Hatred of Obama could lead to GOP overreach
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Darla
People are getting too personal for me here lately. I just don't want to be invOlved in that level of vitriol and am going to stay off threads this begins in. I am not here for that, hated it in the past, and will not participate in it. This is not about regular old name calling and mocking which I love, especially at super freaks expense. You know what I mean. EveryOne knows the difference. HoWey I just dont want to get into another hassle with u again. I am not here to be the police. I just won't participate in this stuff
I said black kids grades went up!
Blacks were far less likely to invest long before Obama
cawacko
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I don't know what it is about politics but it can hit people at their core and become intensely personal to point people feel like you are attacking a family member or their child when discussing a politician. Crazy.
blackascoal
The Force is With Me
If only I were just being facetious.
The Big Nausea: Waking Up With an Obama-Ache
“Black folks have been forced to come to grips with the finality of Obama’s second term.”
The Obama Hangover has begun. The drunken delirium that descended on Black America after the pale Democratic caucuses of Iowa endorsed a brown-skinned corporatist just after New Years Day, 2008 – conveying white “viability” on a Great Black Hope – is definitively over. It’s the morning-after in Black America, a scene of economic and political ruin bathed in the searing daylight of Obama’s second term and umpteenth betrayal.
It would be easy to say that the Great Nausea of 2013 was occasioned by Obama’s blunt object assault on Social Security and the whole array of entitlements. However, the First Black President’s obituary is not written in his budget. The onset of post-Obamaism has more to do with the calendar than anything else. Since Election Day, November 6, Black folks have been forced to come to grips with the finality of Obama’s second term – the impending emergence from the dream. There is the sound of a finger snapping. “In a few moments, you will wake up.”
The awakening will be uneven and, for many, dreadful: a dreamscape dissolving into the rubble-strewn nightmare left by the Great Recession, a catastrophe that set African Americans back as much as two generations, but which was not subjectively experienced as such by huge segments of the Black community. Instead, reality was subsumed by the mere presence of a Black person in the White House.
“The awakening will be uneven and, for many, dreadful.”
It was a narcotic effect so potent in Obama’s first term, African Americans imagined themselves to be better off than five and ten years before – when the truth was exactly the opposite. Black imaginations took flight amid the desolation. Studies by the Pew Research Center – substantially confirmed by other reputable pollsters over the course of Obama’s first term – showed that Blacks were the most optimistic constituency in the country regarding their personal and family prospects and those of African Americans as a group. Moreover, they believed that their condition was improved under the Obama presidency – coterminous with the debacle – when in fact Blacks had been hardest hit of all major U.S. populations. Meanwhile, every other ethnic constituency correctly understood that their economic situation had deteriorated.
Back in January of 2010, I wrote:
“ObamaL'aid is a mind-altering substance, a hallucinogen. It makes Black people see progress when they are actually facing disaster. Obama-on-the-brain also behaves like an opiate, blocking out pain. African Americans’ ability to apprehend political and economic danger is compromised by Obama-induced delusion, while the opiate effect prevents Blacks from knowing where and how badly they have been hurt. That’s a fatal combination.”
Although African Americans contributed 19 out of every 20 of their votes to Obama’s reelection, there was no escaping that this was the last act in the ritual. One cannot blame the people for having their Mardis Gras – even if it is a five-year bacchanal. However, it is unforgiveable for so-called “leaders” to allow the whole town to burn down during the festivities.
“There’s a lot of historical re-writing to do, if the poseurs are to include themselves in a movement from which they have been effectively absent for four years.”
For the monumentally dysfunctional Black Misleadership Class, the winding down of the Age of Obama is cause for frantic repositioning, and for the revising of their own histories. Black politicians and “movement” personalities who, for four years, could not bring themselves to articulate a single “demand” of the administration in power, now claim to be working on a “Black Agenda” – having discarded the old and unfinished Black historical agenda on peace and social justice in deference to the First Black President. Now that Obama’s days are numbered, these misleaders must hustle to readjust history to show that they have, indeed, been “on the case” since 2008, when the bottom fell out of the Black American economy. They must renew their peace and pan-Africanist credentials, having watched as Obama waged war against international order and deployed AFRICOM to militarily occupy the continent. There’s a lot of historical re-writing to do, if the poseurs are to include themselves in a movement from which they have been effectively absent for four years.
The clock is ticking on those who have put the political fortunes of a Black corporate schill in the White House above the interests of African Americans and the global human community. What will the misleaders do with their wagons when there is no Obama for them to circle around - or when he has totally discredited himself even among his most loyal constituency, as with his stance on entitlements?
Revisionism becomes the order of the day. Yesterday’s cheerleaders for Obama are now scrambling to find harmless niches of simulated protest from which they can rebuild their resumes as defenders of the people’s interests. Previously compliant members of the Congressional Black Caucus will decide that it’s time to regurgitate, rather than swallow, Obama’s “Satan Sandwiches.”
But some of us have kept a record, and kept the faith. And we will not forget who did what in the Age of Obama.
http://blackagendareport.com/content/big-nausea-waking-obama-ache
blackascoal
The Force is With Me
I'd like to see those stats you're talking about .. then tell me how that has anything to do with Obama.
What did he do?
You said family wealth has come out of the hole it was in.
Where?
Did you miss this part .. "But the last half-decade has proved far worse for black and Hispanic families than for white families, starkly widening the already large gulf in wealth between non-Hispanic white Americans and most minority groups, according to a new study from the Urban Institute."
blackascoal
The Force is With Me
Probably 90%
I saw it on a news show! My sympathies, you are so filled with hate for his Going along with war mongering; you can't understand black children being inspired by him!
You don't know a ton about wealth!
It's mainly in 2 places stocks and houses!
The stock market fully recovered, housing hasn't.
So a tiny fraction of blacks are not down!
That's what I figured
blackascoal
The Force is With Me
With all due respect my good friend who I sincerely appreciate .. I know a lot more about black children than you do. Not only do I mentor middle school boys, I've been in, and worked for community all my adult life, right along with my own career goals.
Not sure what makes you believe that you know more about black children than I do.
If you think that the grades of black children has risen because they see Obama as a role model .. again, show me the stats to back that up.
Obviously you do not work in the black community.
Your argument is that Obama improves grades just because he's the president.
Not sure what makes you think you know more about wealth than I do either.
blackascoal
The Force is With Me
It doesn't mean that at all.
90% of blacks .. who vote .. voted for Obama because there were only two choices.
88% of blacks .. who vote .. also voted for Gore.
May I suggest you go back and reread my post? What did I say that was wrong or untrue?
blackascoal
The Force is With Me
Where did I agree that black student grades are rising?
What’s Keeping Black College Students From Making the Grade?
Black college students are falling behind in key areas.
http://www.bet.com/news/national/20...-college-students-from-making-the-grade-.html
Fewer black and Hispanic students admitted to top high schools
http://gothamschools.org/2013/03/15/fewer-black-and-hispanic-students-admitted-to-top-high-schools/
You elect presidents to deal with critical issues like racial disparities .. at least that used to be true.
It will never be true again .. because if you didn't say shit to Obama about it .. what are you going to say to the next white president?
My bad
Again a news report
blackascoal
The Force is With Me
That's not a problem good brother.
I like you .. a lot .. like your posts .. even when they're challenging. :0)
I never expected perfection or close to it from Obama
blackascoal
The Force is With Me
I never expected much of anything from Obama .. particularly anything to do with black people. I researched him before I would vote for him .. same as I do for everybody.
Honestly, in my heart, I hoped that I was wrong. There are few things I would have liked to have seen more than a successful and conscientious African-Americans president before I leave this life.
There are perfect people .. all I needed to see was a good one in Obama.