President Obama: Should he create a specific job recovery plan for African Americans?

The Examiner ^ | December 14, 2009 | Richard Shabazz

[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

[kcvl]

Minority contractor forging bonds with private donors. (Shabazz Construction Co.)

Atlanta Business Chronicle | March 5, 1990

Minority contractor forging bonds with private donors

Richard Shabazz is tired of hearing excuses as to why small and minority contractors experience difficulty in obtaining surety bonds.

Instead, he wants minority contractors to put their money where their livelihood is - in the Atlanta Minority Business Development Center’s surety bond program. Several weeks ago, after funds for the program were eliminated due to federal cutbacks, Shabazz began a drive to raise money for the program, which aids small contractors trying to obtain bonding.

[ought-six]

It’s funny, but the race pimps only bitch about the 400,000 Africans who were brought to North America, and they wax indignant about that; yet, they are strangely silent about the millions who were brought to South America (especially Brazil). The slave trade to North America was a drop in the bucket when compared to the slave trade to the Caribbean and to South America.

[autumnraine]

“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”

Ok, this has gone from ‘man being concerned about his community’ to ‘man has lost his mind.’

[Fred Nerks]

IN other words its likely that the joker is a racist and has more a of revolution in mind than anything else. Now the question remains is he the son of “x” only DNA from both will tell.

[jessduntno]

It’s funny, but the race pimps only bitch about the 400,000 Africans who were brought to North America, and they wax indignant about that; yet, they are strangely silent about the millions who were brought to South America

Even Wikipedia agrees:

Twelve million Africans were shipped to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th centuries.[4][5] Of these, an estimated 645,000 were brought to what is now the United States.

Yeah, weird...not enough money in the other countries, maybe...Al Sharpton and Jessuh Jaccksunnnnnnnn should try their hands down there for a while? Race hustling ain't what it used to be...

[Brown Deer]

Our President is indeed 50% black.

Indeed? Show us your proof!

[OafOfOffice]

First, it ends prison overcrowding.

Interesting huh? Take the drug dealers out of prison and put the law abiding hard working class in because they refuse to buy health insurance.

And second, he’d put them in charge of the youth homeland brigade.

Obama, Michelle,Rahm,Clintons, boot camps.Public allies. Michelle became involved in public allies the same year she lost her license to practice law.

[rodguy911]

I gotta have a bunch of tee shirts like that,just too good!

[Warrior Nurse]

PING

[Shade2]

How can you “still” be someplace or “return” to someplace you have never been?

[TLI]

Trust me, if there is a revolution and we throw the Kenyan out of office, the blacks will burn every city to the ground.

Ok.

Historically, when they riot they burn their own neighborhoods. Weird but true.

Non-black working class neighborhoods for the most part would not have a thing to worry about. Think, closets of a slightly redneckish middle class neighborhoods are likely to contain...

As far as "unrest" occurring if Ø gets booted out? HA! They might as well start getting used to that now. That little communist is totally known to the conservatives, well known to the Republicans, has pizzed off the independents AND has managed to pizz off both ends of the spectrum of the democrats! He knows damn good and well he is a one term looser and that is why he is pushing the rest of the communists-that-call-themselves-democrats into suicide mode by promising them if they loose their respective elections they will be taken care of.

Yea, right. Only communists-that-call-themselves-democrats could be so dumb as to believe that crap. Even the other democrats would laugh them out of the room if they tried to come back into politics after being THAT stupid.

[Clemenza]

The proof is that his father is a Luo, a black African tribe. Anyone who doubts this is a retard who sniffed too much glue and should be prevented from leaving the trailer park.

[nclaurel]

The comment was referencing those who claim their ancestors were brought here as slaves-—I was not clear apparently. If indeed their ancestors had remained there they would have faced that life. If it sounds so good to them I think they should return to the homeland of the ancestor. Although I doubt many have any idea of where they originated so they are welcome by me to just move anywhere since this country isn’t where they have allegiance.

[The Toll]

I think stupid racist black guys like this are fun! Lazy yes, but still fun.

[Brown Deer]

I didn’t think that you would be able to provide any sort of proof. You are only showing your ignorance by typing meaningless insults.

[Shade2]

Well, this is my perspective. For one, if their ancestors had not been brought here, they would not have been faced with that life. They would not exist. The fact that 645,000 grew to nearly 40 million does not mean that if those 645,000 had not become slaves, Africa would have nearly 40 million more black people there. Africa’s population would probably be practically the same as it is today. Its like when you break off a branch of a bush and plant it, the branch will eventually spread into a full bush while the original bush will not have changed much at all.

Second of all, from my view, those slaves by default became American citizens the moment their feet hit the land never to return to where they came from. This is the modern view since all of those slaves are viewed officially today as having been American citizens from the time of arrival despite not being given such status back then. Thus we are speaking of a group of American citizens who were not given the rights and freedoms afforded to other American citizens. How their lives compared to blacks in Africa or how the lives of their descendants compare to the lives of blacks living in Africa currently is a moot point because they and their descendants were and are American citizens and thus should judge and be judged by AMERICAN STANDARDS, not African standards.

So consider how today’s black Americans would be if those first black Americans were given complete rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness other Americans had the moment they set foot on the land and this lasted until today. One can speculate that you have a far more fully assimilated and patriotic group.

Let me ask you this. If a black person complained intensely about American liberalism and liberal politicians, the liberal media, the current President, etc., would a liberal be justified in telling that black person that this socialized liberalized America is far better than Africa? Why must black people in America constantly have to judge their lives based on African standards as opposed to American standards?

You see, folks who harp over slavery don’t so much do so because of a group being taken from their lands (though I’m sure that all slaves would have preferred to live in freedom in Africa), but rather the fact that when they came to this land, they were relegated to being slaves as opposed to individuals with the freedom to pursue the American dream.

[nclaurel]

They, by calling themselves African first and then American, in my opinion create the Africa/America contrast. The Irish were not treated well nor were the Chinese. Jewish person were not permitted in hotels in Miami as late as the late 1950’s/early 1960’s. What they would or would not have done if their ancestors came here as free persons is not going to change. They need to accept that and accept that they are American today. In light of the fact that so many of our military honorably serving are black, I do not question the overall patriotism of blacks. I am tried of whining about the past as much as listening to criminals complain because of their childhood. Many in the same situations both racially and with lousy childhoods are great Americans...so it is a personal choice. And my perspective is still if they aren’t happy here move on. I don’t have either the wealth or poverty of my ancestors. I earn my own wealth or debt and so can blacks.