Melissa Harris-Perry: Please Don’t Excuse Racial Discrimination in the White House
by Dr. Boyce Watkins
President Obama has recently been criticized for going to his “binder full of white men” when seeking people to fill important cabinet positions. Only white males need apply when it comes to obtaining certain opportunities within the administration, and even prominent black faces are agreeing that black folks are best kept out in the front yard plowing the fields and pushing each other to the polls. What’s interesting is that many of those who’ve been quiet about this discrimination were the same ones screaming at the top of their lungs when Mitt Romney referenced his “binder full of women” during the presidential debates. Apparently, when Democrats are being racist, it’s called something else.
Congressman Charlie Rangel has been open about his criticism of Obama’s appointments, stating that it’s “embarrassing as h**l” that the nation’s first black president is still afraid of diversity, even in his second term.
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry got my attentionwhen she chose to defend President Obama’s decision to turn the Oval Office into the Cotton Club. Harris-Perry makes the interesting argument that being black doesn’t mean you care about issues that affect black people. It’s more than ironic that nearly any argument she makes about President Obama is usually in support of his decisions, no matter how flawed they may be. I certainly hope that she is one day rewarded for her unconditional loyalty to the president, since I’m sure it’s not easy for such an intelligent woman to shut down her brain in order to stand by her man so firmly.
I remember getting a call from a Washington insider three years ago, right after receiving another call from the White House. In each conversation, there seemed to be a subtle implication that while President Obama had to be careful and quiet during his first term, he was going to be Django Unchained during the second one: There were going to be major black cabinet appointments, strong language from the bully pulpit in favor of racial equality and a pile of executive orders to fight the black unemployment crisis that has created conditions nearly as horrific as the Great Depression.
I listened patiently to these words, but they went in one ear and out the other. If I’ve learned anything about the fight for equality, it’s that if you’re making excuses for inaction today, you will continue to make excuses tomorrow. For some of us, it’s never the right time to do what is right, and conditions are never perfect for you to engage in meaningful struggle. You either have it in you or you don’t. When it comes to joining in the battle for racial justice, Barack Obama simply doesn’t have it in him. Sadly enough, most quality of life indicators show that 2008 – 2016 may be among the darkest years in history when it comes to collective progress in the African American community. We have paid a huge price to get the Obama family into the White House, and too many believe that this debt does not have to be repaid.
It’s important to remember and understand that Barack Obama is just as white as he is black. So, when he sits in the Oval office getting cozy with his blonde-haired, blue-eyed buddies, he’s not a black man who’s learned how to “play the game.” Instead, he could just as easily be seen as a white man talking to other white guys. This doesn’t take away his black heritage or black wife, and I have no right to question his blackness. But it does say that a biracial child raised in a white family is usually not going to think in the same way as a black child raised in a black family. This is typically going to be true EVEN IF you marry a black woman from the south side of Chicago, or if you are a man who has been trained to convince others that you are all things to all people.
So, while some observers might be stunned that the president is more comfortable appointing white guys from Harvard than anyone else, it all makes sense to me. For President Obama, there is a huge part of him that is ALSO a white guy from Harvard. At Harvard University, the Game of Thrones is one in which cronyism rules the day, all for the sake of protecting wealth, power and privilege (notice that everyone on the Supreme Court attended Harvard or Yale at some point in their career, making our courts into an Aristocracy). Investing in black people, even for righteous reasons, is considered unprofitable, unproductive and stupid. That’s why, to this day, the Harvard Law School has granted tenure to only two black women in its 200-year history of existence. The second appointment only came after Roland Martin and I expressed outrage over the appointment of Harvard dean Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court three years ago – Kagan’s hiring record for minority faculty couldn’t have been worse if the university were being run by David Duke.
So, when I see Melissa Harris-Perry, a brilliant black woman, dumbing herself down to confirm and validate decisions that would lead to outrage if Obama were a Republican, I feel sorry for her. I’m not sure how in the world she, or others like her, can support a system that would even reject someone like herself. Barack Obama is our president, not our King, so one can both support and disagree with him, all at the same time. Giving knee-jerk support to nearly every decision that the administration makes is an assault on democracy, and an insult to those who fought with presidents of the past to give us what little freedom black people have today.
The bottom line is that President Obama, Michelle Obama and even Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett know that there should be more minorities in the president’s cabinet. Accepting so many votes from black people and then ignoring them for important opportunities is the worst and most vile form of political manipulation in history, and the black employees at MSNBC should have no part of it. As a Finance scholar myself and a man who knows the power of the dollar, I encourage the black Obama surrogates on MSNBC to remember that some things should be more important than money.
Dr. Boyce Watkins is a Finance Professor at Syracuse University and author of the book, “Black American Money.” To have Dr. Boyce commentary delivered to your email, please click here.
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During the first election, Obama’s grandfather said, “He was raised just like a regular white boy.” That alone should have been black america’s clue that Obama is a white man in black face. He only came to Chicago on a mission to study and learn the habits of black people, the way a scientist studies a rat. And Harvard sent him there to marry a tried and tested uncle tom, raised by her uncle tom father who was nothing but a puppet for the Daley machine. Negroes need to just shut up this second term. They knew all of this before they told everybody black to vote him in again.
The president’s grandfather died in the early 90′s. his blackness can also be measured by whom he chose to to marry unlike so many that talk black but sleep white.
I THINK BARACK HAD AN HIDDEN AGENDA WHEN HE MARRIED HIS WIFE,AND IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT SHE WAS BLACK. FOR A MAN IN HIS POSITION TO MARRY A
A DARKSKINNED BLACKWOMAN AND HAVE TWO DARK KIDS AND REFUSE,AND IGNORE
BLACK CONCERNS,IT IS OBVIOUS THAT MICHELE WAS USED AS A p**n FOR BLACK PEOPLE
TO ASSUME THAT HE WOULD BE ON THEIR SIDE,YOU KNOW WE HAVE SOME SMART
EDUCATED MONSTERS IN THIS WORLD THAT IS BRILLIANT AT THE WORST 2. BARACK NEVER
PROMISED BLACKS ANYTHING. 3 ITS SEEMS EVERY INTERRACIAL KID HAS SOMETHING AGAINST PEOPLE WITH BOTH PARENTS THAT ARE BLACK,SO BE AWARE OF THE
INTERRACIAL KIDS.THEY DONT LIKE US AS A WHOLE,AND THEY HAVE BEEN FINANCIALLY
AND SOCIALLY PROTECTED BY THE WHITES EVERY SINCE SLAVERY.WITH THAT TYPE
OF LOYALTY FROM WHITES LEAVES THEM WITH ALL TEMPTATION TO BETRAY US.KEEP THEM
AT A DISTANCE AND I PROMISE YOU,YOU WILL NOT GET HURT,OH YEAH,AND BY THE WAY
JUST BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH DESPERATION FOR BLACKS TO GET A HEAD,BLACKS
THAT ARE MIXED WITH ANY RACE WILL DO THIS TO REGULAR BLACKS. I BELIEVE BARACK
IS GOING TO ONLY PRESENT A LIFESTYLE OF WHITENESS TO HIS DAUGHTERS SO THEY
CAN MARRY WHITE,BUT IF THEY ARE ANYTHING LIKE THESE INTELLIGENT KIDS THESE
DAYS,THEY WILL SEE BARACK FOR WHO HE IS,BUT WILL NOT RECIEVE ANY RESPECT FROM
BLACKS FOR WHAT THEIR FATHER DID TOWARDS BLACKS,ALSO REMEMBER BARACK
FRONTING WITH HIS PRESENCE IN REV, WHRIGHT CHURCH THAT TALKED AGAINST THE
RACIAL ATROCITIES IN OUR RACE AND ALL OF A SUDDDEN HE DISTANCE HIM SELF FROM
HIM,ALL CLUES THAT SAID,BLACK FOLKS GET THE h**l AWAY FROM ME,IM TRYING TO
BECOME PRESIDENT AND YOU ARE MAKEING ME LOOK BAD, BECAUSE HELPING YOU
WILL NOT HELP ME WIN THIS ELECTION,AND BY THE WAY” GET A JOB JACK a*s”.
well said
&janice, it’s one thing to have an opinion but to say something that is so utterly stupid and ignorant as you just did is truly sad. There’s a thing called common-sense, I suggest you lookup the meaning and try to use some in the future.
This is sad news. But how can you expect President Obama to consider hiring smarty pants like Herman Cain, Cornel West, Allen West, Allen Keyes, Michael Steele, the Blacksphere guy etc., when they consistently disowned him as African-American. Look Allen Keyes even sued in federal court to disqualify President Obama for the WH job – why Keyes did not want Obama as President. How can Obama consider Herman Cain for a position when he said Obama was not Black-American but African American? Cornel West once said:” President Obama thinks he is on top of mountain.” What does that mean? Did West say that when Bush or Clinton were presidents? No! I want all these prominent and smart Blacks to apologize to President Obama for their past foul mouths before he appoints them for political appointments. Further I want them to take oaths that they will be loyal to President Obama upon their political appointments. I have said before if you believe you care helping President Obama to succeed; care you can help Black community, please send your resume to him. If you doubt your resume or application will be lost please take directly to NAACP CEO Jealous or Rev. Al Sharpton. These two have easy access to President Obama office. They will take your resume directly to President Obama. There are jobs President Obama can appoint anybody qualified but loyal without exam or Congress approval. So do it now before 2016. We don’t know who will come next.
So he can appoint WHITE men who disagree with him but not black men. YOU STUPID!
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As for this Melissa, EDUCATION WITHOUT MORALS IS WASTED. Using your intelligence to do evil is not something to be admired. She aint sh8t and deserves no respect.
@janice:
Very well stated! These mulatto negroids (Mellisa & O’Drama) are just like Lincoln, who was also a mulatto, and it took Sojourner Truth to free our people. She DEMANDED that he free our people, and that’s when he gave her his bible!!!
O’Drama admires Lincoln because he also had an Afrikan father, and a caucasoid mammy! As a matter of Truth, he is going to have Lincoln’s bible at his inaugration! This shyt is a LIE because Lincoln gave Sojourner Truth his bible when he invited her to the Black House!!! I got the pics to prove it.
When that weak a*s punk invited that white boy to the Black House to drink a beer, I lost all respect for that mother/fuka! He’s a weak azz negroid, that let these crackers misuse, abuse, ridicule and amuse him. I can’t stand to look at the weak azz negroid.
THIS CAT ONLY HAS ONE BLACK MAN ON HIS CABINET!
He even lets his own secret service disrespect his azz! They were buying pu.zzy when they were suppose to have been protecting him…remember that? He should’ve fired all of those bast.urds, but he didn’t say a da*mn thang!
All these bu.tt suckin’ negroids, who kiss his azz are nothing, but modern day new age slaves, who don’t read, and always accept the white boy’s crumbs, they THINK O’Drama is their prince in shining armor.
These negroids don’t read and research Truth for themselves. They depend on Sharptongue and Messy Jessy for advice because they are getting paid by the government to keep negroids in this slave-like condition.
How can Sharptongue be on a caucasoid media outlet, and expect them to let him SPEAK UP for the needs of Black people. I don’t even watch his entertainment show any longer because it’s nothing, but a front! You and I know that caucasoids ain’t gonna let him SPEAK POWER TO THE PEOPLE, like he did before he became a bought negroid.
Most negroids THOUGHT O’Drama was gonnna do something for them the second time around, but this mulatto has gotten worse! His only concern is to prepare these caucasoids, he has in office for the future when silly clinton (hillary) runs for ‘resident’ of the Black House when his term is up.
PoliTRICKS ain’t nothing, but a game, and negroids have been TRICKED and captured by the game!
I love strong sisters, who ain’t scared to speak up, like these weak, mickey mouse azz male negroids, who are scared to SPEAK UP!
KEEP ON PUSHING!
By the way…I’M SICK OF THIS POLITICAL BULLSHYT!
Well said Derrick. We did what we could to warn the people about democrats and their black paid puppets.
“I have learned that when we want or
need something…we have to make some noise.”
~ MIN. MALCOLM X
THAT HAS LONG BEEN THE REALITY FOR BLACK PEOPLE.
Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel of New York piled on Thursday as the White House faced criticism for a lack of diversity.
“It’s as embarrassing as h**l,” Rangel, a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said on MSNBC’s “Jansing & Co.,” after noting his concern for President Barack Obama’s “record” on whom he chooses as advisers. “We’ve been through all this with Mitt Romney—and we were very hard on Mitt Romney with the women binder and a variety of things. I kind of think there’s no excuse when it’s the second term.”
I couldn’t have stated it any better! We expect more this second term, and it’s not looking good. We’ve stopped drinking the Kool-Aid.
We got tricked!
Please check out these two documentaries. No bullsh8t. They are free and very informative from credible sources. They are filled with facts. Please my brothers and sisters. It only takes a total of four hours.
http://www.filmsforaction.org
click in the search bar in the upper right hand corner and type “Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy(2011)” and watch it first. Then search for “Inside Job(2010)” and watch it. Listen, learn and be educated on what we are up against. If you think anything is false, I challenge you to google and research any subjects talked about.
Please open your mind. Everything is factual and important. This website has loads of information free to the public for awareness. Spread the word.
Wow Boyce, your words are strong & accusatory. You should comprise a list of qualified minorities that should be considered. Put your pen where your mouth is…Just Saying
1. Dr. Cornell West, Secretary of State
2. Tavis Smiley, Press Secretary
3. Dr. Boyce Watkins, Secretary of the Treasury
4. Allen West, Secretary of Defense
Just what the Tea Party ordered! LOL!
You sure are stupid. You bought every dumb lie that white democrats fed you about the Tea party. The Tea party is about:
Saving AMERICA for AMERICAN CHILDREN, instead of the sellout to china, etc
You’re right. If Blacks were to vote today would they vote for Romney? No. Romney was human being without a soul. And also remember his religion – Mormon. Mormons believe Blacks are descendants of Cain, the cursed son of Adam and Eve. That’s why you never saw Blacks in his rallies. In fact Romney wanted to take us back to Reaganomics – survival of the fittest or voodoo economics. You know the consequences of Reaganomics-the rich got super richer; there were shortages of local black professionals – doctors, nurses, engineers, trained construction workers. Poor smart black kids did not have chance to post-secondary professions and training. This country with all its black smart kids had to import professionals such as computer programmers, nurses, doctors etc. Do you remember what Romney said if you wanted college education or start a business: “Go and borrow money from your parents -if your parents are poor tough it.” How did Romney expect Blacks to vote for him after showing he hated them was a mystery. When in college, I was neighbor to Mormon family. The father would not let his girls or boys talk to me. He told them I was close to a monkey. Remember I was in college majoring in Agriculture Science. However, these kids would sneak behind back door to my apartment. They told me if he caught them he would kill them and me. Thanks God I found it sooner. Did you see women wearing T-shirts that said “White House for Whites Only” at Romney rally during last days of campaign in Florida? Romney saw the T-Shirts and loved them. Do you think you would vote for Romney as alternative to Obama today! No. You would be new slaves. Thanks God we have Obama as President. At least we can send NAACP CEO Jealous or Rev. Al Sharpton if we are concerned how our communities are treated. Obama is now the Boss again.
I am pleased to see by these comments that I am not the only one who feels less than positive about Boyce on this one. And yes Dr. Watkins please do share who should be in these positions and please don’t say Susan Rice Obama tried to get her Secretary of State but it was to tough cause of the Benghazi fiasco.
Correction; Obama never once mentioned Susan Rice as his choice for Secretary of State. That’s not to say he didn’t think it or want it, but he never said it. That was a media and a pundit creation and assumption.
It is not dr. boyce JOB to look for qualified candidates, THERE ARE MANY BLACKS QUALIFIED TO DO ANY AND EVERY JOB IN THIS country. You are a dumb piece of sh8t who has bought into your own INFERIORITY complex, and you speak like a KKK member who can never acknowledge that blacks are intelligent
Remember his campaign slogan for Blacks; “I got your back”, suckers…
What about First Nations people, Aboringals, other wise known as ‘Indians’ have they been represented? The blood quantum or social identification of people was as far as I know established by the Dutch. But in our society it’s how you physically look that seems to determine ethnic/cultural origins. If you look black you’re Afraican American, if you look ‘Indian’ you’re an Indian or “red’ but usuallywithout a feather in your hair, If you look yellow you’re classified as asian particualarily if your eyes support that designation. If you’re short, ugly and have no money you’re also descriminated against and it doesn’t mattter what color you are. Yes, yes, I know we need to level the playing field to establish fairness and I support that but what we really need to do is reprogram peoples attitudes and emotional responses based on information not the clinging to some national origin or ethnic/cultural tribe based on their outward appearence. Dr Henry Louis Gates, Harvard Porfessor (happens to be African American in appearence)does a TV show proving people are not necessarily who they appear to be when he investigates their family history and DNA. There have many books recently done on theories and research that every human being came from Africa (or whatever it was called at the time) “Daughters of Eve’ is one book that addresses this and recently 2002 “Mapping Human History” by Steve Olson. There are scientific reasons for the physical differences in human beings but the bottom line is we all originated in Africa and as we travelled to other locations adaptations to our environment produced physical changes in our outward appearence. If you live in a cold climate, no sun for months at a time and eat only the food available you’re entire physical appearence adapts to survive over thousands and thousands o years all species reflect adptation. But the evidence shows that from all that’s known at this point in time human beings all originated in what is now called “Africa”. So all the other designations of tribal groups are merely those human beings that travelled and over thousands and thousands of years adapted to their enviornment and were also shaped by the forces of wars and invasions of other tribes. I understand what you’re talking about ‘equality’ and leveling the playing field for past and present bad treatments but lets reframe this idea of tribes, species because until we all respect all human beings and quit this ‘dutch’ quantum’ stillyness we will forever be intolerant of someone and oppressing them. I’ve had enought of this ‘c**p’ lets move on as best we can, we are human beings and if other human beings don’t respect us as human beings move on and find human beings that do respect us. But remember we must respect ourselves first as human beings. Leave our President Obama be, he’s a great man, doing a great job for the greater good of all people and he has enough extremist nut jobs to deal with.
@ thenine9
Just scroll up to my post and follow the information. Do that and then let’s see how you feel about “do a great job for the good of all people”.
Do some research on Glass-Stegal and see who were the major Wall Street deregulationist who served in the Clinton admin. at that time. They served under Bush2 also. See don’t the same names apply to the people Obama appointed. The same people who caused the collapse. It’s in the documentaries. How is that “change you can believe in”. Do some research and stop listening to beautiful feel good lies.
Sorry you feel that way, I’m not talking about politics, politics and religion is what is teaching intolerance and oppression. We have to have a bigger vision and I believe that all efforts that our President Obama has engaged in are his visions for something bigger than political posturing and responding to the same old same old rants. Take a deep breath, you sound like you’re hurt and I’m sorry but your anger is not going to get you anywhere. You’ve tried the angry before and it leds you no where so will you keep on keeping on with the anger response? Your choice but not mine. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
I am very disappointed with the President, for not appointing any Blacks, to his cabinet. It was the African American, that was responsible for getting our President re-elected. I feel, this is the same non-sense that CEO, including Bill Gates, that they can not find qualified people to fill jobs,so they want to issue more Visa, so Foreigner’s can come here and take jobs from American for half the pay.If the President, want to lose the support of the African American, they keep the idea that there are no qualified African Americans. He still need the support of Blacks to get his bills, passed in the Senate, and The House.I think he should certain appoint a Black Female to the Supreme Court.Yes he was raised in a White house hold but he had better remember that he is still Black in any White World. Just remember, Micheal Jackson,O.J. Simpson.I would think Melissa Harris, would have a different view about non Blacks in the Cabinet.
What is Eric Holder, Susan Rice and Valerie Jarret? The last time I looked they were Black. If I’m not mistaken they’re still there.
Are they black. On first glance …
why just three?
dont worry when the NRA gets through with him he will KNOW he is black
Here we go again Obama haters.
Boyce is a hater, an undercover republicthug, a self-hating black man trying to disguise compassion and concern for Black-America in a website that shows how jealous he is of PRESIDENT OBAMA and other African-Americans. He is just a failed so called intellectual and quite frankly, instead of being pitied, HE NEEDS TO BE STOPPED!!!! As he erroneously made a dig at President Obama in his diatribe concerning Katt Williams a few days ago, he is such a self-hater and so jealous of President Obama and African-American Progressives Democrats that he has no idea of how to make constructive criticism and simply winds up being overtly critical and consequentially supremely obtuse and ignorant. As I wrote a few days ago, he is an intellectual loser and is determined, no matter how foolish he looks or sounds or as reflected in the self-hating drivel he writes, he is determined to hate on the President. And as I noted and stand by… I and a number of my friends are just as determined to call him and other republicthugs, Black, White and Otherwise out and let him know that his so-called “intellectualism” is only self-hate in disguise and he is doing more harm than good….we are not only going to give him the other side of the coin but introduce him to another brand and side of intellectualism from African-Americans that he in his supreme arrogance, has both forgotten and needs to be brought down to earth and/or rather “Black to Reality”. People, remember who this so-called “doctor” is….REMEMBER he was on the run and needed “Black” support when the place where he works was on his case and HE was hollering “racism”…REMEMBER…. he joined Yvette Carnell in urging African-Americans to consider NOT VOTING for the 2012 elections…now you know he has lost his mind. REMEMBER, he famously formed the unholy trinity of “failed and jealous Negritude” with Cornelius and Tavis in trying to intellectually “psyche” out support for President Obama. REMEMBER that he is an undercover republicthug and that they are his “BOSSES” And that he is dancing to their tune….hence this notation and other notations against the President and Melissa and the Rev. Al and other African American who are just as intellectual but ARE NOT self-haters and more importantly, are not failed Uncle Toms or Aunt Jemima’s. Poor Boyce…he wants to sit at the table but he does not have the manners to do so. He is tying to run an “okey doke” on us with this drivel but like Rev. Al would say…Hands Up Boyce….we got you! Shame on you Boyce to start out 2013 by not learning….nor reading the signs from 2012!!! Now how intellectual is that!!!!
@Belenda
I really feel sorry for you.
Belinda…thank you giving a little history to help understand why Boyce has so much hate for President Obama. Some people foolishly believe Boyce writes these commentaries out of concern for black people when it’s really about battling his insecurities as a failed professor after being denied tenure at Syracuse University. People need to google Boyce on Wikipedia and read why he was running like a punk a*s Negro when Bill OReily came after him to have him fired from Syracuse U. Once they read about how President Obama didn’t support him after OReily attacked Michele Obama, they will understand his hate for President Obama. Nothig wrong with black people criticizing President Obama, but it should be out of concern for black people..not pettiness, jealousy and personal vendettas against black people who have achieved what we desire in life..which is what we see from Boyce, Tavis and West. There is a way to critic President Obama without dividing us to ensure the racist teabaggers fail in their plan to destroy us..Minister Farrakhan is a perfect example on someone who criticize Obama with love and not hate.
@ thenine 9
Thank you so much. I’ll work on my “anger”.
Now let me give you some advice……..
Buy some new pillows soon becuase the ones you’re sleeping on now are wearing thin. Sweet Dreams my friend.
Hopefully you will hear the alarm clock and disregard the snooze button option someday.
Get some rest for now……..
Funny. Now you must deal with the man for whom you voted. You would not listen to reason. You voted for him because of his skin color–you were/are racist. Now deal with the black man who thinks white–suckers. Funny.
@Harold. The only dummy in here is you calling black people “racist”. Only a white teabag idiot would call black people racist.
There are several things that make a person a “hater”. Some of which are Envy, Jealousy, Ignorance, Stupidity and other hidden agendas. To say that Boyce Watkins is a hater is a gross understatement. As Black people we are so easily influenced and brainwashed by those that we consider “educated” or “intelligent” among us. We suffer from our lack of “reason”, “common-sense” and “logic”. Barack Obama is a Black man, oh yes he’s Black. There are a lot of people with much more white blood than he who is also Black so he’s unmistakably Black. When I read and hear all the criticism of the President by people who consider themselves Black I know it’s coming from one of the previous reasons I mentioned in my opening. What is Barack Obama’s major failing? It’s simple; he Black. He’s hated by some people of all races just because he’s Black. It has nothing to do with his politics, it’s just because he’s Black. There isn’t a person reading this that has been personally affected negatively by Obama’s politics or his policies. We want to blame the President and everyone else for all that wrong with us as a person and as a race. We have historically been jealous and envious of our brothers and sisters who have surpassed us in any way that we feel is important. Barack Obama was elected and re-elected overwhelmingly by Black and Minority votes and if you think it was just because he’s Black, then you’re a fool. It was because people knew he was the best choice based on what we had to choose from. Barack Obama is far from perfect but he was the best choice for the Presidency when he was first elected and the best choice when he was re-elected. It’s sickening to hear and read all the negative criticism about this President when I know very well that it’s being driven by people like Boyce Watkins who’s main objective is to keep some controversy going because he has his own agenda and really doesn’t give a d**n about Black people as a whole. The bottom line is that if we are worse off under this President it’s because someone else created it. Stop letting these people like Watkins make you feel guilty for supporting another successful Black man.
Keep exposing Boyce…
Bottom Line…..Would you have Romney as President instead? I chose the best of two evils. In America that’s all you get…unfortunately.
THANK YOU, BELENDA, FOR SAYING WHAT I HAVE BEEN PREACHING ABOUT BOYCE WATKINS AND HIS BUNCH OF REPUBLICAN UNCLE TOMS LIKE CORNEL WEST AND TAVIS SMILEY!! THEIR INTENDED AUDIENCE IS UNEDUCATED BLACK FOLKS WHO DO NOT THINK FOR THEMSELVES BUT LET THESE JEALOUS NUTCASES THINK FOR THEM!!
PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL BE JUDGED BY HISTORY TO BE ONE OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE PRESIDENTS AMERICA HAS EVER HAD!! IT MAY TAKE YEARS FOR THE COUNTRY TO REALIZE JUST WHAT THE MAN HAS ACCOMPLISHED DURING HIS EIGHT YEARS AS OPPOSED TO WHAT GEORGE W. BUSH ACCOMPLISHED DURING HIS EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE!! THERE WILL BE NO COMPARISON AND I DARE BOYCE WATKINS TO TAKE ISSUE WITH THAT FACT!!
SO THANK YOU, BELENDA. YOU ARE MY MEDEA!!
“He who controls the pen controls your mind.”
If you think these caucasoid historians are gonna write a postive book about O’Drama’s presidency; you are out of your rabbit azz mind. This man is gonna be degraded so bad, Black children will not want to look up to him, once a book is written.
Nothing positive has been written about any Black hero by caucasoid authors, and nothing is going to change. We need Black historians, and writers to write about this man’s presidency, but he will still be ridiculed by his treatment of Black people, but more positive writings will be addressed, moreso, than the negative.
Watkins, Smiley and West are no better or worse, than O’Drama. It all boils down to, who you stand behind; you have some people, who admire each of these men, and I’m safe to say; you are behind, O’Drama. The name of the game is CHOICES! None of these men are gonna safe us.
WE MUST SAVE OURSELVES!
What has any of these men accomplished for the sake of Black people beside riding around in a bus sponsored by Wal-Mart, talking to Black and poor people? And, O’Drama’s neglect for Black people continues.
ALL BLACK PEOPLE DO IS COMPLAIN; BUT WITH NO RESULTS!
Yes he will be recorded as the GREAT WHITE HOPE
Dannyboy..some us see Boyce and his hypocrisy. If MLK was alive today..Boyce would be against him to make a dollar.
Our President is being looked at with a microscope. Remember when he expressed sympathy towards the late Trayvon Martin. I think you and I understood what the President was saying, but some quarrelsome people didn’t like what he said.
We are not in the position the President is in, we need to pray for the President and the First family every day.
Dr.MLK holiday is coming up. He is an example of how to make a difference. He was not part of a business or government – but he did lead his Church and the Civil Rights Movement. Sometimes change happens outside of the government.
Hey Derrick I know it’s hard brother but calm down. Don’t let this BS make you sick.
The “lesser of two evils” is still evil. And Barack Obama is a continuation of George Bush. Stop listening to beautiful lies and having a blind allegiance to this guy for symbolic historical reasons. Do some research. You voted for him and refuse to look at him objectively. That’s not a good look.
Just do some research and stop making excuses for a grown a*s well connected, Harvard elitist with Wall Street connections.
Google and research the FISA bill, NDAA, renditions under Obama, many more drone strikes than Bush (killing innocent civilians), gave the go ahead to kill what we call teenage males with drone strikes because they “could be terrorist”, bragged about having a kill list, murdering people in black and brown lands, cow tows to israel and their genocide of the palestinian people, I mean the list goes on and on.
This isn’t change we can believe in. This is more of the same. Oh, it is moving forward. But it’s moving forward at an even worse rate.
Lookup Larry Summers and how he played a part in deregulatiing Wall Street during the Clinton years. Summers, Greenspan, and Rubin influenced the repeal of Glass Stegal. Summers is Obama’s financial advisor. That is until Jack Lew gets confirmed. Look him up too and see that he worked in a division at Citigroup that bet on the housing market collapse and made millions. Jack Lew is a deregulationist and believes that deregulation was not responsible for the economic collapse. Lew also served under Clinton. Geigtner and Bernanke are deregulationist also.
Look up John Brennan and look at his role at the CIA in the Bush administration. Just call him Dr. Torture. He serves in the Obama administration and is up for top CIA job.
The people Barak W. Bush surrounds himslef with are the same people from previous administrations. Those are not the only people. It’s more of the same but all he has to do is sing a few bars of some wore out a*s Al Green songs and people forget about there morals, standards, and accountability.
He campaigned as an agent of change. That’s not change. He campaigned as an agent of transparency yet he is using the courts to help his administration remain in secrecy.
He campaigned on restoring habeus corpus, yet he has renewed and passed laws destroying our civil liberties and right to due process. He got the country riled up about Wall Street injustices, yet he surrounds himself with the people who caused the collapse, refuses to mention any prosecutorial justice, and banks and corporations have been making record profits and bonuses every year since he’s been in office.
Even Ray Charles can see what’s going on from the grave.
I just don’t get how people can say sh8t like “he’s doing a wonderful job”, yet don’t seem to see the coorelation between previous administration practices that they were heavily against. This sh8t is crazy.
The blind you shall have always. Somebody has to be the sheep being led to the slaughter.
well said. i pray you did your best to inform the people BEFORE the election, even if many were too intellectually challenged to know wisdom when they hear it.
I find that although I support the President, I cannot disagree with what you are saying.
White Shriners..
During the first elecion his white grandfather was dead. His whit grandmother died the day before he became president.
Some of these comments serve to prove that the top three things that people talk about without having a clue are: The Bible,politics and other people business. Stupid is as stupid does, in this case stupid is as stupid comments.Most of these comments are monuments to stupidity!!
I’m A Barack Obama supporter and I have only recently began to read Dr. Watkins articles. I feel like a little criticism is necessary, even if it is harsh. Barack Obama is anything but thin skinned so he can take the heat. I was pleasantly surprised by this article and it is full of information I did not know, so I am glad. I am an artist so I realize that criticism in all of its forms, whether it is so called constructive or not, ultimately helps one to grow. An open mind allows a person to see even the harshest criticism as a tool, even hate. If Love ultimately conquers Hate, then hate is a lie, that doesn’t is exist. The ultimate is THE TRUTH. So if there is all hate and no truth in what Dr. Boyce is saying it should be assailed accordingly and refuted totally. There should be no doubt. He should be roundly defeated for his assertions. I would like to see that done. So far it hasn’t. I commend U for your research. I am a fan now, and I will continue to read and study what U are saying bro. Thank U. U are truly enlightened.
The president has more black,latino,asian,gays and women
Working for him than any past president.including bill clinton.
He has not completely filled up his cabinet.
I love milisa but I think she hold her fire.
Fox news and the right wing nuts love to see us fight among ourselves.
While I disagree with Dr. Watkins often it always cracks me up when people disagree with him based on their ad hominem opinions of him in entire paragraphs but never dispute anything he wrote. To sum up the article. The Dr. wrote it’s hypocritical for people like Mrs. Perry to go in on Romeny about his lack of diversity and give a pass to their guy when he does same thing. Simple. So instead of focusing on this fact of what Obama is doing or not doing in this case attack the guy who points out the hypocrisy. All this proves is that it is not about the so-called middle class and some group of people who are supposed to be looking out for you. It’s about basic raw classism. Where people who consider themselves elites regardless of what party they belong feel it’s okay for them do it but not anyone else and how dare you peasants call them on it. Obviously if you didn’t go to an Ivy League School or you are not on Tv who are you to be critical of someone who begged for your vote? How dare you ask them to do anything for you now?
Whats the difference in their hypocrisy? Mellissa blindly supports President Obama while Boyce don’t find anything wrong with his sidekick West not having a problem with Tavis exploiting black people with subprime loans for the bank in addition to his financial support from Walmart who exploit the poor people that they claim to be fighting for on their poverty tour. Let me know when Boyce write a commentary on West and his relationship with Tavis..
I like all the people making personal accustions against Dr Watkins, but failing to address what he is actually talking about. I see people callign him a Republican, KKK etc etc, but lets peel away all the BS, and see what the guy is trying to argue:
1- It is hypocritical for MSNBC to call out Romney on his ‘binder full of women’ comments, and be silent over Obama’s ‘binder full of white men.’ For that, Dr Watkins is being called a hater. Wow. No double standards there.
Everyone has his own opion. So if you give me a few minutes I’ll give mine. President Obama, IF given a true reading in history will be listed as a strong and wise president. And his face should be carved on the mountain as was Washington, Lincolyn and the other presidents that they felt mattered. As someone said, He is not perfect, but, neither are we. For those who feel that he is too white or not black enough, you had of slavery of freedom choise. You could have had Ramney and his crew. Then you would have something to bit#h about. There is something that you can do. Get into long turm thinking and planning the future. Train young black people. START WITH–FIGHTING TO GET SCHOOLS IN BLACK DISTRICTS restored. yOU PAY TAXES. START PLANNING ON STARTING YOUR OWN BUSINESS– Every ethnic group has a business in your neighborhood. They are getting rich off of you,AND THE WILL NOT HIRE YOU OR YOUR’S, the same as other groups has always done. WHERE ARE YOU? You want everything in a hurry or given to you. GET RID OF THE PUSHER, even they use you. THEY MAKE MORE MONEY THAN SHOULD BE ALLOWED FOR SELLING OUT YOUR YOUNG. ASK YOUR PRESIDENT TO HELP RID THESE PEOPLE FROM YOUR AREAS (WITH YOUR HELP). YOU MAY HAVE TO DO THAT YOURSELVE. START PROTECTING YOUR YOUNG, HELP THEM TO BECOME BUSINESSMAN AND STAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THAT IS THINKING TOMORROW. YOU HAVE TO BECOME A VILLAGE ONCE AGAIN TO THINK THAT WAY. CREATE YOU WON FACTORIES, GROCERY STORES, LAUNDRY MATS. DO IT WITH GROUPS OF PEOPLE. a COMPANY. iF YOU WANT TO, YOU CAN DO IT. iF YOUR PRESIDENT SEES THAT YOU ARE TRYING, HE WILL HELP.
Our Lord and savior, help us to understand that we are all made in your image. Help us to see others as human being. Amen!
We need to stop all this black and white madness. It is so sad that some of the people on this site, so stuck on color. I am definitely not rich and was born in the deep south. I suceeded under every president, starting with Nixon. Grant you eveyone can’t do this and I have reached back to help others. President Obama is president for all people. Picking a cabinet is not like selecting someone to do clerical work. Who he picks has to be approved by congress. Who put congress in? We the people who only vote in presidentail election. Never understadning that who we put in the senate and congress is important. It looks as half of you guys vote on emotion and not knowledge.
It is time that African Americans started “smelling the coffee”. The President has a lot of things he wants to do on his plate. Republicans have made it clear that they won’t help him accomplish any of it. Just look at their record in President Obama’s first term. They are really doubling down in his second!!
Let’s face facts. If the President were to name African American or Latinos to certain key positions, he would NEVER get any kind of legislation through the Congress. Republicans won’t negotiate with the President, but they will work with Joe Biden!! Why? Because Biden is a WHITE man and one of them even though he is a Democrat!! That will not change even though President Obama beat the Clinton and Republican machines in 2008 and beat the big moneyed Republicans in 2012!! He has outsmarted them on every turn and is doing it again by putting WHITE people in positions where he knows he needs help to get anything passed!!
So wake up, my people and think beyond your noses!! Don’t be another Charlie Rangel!! Stop being jealous and support the President as he tries to save this damned country!!
I read many articles by Dr. Boyce and many of them I disagree with but this is one I deeply agree with. The black people have been shafted by Mr. Obama i often say you mean to tell me out of all the smart blaxk in this country he couldn find one to be a cabnet member. Obama has to please his white friends because of money and committments prior to them. He can’t back out of it because he has to live with them. The only reason why I voted for him was to make history. I knew he would never do anything for black folks because he’s really a white man with deep ties to the white man. And, he will never be able to get out of it.
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