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Obama Heckled About Not Speaking For The Black Community
August 1st, 2008
Short Sighted Black People Still Trying To Make Obama Just The Black Candidate
I met with a U.S. Congressmen earlier this week, and in talking about Darfur he put a point that I’ve been making into good terms. He said that it had to be the hard anti-communist to open up China (visa via Nixon). If it had been a liberal; it would then be considered pandering.
Obama cannot ignore issues that are of particular interest to the Black community, which he doesn’t, he simply doesn’t frame it in solely Black nationalistic references; because he’s not running for head Black, nor is he running just for the symbolism of having a Black guy run, nor just to bringing out some points on the campaign trail (as Sharpton pretty effectively did 4 years ago); he’s running to be president of the Unites States.
We really don’t need him spewing Jesse Jackson rhetoric on the stump, that isn’t going to do anything for Black people even if the words are right. They’ve already been said, they haven’t been acted on. What we need is for someone to do. Black folks demanding that he torpedo his campaign by demanding that he be Malcolm X on the campaign trail is just asanine.
Rather than trying to force another Black spokesmen; we should be laying the ground work to facilitate an effective response to our agenda once he likely becomes president.
In a May 6th piece that I wrote entitled Strategizing For President Obama To Respond To The Black Agenda, I laided out two things that we need to do: 1. we need to have a readied agenda to put before him, that we will hold him accountable to, and 2. We must stampdown the post-racial lie that will be used by the opponents of social equality so that political will is not quelled by the notion that there are no race based problems to address.
I wrote that “I think the above would be far more fruitful than the staunch, unrelenting Black critics of Obama who apparently feel that he running on anything short of the Black Panther 10 Point Plan as his expressed policy, makes him unworthy of Black support; and therefore want to ridicule him on the campaign trail and derail his candidacy. How they think John McCain and Hillary Clinton will benefit Black people, I don’t know; and they never respond when asked.”
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I listened to the video and noticed that Obama has a hard time without his teleprompter. He addressed most of questions posed to him, regarding Katrina, Jena 6, Sean Bell, the mortgage debacle. One statement that glaringly stuck out is that he said he had been working on these issue(s)for decades.
Decades?
That means that he’s been working on said issues half of his life. Wasn’t it just four years ago that he was elected to congress? And prior to that, hasn’t he said he was a ‘community organizer’, I think I have the right phrase.
And here’s a link to his Senate record: www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400629
Pretty paltry, wouldn’t you say?
I think the heckler is an angry young man, perhaps he has the right and I don’t know if anyone could answer his vitriolic issues.
He’s been in congress for 3 years, he was in the state assembly for 8 years before that, and yes, community organizing is working on issues.
By the time I’m 46 I will have been working on issues for decades. I’m 30 right now, and have already got 1 decade behind me.
I’ve seen his record put up against Hillary’s, and he’s done just as much if not more in 3 years as she has in 9. You’d have to demonstrate to me how his record is paltry.
As far as without the teleprompter, he’s a studeder who has trouble finishing a sentence without numerous unnatural pauses. I’ve written about how it seems his brain freezes in the middle of the sentence; and the dichotomy of how he can be so good at prepared speeches, yet so terrible at just regular talking.
I agree with the 2 step plan for when Obama reaches office. The Uhuru movement should be planning to address their issues once he is in office rather than continue to speak from teh other side of the street and throw stones.
ALSPIN wrote:
“I agree with the 2 step plan for when Obama reaches office. The Uhuru movement should be planning to address their issues once he is in office rather than continue to speak from the other side of the street and throw stones.”
NONSENSE, Once (if) he gets into office, it will be way too little a a lot too late. Obama is owned by the Financial industry and the Media….and who owns these??? That a look at www.Jewwatch.com if you don’t know the answer.