What Were You Black Folks Thinking?

Did you hear some blacks bragging “We run things now” because Barack Obama is President of the United States?

Really?

We run things now?

Just what do we run?

A black woman quit paying her rent after Obama became president. She said “We have a new president and things are going to change.” A young black man stole a bag of chips from a store on the night of November 4, 2008, election night. He felt since we had a black president, he did not have to pay. A relative of comedian Kevin Craft said “F___ white people! Black folks ain’t gotta do s___.” A woman in Texas thinks that Obama is going to make black people all “rich.” I wonder if that woman in Florida is waiting for a check from the White House so that her mortgage gets paid. Look for cobwebs around her as she waits.

What were these black folks thinking?

Barack Obama hired a white woman, Hillary Clinton, to beg China to keep purchasing U.S. Treasury Bonds. (He could not find Jesse Jackson to do what he does best? Beg for money?) A white man is in charge of the Treasury. A white woman is in charge of Homeland Security. A white man is in charge of the military. (Obama can’t trust a black man to be in charge of lots of weapons.) A white man is in charge of housing and urban development. A white man is in charge of education. A white woman is in charge of Economic Affairs. A white man is in charge of the budget. A white man is in charge of agriculture, therefore our food. A white man advises Obama on National Security. A white man is even in charge of the CIA. (What? Obama can’t trust a black person with any secrets?) The only African Africans with cabinet rank are Eric Holder (Justice – putting people in jail), Lisa Jackson (Environmental Protection Agency), Ron Kirk (U.S. Trade Representative), and Susan Rice (UN Ambassador) who echoes Obama’s resistance to reparations for slavery, to the chagrin of reparations supporters. I did not vote for George W. Bush, but didn’t he at least appoint prominent blacks to prominent positions such as Secretary of State and National Security Advisor? And Obama just put a white man in charge of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). (What? He could not trust a black person in an emergency?)

(By the way, all you people who slammed Joe the Plumber for not paying his taxes, what do you have to say about all of Obama’s cabinet nominees who did not pay their taxes? People got real quiet, didn’t they?)

Have you noticed that none of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) was considered for any cabinet positions? What about John Lewis? What about Bobby Rush? What about Jesse Jackson, Jr.? What about Danny Davis? What about Emanuel Cleaver? They supported Obama, but he did not support them. Even former U.S. Senator Carol Mosely Braun or former Congressman Harold Ford did not come up in the conversation.

Check this out: “Obama Faces Diversity Complaints: Too Many White Males”: “Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee of California, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, has met with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel about the lack of diversity. ‘We are concerned about this and will continue to monitor it,’ said a caucus official.” http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2009/2/2/obama-faces-diversity-complaints-too-many-white-males.html?s_cid=s:washington-whispers:obama-faces-diversity-complaints-too-many-white-males. But recently Congresswoman Lee said “(Obama’s) agenda is our agenda.” You and the rest of the CBC were not on the agenda, Ms. Lee. What if McCain had won, and there was an article that said “McCain Faces Diversity Complaints: Too Many White Males”? People would say “McCain don’t like black folks,” wouldn’t they?

Where is Kanye West when you need him?

What were you all thinking?

Back to reparations, I will take the reparations “leaders” to the woodshed. Obama does not support reparations for slavery, period. He did not support them when he ran for the U.S. Senate, and he does not support them now. That is the official stance of his administration. Whether you believe in reparations or not does not matter. I did not hear the reparations “leaders” object to Obama’s campaign or election. They proved themselves to be scam artists because electing a black president who does not even support their cause was more important to them than their own cause. The election of Obama killed their reparations movement. What were they thinking? It is like parents who kill their own children. Now what will they do with their “They Owe Us!” rhetoric? They can’t march on the White House or the Treasury. They are further from their goal than ever before, if it was really a legitimate goal. Their black president and his white treasury secretary will give them nothing. Who will they go after now? (Read “Will Obama Give in to Reparations?” at http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/106893-3/)

Why did only one other member of the CBC, Congressman Robert Scott of Virginia, co-sponsor John Conyers’s H.R. 40 Reparations Study bill? (Look it up at http://thomas.loc.gov.) There should have been dozens of Congressmen signed on to it, right? It was an important bill, right? Wrong. It seems the rest of the CBC did not think it had merit, even with a Democratic majority in Congress and a black Democratic President.

Isn’t that something to think about?

Here is something else I need to get off my chest. There is an annoying phrase going around: “From the Slave House to the White House.” That is technically true – only for Michelle Obama and her children who had to follow the President. (Also true for Betty Currie, an African American, who was Bill Clinton’s secretary.) However Barack Obama has no American slave ancestry on both sides of his family. He had a maternal ancestor that was a slave owner. Also Obama’s paternal heritage is from East Africa. Black Americans’ slave heritage is from West Africa, not East. From the Slave House to the White House? Not. Don’t give Barack Obama a slave heritage he never had. He is not our “Nelson Mandela” either. Mandela spent decades in prison. Obama spent years in Occidental College, Harvard University, and Chicago.

(And Obama is also a blood relative to Dick Cheney. Ouch!)

Can I tell you something you probably did not know about? Last year during the primaries, the Obama campaign had lots of money to buy advertising from white media. But what about black media? From American Thinker, May 20, 2008: “A writer named Betty Pleasant who writes a column for the Los Angeles Wave, a local LA black media outlet revealed (Obama’s) betrayal and the anger it has provoked in the black media community. Pleasant reports that ‘Black publishers say they have been locked out of Obama’s advertising game plan – and even shunned in their attempts to cover the Obama operation.’ Ms. Pleasant writes that black media has chafed ‘at his campaign officials’ insensitivity to, and total disregard of black people.

“To make matters worse, as Pleasant reported, during a March meeting of the NNPA (National Newspaper Publishers Association) the publishers reminded the senator’s staff of his pledge to support them. In response, Michael Strautmanis representing the Obama campaign acknowledged the problem and vowed to correct it by sending ad money and interview opportunities to the black media. By the end of April Ms. Leavell (Dorothy Leavell, publisher of the Chicago Crusader – Ed.) was hopping mad. ‘They lied to us’ Leavell told Pleasant according to the article. Ms. Leavell’s papers are based in Chicago and Indiana, the scene of major primary contests. According to Leavell they received no support from the campaign despite her repeated attempts to contact Strautmanis to hold him to the campaign’s promise prompting her to declare them ‘the worst liars.’” http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/obama_and_the_black_media.html. Did the Obama campaign figure “We don’t have to spend money on black folks. They will support us no matter what”?

Just want do we run?

And at Obama’s first press conference last February, he did not take one question from the black media. The reporters were even pre-selected. Therefore the black media was pre-rejected by their second first Black President. (The CBC in 2001 named Bill Clinton the first Black President. What will they do now? Take it back?) What would you call a white president who treated the black press that way?

Seems like we are being ran, not running anything.

And you black Christians who think that Obama is God’s “anointed and appointed for such as time as this,” I have something to say to you. Get on your knees and pray. Rev James David Manning of Harlem had it right. He said you all love your blackness more than you love Jesus. You completely ignore the fact that Obama has no respect for the Bible that you claim to be your Word of God.

(Go to www.youtube.com/watch?vOCNKwHRCQM) How can one specifically anointed by God not cherish and respect God’s word? You also completely ignore the fact that as President he enables not only murder, but even black genocide through abortion (www.blackgenocide.org). He even advocates infanticide, letting children who survive botched abortions die and not be given life-support (www.jillstanek.com). And that is your anointed and appointed “man of God” that you endorse? A black “pastor” told me that in relation to abortion, Obama supports “human rights.” Since when is the shedding of innocent blood, something that God clearly condemns, a human right?

And some of you Christians say that Obama really does not support abortion, which is contrary to actual facts. You say that he only said he supported abortion so that he could get elected. Therefore God’s “anointed one” had to lie to get elected, and you endorse such dishonesty. Tell that to the Lord the next time you pray.

Can you honestly tell me that Obama is not continuing Bush’s policies? I thought you wanted change.

If black folks are getting “change,” they are getting chump change. (Put two dollar bills in a Coke or a Pepsi machine, and you will get real change. Vote for a Coke or a Pepsi machine next time.) There are many blacks who are now waking up to that fact. One of them, a black man in Los Angeles who voted for Obama, said recently “I don’t know about this Obama guy.” Many now call Obama “Bush 2″ (when you all thought that John McCain would be “Bush 2″). Even many white Obama supporters, including MSNBC’s Chris “Thrill Up My Leg” Matthews, are complaining now. If you think I’m lying, Google “Obama betrays” (5,130 listings).

Many would call me a “sellout.” Fine. Bring it on. I reply by calling them “bought out” and victims of a con job. Look honestly at what you got for your votes for Obama.

What do black people run now that Obama is president? Only their mouths.

Robert Oliver is a writer, radio commentator, and photographer in Southern California. He can be reached at interactionswest@gmail.com