Abandon Hope (Letting Go of Obama)

There is an idea among American Negroes that the president is our president. Just as much as the president is the president of the entire US he is the president of black people. As much as a group of people can 'own' a political candidate the Negroes in America own Barrack Obama. He is ours. We joined together in a way we have never done before behind a candidate and we voted for him and we supported him and we came out to washington dc to stand in the glow of such a historic moment of his swearing in and we all became president with him.

In the jobs fair of the Congressional black caucus we get to see first hand the frustration of the American Negro with the first black president. Obama has us right where he wants us. We are no strangers to being disenfranchised and ignored, we are no strangers to being taken for granted, and victimized for a few loyal votes. It is the blind loyal obedience of the Negro to the democratic party that motivates Negroes like Condelezza Rice to join the republican party. 

I say that Obama has us right where he wants us because for the first and what many of us fear will be the last time in American history we have a president who self identifies as black. The American Negro is hesitant, albeit fearful, of standing against what many of us heralded as our hope, as our collective dream and we realize with a 16% unemployment among our people that our hope has deserted us and our dream is a nightmare. 

The New American Negro needs to let go of President Barrack Obama. We will look past his race and look at his politics. Obama has abandoned not just the Negro in the United States but in Africa Obama has begun to topple African governments which look to unify with each other. Do not look at President Obama as a black man, look at him as Ronald Reagan, that is what America has done when they slap him next to Reagan on their magazine covers. 

As Maxine Waters said we are hurting, we are hurting and the president is in Iowa with the republicans. Our children live in poverty and the President vacations with the elite in Massachusetts. We have no health insurance and the president is in campaign mode looking to sell us more broken Barrack hope. 

The New American Negro will lend their voice to the crowd that shouted to Maxine Waters "Let him go!" Let the bum go!