OR
Maxine Waters Wants Blacks Back In The Conversation
Which is it?
Or is it both? Does he see dependency as a way of life because he was an Anfican American male? And has he now left behind 'them that brung him to the dance'?
Of all the controversy we thought might be stirred up as a result of a first black President of the United States, did we see this coming?
Fact: Barak Obama works in the public eye in a society dominated by white males.
Fact: Washington is not color blind even those who voted for him.
Factoid: Poor blacks ought to be used to being put on the back burner by their more successful kin -even those who came from the old neighborhood. Jews did it, Italians did it. Not all but the majority of minorities who got "out" never looked back.
However, as I understand it, Obama wasn't raised' in the ghetto' and he wasn't even raised by a black family.
So I don't see how he benefited from being an African American male. Did he get a black business men's scholarship? I don't know. It's never been mentioned that I know of. Did he receive welfare at one point? :shrug Don't know that either but rest assured if he had some enemies would quickly dig that up. Maybe he benefited because he is not a statistic in a graveyard somewhere, but that would point to WHITE benefactors taking him to a state where mixed race was not that big a deal.
And how is he leaving poor blacks behind when he was never from them/ of them? I mean he felt a calling to represent them in his law career. ...But not really. He represented the stalwart in the black community. People who were already doing something and going somewhere. A far cry from the drug and crime infested urban jungles we in suburbia only want to read about but never cross one of those streets unless our car breaks down and the battery just died in the old cell phone. He represented senior citizens and church groups who for the most part are the backbone of all that is good in the black community.
So what's all this flack about anyway? Can't we just forget about all this racism stuff and as Morgan Freeman challenges us 'not look' at him 'as a black man' but as a man? As a President. As a father. As a guy we disagree or agree with on politics, but who after all is dangerously close to that shadowy figure in all of our towns in all landscapes where human foot has dared to trod?
Maybe he's just a little too much like us. With flaws and fears and heroic heart; and faint heart. Thoughtful and thoughtless. And just one who tries to be the best he can be, but some days doesn't want to climb out of bed and does it anyway because he has a family and a job to go to. A lover of his wife and of basketball who has a rapport with the elderly because he was raised by his grand parents.
A flawed human being who has some ideas. Some great; some not so great. Ideas formed to lead us into the next phase of our great experiment in freedom.
My own pronouncement is that these innuendos and accusations are a great waste of ink and bytes.
I can just hear the publicity team from the DNC and the RNC saying to Waters and Coburn in a soft monotone meant just for their ears, "Now you go out there and stir up some s___ for our side!" "Give the papers reason to keep your name in the news...while kicking the can for the home team!"
"And if you can't think of anything else, there's always the race card!"
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