“Okay, so we have a Black president – now what?”

"It's not RUN'S HOUSE!"

by Donald W.R. Allen, II – Editor in Chief, The Independent Business News Network

Minneapolis, Minnesota (IBNN NEWS/ Political Editorial/February 22, 2012)…Okay, I’m enlighten and not delusional. I “wasn’t” one of the millions of Black people who treated the election of President Obama like it was the second coming of Christ. In 2008, president elect Obama couldn’t be the messiah for Black America, he’s only human – but a Black man of unique skills and the business acumen of someone who is qualified to be president.

The election of Barack Obama, America’s first Black President will always will be a critical part of history – but so will the election of the first woman, Native American, Asian American, and Hispanic president.

As I see it, for a newly elected president that happens to be Black to be successful in America’s top position, he would have to abandoned his traditional Blackness for a mainstream appeal; which meant that Black America would have to wait at least 4-years and a re-election to start getting the attention that so many Black Democratic zealots wanted the day after Barack Obama won the 2008 US Presidential Election.

Yes, it’s been a rough road for President Obama. Black America has hit rock bottom. Jobs, education, economic development and a stream of systemic failures by flagship Black organizations including the NAACP, the National Urban League have stopped most Black progress in it’s tracks and pushed the middle-class down.

The big picture shows some shoestring community health care organizations, who serve the poor and Black have let some health conditions go unchecked waiting for the next funding cycle. Look at the rise in HIV/AIDS, diabetes, high blood pressure, prostate cancer and other cases, which affect Black America disproportionately worse than any other race or culture. Sucking off the government teat has never really benefited poor Blacks. It’s just another from of divide and concur. To the poor Black woman; get the Black man out of the house and we’ll pay you.  A solution trended more by the Democrats than any other party. I’m no saying it’s right, I’m saying that if you vote liberal, left, unconcerned – you get what you voted for.

In Black America, getting what you voted for has meant nothing…so far.

I’ll say it again – it’s been a rough year for the president, there hasn’t been a back up plan. All of the above mention agencies might have been thinking, “Since we have a Black president, this meant a free ticket without doing the work.” When reality sunk in, Black America was left with the worse statistics in history, only second to the 1800’s, the end of Slavery and the failure of Reconstruction.

It’s true, seems like America’s first Black president has left the fold of Blackness.

Black America, especially the Black Church has retaliated against President Obama for the “presumed” oversight of Blacks, especially poor Blacks by publicly protesting important social and economic decisions made by the president. A report from the CEO’s Blog by Tracy L. Bell in a story titled, “The Black Church Speak Out Against President Obama,” says, The Rev. Anthony Evans, who heads the National Black Church Initiative — a coalition of 34,000 black churches — is blasting President Barack Obama’s decision to stop defending The Marriage Act. The Rev. notes that Obama “has violated the Christian faith” by failing to uphold Jesus’ teaching that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Needless to say, the church does teach marriage is between a man and a woman- but to be the president and understanding the popular consensus, this was a good political move for Obama. Let’s not leave out, the GLBT voters and organizations supported Obama to the tune of millions. To put it simply, Obama’s decision to stop defending the Marriage Act, saying love-and-let-love was one of the many decisions that will keep him in the White House for another four-years.

Even before Obama was elected president he was scrutinized at every angle, especially his religious views and associations.

The Jeremiah Wright controversy is an American political issue that gained national attention in March 2008 when ABC News, after reviewing dozens of U.S. Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright’s sermons, excerpted parts, which were subject to intense media scrutiny. The media scrutiny was also an attempt by the networks to dismantle Obama using the old adage, “guilt by association.” Wright, a retired senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and former pastor of President Obama. He spoke his mind. After his statements, “God damn America” (out of context here), Obama denounced the statement in question, but after critics continued to press the issue of his (Obama’s) relationship with Wright he gave a speech titled “A More Perfect Union”, in which he sought to place Dr. Wright’s comments in a historical and sociological context. In the speech, Obama again denounced Wright’s remarks, but did not disown him as a person. Again, another strategic political move by Obama, sending a message, “Rev. Wright, I love you – but I have to go!”

The controversy began to fade, but was renewed in late April when Wright made a series of media appearances, including an interview on Bill Moyers Journal, a speech at the NAACP and a speech at the National Press Club. After the last of these, Obama spoke more forcefully against his former pastor, saying that he was “outraged” and “saddened” by his behavior, and in May (2008) he resigned his membership in the church. (ABC NEWS)

Rev. Wright continues to milk his fifteen minutes of fame until this day; he too doesn’t get it…yet.

Of course there’s the other side of the isle. The Republican Party of America, and their presidential hopefuls, or just to keep it real, “presidential hopelessness.”

America’s Right-Wing wants to “Take back America.” I don’t know if that’s a bad joke or a bad punch line. What I do know, the Republican Party of America is poised with the determination of Hitler and his Reich to oust the Black president – this has nothing to do with politics, this is racism at it’s most mainstream form.

Herman Cain, Gingrich, Romney, Santorum, Bachmann, Paul, Pawlenty and others who have courted the 2012 presidential nomination have all attacked President Obama in one form or another. The problem is the arrogance of the GOP front-runners and their inability to put something – an alternative on the table.

The Republican rhetoric, small government, welfare state, and take back America means nothing to millions of Americans who are out of work, in foreclosure or on the verge of committing a crime due to lack of economic development and opportunities.

GOP on-and-off again front-runner Newt Gingrich suggested that poor children should serve as janitors to earn money – arguing not only that kids would benefit from the work but also that you could hire “30-some kids to work in the school for the price of one janitor.”

Herman Cain had to apologize for suggesting an electric fence along the border. Cain says he still thinks it’s a good idea for controlling illegal immigration. Maybe Herman Cains handlers could tap him on the  shoulder and tell him about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? Then Cain would understand there’s no such thing as an illegal immigrant from Mexico.

What is missing from the GOP is critical thinking; A lack of historical, factual information and they really don’t understand, “Nobody cares.”

President Obama doesn’t have to even deal with this type of garbage. If you a fan of the news – you’ve seen the President on a number of occasions “singing.” Tunes by Al Green, “Let’s stay together,” and other musical selections have become a harmonized battle call, which is clearly working – especially when polls show that Republicans “again” will vote for Obama.

A major freak out is occurring on the right as a new poll released by a Republican polling company has found that 20% of Republicans are more likely to vote for Obama. SodaHead reports, “The poll done by Republican polling firm Wenzel Strategies for World Net Daily found something similar to my own recent analysis of state polling data that the 2012 election is beginning to look like a replay of 2008. The Wenzel/WND poll turned up the surprising statistic that no matter whom the Republican nominee is, one fifth of the Republican voters surveyed are leaning towards voting for President Obama.

The only Republican candidate who doesn’t lose at least 20% of GOP voters to Obama is Ron Paul, and he loses 19%. The poll found that 54% of those surveyed believed that Obama had exceeded or lived up to their expectations, and 47% said that he had not. Sixty percent of Independents thought Obama has met or exceeded their expectations, as did 52% of moderates. In the head to head match ups with all voters polled Obama leads Romney, 48%-41%, Gingrich, 50%-36%, and Santorum, 49%-34%. Ron Paul fares best against Obama and he trails the president, 44%-40%.”

On a good or bad day, Obama will be in the White House in 2013. It’s just not right for Black America to hold such high expectations and not except reality.  President Barack Obama must first address a system that has never had a Black president. Secondly, even with the election of a Black president the majority of the folks run state and federal agencies are White – most unaccepting of Obama. You see this in areas of federal funding for America’s roads, highways and bridges where it’s okay to give one Black contractor $715.00 (seven-hundred and fifteen dollars) out of $68 million and no one says anything. (See the official PDF from the FHA here)

Black America, your first Black president will get to you very soon.