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I don't think it's that people won't accept any criticism of Obama, Tavis Smiley and Cornel West are simply annoying.
These two guys thought they were more important than they are. They thought they should have had more access and influence on the President than they do and have been mad and bitter about it since they learned the truth. They thought that Obama was going to be a Black President who would push a Black agenda and they would have major influence. It hasn't worked out that way and they are bitter. I told y'all from the start that Barack Obama was not going to be The President of Black People. He was going to be and is The President of the United States.
I think people are just sick of Tavis Smiley, Cornel West and their hurt feelings. These guys have no one but themselves to blame for their arrogance and misconceptions.
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This.....a little history.....Tavis was a HUGE Hillary supporter, and he had visions of grandeur about his place in a Clinton administration. When it became clear Obama would be the nominee, Tavis thought he wielded a lot of power. Obama has not played ball with him, and he has been pissed ever since. In his eyes, everything Obama does is wrong.
I assume that many blacks consider Obama THEIR president, one of them rather than one of the usual ethnic Irish, British or German presidents they don't really feel are theirs. On TV I even saw some Africans dancing and celebrating when he got elected, saying he was one of theirs. They seem to consider him the representative of their "race", which I am sure he doesn't like at all, he can't afford to like it or act on behalf of black people.
Or solely on the behalf of Black people, but I think the celebration was due to socio-historical realities in terms of overcoming those realities.
I don't think it's that people won't accept any criticism of Obama, Tavis Smiley and Cornel West are simply annoying.
These two guys thought they were more important than they are. They thought they should have had more access and influence on the President than they do and have been mad and bitter about it since they learned the truth. They thought that Obama was going to be a Black President who would push a Black agenda and they would have major influence. It hasn't worked out that way and they are bitter. I told y'all from the start that Barack Obama was not going to be The President of Black People. He was going to be and is The President of the United States.
I think people are just sick of Tavis Smiley, Cornel West and their hurt feelings. These guys have no one but themselves to blame for their arrogance and misconceptions.
Yep. I think they have been getting quite the backlash lately. People are getting increasingly fed up.
I am all for criticizing the President. Presidents wield too much power not to be under serious scrutiny. But Cornell and Tavis were basically expecting Obama to be SuperNegro, solving all black folks problems single handedly (they seem to forget Presidents don't simply do whatever they want), as well as making speeches about race and racism regularly from the Oval Office. Um, no. Plus the criticisms have been nasty in tone, full of personal shots and usually centering around Obama not being "black" enough. They have gotten beyond annoying.
Which is not to say that they don't have a point sometimes. But the point is buried in a lot of nastiness usually.
I don't think it's that people won't accept any criticism of Obama, Tavis Smiley and Cornel West are simply annoying.
These two guys thought they were more important than they are. They thought they should have had more access and influence on the President than they do and have been mad and bitter about it since they learned the truth. They thought that Obama was going to be a Black President who would push a Black agenda and they would have major influence. It hasn't worked out that way and they are bitter. I told y'all from the start that Barack Obama was not going to be The President of Black People. He was going to be and is The President of the United States.
I think people are just sick of Tavis Smiley, Cornel West and their hurt feelings. These guys have no one but themselves to blame for their arrogance and misconceptions.
So that means they have to agree with every single thing to be on the same category? Charles Barkley was a big Obama supporter, yet he drew a much difference conclusion about the case. Are people robots where everyone only has about 5 or 6 ways to view the world?
No - it's this simple - Obama is NOT an ultra liberal.
Sharpton is more a long the lines of a Don King. Sharpton supposedly used to be a middle-man for the Italian New York mafia. And supposedly he was caught on wire/tape setting up a drug deal for some guy to buy a lot of drugs from Italian mobsters so the guy could sell the drugs (either cocaine/crack or heroin, I can't remember which) to Black-American drug addicts or soon to be addicted recreational drug users.
But supposedly the FBI busted in on him, played his taped conversation to him, and gave him an ultimatum. That is... Sharpton agreed to work as a snitch for the FBI.
Tavis is a more straight-laced guy. He's very articulate and the kind of guy if sent into an African country like Liberia would be a fairly honest politician (assuming one could start over in that nation from scratch). But Sharpton is the kind of guy that is going to be tied up with Colombian cartel, Nigerian crime circles, Italian gangsters, and talking a "Church" and "Blackness" while covertly working for the CIA.
Wow, I rarely see so many false accusations in one post. If I'm wrong provide a credible source!
Tavis, a committed Leftist, appeared on Meet the Press and said the Presidents comments Friday were as weak as watered down pre sweetened Kool-Aid. Ok sonata is is not a fan of the Great One. Immediately Black folks erupted on Twitter calling him some pretty vile names. Various Tavis related hash tags zoomed to the top. While I personally thought his comment was gratuitous why do Black people seem to tolerate no criticism of Obama. Is this some sort of group psychosis or something. I just don't get it.
It is the tribal gang mentality, they preach in the music they live by.
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