8 SUBJECTS BARACK OBAMA IS TOO AFRAID TO TALK ABOUT
Excalating violence in Kenya
No response to hurricane Katrina
Racist tensions throughout nation
Rebuilding New Orleans
Prison populations overwhelmingly Black
Genocide in Darfur
Quality of inter-city schools
Inequities in wages for Black men vs. White men
For all the talk about the chance of Obama becoming our first Black President, when you look at the subjects he avoids, it is easy to see he has no interest in representing the Black community at all. He evokes the names of King and Kennedy, but offers nothing in the way of leadership except empty rhetoric. Only plagerised plans offered previously from some else.
Someone else offered the question: Is he black enough? And we laughed it off as ignorance. But maybe we should ask the question again. What has he done for the black community in his career? Certainly LESS than the very Clinton family the black community has completely turned its back on, and labeled bigots?
Does he have any desire to champion the causes of his people? Or does he only use his heritage when it suits him for political gain? He has championed getting the vote, but has he earned the vote? He speaks nothing of the issues. He offers nothing but the platitudes of "hope and change."
What the others can't say on the campaign trail, I can. He very well could be the first Malomar President. Black on the outside, and white on the inside. If he gets elected, Bill Clinton will still be our only black President. For all Obama's talk of others playing the race card, he has mastered the play. Because at the end of the day, all the black voters can pin their "hopes" on, IS the color of his skin. And the unspoken hope that he is keeping his willingness to help a community so critically in need so far on the "down low" that he appears positively albino.
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What racial tensions throughout the nation? Black separatists - like Obama's church? Is this the racial tensions you speak of?
Katrina!? Should he tell all hurricanes to "stay back?" Or the 100's of buses that sat with no mayoral edict to use them to bus people out. Or maybe, the few black racists who swear they saw the government destroy the levies in order to kill black people in New Orleans. Because we all know Bush is anti-black. (Actually, Bush most likely believes that Adam and Eve were of a medium brown or red skinned in color, and that the very dark (say, Ethiopian) and the very light (say, Irish) came from them.
Most crimes are committed by blacks.
Black Christians are being killed by dark skinned Arabs. How do you stop this... send troops in like Bush... or carpet bomb from 15,000ft like Clinton?
Inner city schools do not need more money, most inner city schools are already the most money spent per pupil. So what is the issue? Not money. I just heard an interesting study about some public schools having single schools (no co-ed). On average the girls grades went up 16%, boys were 50% more likely to get higher grades on average.
Different wages for black men verses white? Is this like the "women get paid less than men" stat? Yes, if you take all women and compare them to all men, you have a disparity. But most women choose the humanities, most men choose the hard-sciences... I could go on, but you get the point. What are the study parameters for you to say the disparity of wages? Is it between black and white males who have the same educational background and have worked similar jobs for a similar amount of time? I think not.
CONGRATULATIONS, PAPA !!!
You have just addressed the issues more than Barack has in over a year of campaigning, more than his Ob-ismal year in the Senate, and more than his years in the Chicago Legislature.
Racial tensions and divide? Look at the voting. Look at the rhetoric. Look at his church. Look at whites voting for Obama in Iowa and South Carolina where almost no blacks voted for any white candidate. Look at the hispanic voters refusing in overwhelming numbers to vote for a black. Jena 6, and on and on. Bigotry exists. If he truly can "unite" the nation, as he so proudly wears on his moniker, shouldn't he at least give it a little lip service?
Could he address the disparity in penalizing cocaine posession in crack and powdered form, a wholly racial issue. Yes, blacks commit more crime...shouldn't he, as a champion of their causes, and their representative discuss why, and offer some reason for "hope"?
Could / Should he address the wage disparities that do exist? I am not saying anything but he should address it. It all stems from education, and the deterioration of the black family unit.
Should he focus his rhetoric on the failure of inner city schools and develop a plan to lift these students up, and indeed give them the precious "change and hope" he so espouses?
Should he discuss the response to Katrina, the feeble FEMA response, the mobile home death traps they offerred, or the cronyism that gave us Mr. Brown as its chief?
If you reread my rant, you will find that I never even mentioned the Bush name. And I never once said that we shouyld throw more money at the inner city schools, you did.
All I am saying, is that he should have to EARN the Black vote by addressing and providing at the very least, some public discourse into the problems of the black community.
ALL he offers them so far is the color of his skin. And that is something to be proud of, for all Americans. A Mormon had a real shot at the Presidency, and that is something for all Americans to be proud of.
But this is the Presidency, a position too important to be subject to the quota system, or minority recruitment.
Don't get so defensive, Papa. This wasn't an attack on anyone. Merely a call to arms to the Obama nation to stand up for something, rather than blowing meaningless bubbles of hope and change, bubbles that will soon pop, and leave us outside of the White House looking in....again.
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