Do We Need Another Black President?

As the Republicans and Libertarians search for someone to replace the current president the Democrats continue to convince the people that Barack Obama is what the people need. Negro pundits seem pleased having a talented tenth type negro in public housing. I don’t care how many days President Obama has served. It is obvious that little has changed. He has it made, while negroes around the country simultaneously salute him and struggle.
President Obama is an exception to the presidency. He got swagger! Dude plays ball, talks tough, speaks well, got a cool walk and a fine woman. C’mon – admit it. However, the ‘hood ain’t Hollywood. African-Americans have issues that a weed, a saxophone, suspended predatory lending and a few houses from a humanitarian group won’t solve. And parading Michelle before us is not sufficient. The proof is in the put in not the pudding.
True, he has inspired some individuals to dream and achieve. But truth be told, said persons had vacated blackness prior to Obama’s ascent and utilized his dream to justify stepping on the backs of Blacks that bowed in awe. We can grade the brotha. Bill Cosby has proven that Black folks watch television and he periodically makes his complaints known. However, it is time that some of the negroes desiring the preserve the negro identity realize that thangs don’ changed! It ain’t all good. Amerika needs to know that those most in need are not pleased with anyone who looks like them who can’t seem to recognize the need to improve the conditions of a downtrodden, disenfranchised, marginalized people. Slavery did some irreparable damage to the psyche of Black folks. One can claim to be indigenous, but the damages are still evident. One could consider themselves Native and compare their conditions to those enduring life on the reservations.
It is obvious that Obama doesn’t make all the decisions. It is clear that if he fails, we fail. Sadly, the we he speaks of is not Amerika, but Black folks and highfalutin negroes who could not die without having a Black representative be held responsible for the crisis of Amerika. C’mon… you eventually gotta come black. As for the future candidates and wannabes – don’t say you will do what you have no intentions of doing.

Indifferent

Black Amerikans cried, prayed and voted for Obama after Amerika approved of him. Previously, they hadn’t believed a Black man could contend with white candidates and much less, win despite their short run of success. The majority of Amerikans wanted to believe that a man could come and save them from tyranny, high fuel prices, escalated unemployment, and the dwindling dollar. Once the idea of a Black man in the WhiteHouse circulated the people immediately began to upgrade the image of Obama to that of a Black Messiah. Cool! Perhaps, he was more of a black Superman. Yeah! That’s it. The Black community relieved him of any responsibility to the people who looked like him, walked like him, enjoyed the same tastes in food, praised the lord like him or felt the weight of negro expectations like him.
The negro leaders wanted the world to know that Black folks were not monolithic and that a few negroes had arrived. Such negroes were not interested in Obama addressing “black issues” because Obama was running for president of the United States and not of Black Amerika. Obama had an easy ride by avoiding the “white man’s burden”. And few realized that he would not have to tackle “black issues” at a later date. Once elected, he could be indifferent. Of course, this is baffling for any Black man born to a Black woman and having endured the stuff that black skin attracts; who sleeps with an intelligent, beautiful, shapely Black woman and who admits to being an Afrikan-Amerikan. It is known that Obama’s mother was caucasian, but the melanin is there. He is an Amerikan and proudly, an Afrikan (Kenyan). However, his blackness has attracted experiences that warrant his attention to the plight of Black folks in Amerika. It is utterly wrong for anyone to advise the president or any other Black person in a position of prominence or elected capacity to ignore the disenfranchised, marginalized, downtrodden people who get inspiration from the success of someone who looks like them and assumingly, thinks like them. It should be impossible for anyone of color to be indifferent when anyone is suffering. After all, Black folk - the world over - have a record of compassion that cannot be matched.
Last word – the president is a brotha. He can’t deny it despite the race of his mother, but Amerika forgets this fact, daily. Some things aren’t as obvious as others. If he is truly indifferent, it may not be due to his anglo roots, but more to the tests of time he has survived and the influences of negroes who wish to deny their blackness.