After Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois, By Barack Obama 1990

After Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois ^ | 1990 | Barack Obama

[FreedomLives2008]

Here is BO in his own words describing his Community Organizing in Chicago.

[Jeff Chandler]

Thank you for enlightening us, and welcome to FreeRepublic!

[FocusNexus]

Thanks for the post. Good find!

Obama is advocating "militant" protest! Great qualification for the presidency, and experience of organizgin for militant protest against the government.

"The debate was no longer whether to protest, but how militant must that protest be to win full citizenship for blacks.

[highpockets]

I skimmed it pretty fast so I may have missed it. Where in this manifesto does he create jobs, small employers, and entrepreneurs?

He mentioned a couple of times how middle class blacks have moved from the inner city.

Maybe this middle class created a job, built a business and are successful entrepreneurs.

The community organizer just creates a voting bloc to force money to the community organizer.

When he gets enough money he moves away. And buys a house with a convicted felon.

[Snickering Hound]

Nowhere is the promise of organizing more apparent than in the traditional black churches. Possessing tremendous financial resources, membership and — most importantly — values and biblical traditions that call for empowerment and liberation, the black church is clearly a slumbering giant in the political and economic landscape of cities like Chicago.

Funny how he mentions money before faith in the black church...

[VeniVidiVici]

Well, looking at Chicago before and after, I’d say he wasn’t very good at it.

[bw17]

“Nowhere is the promise of organizing more apparent than in the traditional black churches. Possessing tremendous financial resources, membership and — most importantly — values and biblical traditions that call for empowerment and liberation, the black church is clearly a slumbering giant in the political and economic landscape of cities like Chicago.”

So Obama *does* subscribe to Black Liberation Theology! He *was* listening to all those speeches by Wright.

Obama, you got some splainin’ to do.

[FocusNexus]

I reread it and he doesn’t actually advocate militant protest, it’s more of a historic perspective, nevertheless that’s a legacy of Alinsky.

[kanawa]

Blatant discrimination has been replaced by institutional racism

Is he talking about prisons here?

[mvpel]

There were many who thought that Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on the bus to a white man was “too militant.” He’s describing the early years of the Civil Rights movement quite accurately here.

[ltc8k6]

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/chicago.summer.shootings.2.810166.html

We should pull out of Chicago...

[OCC]

Thank you for posting this. I have been trying to figure out exactly what BHO was doing as a community organizer. Seems his efforts did not achieve the desired outcome.

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/chicago.summer.shootings.2.810166.html

[D-fendr]

It’s Party Organizing.

And it was better for Obama than Obama was for it.

[PROSOUTH]

Good Post, I have a question though, Where did all of Obama’s money come from? The following quote states he made little money from his Organiser position. “ ‘Cause the pay is low, the hours is long, and don’t nobody appreciate you.” Where did the support come from to elevate this “Elite” into his celeberty position?

[Southack]

So he complains about middle class Blacks moving out of their old, blighted neighborhoods...then does exactly that with his move up to Hyde Park.

He also doesn’t seem to have any poor Black street friends from all of his days organizing those communities. Telling.

[downwdims]

Welcome to FR as well.

Kurtz had a fantastic article about Bambi and his work with Gameil foundation in NR.

Coupled with Byron York’s excellent work a few issues back, I wonder why Bambi would even defend “Community Organizing” knowing how Chicago thug Machine Politics will play nationally.

Oh well, Good luck with selling that one Bambi

[volunbeer]

I suspect the money came from you and me appropriated by whatever hack politician managed to squeeze into an unrelated bill in D.C.

That’s just a guess though and I am too lazy to research it.

Smell of pork anyone?

[Plutarch]

Nice post.

It is amazing how he can write all that and still not say anything. It is pretty well written, however.

[Ronzo]

Nearly 125 Shot Dead In Chicago Over Summer
Total Is About Double The Death Toll In Iraq

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/chicago.summer.shootings.2.810166.html

Quick, somebody send in some more community organizers! Call Obamba! Maybe he can start a community organizer surge in Chi-Town...

HT: Drudge

[Ilya Mourometz]

I was a municipal attorney in a very large US city. There are, to be sure, some decent people involved in community organizations. The majority are, however, hacks and thugs of the worst sort; they are the very people who, along with AFSCME, are most responsible with the destruction of the inner city and the degradation especially of the urban black community and culture in America. The fact that Obama is the product of such a cesspool by itself disqualifies him, in my mind, for holding any elective office.

Community organizations, along with the community development corporations with which they are tied at the hip, are generally created for the sole purpose of receiving federal funds in the form of Community Development Block Grants or CDBGs; some state and local funds are also involved. These funds are then used primarily to buy up cheap properties and vacant land, ostensibly to develop them as businesses or low-income housing. More often than not, however, the only actual development winds up being a nice new office for the organization itself, a few desks and computers for otherwise-unemployable relatives and friends, and then a nice tidy sum from the taxpayers which will then be used to buy goodies (like nifty shirts with the community organization’s logos, perhaps a mini-van or two, and the occasional trip to Atlantic City for the staff.

Again, I don’t want to paint with too broad a brush as there are a handful of legitimate community groups organizations of the type The One was involved in. But by and large I would say without any hesitation that fully 80-90% of all community organizations of the sort The One was involved in are nothing more than corrupted cash cows often used to hide illegal campaign donations, abuse federal, state and local funds, and to bolster the political aspirations of people like Obama. In other words, 80-90% of these groups in big cities are nothing but the worst sort of scum you would ever imagine could walk the earth.

Because of my experience with people like that (including the few who happened to have oratory skills), I could not and would not vote for one of them to save my life. They are the foot-soldiers of the ultra corrupt local party machines that have destroyed the inner cities and anyone who even suggests that these groups by and large help any of the people they claim to is a horse’s ass.