President Obama & "Us"

I don't know how many times it has to be said to Black folks to unify and put their money where their mouth is to press our issues for the change we need. Folks seemed to think President Obama was the messiah or Black Santa Claus who was going to give them everything they ever wished for, or at least "hook a brotha up". NO, he's a politician not a magical genie and it doesn't work like that. He was never going to just "hook us up". You have to force politicians to work for you or they will gladly take your votes and put others before you that make their voices heard with their money. If you voted them into office that means you are their employer, so make them work for you or take action instead of just complaining. The reason others got what they got was because they made him work for them while we just keep marching, singing, rioting, and doing more of the same.

Black Accomplishment???

Dear Black Community, it is time out for using mainstream or social media as a platform for public and unfruitful never ending religious or intellectual debates. You can contact each other more discreetly for sincere discussion on such things. While we're debating our different spiritual philosophies such as Kemet, Islam, Hebrew Israelites, Christianity, and others we're falling behind in our common struggle as Black People. I do not have time for any more of these redundant and exhausting spiritual or intellectual "battles" on what to believe about God, who is the "blackest", God's existence, and what is the "white man's religion". Whatever your view, it may have helped you personally but it has done nothing for us collectively. The religions our ancestors believed in Afrika didn't keep them from being enslaved, and the ones we learned after our enslavement didn't free us as we needed and are still in need of. We've already been surpassed by Hispanics as the 2nd largest ethnic group in the U.S.A, and by 2025 it is estimated by some accounts we may also be surpassed by Asians. Our abortion and disease rates are rising and we're in serious jeopardy of becoming insignificant on our way to being non-existent.