Posted on 07/17/2014 9:28:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
It may be too soon to label it a trend and there is insufficient data to confirm it, but President Obama and his party may be losing their iron grip on their most loyal and enthusiastic voting bloc: African-Americans.
Last Friday in Chicago, a group of black residents of the city's South Side, staged a protest against the violent shootings that are becoming as commonplace as White Sox games at Cellular Field. It wasn't just the protest that should concern the administration and Democrats; it was the language used by some of the protesters, many of whom at the time of the president's 2009 inauguration likely joined other African-Americans in worshipping at the Obama shrine.
One woman was quoted in The Washington Times: "Mr. President, we're asking for you. You're spending billions of dollars in Texas, but we've a problem here in Chicago..."
Another said: "Today, if you look at the time we were brought here as slaves 400 years ago, we got the same results today."
In what might have been regarded as political heresy only a few years ago, something akin to denying Jesus in church, another protester seemed to suggest the president should resign if he continues to ignore the city's problems: "For the president to set aside all of these funds for immigrants and (have) forsaken the African-American community, I think that's a disgrace." Speaking to the Rebel Pundit, the man added, "He will go down as the worst president ever elected. Bill Clinton was the African-American president."
How sharper than a serpent's tooth to have such ingratitude for a former Chicago community organizer.
Last weekend on several Sunday talk shows, Attorney General Eric Holder asserted that criticism of President Obama is, for some, borne of racism. Since the criticizers in Chicago last week were black, are they racists, or can only white critics be racists? Are those who criticize conservative and Republican African-Americans also racists or does that overused label only apply to whites who criticize black liberal Democrats?
The president's policies have made those Chicago protesters angry, not his skin color. They expected more and got far less. Part of their problem is what is shared by all who put too much faith in political leaders to solve problems, which, ultimately, only they have the power to solve.
If President Obama's policies and those of his fellow Democrats in Congress and in Chicago worked, Democrats would be boasting of their successes and ignoring critics.
Patriotism is said to be the last refuge of scoundrels, so what is playing the race card? Is that the last refuge of failed policies?
Blacks rightly feel jilted after pledging so much loyalty and emotion to a man they thought was one of their own. They are painfully learning that President Obama is like the fast-talking peddler of magical elixirs who promises a cure-all, then skips town before you find out you've been bamboozled. The protesters feel used and now the president and the Democrats seem to have jilted them in favor of the Hispanic vote. That's what the unbridled illegal immigration debate is all about.
One hundred fifty years ago the end of slavery and its consequences were just beginning. Hispanic immigrants will likely find themselves treated by most Democrats the same way African-Americans have been treated; as pawns in a never-ending game of political chess, eventually tossed aside as freely as a Bill Clinton conquest.
Amid all this, Eric Holder deals the race card ... again.
I'll tell you what the race card has become. It is the Joker.
Exactly, They’re just pizzed that he hasn’t passed an “executive order” having the IRS deduct “reparations” from every non-black working American, or something like that.
You got that right.
Answer: No.
Comment: They may criticize but will never abandon. Their governors have the intelligence to know that what counts is black governance and all the perks attendant thereto not the individual. The perks include but are not limited to "Bama phones," free money, the ability to assault and or kill whites with impunity, employment preferences, white degradation etc.etc. White abdication of the right to govern has consequences.
Some may be complaining about him but I guarantee that if he was eligible to run again in 2016 he’d get well over 90% of the black vote.
No, Cal isn’t on crack.
This silly piece is part of the media’s effort to get negro voters out for the midterm elections.
There must be a big box somewhere with essay themes the pundits choose from. This one, “are blacks waking up?” seems to get trotted out every so often, along with the ever-popular “blacks are conservative” and “Democrats are toast.”
*yawn*
Maybe many of them are actually “pizzed” that they still live in deplorable conditions even after they’d helped elect someone who they thought would help them change those conditions?
Rand Paul understands this, and if he runs for President he will get a lot more votes from black Americans than anyone expects because he’s one of a very few Republican leaders who is making any attempt at all to engage them.
What difference does it make? He won’t be running again.
After defeating George Foreman for the heavyweight title in Zaire, Muhammad Ali returned to the United States where he was asked by a reporter, “Champ, what did you think of Africa?” Ali replied, “Thank God my grand-daddy got on that boat!”
Paint it black and they will vote for it even if it is a fence post.
“Will there EVER be ENOUGH”REPARATIONS”?????????????”
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Has Slick Willie ever had enough interns?
Black Voters found out Obama is not Black ,not even half Black
More than 90% of blacks voted for Obama in both elections, and he can’t run again. So I would say no, blacks are not turning against Obama.
I believe the quote is "I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years", spoken to two governors aboard Air Force One.
One eighth black, three eighths Arab (white), half European white. Octoroon.
So he's only black under the old, racist one-drop rule.
Too damn late.
If they turn against him, it’s only because they aren’t getting enough free s—t.
“You were born in Chicago, a free person, in the twentieth century.”
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Only partially correct in my view, I would say that not one of us, black or white was born a FREE person in this country. Less oppressed than many in other countries but not even close to my definition of free. The less oppressed part is becoming less applicable every day in the twenty first century.
Free is actually a superlative, if I sold you a mansion for a penny you could say that it is “virtually free” but not truly free. Likewise if there is ANY UNWARRANTED restriction of any kind placed on your activities you are not truly free. There are NO DEGREES OF FREEDOM, there are only degrees of oppression. If I sold you a mansion for a penny and you found that you could not keep it because the county insists that you owe them twenty thousand dollars for the first year’s taxes and you could not afford to pay it I would consider that oppression. Your opinion may be different.
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