Thread: Black leaders turn up the heat on President Obama

Black leaders turn up the heat on President Obama




By GLENN THRUSH & JOSEPH WILLIAMS | 8/30/11 4:35 AM EDT Updated: 8/30/11 12:24 PM EDT

If there’s anything close to a political certainty in 2012, it’s that Barack Obama will get more than 90 percent of the African-American vote.

But that doesn’t mean every black Obama supporter will vote for him happily — nor does it guarantee that turnout will approach the stratospheric levels of 2008, even though Obama needs a huge showing from his base to offset the expected loss of swing voters in states like North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania.

With that in mind, prominent black leaders — fearing Obama is not only taking them for granted but avoiding them in public — have turned up the heat on the nation’s first African-American president, transforming all-in-the-family concerns into open criticism of the president at a time when they had hoped the completion of a monument to Martin Luther King Jr. near the National Mall would bring a moment of unity.

The leaders are tired, they say, of Obama dog-whistling his support for a broad black agenda rather than explicitly embracing the kind of war on racism, poverty and economic segregation embodied by King.

“You can spend a lot of time trying to win over white independents, but if you don’t pay attention to your base, African-Americans, if you have not locked up your base yet, you’ve got a serious problem,â€

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Obama doesn't need to do anything at all for the black community - they will vote for him regardless. Since he already has the black vote, he needs to do nothing further. Is there a need to point out that Obama has not one drop of Black American blood? He is white American and Kenyan, hence no connection to the African American community unless he needs votes.

On the other hand, he will continue to pander to the Hispanics in order to gain their votes.

This only goes to prove that Obama cares more for his re-election than he does for the welfare of this once great country.

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[quote]“We want him to know that from this day forward … we’ve had it,â€