Posted on 01/14/2014 6:18:28 AM PST by Kaslin
Even liberals get it.
Obama’s not just a dud, but a failure.
It’s not so much that he hasn’t lived to up to the hype as Messiah, as he hasn’t lived up to ordinary expectations for a fallible, human president.
When I rack up the score on all of the things Obama’s been wrong about, it’s hard to credit that my Democrat friends ever touted him as a “genius”.
If this is genius, it’s clearly not of the political type. Or the foreign policy type. Or the economic type.
Six years into the Great Recession and the labor market hasn’t improved much, as even liberals are now conceding.
The government has created more money than ever before, and while it’s making some people wealthy, it’s not creating jobs, especially not in the Black community, and especially not amongst black males.
Supposedly the “genius” did this on purpose. Or he didn’t.
“Blacks disproportionately left the labor market,” said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a liberal economic outfit, “with the labor force participation rate for African Americans dropping by 0.3 percentage points to 60.2 percent, it’s lowest rate since December of 1977. The rate for African American men fell 0.7 percent to 65.6 percent, the lowest on record.”
Whoever else Obama may have benefited, it’s clear that black males haven’t been high on the priority list for him.
African Americans currently have an unemployment rate of 11.9 on the topline official stats. That’s double the rate of unemployment for women over the age of 20, and close to double the male unemployment rate for males aged 20 and over, which came in at 6.3 percent.
And even those numbers are much worse than it seems.
“The share of the working-age population with a job did not increase in December,” said Heidi Shierholz of the union controlled Economic Policy Institute “and the labor force participation rate dropped back down to its lowest point in 35 years. The number of‘missing workers’ increased from 5.6 million to 6 million. If these workers were in the labor force looking for work, the unemployment rate would be 10.2 percent instead of 6.7 percent.”
If you impute the same math to the Black community, unemployment for African-Americans comes in at 18.1 percent. That’s nearly one-in-five blacks without jobs today.
But the news gets worse even than that.
“In 2010, the incarceration rate for white men under local, state and federal jurisdiction was 678 inmates per 100,000 white U.S. residents,” says Pew Research, “for black men, it was 4,347. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, black men were more than six times as likely as white men to be incarcerated in 2010.”
We don’t have numbers for 2011, 2012 and 2013.
But it’s not hard to figure that nothing plus nothing equals nothing.
Gays, check.
Whacko environmentalists, check.
Gun control nuts, check.
Radical, social theorists, check.
These are all interest groups that Obama has spent considerable political capital on.
God forbid that Obama should strain himself to propose something constructive to address the destruction going on in neighborhoods he has lived in and that’s directed mostly at black males.
There isn’t a more disenfranchised group in America than black males and Obama’s done very little to reverse that.
While marriage is down about a third amongst whites since 1960, it’s been cut in half in the black community, to 31 percent of black adults.
Guess what is the single biggest marker for poverty in the United States?
Being a single mother. And that trend has inordinately affected the black community.
While liberals like Obama do everything they can to provide aid and assistance to gay couples to get married, heterosexual black families get the back of the hand.
The result is poverty.
We know that there's a strong correlation between the composition of households and poverty. Households that lack two parents are many times more likely to live in poverty than those with two parents.
I’ve been optimistic that someone, somewhere in America will do something to address the crisis amongst black males in our community.
What we need is a touch of creativity here.
Republicans, Democrats, Bueller, Bueller, helllooooo?
It’s more than disgrace.
It is in fact a sin.
But don’t bother Obama about it.
He doesn’t want to know.
I don’t really give a damn about the demographics in who’s more unemployed.
Bottom line is America is getting screwed the the azzhole in the White House.
We have a congress that’s incapable of doing anything about it.
We have a majority of voting populace who votes on what’s in it for them, vote party line or most recently skin color.
The remaining populace that won’t rise up and take back America. What we need is a significant and prolonged massive protest in DC until something is done.
There was a discussion on TV years ago between Orin Hatch and Jesse Jackson on gun control. Orin was against it, Jesse for it. After a half an hour of Jesse’s diatribe with the usual platitudes, Orin said: “Mr. Jackson, if we cancel the murders committed by blacks in this country, the US would have a violent murder rate that is less than Switzerland.” The camera turned to Jesse...
Crickets...
Wow! That’s a very good point!
When people begin to realize that Obama hasn’t “screwed up”...that what has and is happening, wasn’t a mistake...The way the country is going is right in line with his (and his handlers) plans... All this unemployment, poverty, racial turmoil was all planned carefully and brought to fruition by this regime... This WAS NOT an accident!!!!!
Once the real American people realize this and have had enough, we’ll have to stand and deliver...It won’t be pretty or fun...but it will be neccessary....
“why is it that half white, half black people invariably identify as black?”
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You nailed it.
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Can’t take credit for it, someone else posed the observation.
And of course, there is actual codified privilege in our law that can be pointed at.
Of course, the whole underlying idea of “white privilege”, from the left, is that as white people, we don’t know it’s there, but it is working to our advantage all of our lives.
It’s rather like reality NOT favoring leftist ideas, though.
It’s more a cultural “privilege” that a work ethic and an adherence to the 10 commandments yields a positive outcome,
whereas working in opposition to those ideals will generally yield a negative outcome.
would be interesting to see how if 50 years ago if they identified themselves as being white.
:: Obama loves Blacks so much he don’t want to burden them with pesky things like paychecks, waking up early and paying taxes. ::
Or, putting down the crack-pipe...
Or, not being able to go to the 7-11 to get some juice, skittles and robitussin to make “purple drank”.
Yeah. but remember last week 0 bummer said people would rather collect a paycheck, rather than draw unemployment benefits.
The SRM ran that line for two straight days when the dims wanted unemployment benefits extended for another three months.
Er........Ahem. “Paddy wagon”? As one of Irish descent I take issue withis terminogy. Try “Black Mariah” instead please
They dont want work. They want more handouts
Not just their blacks, but many Dems have a mystical belief in their prez candidates. Every single Dem candidate for prez is described as a genius who will lead the benighted to the Promised Land. It never happens, but that doesn’t stop the Dem faithful from continuing their belief in The Magic President.
They are not working because they are getting EBT, SNAP, TANF, and a host of other types of “free” money that is forcibly taken from the working people (Read mostly Caucasian males). They do not need to work and that is the biggest reason the number of people on some type of Government handout has increased to the point it has.
He was voted in; no one made the population vote for Obama and no one appointed him, he was still voted in. Blame the electorate, Obama is only doing what he said he would do, what he was voted in to do.
Thing is, they want a magic president who will do all the work for them while they get to play all the time. The US lately wants someone like the nerd in high school who did all the real work while the others got to play. Yet, the GOP is failing because no conservative that we really need wants to do all the work and the dumbwit Democrats want to be ‘hip’ and PC and frankly as a result, we have morons nominated by them and in many cases (Clinton, Obama, etc.) elected.
They want an eternal party really, with someone paying the party bills and someone cleaning up after them.
To these blacks, the only people that matter are blacks.
Remember what Joe Stalin had to say about democracy and voting:
‘It doesn’t matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes.’
Yes, very much so.
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