“Illegal alien women and children given a free pass into America; African-Americans hardest hit.”
You will not see this headline in any mainstream media newspaper or online feed, but it is a reflection of the truth.
Despite the hope of some African-Americans that the first black president would usher a new era for the black community, it has been anything but. Save for knee-jerk reactions over Henry Louis Gates’ altercation with a Cambridge policeman and during the George Zimmerman trial, the president has mostly lectured and talked down to the black community, while doing nothing concrete to address the problems that plague it.
How is this different from the Tea Party and right-wing protests, complaints, and commentary against this president? African-Americans are a staunchly loyal base of the Democrat party. In 2008, 95 percent of African-Americans voted for Barack Obama to become president, and this number held fairly steady in 2012 to reelect him. The president has made sweeping executive orders to benefit gays, Hispanics, and women, but beyond speechifying, has done little for blacks. Those who were relying on the first black president to bring “change” have been sorely disappointed.
Talk-show host and commentator Tavis Smiley, and author and academic Dr. Cornel West have become fierce critics of the president; they are critical of his poor response to the black community and race relations during his five years in the White House. Smiley tweeted in July, 2013 that the president’s remarks on race following the George Zimmerman verdict were “as weak as pre-sweetened Kool-Aid.” But Smiley and West have only come under fire for their criticism as African-Americans in media and other communities continue to staunchly support the president.
Then there is the president’s near silence on the horrible violence in his adopted city of Chicago. If nothing else, this should be a clear indicator that beyond getting their votes, he simply does not care about the issues of the black community. Yet the black community continues to support him.
But this appears to be changing.
It took President Obama’s apparent lack of concern and enforcement on illegal immigrant women and children flooding the United States southern border for many African-Americans to finally take off the blinders. They are now seeing that the president’s push for billions of dollars to process and care for these illegals on American soil will rob the American taxpayer, and further decimate economically-disadvantaged communities — a majority of them African-American.
Chicago Southside residents unleashed on the president in this video by Rebel Pundit, a grassroots news organization. These residents gathered to protest in front of Chicago Police Department headquarters after the July 4 weekend, when 82 people were shot and 14 killed. The protesters questioned why federal dollars are being spent on illegal immigrants in Texas while Chicagoans continue to suffer.
“He’s going to go down being one of the worst. Presidents. Ever!” One protester said. The rest of the protesters were even more damning of the president and his agenda to create new Democrat voters from these illegal immigrants. The Southside has watched closely and seen the president’s poor record in the black community long before his days in D.C. Another protester alluded to Obama’s days as an Illinois State and United States senator, and pointed out that even then he ignored the problems in the black communities.
So these protests and complaints cannot be immediately labeled racist, or chalked up to politics, or a right-wing conspiracy. This is Obama’s staunchest base finally connecting the dots and seeing what their loyalty has bought them: absolutely nothing.
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SOURCE: Jennifer Oliver OConnell
Communities Digital News
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