I read this article today that said actor Danny Glover and members of the Congressional Black Caucus are criticizing Obama for not doing enough to help the African American community.
And there my friend is the problem. Since when did we cease being just Americans? Since when did our representatives start putting the welfare of an ethnic group or race over the welfare of the country? It is a rampant problem that exists in this country and I do not believe our President is doing anything to help.
Whatever policies are put into place, they should benefit all Americans or they should not exist. That is one reason that I listed some of the line items that I did in my post on the spending bill. There were grants for Indians, Hawaiians, and minority businesses to include a few. In my opinion those are things that could be cut out to reduce our spending. But spending aside, I would like to look at Glover and the Black Caucuses’ complaints and how Obama addressed them.
First, the Black Caucus. Here are the 10 members with the complaint. Maxine Waters (Ca), Mel Watt (N.C.), Gregory Meeks (N.Y.), Lacy Clay (Mo.), David Scott (Ga.), Al Green (Texas), Emanuel Cleaver (Mo.), Gwen Moore (Wis.), Keith Ellison (Minn.) and André Carson (Ind.). These are the representatives who feel race is more important than country. And here is what they said Obama should do according to a couple of articles I read. They want better access to credit for African American owned auto dealerships, more aid to small and community banks that lend to African Americans, and more federal money going to support ad buys in minority radio stations and newspapers. You can see the theme here. They want handouts. They evidently want ‘their people’ dependent on the government. It is another example of Plantation politics.
Now Obama, because of his race, is in a unique position to address this obvious problem in our culture today. But he does not address it properly because he himself believes in this very liberal philosophy of entitlement. I would like now to look at a few of his statements in a recent interview where he discusses the critique from the CBC.
First, he argued that the fact that he was conducting the interview with a black reporter was very significant. Considering he was speaking with a liberal radio station, I would expect a comment like this from him. Now to his statements.
“If you want me to line up all the black actors, for example, who support me and put them on one side of the room and a couple who are grumbling on the other, I’m happy to have that,”
Obama goes on to mention that polls show that most African Americans support his actions as President. This just shows us the importance of popularity to Obama. That is a sign of poor leadership and a poor decision making process. I would also add that Obama completely ignores polls that show opposition to his policies. A perfect example is the polls showing opposition to his healthcare legislation. This is either extreme denial or an extreme case of arrogance. The liberal philosophy that the government knows best.
“We were some of the folks who were most affected by predatory lending. There’s a long history of us being the last hired and the first fired. As I said on health care, we’re the ones who are in the worst position to absorb companies deciding to drop their health care plans,”
You will notice that he uses the term ‘we’ quite a bit and not to describe himself as an American, but as a black man. You get an insight into what he believes and his feelings on how races are not treated equally. This was his first opportunity to tackle this as an American problem, but he chose not to. He instead jumped on the CBC bandwagon to express his view that black people would be the first to be dropped from healthcare plans?? He also mentions predatory lending. I would like to point out that as a lawyer working for ACORN Obama fought FOR what he now calls predatory lending. Only then, they called not giving these loans to high risk populations discriminatory loan practices. It is part of a flawed liberal housing philosophy that started with Jimmy Carter and has been carried on by every administration since. It is the belief that everyone has a right to a nice home. That is not true as you see the financial mess it has put our country in.
“The only thing I cannot do is, by law I can’t pass laws that say I’m just helping black folks…I’m the president of the entire United States. What I can do is make sure that I am passing laws that help all people, particularly those who are most vulnerable and most in need. That, in turn, is going to help lift up the African-American community.”
It is very interesting to me that he included the “by law” phrase in this sentence. To me it is the equivalent of an excuse to the black community. (Well, you know the only reason I cannot do that is because of the law, but you know I would otherwise) There is no good reason he should have included that phrase other than the one I just gave. His second sentence is how he should have addressed the entire problem, except more forcibly. Like I said before, because of his race he is in a unique position to unite the country and make our problems American problems, but for some reason he has not. He even promised to do so, but it has just gone down as yet another broken promise. I would also point out how he exposes his belief that the government is the solution for our problems. Believe it or not, there are still people out there that still think he is not a ‘big government’ guy. Unfortunately there are also people out there who actually think that big government should be the solution. That is where education needs to come in. Some education on the failed liberal policies of the past and some education in the principles our country was founded upon.
I think then the issue of who “we” is would be less of an issue.
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