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
“...we should be the first to receive some form of assistance.”
I happen to agree with this “original man” one hundred percent. We should assist his sorry racist ass back to africa, permanently.
Liberia awaits with open arms-— see history of Liberia
There's the problem - that's about when Blacks started abandoning the Republican Party, moving back to the Democrat Plantation and buying into Left Wing promises.
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...
Now let's look at what Malcolm X had in mind, shall we?
I have to take time to mention that because, in my opinion, not only in Mississippi and Alabama, but right here in New York City, you and I can best learn how to get real freedom by studying how Kenyatta brought it to his people in Kenya, and how Odinga helped him, and the excellent job that was done by the Mau Mau freedom fighters. In fact, that's what we need in Mississippi. In Mississippi we need a Mau Mau. In Alabama we need a Mau Mau. In Georgia we need a Mau Mau. Right here in Harlem, in New York City, we need a Mau Mau.
I’m an Aussie, please allow me to applaud your comment.
Also on the list: releasing blacks convicted of drug crimes. Obama considers them non-violent, basically harmless individuals forced by the white power structure into jail. Letting them out accomplishes two things according to Obama and pals. First, it ends prison overcrowding. And second, he’d put them in charge of the youth homeland brigade. You know that outfit. Where fatigue clad kids marched around doing Heil Obama salutes during the campaign. They feel this would encourage entrepreneurship among young black males. And self esteem, of course. What about blacks who’ve converted to Islam while in prison? They’ll fit right in with the rest of the elite. And if you think the youth home brigade would be voluntary, Obama’s the Tooth Fairy.
Agreed. The only “stimulus package” that would work for the black communities that we both grew up around and rejected would be to tell the n’erdowells to pull up their pants, get rid of their persecution complexes, start thinking logically and quit with the reverse racism. They’re a drag on the rest of us.
You bring up something I’d like to see addressed by the hyphenated community; why no press for a holiday to honor all the lives given for the freedom of some of your ancestors?
While I’m at it; why no press for reparations from the tribes who sold some of your ancestors into slavery in the first place?
The writer is a lunatic. Because the drunk at the end of the bar occasionally says something semi-intelligent, that does not make him Socrates. Sometimes Obama’s critics are more insane than Obama.
You obviously understand that you would be one of the first ones thrown under the bus by the Lieberals. Because you know your own mind and can make your own decisions without their ‘guidance’ you are someone to be minimized and disparaged.
Lieberals are the ones who have made melanin content more important than heart, soul and character. Lieberals are the ones who have pressed a plantation mentality on racial minorities. You, Warrior Nurse, are a threat to Lieberals: keep it up!
“$15T to eliminate poverty since the Great Society (thanks LBJ) and what have we gotten? More out of wedlock births, higher crime and more government dependency than ever.”
The REALLY bad part is there is no end in sight and no plan to end it.
The chains have just been transferred. PC keeps them resting on our shoulders.
Ping to #64
Thanks for the ping candor.
If liberals had paid enough on welfare to draw in white teenagers, they would have ruined their lives too. The same incentives that worked on black children would work on white children. Luckily there were more choices and the "dependent money" wasn't that high. But if it had been, the same incentives that pushed black fathers out of homes would have pushed white fathers out of homes. And with teenagers being naturally someone rebellious - and wanting to be on their own (before they're ready) white children in large numbers might have opted out for being paid to have babies too. We can be thankful welfare money wasn't high enough to entice as high a percentage of white children or the financial and social crisis we have now would be many times larger. There's got to be a way of "helping" people without destroying them - something Republicans need to look into...
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