Lately Barrack Obama is being vetted and exposed as a black race-first
separatist for a public which has mostly made up its collective mind long ago.
The words in his past, partially undisclosed speeches (see links below) may or
may not be inflammatory for a number of Americans for one simple reason. Most
Americans really don’t know what it means to be “black (africanamerican)”.
Wait!! I know as much as anyone that phrase is a tired cliché’ used by
patronizing white liberals politicians, and black race hustlers, as well as
many so-called African Americans who have been socialized to falsely believe
there is a concrete difference among the races. But in light of the fact that
“white guilt”, black patronization, and downright naiveté, gave us the most
un-American president since Woodrow Wilson, it is worth saying one last time
that the 74% of Americans who are not black or africanamerican don’t know - but
need to know, what it means to be black, in terms of socio-political ideology -
our future depends upon it. For my part, I hope to provide a peek under the
“africanamerican”socio-political tent that explains why Obama’s views are
inflammatory, or at the least, not helpful toward knocking down race as a top
motivating factor in our society – there are just too many other important
things.
First it is important to know that “africanamericans” have been
socialized to a great extent to have a “siege mentality”: a shared feeling of
victimization and collective defensiveness in the face of institutional and perceived
racial power. It doesn’t matter about the reality of the situation on the
ground with its legislated equality, affirmative action, and the record number
of elected black office-holders, CEOs, and millionaires. The power of
personal/family/peer-group culture trumps fact in people with a bunker
mentality. For most, an africanamerican family member, friend, or
"safe" institution, using fresh memories of Jim Crow (or that memory
as passed down), is a stronger determinant of one’s psyche than that of
available opportunities. Think about it – how many times, when confronted with
the possibility of personal change, have you uttered the words, “That’s the way
I was raised”, meaning, "I was taught that way, so I believe that
way".
Secondly, you should know what kind of rhetoric it takes to reach
africanamericans with that siege mentality. In Dinesh D’Souza’s movie, "2016: Obama's America,” he points out that Obama’s thought process is a
post-colonial one; a school of thought that radically opposes western hegemony.
De Souza has it only partially right since he recognizes these traits from the
undercurrent of post-colonialialism in his native country. As a former black
nationalist myself, I pose that Obama is more of the latter than the former.
Both ideologies which are similar are contrary to ideals of our founding and
anyone who prescribes should never be president of this nation. In a 2002 MLK
address, as a state senator, Obama discussed how violence is the means of
revolution – a common theme among Alinskyites, and black separatists like Farrakhan,
and Malik Zulu Shabazz. He says, “When the rich speak out in favor of
non-violence, it’s just a way of making sure “folks don’t take their stuff;”
…non-violence “only makes sense if the powerful can be made to recognize
themselves in the powerless. This is a rhetorical nod to insurrection and
racial unrest. In a 2007 speech in which he clearly praises his pastor, Rev. Wright
to ingratiate himself to the larger pastoral crowd on hand, he speaks in the
black revolutionary language of “us” and “ours” against “them” in opposition to
the establishment in the mode of Farrakhan, Pfleger, Wright, and the New Black
Panther party. His speech was sprinkled with the themes of inequality regarding
the response to the New Orleans disaster as compared to that of 9/11. No sign
in his remarks of the easily fact-checked truths about how extensive the
investment made to Katrina by the federal government.
Finally, I think both of these formerly undisclosed videos and Obama’s
debate performance on October 3rd, show us
why Obama never performs well off-the-cuff, or unscripted – he is too
distracted by attempting to hide who he really is! Since we never had a
definition for what a community organizer really is, and what one does, we
never asked the right questions, and didn’t demand it of the media. Obama, the
community organizer turned politician, brings every tool of the trade to
elected office, as shown in both of these speeches – both given as a sitting
representative for "all of the people" he was elected to be
responsible too. A community organizer uses the rhetoric of the community and
culture to collectively mobilize that community for change (violent or
otherwise). If we had known that definition four years ago, Obama might have
been vetted properly to answer why he is motivated to mobilize black people to
“what end”, “for which puppet master”, and by “what means”?
