Don’t fall for the okie doke. Black America must still hold Obama accountable
on July 11th, 2011 at 7:07 am
For months the Obama fan base has not been able to offer up any type of real defense to the ever growing list of Obama’s broken promises. But suddenly, we need to look back over 151 years in detail of Black history to prove Michele Bachmann wrong. Mind you, these are the SAME individuals who have not asked for links to prove the following broken promises of Obama. In fact, in most cases they have outright ignored them.
Black unemployment has gone up when he promised that his stimulus would bring it down: NO RESPONSE.
His promise that he would bring our soldiers back from Iraq: NO RESPONSE.
End income tax for seniors making less than $50,000. NO RESPONSE.
Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. NO RESPONSE.
Allow five days of public comment before signing bills. NO RESPONSE.
Reduce earmarks to 1994 levels. NO RESPONSE.
Called raising the debt celling “sad” back in 2006. NO RESPONSE.
Why continue?
With every “NO RESPONSE“, his fan base continues to lower the bar of expectancy on Obama. How? Because A) These are some of the very same issues in which they continuously hammered Bush. B) By not holding him responsible to the promises HE made, they demonstrate that he (Obama) cannot be taken seriously.
“But Obama has only been in office for..”..SHUT UP!
Obama outspent the 8 years of his predecessor in less than 2 years. And for those who need just a clue on economics 101, you don’t spend yourself out of a deficit. That’s like me owing Verizon $200, and instead of paying the bill I add on more services in hopes that one day the bill will pay itself off.
Michele Bachmann makes a valid point about the high rate of broken families in the Black community and suddenly we have check, check, and double check history books to prove her wrong. The Obama fan base is willing to jump back 151 years to prove a White woman wrong but refuse to go back barely a week to hold Obama accountable to his own broken promises. What does that say about whose words they value the most?
They certainly do not value Obama’s words by the very fact they continue to place them on the 75% off rack every day. Yet they are the very ones that will scream “Respect MY President”. How can you demand respect for someone when you don’t even hold him accountable to anything? This is where racial politics aways ends up tripping on itself.
Bishop Eddie Long
“What does Long have to do with this?” Directly? Nothing.
Do you remember when news began to surface about Eddie Long and his alleged sexual exploits with those young men? Remember how folks kept hammering Long to come clean and tell the truth? Remember how a certain blogger was boasting over the fact that he had the inside scoop regarding the settlement? Remember how when a settlement was reached how people all across the net turned up the volume on their disgust over Long? Folks who have never darkened the door of New Birth (Eddie Long’s church) felt the need to hold him to accountable to the decency of telling people the truth about what really happened.
Tavis Smiley never questioned Obama’s birth certificate, never called him a “communist”, never questioned his Blackness (as many in the Obama fan base once did), never questioned his Kenyan roots, never suggested that he hoped Obama failed, nothing of the sort. Yet, when he suggested before Obama was elected that the Black community needs to make sure we hold him accountable just as we have done with past presidents, folks became enraged and painted him as a “sellout”, “Uncle Tom” (all the usual names from folks with limited political discourse resources).
Tavis received death threats, Tom Joyner no longer wanted him on his show, and to this day people still continue their hate-fest against him. Why? Because he simply uttered the 4-letter word (that is not a 4-letter word) regarding Obama…
ACCOUNTABILITY.
When the Obama fan base is ready to hold him accountable just as they do with others they despise, I can then begin to take them seriously and get into a serious discussion on Black history.
“The authors quote Reid as saying privately that Obama, as a black candidate, could be successful thanks, in part, to his “light-skinned” appearance and speaking patterns “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
Result from “the fanbase”? Close ranks and support him.
“Harry Reid called me today and apologized for an unfortunate comment reported today,” Obama said in a statement released on Saturday. “I accepted Harry’s apology without question because I’ve known him for years, I’ve seen the passionate leadership he’s shown on issues of social justice and I know what’s in his heart. As far as I am concerned, the book is closed.”
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), the highest-ranking African-American in Congress, came out in support of Reid, as did Nevada Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, the top black pol in Reid’s home state.
Al Sharpton, the vocal civil rights leader who has inserted himself in the middle of many of the biggest racial fights over the past 25 years, said that while Reid “did not select the best word choice in this instance,” the Nevada Democrat should not be forced to step aide.
And D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat and an African-American, is warning Republicans against trying to make hay out of Reid’s comments.
The nonvoting member of Congress said Reid’s opponents “will not find a welcome mat in the black community” if they try to seize on the Nevada Democrat’s remarks.
Reid has also reached out to Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus and other influential African-Americans, including Donna Brazile, Julian Bond and Wade Henderson.
With top African Americans supporting Reid or saying nothing, he has been able to avoid — up until this point — having the furor become a full-fledged media firestorm.”
