President Barak Obama--Some of y'all gone be mad...

Let me just get straight to it. Barak Obama--the African American President of the United States of America is not and will not be the savior of the African American people. I was as happy as anyone else when we were able to get some African DNA in the White House, but I never fool myself into believing that he was going to be some type of Moses. I was also not fooled into thinking that suddenly we were living in a post-racial colorblind America. If he was anything close to being "down for the people" i.e. a revolutionary he would NOT be in the White House. Even if in his heart of hearts his deepest desire was to save the African people from the foolishness we deal with on a daily basis in the country as Afrikans, and couldn't and wouldn't. Why? Two reasons. Because he is the President of a whole country and he didn't really live "the black experience" so contrary to what many believe he is somewhat distant from our plight. This country has NEVER treated us equally as a people. NEVER. It never will. Although Jesse Jackson has made a fool of himself repeatedly he was at least outwardly down for the cause. He has clearly taken a side most of his life, so we knew that he didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of being elected to office. Is President Obama a good President? Yes. Is he a good revolutionary. No. Did he ever claim to be? No. So stop trying to make him out to be something he's not. It is up to us to teach our own children the truth. It is up to us to fight with truth. It is up to us to practice Nguzo Saba and Ma'at daily. He is a politician and who happens to be a good person, father, husband, and whatever else, but he is not Harriet Tubman, Dr. Martin Luther King (who later questioned his fight for integration), Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, or anyone else in OURstory that was willing to fight and die for our truth and freedom. "A change we can believe in" wasn't referring to our struggle in this country, because that would be a change that I would simply find unbelievable.

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