Posted on 10/20/2011 5:15:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
At the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Sen. Barack Obama said, "...There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America -- there is the United States of America."
Those were welcome and commendable words. Unfortunately, they appear to be only words. Since then, Obama has divided us along race and class lines more than any modern president.
Some of his strongest, high-profile supporters in the black community are now saying that Obama's race, alone, should be enough for black voters to vote for his re-election.
Krissah Thompson of The Washington Post reports that on "The Tom Joyner Morning Show," which has an estimated 8 million radio listeners, Joyner, who is black, said, "Stick together, black people." The show reaches one in four African-American adults.
Rev. Al Sharpton, who also has a radio show and a gig on MSNBC, admonished blacks who have been critical of the president, "I'm not telling you to shut up. I'm telling you: Don't make some of us have to speak up."
The attempt at poetry is getting tiresome, Al. Why don't you leave that to Jesse Jackson?
Joyner went even further on his blog, writes Thompson: "Let's not deal with the facts right now," he said. "Let's deal with just our blackness and pride -- and loyalty. We have the chance to re-elect the first African-American president, and that's what we ought to be doing. And I'm not afraid or ashamed to say that as black people, we should do it because he's a black man."
Try that in football. Never mind that the black quarterback continues to throw interceptions or drop the ball, keep him in the game simply because he's black. If that happened, he'd be booed until the coach pulled him off the field, and those boos wouldn't just be coming from whites.
In the same week the memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was dedicated in Washington, Joyner and Sharpton are saying that Barack Obama should be judged not on the content of his character and policies, but rather on the color of his skin. How sad. How racist.
If a black president cannot be held accountable for his policies and must receive the votes of African-Americans solely because of his race, then all of the marching for equal rights has been for nothing. The question ought to be this: are African-Americans, indeed, are all Americans, better off than they were when Barack Obama took office? By any objective standard, the answer must be "no." How do black people expect their circumstances to improve if Obama is elected for another four years? If they conclude they will not, why not vote for someone who can create the conditions under which more of them might get a job, for example? Black unemployment is 16.7 percent, the highest it's been in 27 years.
Sharpton and Joyner don't have to worry too much about their financial futures. But too many African-Americans remain mired in conditions that have characterized many in their community for decades. Why would they want to continue their lifestyles out of "pride" and "loyalty" when the Democratic Party has been disloyal to them and a better way is available?
Recent Washington Post-ABC News polls reveal a decline in the number of blacks with "strongly favorable" views of the president and his efforts to improve the economy. What people like Joyner and Sharpton fear is a loss of a place at the political table, a table that has been set far more elegantly for them than for too many of the African-Americans for whom they claim to speak.
What the slide in Obama's support in the African-American community demonstrates is that increasing numbers of black people are beginning to understand they have been played for suckers by the Democratic Party. They are right to feel this way. Their loyalty should not be to a party, but to themselves, their families and their best interests, which lie outside a welfare system that has locked too many of them into dependence and an addiction to a government check. What they need instead is a reality check.
It breaks my heart (really) to see the deception of wonderful people I love
The American people have always been anxious to know what they shall do with us. Gen. Banks was distressed with solicitude as to what he should do with the Negro. Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, What shall we do with the Negro? I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are worm eaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by natures plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! If you see him on his way to school, let him alone, dont disturb him! If you see him going to the dinner table at a hotel, let him go! If you see him going to the ballot box, let him alone, dont disturb him! If you see him going into a work-shop, just let him alone, your interference is doing him a positive injury. Frederick Douglass I agree with Mr. Washington and Mr. Douglass and Herman is a fine example of the kind of man they were talking about.
“At the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Sen. Barack Obama said, “...There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America — there is the United States of America.”
Yeah, and I also heard him say during his campaign, “We are a nation of laws, not of men”. Tell that to the voters who were intimidated at the Philly polling place, and then saw Obama’s Atty. Gen. Holder completely disregard the law, all based on race. Nothing Obama says has any real meaning.
Ill vote for a Black American - HERMAN CAIN!
Ditto.
And I won’t vote for a black IDIOT - Osama, Obama Hussein Barrack, whatever.
True. He's just reading a feel good speech someone wrote with good eye contact and voice inflection. That's all. He probably couldn't tell you what it actually means or even remember its content 10 minutes after he finishes.
I bet he made good grades in speech and drama class.
” I voluntarily CHOOSE to be his black slave, ‘cause he is a BLACK Massa !”
Dont really care about his color. The important fact is: Hes the worst President in the history of the United States.
‘Obama’s bus tour a flat failure’
...Nobody is listening and few care. He already gives of the stench of not a lame duck, but a dead duck - a failed one term presidency that people will talk about in the same breath as Jimmy Carter...
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/10/obamas_bus_tour_a_flat_failure.html
"The Moral Code of Blackness requires blacks to defend and vote for Barack Obama to be accepted in the black community."
‘Communism’s African-American Soviet Republic’
Organized Communism has long targeted black Americans, an ongoing effort which has survived the fall of the USSR. Kudos to Peter Wilson, who here at American Thinker highlighted the manifesto of the Revolutionary Communist Party, who are in their glory with the occupation of Wall Street by their Marxist brethren and the usual assortment of easily manipulated liberal/progressive dupes — the dependable, university-trained foot soldiers who fill the streets...
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/communisms_african-american_soviet_republic.html
That slimy british prick tried every way he could to get Herman to say that the TEA party had racist elements but Herman wouldn't do it.
I saw Herman at a TEA party last summer {2010} and he was terrific.
I was a Sarah guy at the time, but I said to my wife that Herman would make a great VP.
Now I think that Sarah would make a great VP.
bump
I am going to practice diversity and vote against both of obama’s halves.
LLS
Exactly.
For those who subscribe wholeheartedly to this thinking, it really goes for nothing worthwhile except if it's their bread and butter.
If the (so-called) "African-American" birthright is so precious, why are they treating that birthright like Esau did his? Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of stew (Genesis 25:29-34).
Is this not what most of us did when they voted for a man who isn't even one of us?
Yeah, the birthright is so precious. But look, I'm hungry so I'll sell it to you for a cheeseburger from Mickey-D's. All of our history and American heritage for a burger.
SPIT!
Or you can get raw with these strings. Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
Great post. Thanks.
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