(ThyBlackMan.com) It is not about race. It is about a philosophy and agenda that is rather foreign to his predecessors. The thought resembles that of the late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm who addressed a group of Black manufacturers with this: “I don’t give a damn about businesses. All I am concerned with are jobs” (what an oxymoron). Then former Congresswoman Cardiss Collins chimed in with “Besides, you are all a bunch of Republicans”. Business ownership has no direct party affiliation. The ideal for President Obama is to make a world full of a few gigantic corporations, some of which are owned by governments, and then the workers unionize from top to bottom. There is no room for entrepreneurs as they just get in the way.
The big problem with the above is that America was founded and continues to be a capitalistic system where entrepreneurship is encouraged and many times rewarded. This is where the jobs come into play and 70% of all new 
jobs come from small businesses. His ambition counters what America is all about and this is starting to be realized by many. Black people should consider the following as examples of what I am talking about:
*The Stimulus Bill ended up being a nearly $1 trillion spend fest and Black business got virtually none of the contracting. We were blocked out as they guided contracts to union shops. Ninety-nine percent of Black businesses are not union so when there is union exclusivity we are out in the cold.
*The Broadband Deployment grants totaled $7.4 billion. Despite notable Black firms applying for these grants not a penny went to them. Thus, our neighborhoods will continue to lag behind in Internet deployment and keep us at a disadvantage.
*During Fiscal Year 2010 there were 64,880 Black owned firms in the federal procurement data base. Only 3,990 received any type of contract activity. Thus only 5.4% of the Black business database amounted to 1.5% of the total dollars spent by the federal government – 94.6% were on the outside looking in.
*The President wants to build a high speed rail system. In order to skew it to union shops only he placed the management of this in the Federal Railroad Administration as opposed to the Federal Transit Administration which manages all other railway activity. Why? Because this way he could avoid the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program and keep Black business out of the contracting activity – again Union Only.
*He stepped in and allowed our EXIM Bank to give Petrobras, a quasi Brazilian government and private partnership, a $3 billion low interest loan. EXIM tells our members that they must prove that their loans will create new American jobs. Not here, it is for Brazil and it allows them to do off shore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico while our oil firms had a moratorium on the same area. By the way, the current President of Brazil is a former Marxist guerrilla who spent time in prison. Also in the picture is George Soros, a crony of our President and a major stock holder of Petrobras and a proponent of Eugenics.
*Another shocker is this. We no longer have a champion to fight contractual discrimination within federal agencies. When defense contractor Henry Thomas asked Senator Sessions (R-AL) to help start a discrimination investigation he was told this by Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, “Congress has not given the Department of Justice authority to pursue charges of discrimination against departments or agencies of the federal government. Therefore, we cannot assist Mr. Thomas with respect to his allegation that the DLA has discriminated against him.” Wow! The Enforcer will not enforce. We are in trouble.
*The people of South Carolina were happy to receive the news that Boeing plans to build a new airplane plant there. There is a significant Black population in South Carolina and our businesses in that area were equally excited. Then, the federal government steps in to try and stop Boeing from bringing tens of thousands of jobs and supplier contracts. Why? The plant will not be unionized counter to the President’s philosophy. This is anti-entrepreneurial!
*The Mortgage Modification Program has a success rate of seven percent so Blacks and Hispanics, the majority of mortgage problems, continue to suffer and lose our net worth.
*His Director of the Minority Business Development Agency has stated that his main concern is big business. He is laissez faire about small businesses and has a disdain for micro-enterprise.
*The White House has actually conspired in forming a rival group to oppose the National Black Chamber of Commerce. It reminds me of when the great Booker T. Washington established the National Negro Business League and White liberals came up with a rival organization. It was called the NAACP and a robust Black middle class was delayed by half a century. They will fail on this one. Find the story at http://www.nationalbcc.org/latestnews.
It is time to become scared. I fear for my country.
Written by Harry C. Alford