Rising unemployment, poverty, home loss due to foreclosure, etc. all have been hot topics amongst many Black commentators and politicians. With the exception of the Congressional Black Caucus recently calling out Obama on some of these issues, most of these talking heads are careful to blame “the government”, not Obama. Under Bush of course, Bush and the government were two faces of the same devil.
While poll after poll is showing how voters of all political backgrounds are really not feeling Obama these days, the recent Gallup poll shows that support for Obama in the Black community has actually gone up from 90% to 91%.
Complaining about the economy, the loss of jobs, foreclosures all while praising Obama for his “good work” is nothing more than a self-made prison we choose to make our home. We know good and doggone well how quick we have been under other Presidents to blame the man in the front office for the economy, no matter how long he was in office. The translation of all of this is quite simple: “I’m not going to be a hater.” From Facebook to the blogosphere, what I have noticed from my Black family is that anytime one of them does feel a momentary sense of boldness, they will always start off their criticism of Obama by saying “I’m not hating on the man or anything, but…” My thought to this is always “You never had to curb your criticism on the same issues under Bush or any other President. So why do it now?”
We have too many Black folks in prison already. Why increase the prison population by choosing to construct and live in these self-made social prisons? Break yourself free and tell the truth.
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That 1% may be just noise.
For results based on the sample of 732 nonwhites, the maximum margin of error is ±5 percentage points.
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During the election of 2008 I noted that the popular question in the news media (White and Black) was “Can White Americans overcome their racial bigotry and vote for a Black man if they believe he is the best candidate to serve their interests?”. Those who dared to put their racial “hatred” over their political choices were ostracized.
At that time I noted that the “next logical question” was never asked.
I observed that this same “racialism” was never asked about the BLACK VOTER. While the White voter was expected to be open minded and asked to “evolve” – nothing was asked about the Black voter. In my analysis the proper assignment for the Black voter nullification that is present is not “Black racism” – instead it is more accurately BLACK IDEOLOGICAL BIGOTRY.
Today the average Black American lives in a local environment that has an array of politicians of his own choosing. If there are more than 35% of a Black voting base in this local district they are Democrats who run the board. As such the present situation with Obama needs to be considered from an architectural view. The “Democratic Machine” that is present locally extends vertically into the federal government. In some cities – a Black person living in Baltimore, Chicago, Newark, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Cleveland does not have a Republican representative or legislative body to represent him at any level. Despite this this Black voter is more inclined to vote AGAINST his permanent enemy than he is to focus upon and “punish” those who actually have elective power. (Thus all of the focus upon Sarah Palin in the Black press and blogesphere rather than the politicians that actually hold an office over them).
With Obama at 90% approval rating amongst Blacks yet Black people in the places where this same Democratic machine has most control also being among the most unemployed in this nation – the questions that were drilled home to the White voter are due to be asked of the Black.
The claim is that “the Black voter knows who has his best interests in mind and thus votes as such”. This is what I heard Prof Manning Marable say. This is an outright lie. The evidence on the ground shows clearly that the Black voter is infected with Voter Nullification. A Black Establishment operative only needs to bring forth the claim of RACISM as a means of derailing any chance that the politician that failed our people for the results that have been rendered. Defensiveness related to the “siege mentality” is more powerful within many of us than the dispassionate analysis that is required to get ourselves out of this situation.
Some of us have the ability to MOVE AWAY from a failing local environment yet continue voting for the progressives. Thus they can remove their “skin from the game” as it relates to the impact on their child’s education, the threat from crime or the loss in property values yet continue to vote in a manner that their “real blackness” is retained.