Yet as fun as it is to see Obama finding himself on the sharp end of community organizing as he constructs his huge, windowless, cementy, prison-likepresidential library on the South Side of Chicago, there's obviously truth in the charges that he hasn't done much of anything for black people..
Monica Showalter "President Obama was in for a surprise when he found that Chicago's denizens weren't as enamored of him as he thought they were.
"He's running into heavy flak from the very people he used to community-organize for on the South Side of Chicago, taking incoming for not giving them a big enough slice of the pie in the establishment of his presidential library going up there. What's more, they say they want to hold him 'accountable' for not doing anything to better the lot of black people during his presidency, which is probably the real issue, and one that never got discussed during his presidency. Well, it's being discussed now, right in front of him, and it's not pretty. The Chicago Tribune reports:
At a community forum Wednesday night, a discussion about the proposed agreement morphed into a shouting match over whether Obama actually loves black people. One man in the audience yelled, “No,” while others said he wasn’t necessarily “their brother.”
"Seems that when you hector people to stand up to 'the man,' you can't be surprised when they stand up to 'the man' when you are 'the man.' " . . .
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" Education was a loser, too, with Obamacutting net funds for black educational establishments as well as shutting down charter school vouchers in places like Washington, D.C. Under Obama, bad race relations expanded even as Obama billed himself as the centrist healer - they actually reached an all-time low, according to this poll.
"Black incomes went down, the black unemployment rate went up, and blacks were thrown back to welfare programs such as food stamps just to survive. .
"With a record like, it's downright tragic that black people did not speak out earlier. Now they're stuck with Obama in their neighborhood, and for once, are just protesting the plutocrat. What do they have to lose?"
What black America won't miss about Obama by John Blake*, CNN
* Please note this writer has street Cred
. . . They're almost relieved to see Obama go.
"It's not that black people aren't proud of Obama or his family. His approval rating among blacks has been astronomically high throughout his presidency. But that pride has been accompanied by pain.
"Here are three unexpected ways that Obama's presidency changed black America." . . .
The writer discusses three points that he sees where Obama harmed America:
Change No. 1: Unfriending white America . . .Change No. 2: Reliving their parents' nightmares . . .Change No. 3: He's become 'my brother from another mother' . . .
My own statement on Obama's election as President, written in 2009:
Many of us fear the path America is being led down by our government, media and educational institutions and want to be sure they are watched fervently. It was a revelation to actually see how many Democrat elected officials have supported this massive swing to the left. One would have thought that, though liberal, they valued our free market system and economic freedoms. It has become hard to believe the US is a right-of-center nation (as surveys claim) when the culture and its factions exert such a leftward pull on our politicians. On TV programs such as "Law and Order"-to name just one- leftist philosophies are promoted while conservative ones are debunked. Mainstream news programs are fountains of anti-Republican, -conservative propaganda.
Foremost in memory is the shabby treatment meted out to President Bush at White House press conferences, press dinners and Hollywood functions. And of course we all know how Republicans and conservatives are the butt of late-night talk-show jokes.
Even past noble causes and their current leaders have become withered, almost comical clones of their past heroes. Look at the regression from Dr. King to Al Sharpton. During those terrible days of black struggle to be treated as American citizens, we longed for the day an African-American could be elected president. Who wouldn't while seeing what happened to African-Americans as they merely tried to live life as others did by eating at a lunch counter or being welcome in all public places? Joan Baez and other activists would place their bodies between black children and their object-throwing taunters as they entered schools and we were stirred. We felt the day this nation elected a black President would show America had truly become America.
But not this president; not Barack Obama.
We envisioned a black president who would govern as an American who loved this country. One who loved America for her exceptionalism; for having the character to overcome her worst elements; for all her economic strength that it was now possible for everyone to grasp the opportunity to share.
But now we have some ominous dots to connect and a picture takes shape: William Ayres and his causes; Rev. Wright, Father Pfleger, Van Jones, all preaching their hateful philosophies. We saw Cuban flags and pictures of Che Guevara on walls of Obama campaign offices; red Soviet flags flying over crowds in post-election rallies. We heard the socialist views spoken to Joe the Plumber and this administration's disdain for private enterprise. Then there is the continual ignorance displayed on foreign affairs along with a complete reversal of allies and enemies.
The vast crowds of equally ignorant sycophants crying out in ecstasy and adoration for Barack Obama was not reassuring.
Barack Obama's presidency has lifted a rock off the Democrat Party and revealed some ominous qualities that had long been off of our collective radar; that there are many Rev. Wrights and Bill Ayers sitting in Congress. We fear the effect these people have on our culture and nation and feel we must not let anything they do or say go unnoticed.
