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Originally Posted by Jewels0479
He is running for President of United States of America, not the President of Blacks in America.
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I'm so damn tired of that argument. No more. It's not a valid response to any of the perfectly reasonable questions that some Blacks raise about Obama.
For the topic, here's a list of reasons why Obama is a modern day Uncle Tom:
- During the Ronald Reagan years, Reagan introduced racist economic policies which turned the low-income neighborhoods of America into sub-standard hell holes. His policies encouraged the rise of the crack-epidemic. The murder rate for the United States exploded under Reagans policies. And than subsided under Clinton's. Yet, for some reason, white folks tend to praise Reagans policies as being progressive.
Obama is infected with the virus that is Reaganism. He has abandoned the progressive principles that made even the most conservative Democrats appealing even when they sold out to AIPAC and led popularist policies. The same people who funded Ronald Reagan are now funding Obama's campaign, which is why he's out there promising to steal right-wing ideas.
- He constantly talks about "coming together" with the neoconservatives and white establishment to run America. This is nonsense because it's impossible to co-run a country with people that believe in the exact opposite of everything that Blacks and minorities believe in.
- Where's the emphasis on poverty and economic inequality? Why is it that whenever he talks about this essential Black issue, he doesn't even talk about the hood or about Blacks? Even Bill Clinton did that much. Why does he never talk about raising minimum wages to a living wage? Instead he talks about how the middle class whites are "suffering" from high gas prices and how we need to help the middle class whites and not the Blacks. All I hear are the same vague platitudes over and over again.
- And finally, the most irrefutable reason. Obama criticizes black men on a regular basis. But, when Jeremiah Wright said some real **** and criticized White America, Obama did everything and anything he could to prove to white America that he was a good boy. He held multiple press conferences condemning Wright and even went as far as quitting his church of decades to prove to white America that he could be trusted to uphold the current system. Do I need to spell it out for you?
Of course I would prefer Obama to McCain, and there are many things I agree with Obama on. But when it gets down to it, John McCain and Barack Obama are actually very similar. Neither one of them supports pro-Black policies. Neither one of them plan to change the current Capitalist system in any way. Neither one of them supports a single payer health program, which is actually favored by a majority of the people in this country. Neither of them plan to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq. And both of them support Israel and bash Iran on a regular basis. McKinney, Kucinich, and Nader; all third party candidates, are much more progressive than Obama or McCain. To bad they can't win because the large majority of American voters are sheep not capable of individual political thought.
But that’s beside the point. Obviously, pro-Black policies aren’t what’s finally gonna free black people from the poverty cycle or end our struggle against this American system. It’s the emotional comfort of knowing that, while our ancestors were brought to this country’s shores in shackles and forced to work as slaves for hundreds of years, we’ve now arrived at the point where we can elect a president who’s kinda black.
