Interesting.
OK. I'm going to go back and address the main point we've been discussing then I'll get to Breitbart.
You hate Hillary so much now that I'm assuming you didn't want her elected 8 years ago either, so lets theorize what would have most likely happened under a McCain presidency.
Had McCain been running against Hillary, most of the racial animosity would not have surfaced, so lets assume he was running against Obama and won. White nationalism was already surfacing at the McCain/Palin rallies. Some reminders of what was going on back then:
Now, Obama and McCain became symbolic of the black-white racial struggle and were basically being used as surrogates for white people against black people. So a win for McCain against Obama would not have been seen just as a win over Obama, it would have been seen in their minds and represented to others as a win over black people in general, and keeping black people in their place. So even had Obama lost, we would not necessarily have avoided the racial backlash that has surfaced, as McCain's win may have emboldened them even more coming off a victory high.
Furthermore, we know the auto industry was on the verge of collapse at that time. The GOP wanted to make an example of unions and the management of those companies and were against the restructuring/bailout. We would have lost a manufacturing base which is one of the few that we have left. We also would have lost other related jobs:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6278396&page=1
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/how-many-jobs-depend-on-the-big-three/?_r=0
It's a known fact that black unemployment is always higher than the national average. Had we lost all those jobs, black people would have suffered the most, and would have, along with all the other brown people, been the ones being used to beat up on as whites expressed anger and saw us as taking their jobs. We also would have been the ones struggling more as this white nationalist streak ignited during the campaign took off.
That's just one example of how another candidate would have been
worse for black people, had Obama not been elected.
Women would have been worse off also. Had the teaparty and the antiabortion, anti planned parenthood also played out the same way, the laws in Texas and other places would have most likely been upheld, because the brilliant appointees like Sotomayor would not have been on the supreme court to stop them. The court would have been much more conservative.
Obama has appointed more black federal judges than any President, ever. http://politic365.com/2014/01/24/18...d-higher-of-black-judges-than-any-president/# These are judges with lifetime appointments, who come from our communities and have real life experience to see black folks as people, and not just crime stats or stereotypes they draw from due to an absence of real world experience. We don't have to be "humanized" for them. Why do you think the GOP keeps blocking his appointments? There would have been many more if they were willing to do their job.
Y'all are asking Obama to do things specifically for black people when he can't get regular stuff done without passing an executive order. This is after dropping the ball and not showing up for midterm elections so that he could keep a democratic majority in congress to pass laws and actually get things done. (The idiots who want to see a Trump presidency in order to "wake people up" only need to look at congress to see what happened. People didn't wake up then, and the amount of destruction that has come to pass was not worth it, and it's mild compared to what I believe Trump would cause.) Police actions are governed by state and city officials, laws, and ordinances. Black folks don't need to be addressing Obama, they need to be out locally, and pressing the local candidates for change. In DC it's the congress who actually has to make laws and pass them to make it to Obama's desk for him to sign. Right now, RIGHT NOW, Flint Michigan is being denied funds to help with the lead in their water. The GOP insists everything must be paid for to make it into the budget. The dems cut other programs to get money for Flint and other places, but it's being held up even though Louisiana flood relief made it in and is not paid for.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/...t-hostage-in-latest-government-shutdown-fight Yet you expect me to believe this things would be better under McCain? McCain who has endorsed Trump btw, another example of his poor judgement.
So, lets see what we do have. We have a black man who had been competent and in power for 8 years. I haven't agreed with or liked everything he has done, but he has been an example of excellence and black male leadership at home and abroad. Remember white supremacy isn't only here in the states. Kids leading up to the age of 18 probably don't ever remember another president.
We have a traditional BLACK family with mother and father intact, daughters not dressing up as whores, going on drunk binges (Bush's daughters) or having kids out of wedlock (Palin's daughter), as a model to strive for and achieve. Not a TV sitcom that isn't "real". A functional black family that shows a real life ideal, and goes against the stereotypes that are painted about black families. We have a black role model that is powerful and successful and not an athlete or a rapper. Those are intangibles that cannot be measured, and that symbolism alone is worth the return I got on my vote. Racists may hate him, and they may try to belittle him, but they know that Obama is smarter than all of the combined and they can't stand it.
He has given legitimacy to BLM by inviting them to the White House and having some prominent blacks who were protesters sit on panels of organizations.
He has pardoned non violent drug offenders and reduced the discrepancy between crack/cocaine in sentencing. And so much more.
Now on to your news source: Brietbart is a rag for racists and conspiracy theorists. Using them as a source of credible information on politics involving Obama is like using Stormfront as a credible source on the behavior and attributes of black people. No one other than Breitbart thinks crime is up. At least no one credible. Washington post did a write up on them:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/post...ust-took-over-the-gop/?utm_term=.47c90b615bdb
See when we started all of this, I was under the impression that you were like many black and white Americans who had projected expectations upon Obama that he had never even hinted he would pursue or fulfill. A lot of people thought he was going to be the black Clark Kent: get elected, step into the phone booth (office) and burst out in a cape, caping for black folks. Many whites feared this, many blacks secretly hoped it was true. He can't really afford to do that as anything he says or does is used to promote white fear, and as I said, congress and locals are the ones who need to be lobbied, not the President.
I'm still hoping he goes full black after the election and pardons all the remaining black panther party leaders still in jail, and I will be disappointed if he doesn't, but that is my hope, not an expectation
he has set. But this Breitbart piece you've posted, coupled with Donald Trump talking points that Obama hasn't done anything for black people that you've been sprouting, after the GOP has blocked anything he wanted to achieve for the past 8 years, changes things for me in dealing with you. Another mod has already pointed out all your posts originate from a United States IP address, but I didn't think you were faking being a black, er excuse me...mixed...dude, too. Chubby finger verification pic aside. Along with the fact that you are far too passionate over an election that doesn't involve your country, your post history with things you've said about Obama make you heavily suspect. You aren't just misguided, you are intentionally sowing right wing and alt right lies and attempting to get black folks to vote against their own interests. You have lost all credibility with me.
It's like some of these folks don't get the reality that as far as Black people are concerned it's always been about the lesser of two evils.
