve the economy. What people like Joyner and Sharpton fear is a loss of a place at the political table, a table that has been set far more elegantly for them than for too many of the African-Americans for whom they claim to speak.
What the slide in Obama's support in the African-American community demonstrates is that increasing numbers of black people are beginning to understand they have been played for suckers by the Democratic Party. They are right to feel this way. Their loyalty should not be to a party, but to themselves, their families and their best interests, which lie outside a welfare system that has locked too many of them into dependence and an addiction to a government check. What they need instead is a reality check.
I’ll vote for a Black American - HERMAN CAIN!
I live in Illinois. In the 2004 U.S. Senate race, I voted for Alan Keyes, instead of Barack Obama, and Keyes was the darkest candidate, in that race.
Don’t really care about his color. The important fact is: He’s the worst President in the history of the United States.
There are LOTS AND LOTS of African American politicians and public figures in America who are personally, intellectually and professionally top-notch and who the MSM is perfectly mum about....
Yet we are supposed to worship on bended knee in some kind of idiotic stupor and fawning, mindless idolatry for this half-wit in the WH JUST because the MSM swallowed him whole?????
"Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal".--James (Jim) Cone,
African American Religious Thought: An Anthology (Paperback)
by Cornel West (Editor), Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Editor)
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SEAN HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes:"
WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can't talk about the black value system.
HANNITY: But I'm a reverend
WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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Malik Zulu Shabazz, chairman of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (NBPP):
"We believe in a Black first philosophy and a Black Liberation Theology."
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1858.shtml
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Although it [The New Black Panther Party] says it sees capitalism as the fundamental problem with the world and revolution as the solution, the new party does not draw its influences from Marxism or Maoism as the original party did. Instead, in a carefully-worded, roundabout form of ethnic nationalism,[8] they say that Marx based his ideology and teachings on indigenous African cultures, and that the NBPP therefore need not look to Marxism or Maoism as a basis for their program, but can look to ideologies that stem directly from those African origins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Black_Panther_Party#Philosophy.2C_ideology.2C_and_criticism
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"The Justice Department originally brought the case against four armed men who witnesses say derided voters with catcalls of "white devil" and "cracker" and told voters they should prepare to be "ruled by the black man." ..."
One poll watcher called police after he reportedly saw one of the men brandishing a nightstick to threaten voters.
As I walked up, they closed ranks, next to each other, the witness told Fox News at the time. So I walked directly in between them, went inside and found the poll watchers. They said theyd been here for about an hour. And they told us not to come outside because a black man is going to win this election no matter what.
He said the man with a nightstick told him, Were tired of white supremacy, and he starts tapping the nightstick in his hand. At which point I said, OK, were not going to get in a fistfight right here, and I called the police....
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/userletter/?id=48778&letter_id=5485433306
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110408/content/01125111.guest.html
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"Security" patrols stationed at polling places in Philly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU
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Also see:
Black Panthers intimidate voters in Philadelphia with night stick:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzBVxP5wzCY
Herman Cain indeed is a “Black American”,
and 0bama is an African, and perhaps a naturalized American?
The majority of Black Americans have regressed to tribalism.
Yep, me too, but according to the racial hucksters whose continued existence is contingent upon Obama staying on, HC ain’t the for real, for real black man. He ain’t down for the struggle.
Getting black folks to wake up to the fact that there is no comparison between the two.
Cain has done worthwhile and important things in his life. He was a rocket scientist for pete’s sake and a successful businessman.
Obama is just an community agitator.
NO, HE'S NOT!
Technically speaking, he's 50% black and 50% non-black additive.
OTOH, he's 100% BS...
I am turned off by the darkness of his soul.
That's the reason they voted for him in 2008. It sure wasn't because of his accomplishments either as a State or US Senator.....because there are none.
I don't recall anyone touting an accomplishment of any kind in the 2008 race.
Watch this meme be dropped like a hot potato[e] should Cain be nominated. When that happens, liberals will then be accusing republicans of voting along the lines of race, when the choice is between a Black American and a Half-White-45%-African-Muslim-5%-African-Black Marxist.
I feel compelled - yet again - to post my obligatory rebuttal to the likes of Tom Joyner and Al Sharpton: Barack Hussein Obama IS NOT black. He is mulatto - half white, half African ancestry, as his mother was a Caucasian from Kansas, his father a black African from Kenya. He was raised by white people - mostly - save the time he spent in Muslim Indonesia. Obama has not, to my knowledge, interacted with “blacks” or lived the “black” experience in the US. He is a creature of privilege and, more importantly, apparently a product of Affirmative Action preferences based on the melanin content of his skin.
Barack Obama embodies the Peter Principle at its highest level of expression. It’s truly frightening that a large proportion of voters in America cannot see all of this.
How about a Hail Mary and anyone but?
Yes indeed give him a half vote, the black half.
What do I do if I feel like I’m BLACK and I’m trapped in a WHITE body?
It’s not hard to remember that most of who were interested in if not followers of Alan Keyes heard of Barack Obama FOR
THE VERY FIRST TIME in the same Senatorial race.
I intend to vote against Obama’s white, socialist side.
There, PC America, I’m not racist.
Actually, what's sauce for the goose....
If it is morally acceptable to vote for him because he is black, then it is equally morally acceptable to vote against him because he is black. For that matter, if it is morally acceptable to vote for him because he is one eighth black, then it is equally morally acceptable to vote against him because he is one eighth black.
That would not stop me from voting for Cain, because he is a conservative.
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