Quote:To be sure, President Obama worked since his election in 2008 for several noteworthy causes:

(1) the reinforcement and the greater enrichment of the billionaires and their multinational financial institutions on Wall Street;

(2) the furtherance of President George W. Bush’s effort to conquer, directly or indirectly, the vast petroleum reserves, the vast natural gas reserves, and the major water routes in and around north Africa and southwest Asia;

(3) the protection and the empowerment of the racially bigoted and genocidal state of Israel;

(4) the political enslavement and hence the cultural and economic genocide of the Palestinian people;

(5) the enrichment of U.S. health insurers and U.S. pharmaceutical companies; and

(6) the modernization of the racially bigoted status quo in the U.S. police state and its imperialist military regime.

Quote:As for the president’s work here in the United States, I am displeased with his determined effort to ignore the fundamental needs of black people and the poor. 

During Obama’s presidency, the racially bigoted American police state murdered scores of unarmed black men, women, and children, with many of these atrocities recorded by video cameras for the world to see. 

Moreover, during Obama’s presidency, white vigilante murder of black people, whether pretending to be legitimate as with the heinous murder in February 2012 of Trayvon Martin, or whether brazenly illegal as with the slaughter less than ten days ago of nine A.M.E. parishioners in their church in Charleston, South Carolina, became a new blood sport.  In fact, white police (and sometimes black police) appear to be “hunting” for the opportunity to kill unarmed black people. 

Meanwhile, a few white civilians find a delusional need to defend themselves with deadly force against unarmed black people who happen to be walking home from a convenience store (Trayvon Martin), who happen to be at church studying the Bible (the “Mother Emmanuel” Nine), or who seek neighborly assistance after a car accident (19-year-old Renisha McBride who died outside Detroit in November 2013 of a gunshot wound to the back of her head).  In essence, white nationalism posits today a new form of legalized lynching. 

As a counterpoint, President Obama responds with nothing of material significance except to eulogize nine of these unwitting martyrs’ deaths during a nationally televised funeral.

Like all of you, including Ajamu, Ron, and Terry, I understand that we, as black people, live under a racially bigoted regime of white capital supremacy, a genocidal regime of enormous power that evolves for its benefit, but that never disintegrates on its own accord. 

However, after scores of black men were tortured in Chicago by white police who tortured black men for more than two decades with impunity while Barack Obama represented many of these black men in the Illinois state senate, and while thousands of black people live today in prison, with many facing execution, for crimes they never committed or after being convicted in racially bigoted tribunals that President Obama never condemned, we make a horrible mistake by excusing Obama for failing at a job he volunteered to do: and that is, to enforce the constitutional precept of “equal protection of the law” for all people, including black and poor people, not just for the benefit of a rich and privileged white constituency. 

In my view, we make a horrible mistake by accepting from Obama his uniquely gifted form of tokenism while he gives the power of the U.S. presidency to tyrannical regimes in Saudi Arabia and Israel, to capitalist elites who benefitted from court-ordered injunctions against the “Occupiers”, and to state prisons where black men make up a disproportionate number of those on death row or otherwise incarcerated.