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Is Obama Profoundly Stupid For Telling Black Men How To Vote?
A rant…
This is not one of those pretentious articles, written to stretch the intellectual capabilities of its readers.
It is to all intents and purposes, a rant.
We have long since established that America’s first Black President is an instrument of White supremacy and this dynamic has shaped everything that he has said and done, since bursting on to the scene in 2004.
During the campaign season in 2008, lots of Black men were prepared to put up with his attacks on Black men to pull up their trousers and be responsible fathers to their children.
But over the course of his 8 years in power, not once did we see or hear the former President take bold and decisive steps in dealing with America’s sins against its citizens of colour.
The man was very happy to spend trillions of dollars to bail out the banks in 2009, whose fraudulent behaviour led to millions of African Americans and Hispanics losing their homes.
The people of Flint were drinking contaminated water and suffering the worst effects imaginable from the neglect of their elected representatives and yet when the man rolled into town, he said and did nothing of substance, choosing instead to be a huge part of the farce in drinking a…