Is this the same man who made a case for himself for being “WOKE” in 2008? Is this the same Obama who went up against The Clintons and their bad record with African Americans in 2008? Is Obama the same man who prosecuted the case against Hilary Clinton in 2008 in front of the “WOKE” peoples of America? Did Obama not demystify the image of Clinton as the First Black president in front of all the #WOKE peoples of America?
When folks, particularly, when #ADOS folks, now question the dubious policies of candidates of the Democrat party, in 2019, their “Wokeness” must be questioned? What? ADOS folks can’t bring about change? What does Obama think ADOS folks have been doing in America, to change America, before his supposed Kenyan Father arrived to Harvard? Sleeping? Is Obama bewitched or is he just another idiot?
#ADOS folks say it and I get it: These multi-racial multi-loyal folks; these new African Metha (more-educated-than-their-ancestors) implants into the US, are not interested in solving problems in America that affect Black people disproportionately. To Obama, and to those with multiple loyalties, every small victory is a win even if that victory does nothing to help African Americans. To Obama, a win for poor whites is a win. A win for poor white women is a win. A win for veteran white men is a win. A win for gay white men is a win. Only that all these small wins add up to the increased, and increasing, Black-white wealth gap in America!
These messy wins do nothing for Black America! But, to Obama and the lot of his Democrat party loyalists like Elizabeth Warren (the Jewish woman who once claimed she was native American), if Black folks receive 10 bucks, white folks must get 1,000 bucks in order to make change possible. We are tired of the nonsense. Since we know that the gap only persists, getting worse each election cycle. Woke #ADOS is bringing much attention to this Pharisaism of the Paralogisms of whiteness in the US.
Why is every election about white people? Not a single election in American history has been about any group of people but whites: what can whites benefit from change? Each and every time! If it doesn’t benefit white people, no need. This is what Obama means by “the world is messy.” Hell yeah! That’s why your ass couldn’t bring about any real change. That’s why your ass was a disappointment. That’s why Trump is president. Exaclty because Obama was a gross disappointment. He feigned being #WOKE when he couldn’t comprehend being woke! Obama faked “wokeness.”
And for that we have Trump: the exact thing all white cohorts want! Why should ADOS continue to give in to white wishes when the people of African descent continue to be shortchanged by it? The man, who barely looks like his supposed siblings, is questioning people of African-slave-descent of their “WOKENESS” when they are being terrorized by Obama’s own white half brothers and sisters daily? This is blasphemy. This is supreme lazy politics!
Since when was #WOKENESS about correcting grammar? How childish of Obama? This Idiot, this man affectionately called “Omaaba” (The Problem) in Ghana, takes the conscience and consciousness of Black folks for granted. Never again will anyone like Omaaba again deceive the peoples of African descent in America or fake their Wokeness for political and financial gain. The tides have changed. Obama must hide or he’s gonna have to soon painfully accept the rude awakening of the failure of his presidency!
Finally, someone else gets it! Dang, the reason we have Trump was Obama!
Yes Obama was disappointment in many ways, yes being woke is good. Yes Trump became president because of Obama but not because of what Obama did, I don’t think so. It was because the white folks were and are scared of losing power. Obama’s presidency was a clear indication of that. They needed somebody who is a white supremacist to tilt the scale. I understand what he is saying as not to rule out anybody just because of one or two faults. We need to mobilize all our troops and allies and though purity test for the leadership is important, we have to make SOME compromises with the followers
Kwame, you are not entirely wrong, but the idea that for instance ADOS have some purity test is neither here nor there.
The fault they find with candidates is simple: the candidates simply do not have a Black agenda, nothing to uplift the millions of Black people wallowing in poverty (due to violent economic deprivation by whites) and illegal incarceration. If ADOS challenges candidates on these issues, it cannot be said to be a test of purity. Or can it?
I don’t think so. It is not like ADOS are running away from candidates who once used pot but have concrete ideas about helping the poor and bridging the racial inequality gap. Are they?
Nooo!. It is called woke. We are not going to allow that to happen again. You need my vote and support, these are my conditions, and by the way, we will fight until we get what we want. I am wild awake here in the south and if you follow my postings and discussions on it, you will understand. I will not be surprised if I am kicked out but that is better than to comprise with these devils
Absolutely. Hence, for Obama and his democrat party lot, to demonize those who simply want “TANGIBLES” in return for their votes is a bit rich and hypocritical. How can someone vote against his own direct interest? Why? Cos’ it’s fun? Nooo….
Obama needs to check his language meeen. He’s committing some terrible errors paaa of late.
President Obama is right. Thank you Mr. President.
I am not sure if it is enough to say he is right. I have made the case that he is wrong. He is playing into respectability politics and democrat-xplaining to shut out genuine concern over biased policies that do nothing to advance the economic and political concerns of ADOS.
Political purity gets you nothing but a loss at the polls. If the Democrats had adhered to that, Hillary would be President today. Was Hillary perfect? No. But she is a million times better that what we got chasing purity.
You cannot know what has not happened. Hillary would have been worse. But then again that is my opinion. Hillary would have bombed Syria already, and perhaps Iran already, and the world would have been in chaos by now. And the repercussions in America would have been dire. But then again, that is my opinion.
Let’s stick to what has been: Were the Clintons better than Trump today? Many ADOS folks would say No! Which one of Obama’s policies served the direct interests of ADOS? Releasing people from prison who shouldn’t have been there in the first place? Trump has done that too! Which one policy of Obama regime was directly enacted to alleviate suffering in Black communities. None? In fact the exact opposite occurred. Inequality grew under Obama! Jobs numbers for Blacks was much worse under Obama. I can go on.
Suffice it however, to say that why are we all of a sudden demonizing the practice of democracy. We ought to be able to critique and choose who we like. Or has democracy changed? Or is it that Blacks need to fall in line and do as they are told?
Narmer Amenuti Obama did not become President of black people. He was President of the United States. When he took office unemployment including that of blacks was terrible. The economy was on its knees. He restored it to a booming economy and handed it over to Trump. On your point of falling in line, yes some black people need to be told what to do and fall in line and stop their destructive ways. It benefits no black person if we are 12% of the population but over 70% of the prison population. I am for black people but black people also have to grow some common sense and stand up to responsibility. The POTUS cannot find a job for you and look after you children for you. So black people should stop blaming others and get their lazy buts to work and stay out of jail.
I accept. So the democrat politicians too need to stop being lazy, begging for the Black vote every chance they get! They can also hold their own nuts and win their own elections on their own accord. Every body must now take their own responsibility. This is clear. No one is listening to Obama any longer to vote for any democrat. They can lose or win elections on their own right!. I accept.
Nobody forces anybody to vote. Candidates ask for votes and they either get it or not. You are too invested in trying to dim the light of President Obama. Trump does that too. Unfortunately it has not helped.
Nobody forces anybody to vote, but they sure do beg for votes, do they not? Obama is begging Blacks to stop being “woke.” It won’t happen. Obama can hold his own nuts! The democrats should hold their own nuts. No more free Black votes. It’s really that simple.
Which politician does not beg for votes? They all beg for votes in so many ways.45 did that in a rather crude way
It’s like a disease. Trump supporters always want to diminish President Obama with lies and conspiracy theories. They are totally oblivious to facts.
It’s a disease when Trump supporters diminish Obama, but it’s not a disease when Obama supporters diminish Trump. Which is which? It’s amazing we can talk from both sides of our mouths as if all that there is to be either a Trump supporter or an Obama supporter. Democrats are fond of relishing their False Choices. Vote for me or you get Trump? Is that your pitch?
Which brings me back to your politics of respectability, something I was reluctant to at first engage. But, hell, you bring it up so often I might as well address it. No one has asked any one Black person to be their spokesman. Obama is not the spokesman of Black people, certainly not the spokesperson for ADOS. Obama is not even ADOS, if one is to believe the frivolous evidence that his father is Kenyan! That said, Michelle is ADOS but Obama is not ADOS!
Trump does not need to be diminished. You have to have something worth diminishing.
Again, you speak from both sides of your mouth without understanding that its your Opinion that you dislike. I don’t dislike anyone. I dislike tokenism and talking down to Blacks, and yes, I dislike bad policies for Blacks too!
Now, let me address your politics of respectability. This very idea that blacks must fall in line to any idiot who thinks he knows better than them. You are correct, “it benefits no black person if we are 12% of the population but over 70% of the prison population.” Alas who put them there? The fact that you live in a nation that is not appalled by that carnage rings hollow to your point of respectability. The least the US can do is respect itself; respect human life; respect human dignity. This, they do not! Now you wish to talk to me about respect?
So Frank S Tamakloe, only Trump has something worth diminishing. As for Obama, man, he’s perfect. Obama has nothing worth diminishing. Meanwhile you read amply about what Narmer finds diminishing about Obama, yet you still claim he’s perfect. So sure, to you Obama is perfect. To Narmer, Obama is not perfect. It is not a debate anymore. We are talking past each other.
It’s like this, if you believe in God, and Narmer tells you that that God is not perfect, you will cringe. And so you cringe when Black people speak ill of Obama. I get it. It’s not a debate when we don’t accept the same premise.
Dade Afre Akufu show me where is stated Obama is perfect. This is why I don’t like discussing issues with people rooted in dishonesty. It is not worth my time. Goodbye.
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Narmer Amenuti The people who committed the crime put themselves in prison where they belong. If you hate the US so much, what the hell are you doing here. Why not go back to where you came from that has so much of the respect you are talking about? Answer the question. What are you doing here?
Mr. Tamakloe, I am here to collect my money: all the free labor kidnapped from the gold coast (from families like mine in Ntoaboma); all the gold, diamond, timber, etc., extracted from my lands, for hundreds of years from Ntoaboma without the proper compensation to my Ancestors. Does this answer work for you; for changing the topic; for changing the import of this debate? Why am I in the US? Is that all you’ve got?
My ancestors have contributed more to the making of America than Obama’s whole bloodline put together. And so let me bring the discussion home to the salient point. You claim “The people who committed the crime put themselves in prison where they belong.” Because the 16 year old boy standing in front of his own house in Harlem, smoking his own weed, deserves to be kidnapped by white cops and imprisoned for decades while the 16 year old white boy in New England, particularly in Vermont, who shoots an overdose of heroin through his toes into his bloodstream in front of his own house, deserves to be taken to a hospital for my tax money to be used to make him feel better? Is that Frankly, the question you are asking?
I understand you live in America, but your understanding of this nation, it seems to me, is tainted first by the summary disdain you seem to harbor for “the people who committed crimes.” Your idea of crime is quite childish if you think that a 16 year old boy deserves the inhumane treatment that America’s infamous Mass Incarceration Industrial Complex dishes out to him. I am shocked. Frankly, Mr. Frank S Tamakloe. I am shocked.
Narmer Amenuti hahaha now I know you are a comedian.
Ad hominem man. Ad hominem.
So Mr. Frank S Tamakloe, you see how you sound like Trump? ” Why not go back to where you came from?” Come on man. You are better than that. Aren’t you an Obama supporter? You are supposed to be better than that!
Bro this is all Obama said: Fmr. President Barack Obama: “This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re politically woke, and all that stuff — you should get over that quickly. The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws.”
Isaac, when one indulges in African American use of language, one is invoking context as well. Woke is a specific word. To demonize Black folks for being woke to the paralogisms of democrat party politics is cheap. That is simply my point. He cannot possibly be sane if he doesn’t want Blacks to critique and pull out support for candidates fo their own choosing. Abi, is that not democracy? Or has the definition changed?
In my English he is saying there is no pure person in the world so look for the good in people instead of the mess …Narmer Amenuti you have really taken him to the cleaners ?♂️
I have; for good reason. I was his bulldog in 2008. I feel peeved. I confess.
I am falling in love with your write ups. Very true
He’s an idiot. He was and still is. Puppet on strings. They keep exposing themselves and very soon the same lot who attacked us for calling him out will know who he really is. ??
Why don’t we have an ADOS candidate for president and then in the white house? So we can talk about their flaws from some position of power. The problem with America is that ADOS people are told condescendingly that they should accept the flaws on the whites and half whites and continue to allow them to be masters of the plantation despite their flaws, but it is never a consideration that an ADOS person should ever be in charge. That’s not much of a democracy but a whiteocracy.
Obama was the beacon of hope for humanity until he killed Gaddafi. That’s when I lost respect for him and his policies.
He had no choice His hands were tired behind him by Hillary Clinton. He had to give up Africa. In fact, he had to give up all of Africa to be left alone! It was not his fault. Please, forgive him for the forces that be are very overwhelming.