Obama Ties Broken Families To Gun Violence In Emotional Chicago Speech

[Hiphoplives4eva]

i didnt read the speech, but i agree w/ the general premise. U want to fix the hoods, fix the families.

The honorable profit Elijah Mohammed and Farrakhan have been preaching this since the 50's and 60's yet most black people ignored them and labeled them as racists, trouble makers, and rabble rousers. People need to wake the fukk up.

 

[The Real]

Damn, do homosexuals have to get name dropped in every speech he gives now?

Gay marriage is hitting the supreme court any day now so he'll probably be pandering 24/7.

 

[newarkhiphop]

How come the rise in murder rates is dropping in most other cities like NY, DC, ATL and LA, but only remaining steady in a small number of cities like Chicago, Bmore and Detroit?

I understand all the societal factors but I'm really fed up and it's time we started calling people out.

gentrification, the rates in these cities are only dropping because the native black populations are being killed in large #'s, imprisoned in large #'s and being forced out in large #'s that and the fact that murders and other crimes are highly under reported in those cities to keep up the good look image which helps bring in $$$

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

When a community eschews the family and decides to promote violence, drug use, and debauchery the end result becomes the sorry state of black America that you have today.

 

[FlimFlam]

When a community eschews the family and decides to promote violence, drug use, and debauchery the end result becomes the sorry state of black America that you have today.

i wouldnt say its a result of "promotion"...more like its been allowed due to a feeling of helplessness and just being lost

we really fell off hard after the civil rights "victories"

we've always had problems, but we didnt have all these problems...we fell the fukk off after civil rights. people wanna talk about progress, we REgressed. and we arent addressing/correcting where we went wrong back then. until thats done, the future will bring more of the same

the 70s-90s were hard on black folks, and we still havent recovered

what we have today is the culmination of all that

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Its true that a lot of the problems come from bad choices, but there are also structural failures Obama has glossed over. Seems like for this term he is hiding behind bootstrap rhetoric to justify his second-term ineffectiveness. To be fair though, a city like Chicago can't be fixed overnight. But w/govt programs aiding in its destruction it can't really be fixed completely by the people living there either.

 

[thekingsmen]

Sadly Black Folk in the Inner Cities aren't allowed to fix their problems this is the reality.

1. Programs for the Youth Stability are gutted through the County and City Officials Policies

2. Blacked owned Banks and businesses are pretty much non-existed

3. Black Religious groups are divided and self serving to political wings of parties.

4. Black Social Leaders who are grass-rooted in the community as considered threats to Outsiders and are silenced through imprisonment or are discredited and cast out by Black Boule outsiders.

5. Black People have no say in County and City Official meetings when Gentrification Policies are implemented. We aren't even going to mention the Uncle Tom's on the board.

6. Black People aren't allowed to Police their own neighborhood b/c the Police Fear they can't control districts where the drugs flow.

 

[FlimFlam]

The honorable profit Elijah Mohammed and Farrakhan have been preaching this since the 50's and 60's yet most black people ignored them and labeled them as racists, trouble makers, and rabble rousers. People need to wake the fukk up.

huh? when noi was conceived and budding they were getting marginal to no attention."most" black people didnt even know about them.most people period

during their explosion in the 50-60s they had the ears of black america.sure there was opposition, but "most" black people called them racists & trouble makers? cmon fam.

they couldnt have grown to what they did without black support, which they had plenty of

 

[The Real]

Its true that a lot of the problems come from bad choices, but there are also structural failures Obama has glossed over. Seems like for this term he is hiding behind bootstrap rhetoric to justify his second-term ineffectiveness. To be fair though, a city like Chicago can't be fixed overnight. But w/govt programs aiding in its destruction it can't really be fixed completely by the people living there either.

He's done that from the beginning of his first term wherever Black people were/are concerned. Other groups don't have to hear this patronizing, irresponsible, rhetoric, largely because Black support is viewed as peripheral, neutral, or at worst a toxic asset from a political standpoint and because other groups have lobbying power that gets things working in their favor, whether Asians, due to their wealth, Latinos, due to growing numbers, etc.

 

[Type Username Here]

Thanks for making that connection, President Obama. You know who else made this connection? Every mother in America who's lost a son or daughter to the system or the grave. They've all said "if only his father was here"... so it doesn't take a Harvard Law review to make this connection. What did society benefit from this connection Obama has made for us? What do we tangibly take from this speech as a joint society not just in the United States, but in inner cities in Canada as well? In what way was this speech a net positive for anyone on earth other than the speech organizers, the media who covered it, and President Barack Obama?

The more I think deeply about the President and his vague, tepid, and frankly apathetic language towards the utter state of dismay of the African American community, the more I wonder whether he has a single atom of honesty and integrity left in that suit. What kind of man uses the shield of hapless inaction, the straw shield we can barely use in our daily lives with regards to the societal ills we see on a daily basis? Like when you see a homeless man begging for change for instance; you want to help but there really is so much you can tangibly do. What kind of man wields this shield of inaction from the center of global political power? What kind of man wields this shield in the White House, yet doesn't hesitate to swing the sword at citizens without due process? What kind of man sees this shield, built from logical straw, as forged steel, when 50 years ago, a man who's legacy Obama has hijacked and co-opted, needed only to stand INFRONT of, INFRONT of, the halls which Obama is the head of, the halls which they call Obama MR PRESIDENT, he needed to only be INFRONT of them, to preach ACTION, and it is through his undying selfless action and sacrifice this President is afforded the LUXURY of inaction. The only question remaining is whether I should be more ashamed of Obama for being the antithesis of what he pro-ported to be, or more ashamed of myself for ever being deceived by such an obvious facade.

Emotional Chicago Speech indeed.

Well said friend.

 

[Piff Perkins]

I don't get you nikkas. We gonna pretend like broken families foster violence in inner cities? Yall bytch that Obama doesn't talk about black issues, then when he does yall catch feelings.

No doubt drug laws play a major factor too, but last time I checked Obama is the one who changed the powder/rock crack sentencing laws....but yall didn't know that did you huh

 

[IGSaint12]

lol so many on this board speaking nonsense talking about obama is doing empty rhetoric and shyt, he is one man. He can't fix the black community with a magic wand nor does he have the power to do so.

You people complain that he never was going to visit the crime riddled streets of chicago because he doesn't care but when does you say he is just talking just to talk. Just pitiful..

This is probably the biggest issue with the black community today, the black community is reliant on one black man who is president to fix all it's ills when they should be taking the matter into their own hands and it's not empty rhetoric because it's fukking true. No one man can fix that type of violence unless you want marshall law or some shyt.

 

[thekingsmen]

I don't get you nikkas. We gonna pretend like broken families foster violence in inner cities? Yall bytch that Obama doesn't talk about black issues, then when he does yall catch feelings.

Violence isn't a Black Thing...it's a Society Thing. There are massive amounts of issues facing Blacks that Obama will never touch.




No doubt drug laws play a major factor too, but last time I checked Obama is the one who changed the powder/rock crack sentencing laws....but yall didn't know that did you huh

Do you really think that has changed the damage done? That is putting a band-aid over the stab wound without fixing it.

 

[IGSaint12]

wtf are you even talking about @thekingsmen . You need to be more clear.

 

[thekingsmen]

wtf are you even talking about @thekingsmen . You need to be more clear.

I addressed Piff's comment about Black Issues. The Bigger Picture is Violence has riddled this country as a whole since it's creation...which was pure violence. Violence is going on in all aspects of communities even though some have more but in order to solve the problem people must face the Culture of Violence it has ensued.