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That WaPost
headline promises positive news on the home front. Is a
segment of the politically monolithic black community behaving
responsibly?
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Jeff
Johnson knows how to make his audiences squirm. The young, black radio
and TV political commentator waits for the discussion to turn to the
topic being talked about ceaselessly, incessantly, ad nauseam: the
meaning of the barrier-breaking election of Barack Obama.
Then, in his laid-back style, he says, "The real issue for me is that
history is not enough." That's when the mood becomes tense.
"Black folks, in particular, get irritated," says Johnson, who travels
the lecture circuit, hosts a half-hour show on Black Entertainment
Television and has a weekly spot for social criticism on a radio
program popular with black listeners. Get past "Obama the personality"
and see "Obama the president," he says. "Otherwise all you're being is
a political-celebrity groupie instead of a citizen. . . . It starts
with acknowledging he's my president, and not my homie."
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Alas, the division appears to be between "those who want to
continue to
praise Obama and his historic ascendancy," and others who want to keep
score on how much booty Obama is diverting to the Black community.
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Johnson is one of
a growing number of black academics, commentators and
authors determined to press Obama on issues such as the elimination of
racial profiling and the double-digit unemployment rate among blacks.
To hold Obama accountable, [Political blogger Faye Anderson ] created
the Tracking Change wiki to
follow the stimulus money and document whether a proportionate share
reaches the black community.
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Maybe start by getting rid of the lovely little loophole that allows the government to pay people to sit around and have kids and be poor and jobless. I think the unemployment rate with them would go down. Every race has the problem, but at the risk of sounding a little, ahem, politically incorrect, I've lived in areas where I have seen it first hand.
ReplyDeleteThen if you can eliminate the victim BS and stop acting like the world owes you something and don't need to go get it for yourself...
Blah. On and on I could go. I hate this subject. Makes me see red.
document whether a proportionate share reaches the black community.
ReplyDeleteThat's the crux of the problem, 'homies'.
You wake up each day asking "What ya got for me today?'
Instead, try some initiative and hire on, bid, qualify, whatever it takes to go get some of that stimulus money, not expect it to arrive in your neighborhood like some kind of low hanging fruit that you think you are entitled to.
And BTW, Uhbama had a white mother and was raised by white grandparents in a white community. I've seen white people with a suntan fetish darker than the Him, so what's this 'black president' crap? I'm sick of this 'whitey is racist' by definition but blacks can be racist if they wish. Eff you eff you eff you Jeff Johnson and BET you racist bastards.
I wish I could see red, Josh, but all I see is black.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick.
If they accept welfare while not disabled, they ( and any deadbeat spouses that forced them into this ) should lose the right to vote for a year.
ReplyDeleteNo more mendicant voter plantations.