Blacks' Dilemma with Obama

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I've never heard this said better.

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Blacks' Dilemma With Obama

by Star Parker
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8/22/2011

Election of our nation's first black president is delivering an unexpected message to our black population.

Blacks are discovering that what a man or woman does -- their actions -- is what matters, not the color of their skin.

It seems ridiculous to point out that this was supposedly the point of the civil rights movement. Purge racism from America.

But blacks themselves have been the ones having the hardest time letting it go.

It is not hard to understand why black Americans were happy that a black man was elected president of the United States. It was kind of a final and most grand announcement that racism has finally been purged from America.

But for the highly politicized parts of black America this was certainly not the only message. Because for the highly politicized parts of black America, the point has always been to keep race in American politics.

For black political culture that dominated after the civil rights movement, the point was not just equal treatment under the law, but special treatment under the law. Plus the assumption that more black political power -- defined by more blacks holding office -- would mean that blacks would be better off.

In other words, post-civil rights movement black political culture embraced an agenda exactly the opposite of what the civil rights movement was about. Its agenda was to get laws and policies that were not neutral but racially slanted and to put individuals in power based on their race and not on their character and capability.

So, according to the script of this political culture, election of a black man as president meant more than an end to racism. The conclusion had to be that if the man holding the highest political office in the nation was black, it must follow that blacks would be better off.

Now blacks have a dilemma. We have a black president and blacks are worse off. Not just a little, but a lot worse off.

In the words of longtime Congressional Black Caucus member Maxine Waters, D-Calif., "Our people are hurtin'.."

Blacks now grapple with two possible conclusions.

One, our black president is a traitor to his race. Our struggles put him in power and now he's not taking care of his folks. He's become, in the words of left wing professor and activist Cornel West, a "mascot" of Wall Street.

Or, two, that the man's performance reflects his views and his capability, not his race. He's not delivering for anyone. Blacks are hurting more because they were already in worse shape when Obama got elected. Bad policies hurt the weakest the most.

And it happens that the bad policies that have always failed are the big government liberalism that has defined modern black politics.

With further thought, blacks might realize it's this same flawed idea -- that growing government and electing black politicians would make blacks better off -- that explains why blacks have remained disproportionately "hurtin".

Take the Congressional Black Caucus itself. The average poverty rate in Black Caucus districts is almost 50 percent higher than the national average. Yet, these black politicians have 100 percent re-election rates.

Maybe a real bonus that will have come from electing a black president is that blacks will take seriously Dr. King's dream that we judge men by their character and not their color.

The Civil Rights Movement took blacks to the edge of the Promised Land. But political activism can only remove barriers to freedom.

It's up to the individual to embrace freedom and take on the personal responsibilities that go with it.

Maybe blacks will realize that they should blame Barack Obama. Not because he is black, but because he is a liberal. And because he has grown government to the point where the oxygen necessary for freedom and prosperity is being squeezed out of our nation.
 
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Sure you have. We all have. It just matters "who" says it before it becomes true.;)
 
Blacks do need to come to the realization that Liberalism has caused terrible injustice. It has destroyed their families (illegitimacy is 72%), kills their babies, promotes government dependency, prevents them from getting a good education, crime; drugs; gangs are rampant in their communities. But, these things have existed for some time and yet, most blacks do nothing and even condemn those who have identified these problems (see Bill Cosby).

The welfare state devised by liberals, has been harder on blacks than was slavery...which is exactly what the Great Walter Williams has been saying for some time. Slavery is better than Liberalism...does not surprise me.

His recent book is excellent and proves conclusively that discrimination is no longer a problem for blacks. The problem is LIBERALISM!!!
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Did liberalism, the concept, destroy the family unit, or was it the excuse people who are less than men, except in the locker room, needed to run away from responsibility? I happen to think that such "evolved" creatures would have been of that morality anyway. Not defending anything, just not allowing a "concept" to take all of the blame.
 
Did liberalism, the concept, destroy the family unit, or was it the excuse people who are less than men, except in the locker room, needed to run away from responsibility? I happen to think that such "evolved" creatures would have been of that morality anyway. Not defending anything, just not allowing a "concept" to take all of the blame.

It is human nature to accept something given to you. This is especially true when you believe you are discriminated against. Liberalism tells blacks they can't be successful in our society because of white racism. It then offers them money taken from productive Americans so that they are in effect compensated for white racism.

This has been going on since LBJ passed his foolish great society programs and proclaimed, "I'll have those ******s voting Democratic for the next 200 years. ..."

When a government check replaces income from work, the consequences are most heinous. The consequences are the dysfunction we see in the black community today...and many of those same problems are evident in the poor white and Hispanic communities.

Liberalism is worse than slavery.
 
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It is human nature to accept something given to you. This is especially true when you believe you are discriminated against. Liberalism tells blacks they can't be successful in our society because of white racism. It then offers them money taken from productive Americans so that they are in effect compensated for white racism.

This has been going on since LBJ passed his foolish great society programs and proclaimed, "I'll have those ******s voting Democratic for the next 200 years. ..."

When a government check replaces income from work, the consequences are most heinous. The consequences are the dysfunction we see in the black community today...and many of those same problems are evident in the poor white and Hispanic communities.

Liberalism is worse than slavery.
Have you considered hiring a good lawyer and suing whoever it was that provided you with your education? Man, you have got a case for their malfeasnace, and it is bulletproof.
 
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