printThe dynamics Pat Buchanan describes in his latest column, “Black America vs. Obama?,” might very well be borne out: African-Americans will likely turn on the black president who was forced to slash the oink sector in which they are overrepresented.
Though 10 percent of the U.S. civilian labor force, African-Americans are 18 percent of U.S. government workers. They are 25 percent of the employees at Treasury and Veterans Affairs, 31 percent of the State Department, 37 percent of Department of Education employees and 38 percent of Housing and Urban Development. They are 42 percent of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., 55 percent of the employees at the Government Printing Office and 82 percent at the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency.
When the Obama administration suggested shutting down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage giants whose losses of $150 billion have had to be made up by taxpayers, The Washington Post warned, in a story headlined, “Winding Down Fannie and Freddie Could Put Minority Careers at Risk,” that 44 percent of Fannie employees and 50 percent of Freddie’s were persons of color.
In Washington, D.C., we have also seen the result of government cuts on African-American leaders who had to approve those cuts.
When Mayor Adrian Fenty stood behind schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, who fired hundreds of teachers, most of them African-American, the wards east of the Anacostia cut him dead. In 2010, Fenty was thrown out by many of the black voters who elected him
Is this is a welcome development? Hardly. (And I fully understand that Mr. Buchanan is hardly making such a claim.)
While coalitions of the aggrieved are good, where here is there a coalition for freedom-loving Americans to pursue? Fifty percent or so of Americans—those who pay the taxes—want the excesses of the oink sector curtailed. The African-American cohort Buchanan cites wants these programs to carry on in perpetuity.
It’s possible that Mr. Buchanan is simply warning that African-Americans are just going to get angrier and angrier.
“just going to get angrier and angrier.”
Christ, when are they ever NOT angry??
… maybe if we were dealing with rational people …
Via The Virginian, here are a couple of transcripts of WJR’s Ken Rogulski interviewing some free money lottery participants (emphasis added):
ROGULSKI: Why are you here?
WOMAN #1: To get some money.
ROGULSKI: What kind of money?
WOMAN #1: Obama money.
ROGULSKI: Where’s it coming from?
WOMAN #1: Obama.
ROGULSKI: And where did Obama get it?
WOMAN #1: I don’t know, his stash. I don’t know. (laughter) I don’t know where he got it from, but he givin’ it to us, to help us.
I live in Atlanta. There is no dissent among his minions.
“The only thing I disagree with Obama about is he’s not doing enough, fast enough”
— my co-worker
But wasn’t the person that replaced Mayor Adrian Fenty also a person of color? It is possible that the president will still have the Black Vote in the hope that as a lame duck he can feather a lot of nests before he leaves. I can see Jesse and Al turning it around and blaming Obama’s failures on Whites too.
Here’s hoping that McConnell’s sell-out on the debt ceiling splits the Republicrats right in half. That way, 2012 looks more and more like 1860. All that’s required would be for a certain secessionist southern governor to get into the prez race. IIIIIIIIIIII like it!
It is always feasible to argue (as Buchanan and others have) that the left/Democrats have been bad for black people with self-defeating patronizing programs like subsidized housing, welfare, affirmative action, lowering standards in schools, “soft on crime”, “soft” on family values, support of abortion, etc. [That reminds me of The American Thinker’s bad argument, mentioned here.] The harder part is to answer this – who are black people going to turn to – Michelle Bachman, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul – not so bloody likely. The overdependence upon government will make them more likely to support Obama even if they have been victims of the declining economy.
I somewhat stand with David Stockman on the debt issue – cut spending (best) or raise taxes (not that good) but something like that rather than this $ 1.4 trillion bleeding. However, the population and politicians have done very little to support ANY real cuts in programs. Those citizens who are organized such as the agribusiness lobby, labor, defense contractors, AARP, AMA, universities, are all lined up at the trough to keep their programs alive and kicking. I think the population enjoys being the Oink Sector – very few want to be thrown off Medicare or to have to worry about supporting grandpa/grandma – which is why nothing ever gets cut!
A representative mini-cosmos of this situation is the City of Detroit…and “mini” to it is the City of Pontiac, Michigan. In yesterday’s http://www.detnews.com, Brooks Patterson, Oakland County’s Executive, detailed what was happening in Pontiac and projected that Detroit would soon be in a similar situation. I am a former Detroiter and I agree with Brooks.
I am of the viewpoint that former Detroit Mayor, Jerome Cavanaugh, who was elected in the Kennedy years, initiated much of the progressive policies that has ruined Detroit to the point that it is on the verge of collapse. The infection of these progressive policies creeps along and it has taken 50+ years to arrive at where we are now.
How long will it take, if ever, to reverse this disease? It is not a white vs. black issue, but Blacks will most likely be heavily affected by economic realities and reform. Much of the population of entire State of Michigan has been infected and does not recognize that it must take its medicine now else it will very soon die an ugly, gut-wrenching death.
Hope this LINK makes it easier…
http://www.detnews.com/article/20110712/OPINION03/107120340/Patterson–Pontiac-an-example-of-where-Detroit%E2%80%99s-headed
The black community really did view Obama as their savior in ’08 and ’09. They will not take the disappointment well. I think the recent wave of black flash mob attacks are a harbinger of things to come. The blacks burn a city every 10 years or so. The last one to burn was Cincinnati in 2001. I would not be surprised to see 1992 LA-style riots in the next year or two.
A little off-topic. But I just found out from the wiki that Wilbur Smith now lives in London. That should be a tip-off about something. I guess things are getting a little “hot” around his ranch near CapeTown