Otherwise sir, how are you different from Mr. Obama? He’s talking. You are talking, while our unemployment rate goes through the roof. We are tired sir, and we need more than talk – we need you to take the next step and rally around a plan to create job, and say what wrong with pursuing this plan? Thank you. http://www.sslumpsum.com

But about the jobs problem in the Black community, we have to blame ourselves for this problem. When you spend a trillion dollars in every community but your own, knowing there are economic problems in your community, there’s something wrong with that picture. We can’t blame the President for not doing something we don’t do ourselves. Until we build a strong economic base, we will continue to be taken advantage of, whomever the democrat we vote for, because we still have to choose the lesser of the evils. Do you think Hillary Clinton would have done better for us?

Black Unity means financial independence and happiness

Here’s my thing: I know that President Obama needed all the help from Black folks that he could get. But in addition to us waiting in that imaginary goodie line, I wish we would get just as loud about doing for ourselves. There are legal changes coming up in the field of copyright law alone — thus regarding Black people and their music — that would allow us, this coming January, to begin bringing billions of dollars back to our community if we only started working together. Lots and lots of opportunities exist for Black folks to get the proverbial goodies without even waiting on this president or any other… but we just keep getting in that line for things we don’t ever seem to get!

Let me put this to you another way: you’ve been pointing out what you feel are the president’s points of neglect of the Black community for some time. You are loud, Mr. Smiley, louder than many of us will ever be. Have you seen much practical movement on his part? I’m not saying the president doesn’t care about Black folks, or that you have been ineffective; I am saying that there are forces far, far louder that are not likely to stop monopolizing his ear. Meanwhile, there are plenty of things that Black people are doing all over this country that we ought to get and stay behind with a mighty shout — and we would probably be more effective in the long term. Presidents are for four to eight years; community and wealth building takes a lot longer. I would love to see you take the same energy with which you have pursued the president for things he may or may not drop on us and focus a goodly portion of it on what Black people CAN and need to do for themselves in this next four years. If we are the last of the loud, we may as well spend much of that loudness on things more permanent than a particular president…