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
There is already legislation for this coming up.
There is even a housing bill to give AAs huge reparations for being discriminated against in the mortgage market. They want the housing to be given to AAs for free.
They are all victims. All crimes, laziness and stupidity are “Da Man’s Fault.”
Al Sharpton is that you?
“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?”
I really hate that line...built it? Build this, you putz.
Worked out well for Detroit with Coleman Young and Kwame hasn't it?
Jack
Thats OK, the rest of us will pay for their homes and evetually end up tending their watermelon patches, the way things are going.(sarc.)
“Since Obama is an African American”
It’s not clear that he’s an African American... Could very well be an African Kenyan.
I love to watch the cops shows where they arresting so many
dealing crack to their own people. funny stuff.
Gibbs didn’t see the bus leaving did he? bunp bump and nore bumps
They only count as unemployed because income from criminal activity is not taxed.
Have the IRS and law enforcement start actually doing their jobs and tax criminal activity at 10 times the normal assessment. We could probably pay off the national debt in five years.
I’d recommend adding circuses for the clown pants wearing brothers.
Either African or American. Make a choice and make your loyalty known.
“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.
This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.
But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.
The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.”
Addressing the Knights of Columbus in New York City
12 October 1915
Yeah they can’t run with pants down to their knees.
pretty stupid selling drugs and can’t escape. lol
I’ve read that 0 is white, Arab and African in that order. Don’t understand how African American trumps all other then being the best guilt generator. I actually resent the hyphenated BS as those who participate in making America better don’t need special treatment or favors.
WHO SOLD THE BLACKS INTO SLAVERY?
Was it those nasty Amish?
What about the Mennonites?
OOPS, it was OTHER BLACKS! YES, OTHER BLACKS SOLD THEIR ENEMIES AND MALCONTENTS TO EUROPEAN SLAVE TRADERS. WE GOT THE WEAK, LAZY AND WORTHLESS OF THE WORSE CONTINENT.
YEAH I SAID IT.
OPEN THE PRISONS AND SEND THEM BACK...LOVE THE IDEA. CAN I BUY THE FIRST AIRFARE?
Well I say those who are still complaining about their ancestors they never knew being forced to come here as slaves - how about we give you reparations in the form of free tickets to the African country of your choice and 1 year paid expenses in that country paid only if you never come back.
Of course the way the slaves were treated was disgusting but these people have made a business of using history to get money for themselves rather than just getting busy like everyone else who decided to not be a victim.
THE MEN WHO DO NOT BECOME AMERICANS AND NOTHING ELSE ARE HYPHENATED AMERICANS; AND THERE OUGHT TO BE NO ROOM FOR THEM IN THIS COUNTRY.
Great quote from 1918!
Slaves are still bought and sold in Africa, maybe it’s time we sell the hyphenated Americans back.
Ooops, 1915!
If they'd won the tribal war, they wouldn't have been sold by the winners.
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