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“Denial is not a river in Egypt”, but a state of mind we find ourselves in when we can not face the truth. When a reality is too horrible to accept, we find other ways to explain it.
A cheating spouse is one example. When we’re in love with someone, nobody can convince us that our love would cheat; not even when we hear or see the evidence. Whatever happens, the victimized person can find a way to explain it.
African Americans have dreamed of a Black President forever, and now we finally have an African American President. Before Barack Obama was elected, I spoke to someone who was gravely ill; he said, “I just want to live long enough to see the first African American President”. Fortunately, he pulled through. Since I know that Barack Obama is a very bad subject, I never mention the President when I talk to him.
Dr. Martin Luther King made a speech in which he stated “I have a dream”. I’m sure that Barack Obama was part of that dream. As we all know, dreams can turn into nightmares; such has been the case with Barack Obama for African Americans; but that reality is much too horrible to face. When people are dealing with a tragedy of this magnitude, you must sympathize and empathize with them. What they don’t realize is that King’s dream, is not Barack Obama’s dream, and their dream is not Barack Obama’s dream. From what Barack Obama has stated, his dream is more in line with Ronald Reagans dream.
After 3 1/2 years, an African American President who has done absolutely nothing for African Americans, other than allow them to be proud of the fact that we have an African American President . Barack Obama was the first Democratic President to miss the NAACP convention in 48 years. NAACP President Ben Jealous cited a scheduling conflict when asked on MSNBC about the President not attending. However, many have noted that the President’s schedule both Wednesday and Thursday of this week featured few events. Yesterday the President was interviewed by PBS host Charlie Rose. The only other event on his Thursday schedule was the daily briefing in the morning, an entry that is on his schedule every day.
While no African Americans expected him to move the White House to the ghetto, most expected him to have a new “New Deal”, and this is what unemployed Whites expected. This is what most of the people who voted for Barack Obama expected. None of us expected 80,000 troop to Afghanistan, and a bank bailout; that only benefited rich Republicans. Maybe that’s why he mentions Ronald Reagan so often.
It’s time for African Americans to confront Barack Obama, and in the hip hop vernacular, “Straight up dude, watcha gonna do”?. Quit side stepping what’s real is my advice to everyone who voted for Barack Obama, “tomorrow never comes”. If every day the sunrises someone tells you “tomorrow” you tell me when it gets here.
It’s time that someone pull Barack Obama off the campaign trail, and ask “what is he going to do today,” especially African Americans.
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Thank you, lakota.
Recommended.
DW
I feel your pain, lakota. O will throw some bones to black Americans; he knows they’re a good chunk of his base. He really won’t hear your imagined challenges, imo.
The question is: ‘Can black Americans survive OBomba?’ No; sadly, a lot of good people won’t.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/02/02/obama_announces_2012_launch_of_african-americans_for_obama.html
No young lower middle class people will survive Obama. Although “Denial” can not be overcome in the larger African American community, there is a small percentage that can see right through Barack Obama, but Mitt is such a lousy candidate, that he hasn’t given us any leverage. “I’m going to sick Mitt on you” is not very threatning.
We have to find something that can make Obama sweat, and we must find it soon, this must be done between now and November. It must be something “Universal” that everyone can focus on, “Food” is something that’s universal. Market manipulation plus this drought is going to drive food to historical highs. If FDL will focus on “Food” aka corn which drives the price of food up, we can put pressure on Obama to prosecute the “market manipulators” who drive the price of everything we need to sustain life up, such as gasoline and other commodities.
It doesn’t matter who gets elected. After November, the lower middle class is screwed. We live in a “corporatocracy” which is defined as a system controlled by corporations. None of them care anything about us, but they do care about who gets control to whore for the corporations, and that’s what we must use to get something out of somebody.
They know who’s manipulating the prices on these commodities. It’s such an astronomical amount of money being made, that I’m sure some of it is going back to the politicians. Much more for Republicans than Democrats. By letting Obama know that we know, that the commodity markets are being manipulated, and that we want the manipulators prosecuted would intensify our focus on a single item that everyone could get behind.
Time is not our friend, we only have between now and November to get anything done; after then, we will be discarded like unsanitary disposable items.
One thing that is needed is for a very simple and very powerful “meme” to throw back at people when they start in with the baloney about Mitt being worse. Something akin to the “lesser of two evils is still evil.”
But more powerful. Much more powerful.
While I’m with you all the way, I don’t think it makes much difference now.
Obama used the hopes and dreams of people who endured generations of slavery to use for his own selfish purposes. I don’t think Mitt can get that low.
He does not see himself as black and why should he, he was not raised as black.
But that is not too surprising since the majority of people in the country still think we live in a democratic capitalistic system.
Now THAT’S denial !
Sad as it is, I think his soul is irretrievable. One day history will judge him and it will conclude that he failed miserably at the turning point when America and the World needed a champion to set us back on the right track toward equality and rational stewardship of our fragile environment. The true barometer of his heart is contained in what he claims was his biggest mistake: he didn’t tell a good enough story. He told quite a few whoppers during the 2007 campaign, but, funny as it seems to an objective observer, he probably doesn’t think they were “stories.”
“What Have You Done for Me, Lately?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9uizdKZAGE
http://youtu.be/r9uizdKZAGE
You hit the nail dead on the head. This is nothing but a masquerade, he probably laughs himself to sleep every night, when he thinks of all the people he’s got fooled.
When he was Senator Obama, I went to the library to get every book they had about him, and I also had a list of the books they didn’t have which I was going to purchase at the bookstore. When I got home from the library I turned on the TV before I opened the books. The evening news was that Henry Paulson had taken Barack Obama into a private session and told him why he needed 700 billion dollars yesterday, or the world was going to end, and that he needed it with no strings attached. After I saw Barack Obama convincing his Democratic colleagues to give Henry this 700 billion with no strings attached, I took those books back to the library without opening any one of them.
Someone who would even consider giving the Bush Administration 700 billion dollars with no strings attached; the same people who gave us the “Katrina Horror Show”, 700 billion dollars with no strings attached, could not possibly be an African American.
You’re correct. Race is not important when there’s no doubt that the president is about as bought-off as anyone.
I’m beginning to wonder if he’s a puppet of the multinationals, similarly to puppets that “we” have in other countries.
The consolidation of wealth and power goes on. Being this screwed however, will eventually trickle up. Good post, thanks.
It’s quite apparent that Obama’s race is “money green”.
Ronald Reagan was a successful politician who had been an actor. Lately I’ve seen politicians who should have been nominated for an academy award. It’s amazing how well the two professions compliment one another.
The only thing truly black about Obama is the yawning void where his soul should be. He is the most corrupt President in history: Grant and Harding collaborated with criminals on relatively-minor grafts, and Nixon fixed an election. But Obama has sold the country to Wall Street, lock, stock and Social Security Trust Fund “lockbox”.
And, oh, yeah…he’s a serial killer. Thinking oh-so-carefully about which American citizens he assassinates. If King Obama orders your death, rest assured he has a good reason for it. (He won’t TELL anyone the reason, or show the “evidence”, but trust him. After all, he’s black, bro!)
I’ve said it before (and before and before), and I’ll say it again: Stewart Alexander for President. He’s the only candidate in the IMO proper (controlled economy, personal freedom) quadrant of Political Compass’s graph, but even as a “Socialist”, he’s not *that* radical: he’s about where the British Labour Party was in 1972. Much better than anything we’ve ever had in this country, but nowhere the ultimate extremes. (He’s -3 capitalism, -3 authoritarianism; I’m -9.4, -7.8, by contrast.)
No, he won’t win, but your single vote (or anyone’s single vote) isn’t a tie-breaker, it’s a statement. Do you want to come out in favor of what this country should be…or in favor of the shithole Obama revels in?
(You know Barry must just laugh and laugh every night at what he’s done, don’t you think?)
Vote Socialist.
Vote Stuart Alexander.
Vote for the African-American candidate who ISN’T a thoroughly-corrupt, chronically-lying serial killer.
JMO.
While I agree wholeheartedly with your post, I can’t go so far as to recommend that anybody vote for anybody. Right now, I’m in the “null and void” camp. I think you can understand that.
Somewhere deep within every Democratic Senator or Congress Person lies a living breathing human being, who has a tolerance level. Everything has a limit, and when that limit is exceeded, it breaks. A nervous breakdown is an indication that person’s limit has been exceeded.
If a garbage truck has a limit to how much garbage it can take in, I’m sure a human beings capacity is much less. I’m “positive” that President Barack Obama has exceeded the capacity of some Democratic Senators and Congress People’s capacity to ingest his garbage.
I spoke indirectly to such a person. While I can not give you any response to that conversation, I can tell you they will not be going to the Democratic Convention. I believe, that between now and November there will be revelations of others whose capacity has been exceeded.
Our beliefs are the only things that make us human beings; we must be willing to live or die for them.
I agree … not recommending anyone either. However, I do think it’s important to vote. The essence of VS’s comment is right IMO, it seems as if the power of the vote mostly lies with the message that gets sent through it.
“We’re mindless sheep – Obama is so handsome and witty! Do whatever the hell you want, we don’t care.” is the message sent with a vote for Obama.
“We’re angry sheep and will run into the mouth of a new wolf – Romney is certainly no worse! Do whatever the hell you want, we don’t care.” is the message sent with a vote for Romney.
“We’re apathetic sheep and will take no action to save ourselves – citizens must acknowledge powerlessness in a two-party system. Do whatever the hell you want, we don’t care.” is the message sent by staying home.
I endorse a course of action that does not involve one of those three voting choices.
Comrade, the house ni**ers have been betraying for years.
The Black Misleadership Class strikes again. Needless to say, Obama’s actions don’t surprise me, nor the excuses given by his own people for his failure.
Corey Booker, Harold Ford, Adrian Fenty, Ben Jealous, Barack Obama are all of the same feather.
And also be reminded that the NAACP institutionalizes this; make no mistake, the NAACP reaped what they sowed on this one.
http://blackagendareport.com/corporate-funding-urban-league-naacp-civil-rights-orgs-has-turned-corporate-leadership
I’ll certainly take your post under consideration.
Who can argue with that.
I was going to send a note to the NAACP but changed my mind because it would be a waste of time, This is the note I was going to send:
The NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. It does not stand for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Presidents; especially when that President has snubbed the NAACP, and his own race; but maybe President Obama will come over, pat ya’ll on the head; and tell you what good boy’s ya’ll been.
Why would you want to?
lakota -
It is never a waste of time.
Silence is consent, and is not an effective strategy.
It will be sent.
It has been sent.
Excellent.