This is my response to all yer bitchin’

 

I’ve heard alot of things about Barack Obama since he started his run for the White House.  Most of it from black people and I’d just like to say…shut the hell up.

1) He needs more experience.

The current administraton has plenty of experience, how’s that working out for ya?  I’m most bothered because I hear this from alot of people close to my age, when I personally have been passed over for things because of my age, had my ideas ignored only to watch as situations go up in flames.  All I can do is recall how I saw it coming and hope next time people won’t throw up blinders to my talent because I’m a few decades from social security eligibility.  From what I’ve seen politics is like jail.  The longer you’re in it the more you become of it.  So we can make him wait around for a while and let more lobbyists and special interest folks get hooks into him….that will be experience.  I additionally find it funny that one of the last so-called ”great presidents” was a young dude.  Remember Kennedy much?  He wasn’t going to get in cause he was catholic and the Pope would be running the country. Yeah.

2) He’ s not black enough.

All I can say is this:  If he’s stopped somewhere in middle America by a sheriff who doesn’t get the “teevee” and doesn’t know who he is.  Barack will be plenty black enough.  Besides I’m still waiting for the N.A.A.C.P. to take “colored” out of their name and Al Sharpton to blow out his fro and ditch the process.

3) Where does he stand on issues? 

That’s just a lame one.  Where does any politician stand on issues.  Oh, you heard someone say something so that’s what it is? It’s my experience that even a politician says something straight out it means nothing. “No New Taxes!“, “I did not have sex with that woman.” et cetera.  As of yet he’s the only candidate who has outright acknowledged things that some people are still hiding.

4) No one will vote for a Black Man.

Maybe it’s me but it seems more and more this is just something black people say.  He’s not coming out like Nader as some third party choice.  He’s not some firebrand or representing a particular group.  He just ran for president.  I never liked those defeatist attitudes in regards to anything. Besides betting on a long shot is how you get the big money.  Hell, this country is so screwed up I think people would vote for him just because, “let’s see what happens”. 

5) Is he the shining star? 

People don’t ask this, but that’s what it boils down to.  Seems like we’re still trying to find people to represent us on the whole.  At the same time we strive to point out how drug dealers and thugs don’t represent us as a whole.  Have cake and eat it?  If it’s not true on one hand and it can’t be true on the other.  A better question is: Who does represent us as a whole?  I can’t point out a person who sums up my life.  I also don’t think my life is the definition of blackness.  My life is only the definition of me. 

Check it, I’m not even telling you to vote for Obama.  I’m just getting real annoyed that everytime a brother does something people have to automatically find why it won’t work or it’s not legit.  I can’t think of any positive thing, in recent years, that a black person has done that was strictly supported.  Nelly ran a credit card down a girls ass crack?  Then forget what he wants to do for charity.  Ray Lewis was involved in a murder trial.  It means nothing that he’s been a very positive person since that time (which was a decade ago).  In this case I can’t even point out some transgression that Obama commited.  Hasn’t stopped people from ripping him for what he hopes to do though.  Meanwhile he’s started winning and people are jumping on the band wagon.  Hell even Hillary is quoting him and everyone else is trying to suddenly adopt his message.  Politicians are adopting his platform quicker than rich white kids can go gangsta.  Politics is garbage enough, I can’t stand to see people knocking a candidate for garbage reasons, not when there is always a ripe field of real issues that can be picked apart.  So basically…quit yer bitchin’.  There’s enough pundits doing it all day long.  Talk about the BCS or the NFL playoffs or something.