Maybe I made an unwarranted assumption about you. In this heated political environment many of us are prone to do that. I try to avoid that kind of inefficient thinking, but I’m just as flawed as everyone else. So if I was unjust in my assessment of you, please accept my apology.

I agree with everything you said but your first paragraph. I may be wrong, but I would think that being the only Black in a White environment would give Obama more insight into racism than most Black people have – but he’s also benefitted from the fact that he’s seen that white people aren’t all evil and racist. If anything, Obama is the epitome of what we mean when we say “African American.” After all, most African Americans are mixed. My great grandfather’s mother was a Black woman, “Miss Cassie,” but her skin was whiter than most of the people in congress; and my grandmother’s grandfather was German. So again, most of us are mixed. Obama is just closer to the mixture.

The points of contention that I have for this president are THE PROMISES THAT HE MADE. And what he ran on. In spite of your political assessment of myself as being uninformed, I do have an understanding of how the government is supposed to work. And no, I am not a republican. Like Gerald Celente has stated about himself, I consider myself a political atheist. I am not hung up on skin color, party affiliation, what people do in the privacy of their homes, or if their beliefs or ideals differ from mine. And quite frankly both the republicans and democrats have failed this country terribly.

I do agree with Farrakhan with black people needing to become self-sufficient, buying land, growing our own food, and breaking away from old ideas. And yes, we need to keep moneys with in our own communities, but adopt more inclusive attitudes with those around us, and outside our race, and communities, for these people are potential investors in our own communities, possible customers, consumers, etc.

Also, I have recently moved to a rural area, the only black family in the area and we are Muslims to top it off. I plan on purchasing live stock, non gmo seeds, and providing wholesome food for myself, my family and my neighbors, many who happen to not have any work and are living at poverty level. I have something else to say about my white neighbors, they are kind, helpful, and have never treated poorly.

Also, in my form of protest I search the internet for American Made goods, even if I pay more for them, I have not shopped in a Walmart in over 10 years, and would prefer to do without than ever to step foot in one . That’s where we need to go as a country and a people. Race based politics, is nothing but obsolete, old warn out Sharpton/Jackson nonsense who both happen to be millionaires, live in well to do areas and send their children to be educated in private schools in white neighborhoods.

No one has to segregate us, because since the Civil Rights movement, we have just segregated ourselves.

I obviously wasn’t clear in my response. I’m in total agreement with you:

“There are those in the Black community who need to come to terms with the fact that there are some things that even the president can’t do – and signing a bill abolishing ignorance is at the very top of that list. That’s what it would take to accomplish some of the objectives that they’re trying to force upon him.

“The president can’t just wave a magic wand and instantly make everyone upwardly mobile. It doesn’t work that way. There’s an educational process that goes along with upward mobility, and that goes for whether the person is Black, or White. While there are many in the Black community who have the skills to hit the ground running, there are others who need to be trained, motivated, and refocused in order to simply maintain a job that pays wages high enough to lift them out of poverty, even if it was given to them.

“More money passes through the Black community than through most countries, so we could create our own jobs. But we don’t, and I’ll tell you why – because Black people are the product of the very same racist environment as White people, so we’re just as reluctant to patronize Black businesses as any Hillbilly. Unlike any other community in the world, we’d rather take our money and patronize other people – ANY other people – as long as they aren’t Black. That’s a hard pill to swallow, but it is, what it is.”

http://wattree.blogspot.com/2012/12/beneath-spin-eric-l_10.html

What is your problem? When I wrote we are doing nothing, I am comparing ourselves to Asians for instance who do not waste their time talking. They are into action, they work together, build their enterprises, etc. In fact, they are the ones who have the less unemployment rate in the nation. My jaw dropped when I learned that 60% of our people dropped out academically. So, they have to be delusional to think that they will be employed if they made the choice to be uneducated. I could go on and on so, don’t assume things which are false. You seem to be someone who is very judgmental, who do not listen to people, do not ask the right questions before you make your own mind. This is not very smart!!! in addition, I am sick and tired to read on this site articles about our problems (black unemployment, etc.) without giving any solutions. Enterpreneurship is everything. It is time to wake up and smell the coffee. I will leave you with this quote from Henry Ford to meditate:

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

Here is another quote that Black America should apply:

“Become a doer of the word and not a hearer only”

You’re uninformed. Don’t you know that the United States Constitution give sole control of all spending to the U.S. House of Representatives, and the House is controlled by the Republicans? so Obama can’t do anything for the Black community – or ANY community – without getting them to go along with him. And the only way that Obama can get them to go along with him is if he has the support of the people behind him.

So I have two questions for you. First, don’t you have sense enough to realize that your constant criticism of him does more harm than good? And secondly, why are you constantly criticizing Obama, and not congress? Hmmmmm. Are you a closet Republican?

In addition, Whenever I hear a person claim that President Obama is a slave to the corporatist Wall Street culture, I know immediately that he’s one of three things – he’s either ignorant, blind to reality, or he’s promoting his own agenda. Of course Obama is a slave to Wall Street – we all are.

You can’t live in this society without being a slave to Wall Street. But there are two kinds of slaves. There are slaves who are subservient and content to simply do what they’re told, and then there are slaves who engage in a constant struggle to free themselves and their people. So, while I’m not always happy with some of the day-to-day decisions that President Obama makes to promote our cause, I’m convinced that Obama is one of the latter. If he wasn’t, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to get rid of him.

The fact is, if you’re a casual observer sitting at home and keeping score based purely on your attitudes, prejudices, and feelings, it’s easy to pass your uninformed judgment on every decision that any politician makes. But the reality is, anyone who decides to go into politics has to be practical, and a huge part of that practicality entails recognizing the fact that you’re going to have to dance to the music that’s being played, and it’s Wall Street that leads the band. So regardless to who we elect, they’re going to have to have, at the very least, a working relationship with the corporate establishment – and ironically, it’s our own fault.

The primary reason that every politician in this country is forced to play footsey with the corporate establishment is because we, the people, are so lazy, undereducated, and disengaged from our own political well being that we allow the corporations to use money to control our minds. So the only way that a politician like Obama can even get through to us is by way of the corporate establishment.

The reason that money has such a large influence on our political system is because it’s used to tell us what, and how, to think. From the time that most of us get up in the morning until the time we go to bed at night, we spend most of our free time with corporate voices whispering in our ear. It could be the radio, television, or even the billboards that we don’t think we’re noticing as we’re driving in to work, but the fact is, they are all having a profound subliminal effect on our thinking and attitudes. They’re conditioning us to think, and to do, what they tell us to. Corporations spend billions of dollars a year to convince wimps with severe cases of acne and horrendous body odors that if they buy a certain kind of car, the beautiful model that’s sensuously stroking its hood, or someone just like her, is going to fall in love with them – and they influence our vote in exactly the same way. Thus, every politician must remain cogizant of that fact.

My personal favorite is the National Rent-A-Car commercial. They have a businessman walking through the air port in slow motion with dramatic music playing in the background. Then when he gets to the counter, they have the lady behind the counter making goo-goo eyes at him like she can barely restrain herself from jumping over the counter and attacking him. Then the clincher is, at the end of the commercial they have a deep, authoritative voice saying, “YOU DESERVE THIS!”

We’ve got to start thinking of this country like it’s a business, we’re the owners, and the politicians are our employees. Only then will we begin to recognize the importance of our full engagement in running that business. Because the fact is, if the United States was a business, and as owners, we simply lounged around at home watching BET, MTV, and ESPN while allowing our employees (the politicians) to run it in the ground by giving themselves unwarranted raises in the middle of the night, and squandering away our profits, it wouldn’t be the employees’ fault, it would be ours – and that’s exactly what we’re doing. So don’t blame it on Obama. How can he lead people who don’t have sense enough to follow? So he’s simply playing the cards he’s being dealt.

you are too easy. anyone, especially a black man or woman that does not share the blind loyalty that you have for the black president angers you. they are a bligot, black klan member, or hate themselves. but as i stated before anytime anyone brings up the facts about jobs, the economy, or the overall condition of the black community. they are labeled as nothing more than republican talking points.

and if anybody is predictable it is you, an internally conflicted man, obsessed with skin color.

Get mad and say we ain’t gon take it no more, then burn our own neighborhood down. it’s amazing.