It Took a Couple of Days to Realize I Should be Offended By Barack Obama NAACP Speech
Posted on July 17, 2008 by Ed
You know what, I had to look at Barack Obama speech over and over again. What kind of politician would tell a group of potential voters to “take responsibility” and what kind of freaking mess is that? Politicians pander to voters to get their votes, they don’t tell them to do anything. Show me in political history a candidate telling potential voters to take care of themselves…please show me.
Unless, Barack Obama takes the Black vote for granted and use his Black voting base as a beat-up doll to appease White voters who don’t want Barack Obama to be “Black enough” to get their racist vote. See the irony? Barack Obama pandering to racist White voters showing that he can beat up on the “irresponsible” stereotype of Black people?
Oh, please spare me the nod-wink-nod “when Barack Obama gets in the office, he will take care of Black people – he just can’t say it on the campaign trail”. That no different than an irresponsible Black male telling a female if he gets her pregnant, he will “do the right thing” without any explicit commitment. So I find it irresponsible for Barack Obama to not be explicit about what he will do for the Black voters but instead even mention they need to be “more responsible” or whatever. I expect him as a Black man and as president to understand the underlying conditions and address it on that level – like McCain did when he spoke to the NAACP about the educational system.
I’m a little part of the reason why this man raised $52 million last month. I think I’m going to write a nicely worded letter about this “take responsibility” crap to both him and the DNC.
Politicians are suppose to kiss my butt for my vote, not lecture me. And I don’t like Black people being used as a tool by Obama to appease racist White voters either..
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“Politicians are suppose to kiss my butt for my vote, not lecture me. And I don’t like Black people being used as a tool by Obama to appease racist White voters either..”
Wow.. I never really looked at it in that regard. I really was giving him props for talking about an issue that has been in the Black barbershops and beauty salons in Amerikkka. When you look at in the view given, I totally agree with you. Keep up the good work and I wish you much success in all your endeavors.
Say it isn’t so Ed????
Has the blush come off the rose of your enthusiasm for the one-and-only Obamamandius?
LOL.
I’m mad it took you a couple of days.
I with cnulan. Come on over to the dark side, Ed. The view is a lot clearer from here.
LOL.
cnulan,jj
what offended me was the same way I find cosby to be offensive. it was the type of people applauding that nonsense.
I don’t need a presidential candidate telling me to be more responsible. Obama is not telling these
white conservative to be more responsible about going to war on emotion and with no strategy to win other than flag waving and bumper stickers.
this country lost 3 trillion due to irresponsible lenders and borrowers – ain’t a damn thing the entire African-American race can do that amount to 3 trillion dollars due to irresponsibilty.
Obama is scapegoating to appease bigots pure and simple
What’s worse is some of the folk praising Obama and Cosby the most on their, “Black folks gotta do better,” tour is Black folks.
Check the black blogsphere and you’ll see so many folk talkin’ how great it is that Obama (and Cosby) are telling Black folks about their irresponsible asses.
SMH.
So are you saying that the Black community doesn’t need to do better? That we are fine just way we are?
I do understand your point here, but i have a question to pose. Which is more offensive? The fact that O. is telling us to be more responsible (which is true in some cases) or the fact that the other candidate is willing to pick up where the now president leaves off. Regardless of what O. says to us as a people, I think the main thing driving his continual support from a lot of us is the hope for a change. He will probably make and get away with more comments like this as the campaign goes on.
Everyday Obama fits increasingly into the “setup”.
Big Cheekz,
Your mistake is believing that there are major substantive differences between McCain and Obama. Listen to them closely and you realize, there is not.
V Renee,
No. The Black community does not need to do better. That is the biggest propaganda garbage we been fed.
What needs to be done to stop blaming people – that is the super-flaw of both Obama and Cosby argument. It easy to blame a group of people and package them as the problem Social ills are much bigger than people.
It not a human being around here that cannot be broken down to the impact they make irrational decision. So instead of talking about the irrational decisions people make, Barack Obama and most college-educated Blacks who took psychology 101 should be savvy enough to know that the environmental conditions weigh more on the situation than the reactionary result which is often irrational decision..
I guess it just saddens me to drive through the Black communities and see teenage mothers hanging on the corner with their strollers, turning on the news and hearing about YET another black man being shot, or arrested for murder, to see drug dealing going on in plain view in front of kids, to turn on the t.v. and see black young women shaking their a$$es with the least amount of clothes on, and young black girls emulating what they see on tv. This is not propaganda that has been fed to me, but what I witness with my own two eyes. When I was in college, I saw, actually make that socialized with numerous Black males that sold drugs throughout their entire school career, and it wasn’t because of a lack of opportunity for school. I have no doubt that environment plays a role, but I also believe that many of these people don’t want to do better. The question I always ask is, so what can be done??
LOL on the quotables Ed.
I’ma take all of these straight into the lexicon.
Teach brotha teach……,
The problem is this guilt by association BS. You can find low-ambition people in every community, but we are the only group that gets scapegoated for the worst of our people. And politicians will exploit the lowhanging fruit of bigotry in this nation that buys into that narrative.
Obama knows that he can strain our patience to high limits and many of us will vote for him. I think at heart he have be making a cold, calculating decision to appeal to U.S. bigots, but at what point is there no return, and the most extreme rhetoric starts to sink in?
V asked what can we do about it? Build our own wealth and affluence in the world with a generous heart. When we do this, we will have the means to put resources on our problems. At the same time the politicians that we need will kowtow.
C’mon he’s talking to middle class Blacks at the NAACP. Do you see any lower class blacks at their NAACP office. I don’t even know if we have one in Compton and you would expect on there.
So he didn’t offend anyone. The people in there are saying Right On! Tell those dumb asses in Baltimore, in DC, in Philly, in Compton, tell them to straighten up they are messing up our reputation.
He was at the right place to tell that speech. It’s a double win, whites think he is telling the blacks about themselves, and the blacks there think they are not who he is talking too. It’s like when some women when they hear rap music say the Bitc* in the song is not referring to me. It’s the same thing!
So he didn’t offend anyone. The people in there are saying Right On! Tell those dumb asses in Baltimore, in DC, in Philly, in Compton, tell them to straighten up they are messing up our reputation.
Boy if that ain’t the truth.
V Renee
If you can’t recognize the underlying economic conditions that perpetuate thae lifestyles of which u speak then there is no point in having this conversation.
The problems in the Black community are systemic…not individual. Until they are addressed as systemic they will not be solved.
I’m waiting for Obama to get up in front ofa group of white folks and call them out for their racist attitudes and practices. If blacks are told to be responsible, then why shouldn’t whites?
This isn’t change, it’s good ole fashion, tried and true pandering.
It’s a double win, whites think he is telling the blacks about themselves, and the blacks there think they are not who he is talking too.
I’m willing to bet it is far more poor disaffected Blacks sending money to Barack Obama campaign, stumping door to door for Obama, putting bumper stickers on their cars for Obama, buying Obama t-shirts at flea markets/swap meets than these racist non-degreed Whites he is pandering votes from.
I’ll never sell out the people who supported me at the grassroot level to appease people who already demonstrated their bigotry and bias against me. Never!
This is the biggest flaw many people did and we can name everyone from MC Hammer to former Senator Harold Ford to did that route..look where they at now..
Ah, yes! The National Association for the Advancement of Certain People (NAACP).
Amen, Ed, amen!