Posted on 02/17/2013 9:36:02 AM PST by Kaslin
An increasing number of blacks appear to finally be getting angry with Obama. It’s just too bad it took four years and voting for Obama a second time for blacks to realize the president doesn’t care about their interests. Immigration and the president’s determination to get legislation passed granting amnesty to an estimated 11-20 million illegal aliens seems to be the straw that broke black liberals’ backs.
Recently some Black Americans have been calling into black talk radio shows like “Keeping it Real with Al Sharpton, complaining immigration is not an important issue to them. This is despite Al Sharpton’s plea to a caller that amnesty isn’t just a Latino issue. But according to a 2009 Migration Institute report, blacks only accounted for 9% of US immigrants.
With black unemployment at 13.8% almost twice the national rate of 7.9%, granting amnesty to more than 11 million illegal immigrant threatens to make jobs even more scare for blacks. As black radio host Earl Ingram noted his “listenership is anti-immigration” because they are angry illegals are here taking jobs from them because they are willing to work for less than minimum wage. A Pew Hispanic poll found during the height of the economic downturn 2009-2011 Hispanic employment grew by 6.5% while black employment grew by a minuscule 1%.
After giving Obama over 95% of their vote twice, blacks want to know when the first black president will focus on issues impacting blacks like: rising poverty, unemployment and incarceration rates, growing education gap and economic decline the breakdown of the black family?
When I tweeted about this lack of love blacks are feeling for their blind support of Obama a second time around, a black person replied: “Obama has always made it clear that he is the POTUS not the President of Black America.”
Indeed Obama is “president of all Americans” but Obama has made gay marriage a priority and less than 5% of the population is gay. He’s also made illegal immigration a priority because 71% of Hispanics voted for him but only make up 14% of the population. These two groups don’t look like the face of “All Americans.” But Obama won’t even give blacks a crumb. He has yet to name one black person to fill a cabinet position in his second term.
It may be too late for blacks to influence Obama because he doesn’t have an election hanging over his head. But blacks should take a hard look at the gang of “Blacktivists” like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and organizations like NAACP, Congressional Black Caucus purporting to fight for what’s good for blacks and ask them what have they done for blacks?
Blacks also need to question the Congressional Black Caucus about its agenda. In its press release outlining its plan for the 113th Congress, the CBC states “For more than four decades, the Congressional Black Caucus policy agenda has promoted and advocated for legislation that supports social and economic progress . . . for African Americans.”
If this is true, why is it blacks have been on an economic and family decline since 1971 when the caucus was formed? Today more black babies are born out of wedlock, 73%, than to married homes compared to 30% of white babies. And the above mentioned statistics show government policies pushed by the Democrat CBC haven’t helped improve the plight of the black man.
Why is immigration reform a key item in the CBC’s agenda? “Advancing legislation and policies that lead to comprehensive immigration reform” will do nothing to improve the economic situation for blacks. Allowing a flood of illegals into the country will only exacerbate the unemployment situation for blacks.
Blacks also need to demand their “black groups” and so called “black spokespersons” reject comparisons to criminals crossing into our country to the civil rights movement or slavery. Blacks were brought to America in 1619 against their will, treated like property, worked like animals and violated sexually. The least America could do in 1964 was to grant blacks equal rights to whites. Illegal immigrants chose to voluntarily break laws to enter, work and remain in the US illegally. America owes them an enforcement of our laws along with the employers who illegally employ them.
If black liberals are really angry at the lack of attention Obama is giving them, perhaps they should use this as a lesson. Instead of voting for candidates based on race or party, perhaps black Americans should try giving candidates a thorough vetting before going to the polls and hold politicians accountable to records in exchange for votes. Maybe then blacks would start getting something in return other than the status quo.
“I know a few blacks that keep talking about a “bloody revolution” that Obama was supposed to have started.”
In my area that talk ended years ago when Hispanics started pushing blacks out (of neighborhoods, the workforce, politiac office, the drug trade - you name it). Blacks can’t even deal with them, so having any impact on whites is simply out of the question.
“Don’t take it personally black folks, it’s not you - it’s just that Latinos and immigration are a newer cause to exploit and to be honest, slavery just isn’t as effective as it used to be. Don’t be sad, think of the good times and remember, you’ll always have black history month.”
You’re right; the two elections of a mulatto have obscured the fact that they have been surpassed in numbers and influence by Hispanics. Some of them are getting the message, as Hispanics Dems compete with them for “black” council seats and mayoralties. The state of “black America” has rarely been so grim; at this point in NJ the urban blacks are ringed with a buffer zone of Hispanics, that has effectively removed them from “America” in any meaningful sense.
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We heard the same garbage before the election based on obama’s support for same-sex marriage. And he got the same percentage of black votes.
More BS. The question is why now? Will there be a push for a third term and the media wants to encourage the right, hoping they’ll enter a candidate in the election against obama instead of stopping an illegal one?
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“generations deep in victim-hood and government goodies”
A perfect case in point is jesse jackson, jr. who went through nearly one mil of other people’s money to which he felt entitled, accumulating flashy trinkets. Government was his personal high speed rail to goodies. And he’d be first in line to collect his share of “reparations,” should that ever materialize.
If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more. -Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad
That is one of the things that, IMO, should cause rope-dances -- we, as a people, should exact terrible vengeance against those that would invalidate the integrity our system.
Miniscule numbers
>Their hatred for whitey is to strong.<
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Blacks are an irrational and thankless bunch.
When they frequent the many social ministries to hold up their empty hands, all they see are honkies filling them with goodies purchased by honkies.
I have yet to see a Black volunteering his/her time in a social ministry.
Not in California. The black vote was key there. But that was before fruit loops.
There is still plenty of room on the bus for black people pissed at Obama. They can sit wherever they can find an open seat. The forewarned the bus is pretty damn full.
With over 95% of the vote!
“OTOH. They’d vote for him a third time in a heartbeat.”
How disgustingly true.
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Remember that it was black Africans that sold other blacks into slavery and kept slaves themselves. Obama is that type of black, along with brother Jesse and Al Sharpton. So all I can muster is a big “So what!?”
Immigration is not important to them?Wait until they are inline behind them for a job or benefits
African-Americans are only half fed up with Barak Hussein Obama. They are upset with his white half. He isn’t black enough for most of them.
It should be noted that “McDonald” as in McDonald v City of Chicago, is a black man who fought to protect his Constitutional Right to keep and bear arms under the 2nd amendment. The same government that is now working vigorously to take from every American, black, white, or in between!!!
Wake up black America, you have no future in the socialist liberal party of the DNC!! If you can't see that, then look at Detroit, or any socialist liberal dominated city in America, and stop blaming Detroit's vulgar rot on hard working Whites who moved out of Detroit after being mugged, beaten, robbed, raped, and murdered by the blacks who live there!
Eight Deuce on the loose!
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