Both parties play racism to their own ends. The Dems want to keep minorities on welfare (and if you don’t know how horrible that system is, ask around). The Republicans want to rebuild the ghettos and keep blacks in their own neighborhoods. Because gang-bangers and drive-by shootings are sooooo good for raising kids.

Obama chose Biden because, as an “African-American who is articulate and bright and clean”, he needed a white guy to play the role of uneducated bigot. He found one in Biden.

Quit being sensitive about what politicians say; they are, after all, using a time-share for that brain cell.

He shared with me how he was a high school dropout who had been gang banging and selling drugs since his early teens. He told me he went to prison numerous times before the age of 21 and throughout his prison releases his homeboys picked him up and they sold drugs from the prison to their hood.

Then he began to tell me how he became the custodial parent of his three children. He recalled being in prison when he got the news that his three toddler children were in state custody because they were in the home when their mother overdosed off herion and there was no family to take them.

He said when he got the news he immediately recalled not having his father in his life and the poor choices he made that led to his incarceration. He also said it was at that moment he promised himself that he would clean up his act to get custody of his three toddler children to prevent them from going through the life he had experienced up to that point.

Less than a year after this young man purchased his home he got married. Today his children are high school graduates and gamefully employed. This young man gives the power to family, hard work and personal responsibility.

It is my opinion that if we stopped blaming slavery, racism, republicans, etc. for our woes and followed this young man’s lead by giving power to family, hard work and personal responsibility our community would thrive.

I believe Liberia was founded by free slaves from America and slaves who were freed from slave ships. I don’t know who the original people were. As far as MLK, I agree this is how it should be, but until every other group thinks this way, we as Black people should support each other. Black people are the only people who don’t lookout for their own because of the mental effects of slavery that are still with us. That’s why every other group makes fortunes in our community while we continue to struggle. We seem to be the only people who believe in the MLK way. It’s worked for some of us, but that leaves out most of us. But even those that have been successful have gotten caught up in this depression, and a lot of them aren’t getting work because of racism, which is still alive and well in this country.

Every single group of people has their own community, including the white community, except us. These groups know that by working together they can protect themselves, keep their culture intact, and generally accomplish more than they would trying to so called integrate, which still hasn’t worked in my opinion because of racism. As far as the crumbs we receive from the democrats, if you were hungry, a little food would be better than no food, which is what we’ll get from the republicans. I agree with you, we should be working together as you say to develop ourselves in order to build a strong economic foundation in the Black community so we can control our community and demand what we want from a position of power, instead of begging for the crumbs we get. This is what other powerful groups do, including the wealthy who actually control this country

Black Unity means financial independence and happiness.

Empowerment will never come from being satisfied with crumbs from Obama and the Democratic Party. No one should blame others for not developing one’s own self in this day and age.

Cont’d, China was colonized by the British. Maybe not all of China but major parts like Hong Kong, Shanghai and more. Japan wasn’t colonized because they have no natural resources. But they were atomically blown up into submission by us. Ethiopia was the only country that wasn’t colonized in Africa. I just wanted to add a little Black history for you. I don’t want this debate to get too negative. I’m about bringing Black people together.

Black Unity means financial independence and happiness

I stand corrected. It was Bush that signed the 700 billion dollar TARP bailout of the same corporate greedy bankers who put in this depression in the first place. You are right that Bush signed a 150 billion stimulus package in 2008. President Obama signed an 831 billion stimulus package in 2009 that covered more then giving people a check. His plan covered tax incentives for individuals and businesses, healthcare, education, aid to low income workers, unemployed, and retirees, transportation, infrastructure, and more. In my opinion he did more with his stimulus package – 831 billion, then Bush did with his 700 billion, bailing out his corporate cronies. Also President Obama didn’t put us in this situation; it was 8 years of Bushonomics.

Black Unity means financial independence and happiness

Both Bush and Obama signed Economic Stimulus Packages passed by Congress. In the spring of 2008 the Bush Stimulus put $300 billion into the pockets of low to moderate income families in the form of tax refund checks/deposits. In the spring of 2009 these families were anxiously awaiting their tax refund checks/deposits to arrive from the Obama Stimulus which everyone knew would be much larger than the Bush Stimulus.

Needless to say low to moderate income familes never received a tax refund check or deposit from Obama’s 2009 Stimulus but Obama did give $1.1 trillion of taxpayers hard earned money to Big Banks in the spring of 2009 without any stipulation that they would help the American people through the largest economic crisis since the great depression.

Europeans virtually colonized every country accept China and Japan so its no accident that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a pillar of strength around the World for demanding freedom!

I do agree that the ID laws are another way to at least make it harder for people to vote. As far as politics, I said this before and I’ll say it again, I don’t understand how a Black person could vote for a republican unless you are wealthy, or a southern Christian. The Republican Party cares little for the average American, let alone helping Black people.
Yes the democrats tax and spend, but a lot of that money goes to helping the poor and middle class, except for that 800 billion, which was setup by the bush administration, which is proof positive the republicans care little for the average American.

Yes President Obama did sign it, but it was already a done deal. The democrats do take advantage of the Black vote, but they will give us a few crumbs, where as the republicans won’t even do that. They’ll leave us hanging while telling us to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps when we don’t even have boots. I’m not talking about handouts. If we received our 40 acres and a mule, we would probably own this country, which is why no one wants to talk about reparations. Yet the descendants of slave owners and every other European are still benefitting from slavery.

Black Unity means financial independence and happiness

“Republicans… have a long history of racially dividing this country,” quoth you? Are you referring to when they literally divided the country through secession in order to defend slavery of African-Americans? Wait… I apologize, that was the Democrats; I get the two mixed up sometimes. Are you referring to the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution? No, sorry again, I got mixed up, that actually abolished slavery. I guess I’m drawing a blank, because it seems the Republican Party has an approximately One-Hundred-Fifty year history of promoting racial equality.

Sincerely,

Stephen Tantalus

This was a great read.

I see your point about him alluding to race and slavery, but I’m not shocked because that has been a tactic of the Democratic Statists(aka Progressives, aka modern Liberals, aka modern Democrats) since Thomas Jefferson was begging everyone to actually read the constitution.

It became quite obvious early on in the political history of this country that the allowance of slavery, while an indication of absolute liberty from the constraints of government, was unacceptable and antithetical to the concept of Liberty. So, its the perfect buzzword-buzzkill to enrage/manipulate Black people into turning away from the prudence of small government, liberty, and free markets to vote for the Statist’s highly elite, nanny-state, you-can’t-do-better-for-yourself, gov’t takeover. Growing government is like building a powerful weapon, the sore consequences of which only become evident when it ends up in the wrong hands.

Here’s the thing… yes, it took time and a bloody conflict over Statism(the Civil War) to put enough pressure on the states to amend the constitution to end slavery, and, yes, slavery should have been abridged from the acceptable natural rights of citizens of America, but that is NOT an argument AGAINST the notion that you and I, black or otherwise, can take better care of ourselves than a police state with a drug war, can teach each other to be civil better than the imposition of laws and regulations, and deserve a fair choice of currency whose value does not slip out from under us to ensure the losses of the well-connected or cater to a terribly uncivil foreign policy.

The more we play into fear, the more a fewer number of people will make all of the decisions, rallying our every passion-filled plea for freedom and equal treatment to trade votes for hopes.