Posted on 12/19/2009 6:15:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Unemployment rate is up over 10% and African Americans are 6% higher than the national average. Does our government play a historic role in disenfranchising Blacks in America? Since Obama is an African American/Blackman should he be more informed and concerned with the specific needs of Black people in this country? I often ask people who say Blacks shouldn’t get special treatment, but how many slaves volunteered to come to America and build it for free?
Like the President, I have studied Malcolm X intensely and I grew up admiring him as a youth. I studied all of his speeches and read all of the books about him. I learned from Malcolm the difference between a reformer and a revolutionary. A reformer is a person trying to improve on current conditions and practices. A Revolutionary is concerned with complete change and wants to do away completely with the old way. We don’t need a President to reform a system that was setup to work against people of color. We need a revolutionary who will do things that revolutionize this country and the world in the way they see Black people all around the world.
According to Time magazine:
“Ever since 1953, there have been at least two Blacks out of work for every jobless White.”
I can’t stand when Black leaders in control think they have to save the world versus saving themselves first. I love Gandhi, Muhammad and all those leaders who helped their people to advance. I am just waiting on the moment when Black leaders and Black people look to save themselves first. If Dr. King would have put the effort into transforming Black into a single and separate productive society, we would be so much further as a people. Think about all the things we lost since integration. We owned our own hotels, schools, stores, etc. and Dr. King later realized his mistake and spoke openly about how he had lived long enough to see his dream become a nightmare. He started to speak on reparations when he talked about the check the government wrote Black people that came back with insufficient funds. The government killed Dr. King after he met with Elijah Muhammad and then made the speech on how he might not get to the mountain top with us.
The government of America has created welfare programs that supported women and children but not men. The family was split because the woman would not get assistance if the man lived in the house. The men making only enough to support one person saw this as a way the government was helping them at the time. I see Black men now going to jail for child support when the economy is at the worst it has ever been in the history of this country. I think if we make up the majority of the prison system and we are the lowest on the job scale, we should be the first to receive some form of assistance. I don’t think we should get a hand out but maybe get a few loans with no interest for 7 years to open up businesses in our own community. This should be an option. We should be given the opportunity to rebuild our communities since we know crack cocaine was put into the Black community by the government. The only people who prospered from the war on drugs started by Ronald Reagan a.k.a. the Devil, were the police department and the prison system.
I think since I am a Blackman/Original Man I can speak on how I would act if I were the President. I would relieve Africa of all it’s debt to the World Bank, the United States, France, Britain, Germany and China. I would offer free education to African Americans who were willing to go to work in Africa for three to five years on its reconstruction. I would release all non-violent criminals who were willing to go work in Africa for the remainder of their time. I would relieve all Black and Brown people of their debt to mortgage companies since we know the Bush administration targeted them for these illegal loan programs. I have not even gotten to Jim Crowe or slavery and you can see how we already deserve reparations.
Whenever the government is in trouble of crumbling they call on the Super Black Man. This has happened all through history and then when they don’t need us, to the back we go. I remember living in Chicago and Harold Washington was elected Mayor. The city was in its worst stages with race relations, jobs were scarce and Blacks were moving into the areas formerly occupied by racist Whites like Marquette Park. The city was on the verge of a revolution, Blacks were about to take over. The Brown community was spreading and uniting with the Black community. He did more for Latinos as a Mayor than any other Mayor before him. Whites were becoming the minority and then out of nowhere, they killed him. They said he had a heart attack at his office.
If you look at America, it is suffering economically, spiritually and is at it’s worst moment with race relations. They now go get President Obama, who a lot of people are calling a “Trojan horse” to save the country from Revolution. He is going to reform health care, win the war in Afghanistan and unite all the people. If you believe this then you are still, as my sister www.Sandrarose.com would say, drinking the kool-aid. He said that troops would be pulled out in his first year in office, not more going to war. He hasn’t built on any program to end the Zionism going on in Israel. He went to a Muslim country, broke bread and then came back to go to war with the Muslim world.
I am saying all of this to say we need to create our agenda and no matter who is in office, make them comply to our demands or take up arms as the constitution gives us the right to do and overthrow this shadow government. I strongly believe we should be putting a program together to specifically uplift the Black community economically. But as far as what the President will do, the Whitehouse spokesperson, Robert Gibbs said “The President will not create a program to just help African Americans, he is more interested in programs that will help the whole economy.” Until truth prevails my eyes will be watching.
http://www.thegrio.com/2009/12/magic-johnson-time-is-now-to-invest-in-black-communities.php
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903198,00.html
http://www.thersvpreport.com
If they were still in Africa, they would be living with famine, tribal wars, disease and living in huts. Yeah America has been so bad for them that even many of the poorest are obese like much of America because they have so much here. Sorry I think given the choice, very few would agree to return to Africa.
I wouldn't mind so much if it was REAL history...for openers, the GD slave trade started before America was America and was entrenched before the revolution...let em go after the freaking Brits...and if there were as many millions of slaves brought here by ship as they contend (at an average of a couple hundred per ship) the boasts would still be landing...and it ain't like it was a cake walk for the Irish, either...that line from Blazing Saddles was no joke..."but we won't take the Irish" was no shite...but I don't know any "Irish Americans" looking for a handout.
There is no place for the hyphen in our citizenship... We are a nation, not a hodge-podge of foreign nationalities. We are a people, and not a polyglot boarding house. - "The Square Deal"
Hussein’s made the first great crack in the dyke through this healthscam, he can now afford to turn his attention to the next avenue of wealth redistribution-reparations. In three years we won’t know what hit us.
I am pretty broke right now, but will cough up a few $$$$.
Internet-based Urban Legend. Barack Obama Sr. was a Luo, a black African tribe not known to mix with Arab traders on the coast. Our President is indeed 50% black.
They’ve already gotten their reparations by sucking the blood of taxpayers for decades while we can’t say a word about it or do a thing about it, not one damn dime more!!!!!!
“Ever since 1953, there have been at least two Blacks out of work for every jobless White.”
The author really shouldn't rely on Time magazine for facts -- it's not their specialty. And this claim is absolute, unmitigated and obvious bunk!
The total work force is approximately 150 million. Blacks are roughly 13% of the total -- 19.5 million. If, as the article states, 16% of them are unemployed, that amounts to 3.1 million unemployed blacks.
Whites amount to roughly 75% of the total -- 112.5 million. With a 10% unemployment rate, that translates to 11.2 million unemployed whites.
So, instead of "two blacks out of work for every white" there are actually "almost four whites out of work for every black."
Shut your racist mouth and sit down, Shabazz.
Richard Shabazz, is that you?
We had reparations, it was called the Civil War and the 1965 Civil Rights Act. Those who whine about reparations should realize that as they do so, East Asians, Indians, Latinos, and Middle Easterners are passing them over just as prior waves of Euros did.
Wasn’t there a Shabazz arrested at the polling place then turned loose?
Yes: he was Malik ZULU Shabazz.
A relative ?,or is Shabazz a popular name for Farrakhans Mulim hoodlums.
Another conspiracy racist wacko, and from Chicago. Where else? Mayor Washington died of a heart attack, period. Another dead red as far as I’m concerned but I don’t think I would have wished him ill.
However, it was the Communist Party of Illinois/Chicago that helped put Washington into power. The CP and its orbit of supporters included David S. Canter, a registered Soviet agent for importing propaganda and identified member of the CPUSA; his friend and veteran CP-supporting leftist Don Rose (both were mentors of Obama’s top advisor David Axelrod, a possible red diaper baby).
Mayoral candidate Washington used to have meetings in the home of the late David Canter to plan his political career and campaign. Other leftists with documented tied to the CPUSA, the present Democratic Socialists of America (a marxist rival of the CPUSA), the Committee of Correspondence (a CPUSA break away faction from 1991), and Progressives for Obama included Alice Palmer, Timuel Black, Rep. Danny Davis, Rep. Bobby Rush, Bill “Weatherman” Ayers and his terrorist wife Bernadine Dohrn, identifed CPUSA member Quentin Young, the father of the national healthcare program (and key friend of Obie’s), and the late Milton Cohen, former CPUSA, who along with Young, joined the DSA.
And the list goes on folks. Got to www.newzeal.blogspot.com to see all the documentation.
“As a Polish and Italian American, I believe that I, along with other Slavic, Med, and Latin Americans should sue the Irish Americans for treating us like sh-t and discriminating against us in jobs and housing. It wasn’t the WASPs who were the elite in urban American when my ancestors came here. ;)”
Hahahahaha ... well, now you are talking about the “Lace Curtain” Irish, boyo... ;^)
I liked the part about sending them to Africa. I do think that is a good idea. And I don’t mean that in a racist way. But the rest of what this guys says is racist as hell. Still blaming the white man.
Should he create a specific job recovery plan for African Americans?
Absolutely.
Jiving “The man.”
$9.95 p/hr
Begging for welfare bucks
$10/p/hr
Sitting on your fat ass and collecting welfare, workmen’s comp, or SS disability
$14/p/hr
Community organizing/ stealing votes/lying your ass off to rip off “The man”
$15/p/hr
Rapping on a street corner
$25/p/hr
Refusing to graduate high school
$35,000/p/yr
Starting a racist church to attack whitey
$500,000/p/yr plus a house in a safe honkey suburb where there’s no blacks
I hope you jest in your question. If not, how many of present day white America was alive when slavery took place? How many blacks were sold into slavery by their very own black race? How many billions more dollars are we going to spend on people that simply do not want to help themselves (black and white).
Wasn’t it part of Abe Lincoln’s plan to send the slaves back to Africa? I know there is a country called Liberia and......
Im a hispanic and I have to tell you that most blacks are homeless,rude and obnoxious. I have no pity for them they are the only ones to blame, they have unprotected sex, get a V.D and blame it one others.
They were brought here for farm labor. Look at mexicans. TODAY as farm labor they they end up with diddly squat barely able to make ends meet... at least the Africans had accommodation and food...
Also, it wasnt only blacks that were slaves. There were whites too...indentured whites.
The greater problem I have is every african is tailgating on this Reparations thing whether their family were or were not involved. They all want reparations.
Blacks in Africa? All something for nothing people.
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