Unless you’ve been under a rock for the last few months, you have heard the former president, Barack Hussein Obama, speaking on everything. He has a new book and he is doing his run of the mill interviews, but the interesting point is what he’s talking about. It’s like dude’s a whole nother person right now. The president who had tears for Sandy Hook, but none for Tamir Rice, has been very vocal on issues of race in this country. This is coming from the same guy who often spoke on the political will of the electorate, but never specified who lacked it and why, while in office. Maybe you were speaking of the Republicans, well from 2009-2011, they didn’t matter then because you and the Democrats had the house, senate and the White House. Or, were you talking about certain Democrats who you could’ve simply told voters, like myself, which ones didn’t support progressive policies so they could’ve been moved or removed by now. Who were you really talking about? Yourself but you being you would never admit that out loud would you? You, Mr. President, the greatest Negro believer of a system that has done nothing but violate our civil and human rights since it’s inception, would never disavow your precious white liberal voters for the masses of Black people who actually put and kept you in office for 8 years.
Your election was monumental in the fact that before this 2020 election you had the largest Black voter turnout in electoral history. That would usually mean that you would be prioritizing Black people legislatively in order to appease the base who delivered you the White House, but of course not. You took up the mantle of every other group and excluded us. The white gay community got their precious marriage laws while our Black LGBTQIA+ and SGL community were left out, unemployment, and homelessness rates rose. The Latino community, who by the way, didn’t even give you 50% of their votes, got DACA and a Supreme Court justice. What did we get? Kumbaya bills. Yes, Obamacare was meant for all Americans, but the impact on Black people in America was insufficient. Obamacare gave Black women, who receive some of the worst maternity care and who have some of the highest maternity death rates in the world, the right to go to the same physicians who were killing them, just at a cheaper rate. Instead of addressing the wealth, housing or education gaps between Black and White Americans, we got more “rising tides lifts all ships” policies, when we all know that Black people’s boat got a whole in put there by white people.
You appointed moderate and liberal slave owner, I mean politician, one after another like Mayor cover Rahm Emmanuel, southern slave labor champion Hillary Clinton and even northern white supremacist Jim Crow Joe Biden, who you made your vice president.
But the disrespect of Black people for White approval didn’t stop there. You went on to one of the most prestigious HBCUs in the country. THE Morehouse University and delivered a “pull up your pants” speech. Not a celebration of Black excellence speech for Black youth, who in spite of your lack of impactful funding for HBCUs, but one that characterized and generalized Black youth as a sagging non job qualifiable monolith to the potential job market.
You never had this this much to say when you were the commander in chief though.
Instead of you being this vocal when Black protestors were being brutalized and our constitutional rights violated on the daily news, you were quiet as a church mouse. Now you got all the talks. Now you on all the interviews. Now you got all the opinions on race and the movement. You even got critiques on the slogans of the movement, but none on White Supremacy. Of course you don’t agree with the slogan of #DefundThePolice, you signed the Blue Lives Matter Law just a few months after the Baltimore Uprising. A Blue Alert Law for the threat of violence against law enforcement but no Black Alert Law for the constant threats made against Black people everyday in this country. Maybe it’s because you know every phone in this nation would be bombarded with non stop notifications of another unarmed Black man, woman or child being brutalized by police or a White vigilante. Black people standing up for justice in the streets of America on your watch were called thugs, but not a nan officer who were violating our rights were called one at all. You even invited the officer who violated the rights of Dr. Henry Louis Gates to the White House for a visit, a cold beer and teachable moment. How Sway? I really want you to know what we think about you. Since I can’t call you a Sambo without alienating people, I’ll just explain it to you like this. You like the rich uncle with the bag, you’re only invited to the cookout because we know you paying for it. No we don’t need y’all to cook anything. No we don’t need you on the grill. And no you can’t DJ right quick. Be honest, if you knew that Barack was bringing some potato salad to the BBQ, wouldn’t you think it would be some kind with raisins in it? Think about it.
It’s like you don’t know when to sit all the way over there, quietly, and when to speak up for your people. After months of protesting for justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and many others, we finally had the whole country at a stand still. We the people made protesting so cool that the NBA, MLB, and even the NHL went on strike for justice. And then, guess what you did. You called arguably the most prominent pro athlete in the world, LeBron James, and basically got him and everyone else to shut up and dribble. You had people’s heroes talking about voting in an election that was over two months away. Imagine if they would’ve said “we’re not playing until these people get justice.” Man, all the families would’ve got justice by the next morning. But somehow you didn’t know that, or did you? Maybe you are one of those “can’t do nothing in this country unless we vote for it negroes.” Maybe you were never here for Black people at all. Or maybe, you are just the Wall Street funded and Ivy league school manufactured Negro sent here to convince to our people to integrate into a burning house once again.
Here’s what I, the movement and the majority of Black people, most of which voted for you, want you to do at this critical time in history. Shut the f*ck up!