Prominent African Americans Politicians Are Angry At President Obama!

I just read a couple of articles on the internet. I agree strongly with the political group the black caucus, President Obama has ignored the concerns of the African-American community. Some people don’t understand that Obama was groomed and put together by prominent black politicians. Barack Obama needed the connections from the black elite in order to enter American politics.

The black American elite such as Oprah, Maxine Waters,  academics such as Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cornell West, Dr. Julianne Malveaux, helped Obama reach the White House.  Obama did not just fall out of the sky and become politically savvy. African-American critic Earl Hutchinson, points out, Barack Obama needed African-American votes in ” Ohio, Florida,  North Carolina, and Pennsylvania” in order to win the election.

African-American voters turned out in record numbers to support Obama so he should be doing more for them. If Obama can provide assistance to homosexuals, big business, pharmaceutical companies, then he can form a task force to help African-Americans.

African-Americans are unemployed at a higher rate than white Americans.  I resent the fact that Obama is playing politics and ignoring the systematic racism that blacks still endure in America.

Just because Obama is America’s first black President,  does not mean institutionalized racism has vanished. African-Americans encounter discrimination in terms of education, housing, employment, health care and the list goes on. Since Obama is cognizant of the concerns within the African-American community, he should be doing more. It is disingenuous of President Obama to just say “I can’t make a law just for black folks.” President Obama should be careful, he also should not take the African-American vote for granted.

Yes, President Obama is the president for all Americans. However, Obama can’t just help various communities and ignore his own community that’s disgraceful and abhorrent.

Obama is playing politics, he is fearful that the Republicans will criticize him if he did help the African-American community. Of course, African-Americans expect more from Obama and he would be very naive to think they not paying close attention to his political decisions.

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