Black Men Hit Hard By Unemployment In Milwaukee
Black Advocates Want More Help For The Unemployed - Philadelphia
New York - Citywide Unemployment Map Shows Blacks Hardest Hit By Recession
"The president is dealing with many things that happened long before he came to power. He needs to be given more time. The American people can be impatient".
Can anyone imagine a Black person in America being put on television and making such a statement in which a politician that they hate is given the benefit of the doubt? It simply is not going to happen.
The above video is important because of one thing. Though all of these Black people who are interviewed detail a varying amount of stress in regards to the present economic situation in America - not one of them took a knife and TWISTED IT on the way out in regards to taking a political shot at Obama. (Attention Secret Service - I worded the last sentence carefully so as not to run awry of your mandates.)
My words are not an attack on any of these people who are interviewed. In fact they all showed a bit of sophistication in their analysis of the complex array of forces that President Obama has to deal with. They all were relatively pragmatic.
I am still forced to make note of the fact that they all live in Metro-Milwaukee and this this, more than most other cities is a "single party" metropolis. Once again they can no more indict Obama than to also indict the entire presiding order where they live.
The key point that I did not hear from any of them is how the government is but one part of the job situation. Market demand that is backed by finances triggers the need for entities to assemble to address these needs from the market. These entities create jobs and thus people are employed to fill these jobs.
The path that we are presently going where the Federal government is operating like a "venture capitalist" is unsustainable. In our attempt to maintain an economic standard that is no longer supported by our productive efforts we will simply run up the national debt. The resulting interest payments on this debt will soon take away more of our current dollars than does defense spending. This strategy is as flawed as is an individual who runs up insurmountable credit card debt as a means of "fronting" about a lifestyle that he can no longer afford.
I believe that there a new set of realistic expectations from the Black community must be had. This needs to be founded upon a baseline of new understanding about how the economy works. From this much of the "hope" based economics will be expunged from our psyche. Greater than the claim that we need manufacturing to return to our shores is the need to have the important resources within our own communities to be brought back on line. Too many of our schools don't complement our economic development efforts. The problem resides not just with the schools but the consciousness that walks through the front door each and every day in the students and the community eco-system that made them that way.
If there was a need to REMOVE the sense of patience and pragmatism it is upon the current array of order and establishment contained within these local places. It is ironic that those who call for a "Grass roots" response from the national government where resources are provided to them are also some of the main people who fail to properly order the consciousness of the people at the local level. Instead they "go long" - seeking to have resources dumped upon them from high.
I get the feeling that the people who were inclined to scrutinize the motivations of the "White people in Alabama who's votes for the Democrats dropped from 19% down to 10% when Obama ran" will be forced to explain why Obama continues to have a 90% approval rating among Black people DESPITE their present grievances.
I have said all along about some people - I don't doubt their ability to explain why "Obama should NOT be held accountable for what he has inherited". I get it.
Instead I am more doubtful of their own ability to document the point when their proclivity to protect Obama from criticism wains as they stand in the space where they must protect their own PERMANENT INTERESTS as they have not been met.
I repeat - in Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and many other cities it is erroneous to consider the Obama-led Federal government while failing to make note of the machine that is in control of these entire cities and how it is an appendage of the same machine that Obama is attached to. If these Whites in Alabama used racial bigotry to nullify their vote then someone needs to likewise inspect the motivations of these voter nullified Blacks.
The claim is that the machine is in line with their preferences where all others are not. Fair enough, sir.
At some point, however, when yours is the LAST MAN STANDING and you STILL are grieving then it is YOU who need to be put on trial and possibly disemboweled of these thoughts that have not been proven effective.
2 comments:
Sadly, it is easier to be a sheep. Obama certainly didn't create all these problems. However, he seems more interested in his own agenda than in trying to fix problems others created.
In reality at some point this administration will have to be held accountable. When they are, it will be bloodbath I fear.
Derek Neighbors:
We shouldn't focus on "Obama" but instead the Machine.
Thus I note if the machine has not been held accountable for what it has done at the local level I don't see it being held accountable at the national level.
The biggest indictment against this machine is that it FAILED to create local structures by which people can work toward their own standards of living. They instead have taken the centralized-redistributionist disposition. The next step is indeed violent protests.
NOT because the poor are prone to protest but because the POOR were not engaged to look at their own powers but instead they were SERVICED.
As this nation strides toward bankruptcy and as economic competitors continue to marginalize us the resources that are being promised to these masses are going to be the anchor dragging us down, leading us closer to the point of anarchy as the government goes insolvent.
The problem is that that people are "sheepish". The problem is that the ideology that is most appealing to them has no respect for them as EQUAL HUMANS.
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