BET Stars; Vote Obama Cause He’s Black
by Big Dog on Jun 25, 2008 at 11:03 Political
It is interesting watching things unfold with regard to the presidential aspirations of Barack Obama. He is the first person to cry racism (oh yeah, he is black) and his supporters love to claim that white people who do not vote for him are racist while ignoring the fact that many blacks are voting for him simply because he is black. This will be one of the themes, vote Obama so we can have a black president. The people who espouse this are voting for a person based on color rather than qualification.
At the Black Entertainment Television (is there a WET) music awards Sean Combs told the crowd that if they all registered they had the chance to vote in the first black president. It seems to me that this narrow minded thinking is racist from the start but also dangerous in that Combs wants people to put color ahead of any other real qualifier. If people actually support Obama because they think he is qualified and can do the job then fine but it seems to me that is not the message. Vote for Obama because he is black. Did you notice that we never hear them saying vote for Obama because he is qualified?
Rapper David Banner told reporters that for the first time they could vote for someone who is not part of the good ole boy (who you calling boy) system. First of all, this is a lie. Obama is part of the Chicago political system and he is definitely a DC insider who pretends not to be. He is a good ole boy and has the establishment’s backing.
The obvious racial pandering and overt racism is ignored by those in the MSM who portray Obama’s support among blacks as some sign that they all agree with him. In reality, half of them have no clue and the only thing they see is a black man. Since blacks get a pass on racial remarks it is OK for someone like Combs to say to vote for Obama because he is black.
Imagine if someone got on stage and said to vote for McCain because he is white…
I predict that if Obama loses in November we will see race riots and we will hear the cries of racism in America. There will be particular hell to pay if he wins the popular vote and loses the electoral vote (what I think will happen). There will be rioting.
If Obama loses it will not be because he is black. It will be because he is inexperienced (technically, he is qualified).
Tags: bet, music awards, Obama, racism, racuist black people, sean combs
I got this in my email the other day and at least one African American has some perspective.
An interesting perspective on Senator Obama from a respected African American scholar.
By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Many years ago, a great hitter named Paul Waner was nearing the end of his long career. He entered a ballgame with 2,999 hits — one hit away from the landmark total of 3,000, which so many hitters want to reach, but which relatively few actually do reach.
Waner hit a ball that the fielder did not handle cleanly but the official scorer called it a hit, making it Waner’s 3,000th. Paul Waner then sent word to the official scorer that he did not want that questionable hit to be the one that put him over the top.
The official scorer reversed himself and called it an error. Later Paul Waner got a clean hit for number 3,000.
What reminded me of this is the great fervor that many seem to feel over the prospect of the first black President of the United States.
No doubt it is only a matter of time before there is a black president, just as it was only a matter of time before Paul Waner got his 3,000th hit. The issue is whether we want to reach that landmark so badly that we are willing to overlook how questionably that landmark is reached.
Paul Waner had too much pride to accept a scratch hit. Choosing a President of the United States is a lot more momentous than a baseball record. We the voters need to have far more concern about who we put in that office that holds the destiny of a nation and of generations yet unborn.
There is no reason why someone as arrogant, foolishly clever and ultimately dangerous as Barack Obama should become president — especially not at a time when the threat of international terrorists with nuclear weapons looms over 300 million Americans.
Many people seem to regard elections as occasions for venting emotions, like cheering for your favorite team or choosing a Homecoming Queen.
The three leading candidates for their party’s nomination are being discussed in terms of their demographics — race, sex and age — as if that is what the job is about.
One of the painful aspects of studying great catastrophes of the past is discovering how many times people were preoccupied with trivialities when they were teetering on the edge of doom. The demographics of the presidency are far less important than the momentous weight of responsibility that office carries.
Just the power to nominate federal judges to trial courts and appellate courts across the country, including the Supreme Court, can have an enormous impact for decades to come. There is no point feeling outraged by things done by federal judges, if you vote on the basis of emotion for those who appoint them.
Barack Obama has already indicated that he wants judges who make social policy instead of just applying the law. He has already tried to stop young violent criminals from being tried as adults.
Although Senator Obama has presented himself as the candidate of new things — using the mantra of “change” endlessly — the cold fact is that virtually everything he says about domestic policy is straight out of the 1960s and virtually everything he says about foreign policy is straight out of the 1930s.
Protecting criminals, attacking business, increasing government spending, promoting a sense of envy and grievance, raising taxes on people who are productive and subsidizing those who are not — all this is a re-run of the 1960s.
We paid a terrible price for such 1960s notions in the years that followed, in the form of soaring crime rates, double-digit inflation and double-digit unemployment. During the 1960s, ghettoes across the countries were ravaged by riots from which many have not fully recovered to this day.
The violence and destruction were concentrated not where there was the greatest poverty or injustice but where there were the most liberal politicians, promoting grievances and hamstringing the police.
Internationally, the approach that Senator Obama proposes — including the media magic of meetings between heads of state — was tried during the 1930s. That approach, in the name of peace, is what led to the most catastrophic war in human history.
Everything seems new to those too young to remember the old and too ignorant of history to have heard about it.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and author of Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy
No Big Dog, you still don’t understand. Only white folk can be bigots. Blacks are just so darn proud of Obama and may just be practicing “identity politics,” but
never, ever, could they be bigots.
“If we all register and vote, we will have the first black president in the history of America,” Sean “Diddy” Combs told the crowd Tuesday at the
Shrine Auditorium before chanting “Obama or Die” –
America’s leadership has been overtaken by whites. Don’t get mad because blacks can identify better with a black president. Obama is just what this messed up country needs, a fresh start. He knows what us middle class families go through and for that I can identify. McCain is clueless. BARACK THE VOTE!
So DEE,
When 90% of blacks vote for a white Democrat, with whom are they identifying?
Obama made 4 million dollars last year and lives in a home that cost 1.5 million. How exactly can he identify with the middle class?
McCain is a lot of things but clueless is not one that comes to mind.
I agree w/ you Big Dog.
“Who are you voting for?”
“OBAMMAAAA!! First black president!”
“What’s his pitch for medicare?”
“Uhh..I don’t know.”
It’s sad.
Although not all of his voters are like that, but still.
I hate when people don’t practice what they preach.
Let’s say Obama does get voted President.
I want to see what PDiddy and everyone has to say if something went wrong..
race riots if Obama doesnt get in?! did african americans riot every other presidential election?! the answer is no we been goin thru this its nothing new to us…if anything there will be race riots if Obama IS elected…by the white people in this country…matter fact a race riot isnt good enough…there will be another assasination. this man is putting his life on the line to lead this country the best way he see’s fit…he knows he could be killed…hell a good percentage of african americans could be killed cuz thas how most white people feel…and we dont even have to predict it because we already know there are assasination plots being developed…one plot involved the killing of 33 black women leaving 11 be-headed, an attack on an urban school, then the presidential assasination…sure glad they caught those guys…after all I am a black woman. do you all see us plotting to assasinate george bush?! anybody black people arrested for plotting to kill McCain…nope! so please spare me the lets vote because he black…we voting because we care about eachother…when he’s in office we will live in fear of what white people might yet again do to us…but we will stick together and thas what we’re doing…we have a chance to stick together as a race again when the country doesnt want to see it happen…so we are making history! thanks thats my peace
Why does everyone forget that Obama is half white? I don’t have a problem with that, but he’s not 100% black and he was essentially raised white. It’s not like he’s a brother who lived a hard life. Also what old girl said “we will live in fear of what white people might yet again do to us” shows why a lot of white folk think we’re racist. We can’t let go of the past… and by the way some of the first people who stood up against slavery were WHITE Evangelical Christians. Of course we just ignore that… because it’s easier to complain.