what's with obama and his 'tough love' speeches towards the black community?

[Rominati]

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[The Nigerian]

Corrected.

Detroit is GM and Chrysler.

America is Corporate America. Why don't you understand that?

 

[The Message]

Detroit is GM and Chrysler.

America is Corporate America. Why don't you understand that?

The Big 3 dont give a damn about Detroit. Look what they did to Flint. Detroit, Flint, Saginaw, Benton Harbor, Cleveland, Gary, Chicago, Philly, Bmore...etc are in the same conditions they were in before he got there and will be well after his 2nd term.

Nothing wrong with corporate America fam. Corporate greed is the problem.

 

[Will Ross]

He does it Because he can

 

[marcuz]

He may be pandering, he may not be. One can make the argument that he is pandering, but you know what, pandering might get him into office for another four years at which point he can be as black as he damn well wants to be. If he isn't pandering, maybe we're just being a lil insecure and looking for a reason to scrutinize him for not being as militant as we'd hoped the first black president would be? Either way, I don't think that's relevant to the message.

While the way he delivered the message was condescending, the message still stands--though conditions are obviously NOT the same for black people, we still gotta go out there and bust our collective (and individual) asses to better ourselves, especially in a system that is designed to maintain the status quo of wealth that has existed for generations; basically, to keep wealth in the hands of white people. But it's naive to think that Obama is unaware of the underlying social issues (he was a community organizer in Chicago and ran a great deal of his campaign at the grassroots level) and that he ignorantly ignored highlighting the issues. He is just unable to highlight the issues in that particular forum, cuz it'll scare white people away. If he scares white people away, he's scaring away a second term as president. Obama is playing chess not checkers. And beyond all that, he's right. We gotta work harder.

Immigrants from destitute conditions jump at the opportunity for an education--any form of education at that, however inadequate--yet, we do not take as much advantage of our free public education (however inadequate) as we should. We need to start making education a priority not only in our communities but in our culture.

it's time to stop expecting obama to mysteriously become pro black during his second term. he might because super cac during his second term,l ever consider that?

 

[john goodman]

Skipped through the thread but here's the answer... I'm sure it's been posted already...

Basically obama will always have the black vote... No need to pander to them at all

By doing a 'tough love' speech he's showing potential white voters that he's not a Jesse jackson type, that's important because white people hate most black leaders

And who knows maybe he actually believes the stuff and thinks his speeches will make a difference... Not the worst sentiment in the world

 

[AV Dicey]

what have republicans done positive for this country in the last 10 years?

And there you go with that Tyler Perry shyt again didn't we talk about that ****

A party that has managed to lose vast swathes of the electorate for generations to come and is mired in a circle jerk that is reinforced by the rightwing echo chamber cant see the forest for the trees. They better hope Romney is their messiah or their s.o.l.

 

[T-K-G]

Obeezy comes down hard on black people cause he wants us to be better than everyone else imo, nikka wants our people to step up, but nikkas is mad talkin about some "why he aint talkin shyt to white people", maybe cuz he dont give a shyt about them being fukked up, he wants us to be bettter.

yall nikkas aint never seen a sports coach let one nikka slide with fukking up, only to completely ether another nikka doing the same shyt? At the end of the season you usually notice that the nikka he was ethering the entire time actually got 5x better than the other nikka because of that.

I see it as a form of endearment cuz you want that person to be better than everyone else so you push em harder


maybe some of you nikkas dont wanna take responsibility for your fukk ups, or just dont want to be better, but either way


Nas ethered his daughter and nikkas applauded, understandin what he was really doin

i see it as the same shyt

 

[Strapped]

he is right

 

[Black Hans]

Obama Says Lay Off Video Games and 'Real Housewives' at Urban League - YouTube

yes; he's right. but i'm tired of this half-cac regurgitating this type of rhetoric to black crowds. as YT pointed out, that stuff applies for americans in general; so why are we being segregated? whens the last time obama has told a white audience what they need to do?


bama always coming at us on some:

Because he's for whites and other anti-blacks for votes, bruh.

 

[Black Hans]

I don't have a problem with him making those speeches if he was actually doing something in particular to help these urban areas.

I know he can't do it all by himself but damn, wasn't he the congressman in Illnois?

You mean he can't do sh!t to help out in Chicago?

I just have a feeling 10 years from now my daughter who is 2 is gonna ask me "so what did the black president do to help black people?" and I'ma basically have the

The works on so many levels with the bolded.

 

[ThaBoyBam]

He's right tho, but a bit insensitive in his approach. More of us need to assert out power via votes or economics (ie boycotting ) if we want the kind of respect other groups receive.

 

[Black Hans]

Ehh... nope.

The only people mad at what Obama said are the losers that he's addressing.

Bruh stop that. I'm a Software Engineer and I can't stand that fukking Tom Obama. And I'm starting not to like your hodge-podge, booty scratching ass either. Talking about "black people need to start taking handouts" when you had no problem taking handouts off of white people's plates in restaurants. Most embarrassing thing I've ever heard online.

 

[Black Magisterialness]

I really can't stand the whole

"what did he do for black folks" rhetoric..Obama's constituency encompasses the ENTIRE US. If he was just for "us" he would have never won and stonewalled what conservatives woulda pushed through with the Bush Tax Cuts among other things.

As far as his "tough love" with black folks... we say WORST shyt about ourselves that Obama ever said, go in TLR on any given night and see the self-ether we dish out. And its mostly warranted...regardless of the ignorance we see on the Coli most of us are STILL a cut above in the communications and exposure department. Cats here really like to consume media and information and most nikkaS do not.

I over heard a kid yesterday say "i hate reading, who would do it for fun?" That failure is on all of us...so if Obama gotta tell some of these rats to stop watching houswifes and some of these nikkas to go get jobs/trades then im all for it...cuz SOMEBODY gotta say it

 

[Danie84]

Not offended.