'FREE AT LAST' to Shaft His Black Base

This article is written by a Black critic of Obama...

"Obama's Second Term: Four More Years of Groundhog Days"

"The clock has run out on those who purport to be Black power-brokers, now that Obama is 'free at last' from ever again having to depend on African American voters.

[link to blackagendareport.com]


Quotes:

"In the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, the Bill Murray character finds himself repeating the same day over and over again. (William Shatner wound up in a similar scenario in Nick of Time, a 1960 Twilight Zone episode.) The endless looping eventually causes Murray to reexamine his life, and set a new course.

"After four years of calamity for African Americans, one would think that at least some elements of the Black Misleadership Class would be threatening, ever so softly, to break the cycle... reflexive subservience to Power in a Black face.

"...our misleaders show not even a hint of honest introspection, much less genuine self-criticism, for having failed to make a single serious demand of the First Black President through two election cycles. The clock has run out on those who purport to be Black power-brokers, now that Obama is 'free at last' from ever again having to depend on African American voters.

"Organized labor has also shot its wad – and many hundreds of millions of dollars – in servile allegiance to the corporate Democrat who is brimming with confidence “that we can get what is the equivalent of the grand bargain that essentially I've been offering to the Republicans for a very long time.” Blacks and labor are about to be shoved off the fiscal cliff, possibly in time for Christmas....

"As Obama prepares the public for the imminent consummation of his romance with the GOP – a case of incest, since both lovers are spawns of Wall Street – labor is reading the same old script. 'We expect to have the president’s back on the agenda that the voters just declared support for,' said Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, as if she had just experienced the election of 2008. 'The president has always said he needs a movement behind his mandate.' Apparently, in her world, a 'movement' is anything that moves in tandem with the Democratic president, including into bed with the Republicans."

"National Urban League President Marc Morial is hoping for a 'fair and sensible' plan to get over the fiscal cliff. Morial told US News and World Report 'he is worried that the fiscal cliff would disproportionately affect African Americans because budget cuts would likely slash jobs in state and local government. African Americans make up a disproportionately large share of the public sector workforce...

'Black Leaders to Discuss Fiscal Cliff,'

"-- reads the press release for a forum staged by the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and labor’s A. Philip Randolph Institute, in Washington, November 14. The notables 'will also discuss tactics to keep their people engaged in the political process so they hold elected officials accountable and increase black voter turnout in the 2014 mid-term election.'...

"You can bet Romney-money that not a word will be uttered in favor of publicly warning Obama not to sell out Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Instead, the notables will pat each other on the back for beating down the Republican electoral challenge to... (YOU GUESSED IT) Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. It’s in the script..."