sanctioned police who kill unarmed children, but the angry protesters, who I’ m certain were just expecting more from the Black President of the U. S. We got less. We pardoned much that we held other POTUS’ s fully responsible for, because we thought he was us, emotions overflowing. We’ re so protective.“ Obamanites” tend to dismiss his politics and claim that these things weren’ t problems a Black president could fix for Black people, but they give him credit for a universal health plan without reading its pages, and love for reduced gas prices, which no President has control of, with the U. S. being an extreme minority producer of the fuel we consume. Our emotions get in the way. Obamanites also tend to dismiss the fact that he used his pen to sign bills into laws protecting gays and the very police officers killing Black people, but nothing in that federal cookie jar for Black people.“ Little Black boy and girl, you can be President too.”
It’ s time to STOP telling our young Black men and women this. It’ s time to stop using achievement of the Oval Office as the optimal standard to attain, that carrot to be captured. Since the building of the seat of this nation, the White House, by our enslaved ancestry in 1792, that domicile has represented nothing but the inhumane for Africans. Its represented policies that saw African nations on the continent colonized and“ neo-colonized”. Its represented education policies that continue to see our children languishing in last with no identities. Its represented social and political policies that continue to see our communities suffer. Its represented economic policies that have seen us garner less than 1 % of the wealth of this nation, no real wealth beyond what we can wear or drive. Its represented the assassinations of Black leaders here and abroad and the total eradication of Black organizations who simply sought to advocate for us. Its represented drug and crime policies that have seen profound disparities in the numbers of Black men and women who are disproportionately in cages and disenfranchised. Its advocated for legions of lobbyists with toxic interests. Its represented the impotent, disinterested body of government that has stood idly by as Black people are erased from existence. Its been that key body that’ s made certain the last place trophy is reserved for the continuously enslaved. Nope, the White House never ended slavery, it simply rendered it more palatable to the population, easier to swallow. Same dire effects though. No freedom, and it’ s even more dangerous cousin, the illusory version. We tell our kids they can and should be President because we don’ t know any better, because this is part of our indoctrination here, the embracing of systems that have never served us, love for positions and politics that have only served to oppress us.
Head slave is STILL a position to be coveted.
Your son or daughter can be the next African in America to oversee that foot pressed firmly down upon our backs if they play their cards right. This is the epitome of blind patriotism. Extreme and profound loyalty to a country that has NEVER been loyal to us. Once the dust that is our rabid emotionalism settles, the facts will still be there. It’ s time to stop telling our children to achieve academically so they can become the“ head negro in charge”.
We gave it 2 terms, 8 years.
We so badly need leaders of us in our own communities. We so badly need advocates for us from among us. We so badly need leaders who understand the importance of group economics. We so badly need business and bank owners who look like us, provide for, and do for us. We need Black leaders who are unafraid and unashamed to help build for us here and to help bridge the gap with Africans on the continent and around the world. We need leaders who understand that knowledge of our history and ancestry is the key to moving forward. We need leaders who truly understand the depth of their innate gifts and talents and choose to lend these attributes to their own in a manner that edifies the collective.
Where’ s OUR leader?
It’ s funny, I often hear apologists assert that“ Obama isn’ t the President of Black People”. So I ask, beyond the obvious symbolism, what good is he to us then? Why send your brilliant son or daughter to an office where they are unable to help their own people?
Oftentimes, these questions answer themselves.
Oftentimes, that symbolic is toxic.