WILLIAMS: Obama Ain’t a Brotha to the Youth of Ferguson

The Washington Times ^ | September 7, 2014 | Armstrong Williams

[2ndDivisionVet]

By almost any standard, President Obama defies easy classification. He embodies the temperament and often the deliberative air of an ivory tower intellectual, and yet he clearly thrives amid the muddy fray of electoral politics. He, like many of the youth of Ferguson, Missouri, grew up without his father present. And yet his life experience could not be more distant than that of the typical inner-city teenager growing up in a single-parent household.

Given his obviously otherworldly powers of persuasion, it is rare that one comes face to face with the stark reality that Mr. Obama does not know what it is like to grow up poor and uneducated in America’s toughest slums. After the death of Trayvon Martin, Mr. Obama lamented the teen, saying that if he had a son, he would probably look a lot like Trayvon. But in almost every category other than sex and pigmentation, Barack Obama and Trayvon Martin share almost nothing in common. And in making the comparison, Mr. Obama was being deliberately misleading about his own identity. In fact, as a successful lawyer, author and father, Mr. Obama has much more in common with the maligned 1 percent than with the youth of America’s slums.

Sure, he worked in inner-city Chicago after college. But his experience in Chicago was more like that of a Peace Corps volunteer off to see the world and make a difference than someone who had deep cultural and family ties to the community. He alluded to as much in his memoir, “Dreams of My Father,”(continued)

[Frederick_Barbarossa]

“He embodies the temperament and often the deliberative air of an ivory tower intellectual”

Dear Mr. Williams: He DOES NOT, NOT, NOT embody the air and temperament of an ‘IVORY TOWER’ intellectual.

He certainly does embody the air of an “EBONY TOWER” intellectual. (If there is such a thing.)

Please, get the two straight.

[ilovesarah2012]

He doesn’t even have the “air” of an intellectual.

Without his teleprompter, he is a babbling idiot. And half the time he looks stoned.

[Noamie]

I said in 2008 that the turning point would come once the african american community no longer referred to Obama as “fully black.”

Here comes, maybe.

[mosesdapoet]

What bothers me black conservatives fail to respond to the real reason the regime is promoting racial division and its effects on how blacks are being viewed.

Those so called Martin/Brown Ferguson organized “protests” should be investigated. It’s clear it benefits the regime. What are the reasons for creating racial division by the regimes propaganda which has by its silence condoned looting, and created the climate resulting in racial attacks ending in murders of whites,hispanics and asians. ? And winds up portraying a black society that lacks a moral compass and has no basic values of right and wrong

The regime won’t have to explain its corruption, malfeasance,and constitutional abuse...becuase the blacks will riot.... That’s how socialist/ communists work.The charge as to why this is going on?. It is clear: To prevent investigations into this inept and corrupt regime

[trisham]

The Founding Fathers would put most of our succeeding presidents and politicians to shame.