Opening your mouth is not necessarily presidential, black, nor urban. All people harp on about all sorts of stuff. Accosting white people is not presidential. As many bad things as we can say about Obama, while he may condone these acts in his heart, he cannot do so in public and he is never of the character to engage in such acts. As reprehensible as the knock out game is, it requires a certain amount of masculinity, however primal, that Obama simply doesn’t possess.
I do not think doing what we believe the Sharptons, Jacksons and Obamas want is acting like them. That is simply being somebody’s toady. These fools actually thought things would change when Obama was elected. They cannot see that they are useful fools. Being a useful fool is not imitating nor emulating the one in charge. Obama’s election had no impact on their lives. I think the only impact they have is their usefulness to Obama in what the press can make of them. Obama wants nothing to do with these fools. For all his rhetoric of Trayvon is my son, he wants nothing to do with those people. Even if we believe he is a closet Muslim, he would be terrified to even meet one of those guys that hacksaws people’s heads off. None of these people truly believe in equality or redistribution of income. They do not want to be on par with everyone else or anyone to be on par with them. They simply recognize a certain social group’s usefulness to amass power and fortune. Your immediate neighbor with whom you are relatively equal holds little if any power or influence over you.
To these fools, the local gang leader is the most influential and power figure in their lives and that is who they would like to emulate, never recognizing the arbitrary inequality or discrimination the local dictator seeks to exercise. They do not want to be a president or industry producer. They haven’t a clue what that is or what that entails. They simply wish to bash heads at the behest of certain individuals they have been fooled into believing have their interest at heart and are unable to see have done nothing for them. To do anything to truly change the circumstances certain lower socio-economic groups are in would cause certain leaders to lose their power base. That cannot happen if you wish to remain in power and influential.
I agree that Obama wouldn’t come right out and say, “Go beat up Whites because of how you have been treated.” He could say, “I understand how frustrated you are. It is reasonable to be frustrated. I can understand that.”
What is the net result of this? Perhaps it wasn’t an intentional suggestion to seek retribution. It none the less gives a basis for it. If you’re frustrated and the president says that is reasoned, is that not an admission that they have been treated unfairly? Is that not a reason to justify acting out?
Yes we’re talking about people who are borderline already, but this next step was to be expected. Still Obama made unfortunate comments that fed into this mindset.
Perhaps he actually saw himself as a peacemaker, although I doubt that, he still exerted influence from the highest office in the land. Has he come out and said the Knock Out Game and the Racial attacks in Chicago were unacceptable?
I don’t necessarily object to the comments you’ve made.
It is true that Blacks have not been helped by this guy. If anything they have been set back several decades by him. Unemployment, racial equality (at least in perception), Obama has infuriated people on both sides.
Say what you want about the guy trying to be even-handed, he has been a massive divider, and nothing whatsoever of a uniter.