(ThyBlackMan.com) Barack Obama’s legacy is about to be undone as anything other than a Nobel Peace Prize winner who conducted non-stop drone warfare and the questionable fate of the Affordable Care Act. He is the first half African and half Caucasian-American President of the United States. He was raised as us, but not with us, or by us for if he would have been, then he certainly would have known not to make the fatal mistake that allowed the current President-Elect to rise to power.
I’m not quite sure why Mrs. Obama didn’t or couldn’t stop him, but the day that Barack Hussein Obama put his Birth Certificate on display for the world to witness was the day that Massa Trump broke him. Most of us descendants of slaves understand what surrendering that document was. It was an utter submission to the whip. In this case, the whip was media driven and not back scarring. Barack Obama let the likes of Donald J. Trump and other deplorable Americans drive him to the point of proving his American citizenship because he deeply desires to be accepted by the very people who hate him. He has more of the master’s DNA imprint than the slave’s. Our collective history as a people forged on this continent is adjacent to whom he is, but it is not who he is.
I would have told Mr. Trump and anyone demanding to see my papers like the Nazis that they proved to be to kiss me where the Sun doesn’t shine. I probably wouldn’t have been as artful about it as I am now. Obama’s surrender emboldened his enemies. It emboldened Trump.
This was his greatest failure as President.
Barack Obama failed to end the War on Drugs. He leaves office without having made any serious effort to end the modern day slavery system. The first half African and half Caucasian-American President completely did not care about the machine which is consuming the very descendants of the continent from which his Father descended. He completely failed to see the paradigm of the War on Drugs as slavery and he utterly failed to act in any meaningful way. This should have been his first priority after economic stabilization.
Barack Obama’s softness allowed him to keep Debbie Wasserman-Schultz in the position of Democratic National Convention (DNC) Chair for an elongated period. It was painfully obvious years ago that she would do nothing but continue to lose seats for Democrats in her efforts to align the party for Hillary Rodham-Clinton’s coronation.
I, personally spit in to the wind on several occasions over the past four years to plead with the POTUS to terminate her and he never made an overture. She failed at every step of the way, but never did she fail as poorly and as decisively as she did in her treatment of Bernie Sanders and his voters. The pure, in your face establishment bias was clear from the start with the advertisement of a pledged Super-delegate lead at the outset of the Democratic primaries when the Super-delegates themselves can not vote until the party’s convention in June. It was sheer manipulation of the public will by pushing a vaporous number via a complicit corporate media. Obama’s failure to lead the party by removing Wasserman-Schultz manifested itself in the internal sabotage of Sanders within the DNC itself which has been proven in leaked emails.
There was funny business in Arizona and at the Nevada caucuses. There was funny business just about everywhere in the Democratic primary. The media was complicit in the fact that they produced tons of tight shots of Clinton rallies with a few hundred to thousand voters while rarely showing the massive rallies that Sanders held of 30k-40k people. It was obvious to anyone watching where the actual enthusiasm was and where the establishment had staked its inheritance and OH….does this election have the stench of entitlement?
Barack Obama is soft and he failed to stand up for the black community. Instead of standing before Alabama and Mississippi and selling us as the next entrepreneurs and geniuses which we are, he chastised us at college graduations a la Bill Cosby.
Instead of educating the public about the history of the racist attacks which he himself endured infinitely, he chose to play nice with a police officer who arrested a man for trying to get in to his own home. In his defense, I will say that only a soft half African and half Caucasian-American black man could get there. Barack Obama is a genius to be sure, but he capitulated to his arch nemesis when he was the most powerful man on Earth. He is an appeaser who lacked the ability to effectively terminate an ineffective Chairperson. He is the American President who’s legacy will be the least significant in the long run because it is about to be erased by the very man that he let break him.
He empowered the very man who questioned his American heritage and ultimately, laughed and joked him from one White House Correspondence Dinner to the next while lending him the national spotlight and ultimately by surrendering his power to Donald Trump in the weirdest display of white supremacy ever seen. In surrendering his Birth Certificate like a dog or like one of the good Jews, Barack Obama has proven that he is truly soft. It is painful watching Barack Obama hand the baton to Donald Trump. I voted from him twice, but he deserves it.
Staff Writer; Darrick Herndon