Saturday, July 20, 2013

The Obama Speech On Trayvon Martin Was Brutally Honest — And Magnificent

http://www.policymic.com/articles/55659/the-obama-speech-on-trayvon-martin-was-brutally-honest-and-magnificent
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Liberals ... we have our Obama back.
Well, let's not go too far. The president who repeatedly compromised when it wasn't necessary (see the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), reneged on promises (see Guantanamo Bay), and betrayed his own professed principles (see PRISM) cannot be entirely forgiven for his ideological betrayals simply after one press conference.
Then again, what a press conference it was.
One must bear in mind here that, despite his reputation as a barrier-breaker due to being our nation's first African American president, Obama has not actually done very much for the black community during his time in office. He has appointed fewer blacks to cabinet positions than his two immediate predecessors, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush; eschewed the kinds of aggressive anti-poverty measures that could reduce skyrocketing inner city unemployment rates, allowing black joblessness to reach perilous heights; and refused to aggressively act to halt federal policies like the War on Drugs, which disproportionately target minority citizens. His acclaimed "More Perfect Union" speech may have been delivered only five years ago, but in light of the disparity between that soaring oratory and his subsequent policies, one wouldn't be surprised for feeling like five decades have passed.
That is why, before progressives start cheering Obama's recent comments, our president has not had the best track record of reinforcing his rhetoric with substantive action. At the same time, in light of his recent mealy-mouthed defenses of such policies as PRISM, we can at least be grateful that he is avowing the right ideals again.
i disagree this author is putting things beyond Pres.'s ability to perform without the rest of the gov't officials voted into office desire to do their jobs as working for the people. in no way makes him a failure than it makes those who oppose just doing their jobs.
i wrote this on this blog almost 3 years ago relevant then and proven more relevant today more examples all over the media take a look around.

Monday, August 23, 2010


can you?

can you blame the sun for not shinning if you stay in the house,can you blame the cool breeze you don't enjoy if you stay in the house can you blame the sky for not seeing the blue and clouds if you stay in the house? Well tell me how on God's green earth can you blame this admin. for doing nothing when republicans in the house are sitting on 290 bills waitng to be passed, come on people can't ya see the hmmmmm coming into focus?
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So what exactly did Obama say?
First and foremost, he drew upon his own experiences as an African American male to explain why so many in the black community feel as strongly as they do about the Trayvon Martin shooting.
He recalled his own memories of being followed in department stores and hearing car locks click as he walked down a street, as well as learning about the racial underpinnings of many of America's legal policies, from the death penalty to drug enforcement (although, again, Obama has done virtually nothing to address these issues himself).
When non-black Americans look at the Trayvon Martin fiasco, Obama pointed out, they need to remember how these social paradigms "inform how the African American community interprets what happened one night in Florida. And it’s inescapable for people to bring those experiences to bear."
This, as they say, is really the nut of it. For all of the attempts by Zimmerman supporters to obfuscate the issue, the reality is that the forensic evidence never bore out Zimmerman's claimto have acted in self-defense. His wounds were not consistent with those caused by the head trauma he described, Martin was not behaving in any way that would have suggested to a reasonable person that he was engaged in criminal wrongdoing before he was stalked, and because witness claims contradicted each other regarding whether Zimmerman or Martin started the fight, one could hardly rest on certainty that Martin had absolutely been the aggressor.
Yet we live in a racist society, and for all of what Young Turk Cenk Uygur rightly characterized as the "boo hoo"-ing of Zimmerman supporters at having the infamous "r-word" applied to them, the pro-Zimmerman reasoning has always been fundamentally racist at its core. Had Martin been white, he would not have been stalked, and had any white teenager been killed under comparable circumstances, no mass movement would have emerged to label the victim as the thug and sympathize with the dangerous hothead who killed him.
although extremely difficult for some to admit or even entertain the idea that they have racist denial disease when they see the improprieties of the system and some of it's people they are horrified but not so much as to do something about it, until those who are aware but for whatever reason can't stand up for what we have been telling the world America is as well as ourselves, that is a waisted, gone, too late ideology the Internet has sealed the deal on that, everybody knows of the issues of race in America, so what are we hiding from now themselves?




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