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Barack Obama faces possibility of Black voters staying home
by Joseph Earnest September 27, 2011
Newscast Media HOUSTON, Texas -- Once viewed as the change that could be believed in, Barack Obama's poll numbers and approval ratings continue to plummet across the political spectrum, prompting some to suggest that Hillary Clinton would have made a better president. However, Obama's biggest challenge is to convince black voters who feel marginalized by him to support him in the 2012 election.
Some of the most prominent Black leaders who once supported and campaigned for Obama have now woken up to realize that they've been sleeping on a bed of roses but the pillow is thorns. Since their awakening, they are now vocal critics of Obama and openly criticize him about his policies.
In regard to the financial crisis, he was criticized by his former friend and supporter, Princeton professor Dr. Cornell West who describes Obama as "a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats. And now he has become head of the American killing machine and is proud of it."
"I think my dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men," West said. "It's understandable. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white … When he meets an independent black brother, it is frightening."
On Saturday September 24, in a speech at the annual awards dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus, Obama told blacks to quit crying and complaining and "put on your marching shoes" to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity.
"Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, amidst applause. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do."
Rep. Maxine Waters believes if it were a Hispanic or Asian audience, Obama would not have talked down at them that way.
In the BET interview that aired Monday, the host, Emmett Miller challenged Obama saying, "You won't even say, look, I am going to help you."
"Emmett, that is not what people are saying," Obama shot back. "What people are saying all across the country is we are hurting and we've been hurting for a long time. And the question is how can we make sure the economy is working for every single person."
Obama defended his policies as helping minorities even though he refuses to support programs that only target them.
"That's not how America works. America works when all of us are pulling together and everybody is focused on making sure that every single person has opportunity," he said in the interview.
Yet perhaps Obama's most fiery critic is Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan who expressed outrage that Obama took part in the Libyan attack during an interview WVON-AM. Radio.
"Why don't you organize a group of respected Americans and ask for a meeting with Gadhafi, you can't order him to step down and get out, who the hell do you think you are?"
In this article and video, Farrakhan went as far as calling Obama an assassin. However, Farrakhan was the very person who promoted Obama and even referred to him as the "Messiah" in 2008. Within a year from now, Obama will find out if the black voters, who believe they are being used as political condoms, will maintain their loyalty to him, or simply stay home. Add Comments>>
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