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Rey, kids are often much more a product of their environment than we or even they want to be.

Witness the kid that grows up with what he knows are flawed parents, but he/she grows up none the less to do some of the very things they swore as kids they never would. I believe the reason is because the dynamics of the home they grew up in seems most comfortable to them. This is the only family dynamic they have witnessed. Some kids fall into this trap, but many don’t. It’s still a valid point.

Nancy Reagan suggested kids just say no. It was so powerful a message that drug abuse in the nation among high school kids dropped by a significant amount.

Now you state that you haven’t seen any kids trying to emulate Obama. Are you absolutely sure about that?

In the George Zimmerman vs Trayvon Martin situation, you had Obama opening his fat yap commenting about what should or shouldn’t take place. He also made comments about how it was reasoned for Black youth to think they were being treated unfairly.

Out comes the verdict, and the “get even” movement spread across the nation like wild-fire. In Chicago you had Black gangs accosting large numbers of White people in public settings. Do you think that just happened spontaneously, or do you think a number of contributing factors played in, including the unfortunate comments of Obama?

You are of course welcome to your opinion, but Obama, Jackson, Sharpton, the NAACP, the Black Caucus, and many others played into this mindset, that Blacks were treated unfairly, and had a right to act out because it was reasonable for them to.

No these kids don’t dress like Obama and the others. None the less they take some ill advised comments and incorporate them into a belief system that sees wide-spread violent retribution against innocents as reasoned.

The Knock-Out Game was part of this.

I think you have seen evidence of these kids being impacted by the President and others.

I do not include Barkley or Cosby in this thought though, although I do think bad role models impact society.

Opening your mouth is not necessarily presidential, black, nor urban. All people harp on about all sorts of stuff. Accosting white people is not presidential. As many bad things as we can say about Obama, while he may condone these acts in his heart, he cannot do so in public and he is never of the character to engage in such acts. As reprehensible as the knock out game is, it requires a certain amount of masculinity, however primal, that Obama simply doesn’t possess.

I do not think doing what we believe the Sharptons, Jacksons and Obamas want is acting like them. That is simply being somebody’s toady. These fools actually thought things would change when Obama was elected. They cannot see that they are useful fools. Being a useful fool is not imitating nor emulating the one in charge. Obama’s election had no impact on their lives. I think the only impact they have is their usefulness to Obama in what the press can make of them. Obama wants nothing to do with these fools. For all his rhetoric of Trayvon is my son, he wants nothing to do with those people. Even if we believe he is a closet Muslim, he would be terrified to even meet one of those guys that hacksaws people’s heads off. None of these people truly believe in equality or redistribution of income. They do not want to be on par with everyone else or anyone to be on par with them. They simply recognize a certain social group’s usefulness to amass power and fortune. Your immediate neighbor with whom you are relatively equal holds little if any power or influence over you.

To these fools, the local gang leader is the most influential and power figure in their lives and that is who they would like to emulate, never recognizing the arbitrary inequality or discrimination the local dictator seeks to exercise. They do not want to be a president or industry producer. They haven’t a clue what that is or what that entails. They simply wish to bash heads at the behest of certain individuals they have been fooled into believing have their interest at heart and are unable to see have done nothing for them. To do anything to truly change the circumstances certain lower socio-economic groups are in would cause certain leaders to lose their power base. That cannot happen if you wish to remain in power and influential.