Obama, a white president in blackface??

Byron Allen had some choice words for President Barack Obama.

Allen, host of Comics Unleashed and Entertainers With Byron Allen, lashed out at the president to TMZ, saying Obama should be doing more to help black people.

"Black people have fallen further behind under President Obama," said Allen, who also criticized Obama for having referred to the looters and arsonists in last month's Baltimore riots as "thugs."

"President Obama is, at this point, a white president in blackface," Allen said. "Black America would have done much better with a white president."

Allen, founder of television production company Entertainment Studios, implored the president to "stand up" to injustices against black people, adding:*"President Obama, you have let us down tremendously."

 

Yeah, but looters and rioters are thugs.

 

If ur going to riot....at least do it outside ur neighborhood.....preferably near police stations and government buildings

 

Lets be honest, a lot of the black community thought we were gonna get a shit ton of benefits just for having a black president. Every president gets accused of doing little to nothing for the black community while in office, but since obama's black he automatically has to be the game changer:smt048

I think he's done a realistic job, he acknowledges the racial biased in america and actually speaks out on it. What do people want? Do they want him to dedicate his whole term towards black issues? If Obama did that he'd never make office. People need to stop blaming every issue on presidents and redirect that blame to city and state leaders.

 

smh.....

 

That's why the POTUS wants the minimum wage increased....
And free tuition for community colleges....
And penalties for U.S. corporations who move their factories oversees...
And affordable health care for those too poor to pay high health insurance premiums...
And secretly IMO wants marijuana legalized to reduce the number of Black men incarcerated for non-violent drug offenses and have their lives ruined..


By trying to enact laws and policies that help the working poor and undereducated, Obama is trying to help indirectly the African American community.

If any Black person thought Obama was going to come into the Oval Office and fund a new government program to specifically benefit Blacks,lol.

Eliminating crime and low unemployment in Black inner cities is about eliminating the symptoms that create those conditions, which starts with education and more parental commitment in the lives of at risk children.


It would take Obama ten Presidential terms to address and solve all the problems in Black America.

My mother used to say if she were Queen of the U.S., she'd take ALL the Black babies born into poverty or unwed mothers and raise them in a special government program designed to give them all the benefits of a stable, nurturing home environment.
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But when people argue he's ignored the Black community or hasn't done enough, IMO it's based on the fantasy that a Black POTUS has Jesus like powers.

THe man isn't Harry Potter. No magic wand is handed over at the inauguration.

I do agree Obama could have spoken out more about issues affecting the Black community and offered more Presidential leadership about how those problems could be addressed at the grass roots level.

But to call him a White POTUS in Blackface is an insult and ignorant of how the federal government works.

 

Rioters are not thugs, looters possibly but keep in mind the nation was perfectly ok letting these people fade into the abyss of poverty and violence until they turnt shit up. And it's unrealistic to expect poor people to assemble anywhere outside of the place most convenient to assemble.
Rioting is the voice of the unheard. We can't even be a little surprised that this shit happened in an area fighting economic strife for over a decade. 40 percent unemployment and a very corrupt local government what did you guys expect?

 

they destroyed their own community....they caused people to lose their ability to feed their families....dont confuse rioting with marching for your rights (civil rights movement/the selma march as an example)

you want change do the following

1. march peacefully, boycott biz , shop local /neighborhood biz

2. vote..vote and vote. u get people u want and u can be a juror.

3. manage your money and stay out of debt...

4. get a job that would put u in a position for change.....lawyer, doctor, teacher, politician, cop and ect...

 

I get your overall point, but I got to disagree with you on rioters. Once protesting gets to the point of violence or destruction of property, it has cross the line into thuggery.

Dr. King, and the brothers and sisters who fought for civil rights in the 50's and 60's never needed to burn anything down, or hurt people to get their point across.

 

lastly, call into your local conservative radio show and logically pointout hypocrisy by them and the media

remember they survive on crazy talk but ligical educated people listen to it .....so if they hear opposing views then they wont be so quick to buy the bs.

the radio is viewed as popular views so maybe i need to fall in line. they take whatever the radio host say as gospel.

example: radio show host said same sex marriage will destroy marriages.

a caller came in and said the church has a 50% divorce rate....take care of that first then take about the gays later.

next caller asked was it true and the host said yes...the christian church divorce rate is about that high.

u can hear the wind come out of him.

 

Please do me the favor of researching before you guys comment. The civil rights movement has always been painted as somepeaceful marching and black singing we shall overcome. You have any idea how many riots happened before Selma. Dr. King was the one who coined the term riots are the actions of the unheard.
I'm not saying I'm happy about it or want it to happen but too often in this country we are perfectly ok with letting people fall through the cracks as long as we feel like we're personally ok. Sometimes you have to make noise to be heard.

 

u need to do your homework...

look at the la riots from rodney king...how that work out...

rioting doesnt solve a damn thing. destroying crap did nt solve a damn thing....

just because they did it in the 60s didnt mean it worked...go look.

king and others told u what to do...i just outlined it.

why do u think they work so hard to keep u uneducated and broke?

look at how they acted in disbelief when barack went to an elite school and had good grades...

u playing checkers and they playing chess.

 

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Says the guy living in Mayberry who doesn't have to worry about people burning down his house or vandalizing his tesla

I bed ud destroy a few inner city blocks or incite shit, then run back to ur gated community

 

aaaww snap

 

Liberals are always inciting shit from the safety of their suburbs, even though violent blacks are the reason they moved there in the first place

 

No. Rioters and looters are thugs. I'm not anti-riot, I fully understand what fuels a riot.

However, rioting and looting ESPECIALLY in ones own backyard is a counterproductive and self-destructive act. Rioting in your own backyard may be the voice of the unheard, but as soon as that TV is turned off... who's listening? You want America to listen, go start burning down country clubs. Go burn down the neighborhoods of the people calling you a nigger ass monkey. Don't ruin the already few opportunities that you have.

Each year, there is less reason to have 'no voice'. Blacks have venues to be heard and on many more stages than we ever have, but so many forget where they come from once they become that 'acceptable negro'. We need to create our own positions of power, uplift our own communities and create our own opportunities. We need to create our own voice, as long as we're burning down our own shit we're putting no pressure on America.

I guarantee you having the halls of Princeton, Harvard, MIT, Berklee and Stanford full of socially conscious Shaquisha's and Tyrones with their 4.0 GPA's is more dangerous to the status quo of this country than a thug with a Molotov cocktail aimed at one of the few black-owned business in the ghetto.

 

Well shit

Can't fault you tho....I love seeing reputable black intellectuals address the racial pitfalls of society on YouTube or huff po

 

Or, investing money back into their communities. Black people in general will never have power or influence when the wealthy minority is the exception to the rule and not the standard.

We are more and more finding ourselves in a position where we can contribute to and uplift our own communities. Invest time and money in our schools and in our youth. Invest time and money into our communities in general.

I was commenting to a friend about how I feel that, as a successful black man, I owe much more to the community that I come from than I'm currently doing. A white friend of ours, who is an FBI agent asked me why I felt that it was my responsibility. Stealing from Kendrick Lamar, I replied to him that if I don't make time he (the FBI agent) would.

 

Interesting how the course of this conversation has gone as compared with the reaction to his comments of FB!