Barack Obama: Bamboozling America – Keeping It Real

This man, Barack Obama, is but a more articulate, younger, and shinier version of the current and infamous US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, adorning himself dangerously and abundantly in superficiality and double-speak.

Unlike Barack Obama’s father, we Black Americans did not come to this land by choice, nor do we as a people enjoy white skinned color privilege as did Barack Obama’s mother. Thus, it would be the height of insanity to believe, in any way, that Barack Obama himself, by virtue of his ethnic background, genuinely relates to, cares about, or even understands the complex social, economic, and political challenges faced by Black or White Americans, much less those faced by Brown and Red peoples in this nation and around the world. He has no collective memory of the whips, chains, and lynching nooses as do we Black Americans. This is why he can so easily call for “unilateral” US military action in other people’s nations while simultaneously and hypocritically mimicking and invoking the legacy of the brutally slain Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who would have been horrified at such a notion. This kind of Obama insanity is immensely dangerous to all Americans be we Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, or White; it is a real threat to peoples of the entire planet. It is horrifying to imagine what Barack Obama would do as Commander-In-Chief of the US Armed Forces, with or without Congressional approval, and the support of the elite of the corporate military/industrial complex.

We Black Americans have often and generally been so physically and emotionally brutalized in this nation that we sometimes vicariously tie up our hopes and dreams with others who appear to have somehow accomplished that which we ourselves have not, due to systemic economic, social, and political oppression. This is a fact that has not escaped the attention of Barack Obama and his political advisors/handlers from the corporate military/industrial complex. Thus, his game is simple: Play on the unfulfilled hopes, dreams, and needs of Black people. Sell the people a pipe dream in order to attain your own personal goals. This is what I refer to as political pimping, and this is precisely what Barack Obama and his advisors/handlers are doing, not only to Black America, but to the nation as a whole. Through the use of double-speak, Barack Obama keeps the people from seeing who and what he really is. No friend of Black and disenfranchised people would have, in any manner whatsoever, praised Ronald Reagan. Yet, that is precisely what Barack Obama did: He praised – apartheid “trickle down economics” -Ronald Reagan, who was economically, socially, and politically the enemy of all middle class, poor, and disenfranchised people, including (but not limited to) the unemployed, under-employed, single mothers, and youth. Ronald Reagan caused enormous pain to the masses of Black people. Yet, through the use of double-speak and the consistent support of much of the US corporate “news” media, Barack Obama bamboozled the people and to this day has not been made categorically and seriously to answer for this outrage of praising one of the worst enemies of Black people in the 20th century. Instead of stopping and eliminating the actual “excesses” of the infamous US government sponsored (and ongoing) COINTELPRO activities from “the 1960s and 1970’s” to illegally “frame, discredit, imprison, and murder” Black political activists and others inside the US, Ronald Reagan increased such activities nationally and internationally, including the horrendous and bloody “Iran Contra” debacle. Nevertheless, this is the person who Barack Obama cynically chose to praise! What an insult and smack in the face to Black America, and indeed to all of America and the rest of the world by Barack Obama!

Judging from, among other things, how Barack Obama has already sold out the human rights and legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian peoples to corporate Zionism, it stands to reason that he will also sell out Black America, our Brown and Red sisters and brothers, and indeed the whole of the American people, to the corporate and military elite. It’s really just a matter of time, but sooner or later the people will see, and when they do, may heaven help him. Some folks presently may be imprisoned by Barack Obama’s double-speak rhetoric, but as Ho Chi Minh so aptly put it: “When the prison doors are opened then shall the real dragon fly out.”