Barack Obama’s WAR on Black America
African-Americans will pay a price for voting Obama.
October 17, 2008 - by Andrew Walden
Polls show most African-American voters will be casting their ballots for Barack Obama on November 4. The first opportunity to elect a black person as president is tempting. But black Americans will be paying a price, and Obama’s record gives a clear indication of what that price will be. Obama and his cronies have a long record of profiting from funds intended to aid black people. The intended beneficiaries have nothing to show for it other than Obama’s political ascent.
<b.The Boston Globe on June 27 exposed the thousands of so-called affordable housing units built cheaply in Chicago by developers backed by Illinois and federal tax subsidies championed by Barack Obama. Sewage flows through many units; others are burned out with roofs caving in. Due to neglect by owners tied to the Obama campaign, many have been slated for demolition.
Dual U.S.-Syrian citizen Tony Rezko — an early-money fundraiser who bundled as much as $200,000 for Obama’s campaigns — rehabbed hundreds of “affordable” housing units in and around Obama’s State Senate district and then refused to manage them. Rezko is now facing sentencing on several federal felony counts of soliciting bribes, fraud, and money laundering. His units now face demolition.
Valerie Jarrett is a senior adviser to Obama’s presidential campaign and a member of his finance committee. Jarrett is also CEO of Habitat Co. — managers of two large Chicago affordable housing developments, including 504 units at Grove Parc in Obama’s district. Both properties have been seized by the federal government and are so run-down that they may face demolition. The Globe identifies four other developers tied to the Obama campaign who profited from state and federal subsidies and then allowed the rehabbed buildings to rapidly decay leaving residents to fend off mice and wade through sewage.
According to the Globe:
Some of the residents of Grove Parc say they are angry that Obama did not notice their plight. . . . Many of the tenants have been his constituents for more than a decade. “No one should have to live like this, and no one did anything about it,” said Cynthia Ashley, who has lived at Grove Parc since 1994. . . .
As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for developers. As a U.S. senator, he pressed for increased federal subsidies. And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year.
The six developers personally contributed over $175,000 to Obama’s various campaigns and bundled much more.
Rezko also stole affirmative action benefits. Arab American Media Services reports:
In 1997, Panda Express won the right to open a lucrative concession at O’Hare International Airport under the city’s minority set-aside program which directs large contracts to companies owned by women, African-Americans, or Hispanics. The city awarded a 10-year contract for O’Hare Airport to Crucial Inc. in 1999, which the city believed was owned by an African-American, Jabir Herbert Muhammad, the son of the late Elijah Mohammad.
Elijah Mohammad led the Nation of Islam until his death in 1975. Jabir Herbert Muhammad was sued in 1999 by boxer Muhammad Ali for unauthorized use of his name in connection with the Muhammad Ali Foundation. Rezko served as executive director of the foundation.
Michele Obama is also in on the game. Her $317,000-per-year public relations job involves making the University of Chicago Hospital look good in the media. But Michelle didn’t stop there. She spearheaded an effort to steer poor black patients away from her fancy hospital and into local clinics.
According to the Washington Post on August 21:
Primary-care doctors opposed [Michelle Obama's plan] as a break with the center’s commitment to the community. Opinion research showed that a small but passionate group of people already considered the hospital to be elitist, arrogant, and lacking in “cultural empathy” for the surrounding economically depressed South Side neighborhood, according to a draft report obtained by the Washington Post. Some doctors in focus groups dismissed local health clinics as “wholly inadequate.” . . .
Quentin Young, the South Side physician, described the medical center’s level of charity spending [on indigent care] as “ludicrous.” Young, known in Chicago for having been the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s personal physician, is chairman of the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, a Chicago-based nonprofit that advocates health care reform. Young considered himself an ally of Barack Obama while he was a state legislator.
“That’s shameful,” Young said of the percentages. “They are arguably, if not defrauding, then at least taking advantage of a public subsidy. We would like to see them give more than the minimum. The need is there.”
Also advising the hospital on how to keep out poor black people — David Axelrod, Obama’s chief campaign strategist. The medical center’s chairwoman? Slum property manager Valerie Jarrett.
Barack Obama’s one and only example of executive experience is the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Bill Ayers co-wrote the grant request which netted $150 million from the Annenberg Foundation. Barack Obama was selected as chairman of the board. Together they doled out $150 million for education-related projects from 1995 to 1999. The money went to dozens of activists who are very skilled at pointing to the conditions of life in black communities and using those conditions as a justification to receive grant money. Mike Klonsky, formerly general secretary of the pro-Beijing Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), got several large grants for his Small Schools Workshop, an Ayers project.
Investigative journalist Stanley Kurtz explains on September 23:
Mr. Ayers is the founder of the “small schools” movement (heavily funded by CAC), in which individual schools built around specific political themes push students to “confront issues of inequity, WAR, and violence.” He believes teacher education programs should serve as “sites of resistance” to an oppressive system. (His teacher-training programs were also CAC-funded.) The point, says Mr. Ayers in his Teaching Toward Freedom, is to “teach AGAINST oppression,” AGAINST America’s history of evil and racism, thereby forcing social transformation.
Assessments by the Annenberg Foundation and an outside agency concluded that the Challenge was largely a failure at improving student achievement. But it was a huge success at disbursing funds to Ayers’ and Klonsky’s radical cronies.
Ayers’ is not the only radical leftist getting rich at the expense of the public. Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass on October 11 describes how Obama mentor Richard Daley is supporting 60s radicals “the Chicago way.” Marilyn Katz, the SDS’s “chief of security” (i.e. operations) during the 1968 DNC riots, is now a PR maven for Obama’s campaign. Katz, already fat and happy with lots of city business, just landed $5 million in new PR contracts with the city of Chicago — even as Mayor Daley lays off 1,000 city workers, many of them black.
Many point to Obama’s roots as a Saul Alinsky organizer. But less recognized are the Alinsky organizing methods which form the basis for the Daley Machine. The Daley-Alinsky connection was described by Hillary Clinton in her 1969 senior thesis (p. 22).
Activists screaming “racism” actually played a key role in victimizing black would-be homeowners in the subprime mortgage scam. The left once protested AGAINST so-called “predatory lenders” exploiting financially unsophisticated inner-city homeowners. But when ACORN — at Obama’s behest — intervened at regulatory reviews of banks, they switched sides and began using their leverage to pressure the bankers to lend money to borrowers who had no ability to repay.
The push at the bottom was matched at the top. The Congressional Black Caucus and key Obama advisers — including former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines and Fannie Mae Chairman Jim Johnson — all used carrots and sticks to force banks to steer more and more subprime loans to borrowers unable to repay. The LA Times reports on September 9 that Obama is the top recipient of political donations from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives.
The result: housing prices were artificially inflated and many black people who were conned into borrowing to pay the inflated prices are now losing their homes. Others conned into taking out unnecessary mortgages could lose homes they once owned free and clear. Now many black neighborhoods are full of abandoned repos. The foreclosed former homeowners will have credit ratings even worse than before and their jobs may be at risk as the effects of the housing crisis shake Wall Street and Main Street alike.
Hard-hit by abandoned repo houses, the city of Cleveland, Ohio, in July filed suit (pdf) AGAINST many of the key players in the subprime crisis. According to PBS’s Bill Moyers, “The city contends that Cleveland’s high foreclosure rate was ‘the only possible result of flooding the local market with subprime mortgages.’”
Most rising political stars like to point to their achievements while making the case for higher office. Obama is silent on the treatment of residents of his home district but his record speaks volumes. Obama’s system is designed to reward activists directly at the expense of those they pretend to represent. While the residents of Obama’s former State Senate District 13 wade through sewage and chase away rats, Obama’s tony Hyde Park neighborhood is a comfy nest for Ayers and many other beneficiaries of Obama’s system. The current financial crisis hints at the price which will be paid by African-Americans and all Americans if Obama’s system is adopted on a national scale.
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[And Obama has admited he never once talked to Tony Rezko about the conditions in his housing units. And he stayed in close contact with him right up to his indictment. Barack Obama doesn't give a damn about poor black people!
Some good comments to this article below: ]
Marc Malone:
Well… to be sure. The Dems bring all the factions into the big tent. Solving their problems will let them back out. Can’t have any of that!
And the black leaders? They seem to live very well, indeed. Look at the tapes of the candidates’ speeches to the NAACP. The NAACP looks like an American version of the Soviet Congress: all well-dressed, well-coiffed, and overly-well fed. It’s Animal Farm.
How about abortion? 52% of abortions are black babies. More. Than. Half. That’ll keep the number of pickaninnies down, right? The Dems sure love the useful idiots.
But, they’re not done standing up for the BLACKS. Oh, no. The long entitlement culture, the generations of welfare, simply destroyed the idea of the black family. 90% of black children are born out of wedlock. Half don’t even know who their daddies are. Who needs primary family units when the Nanny-state will take care of you?
BLACKS are simply less free since civil rights began… literally. Half of all black males will spend some time in the slammer. 1/3 are there now. They make great daddies, no? 40% of black females now will never marry. Imagine. They will never know the joy and security of a loving marriage, and security for their children. More, they get to see their kids grow up the same way!
But hey, their plight keeps them stirred up, and then the Dem leaders blame someone else (Pubs), and ensure their continued support. This is the same tactic used by tyrants the world over. Keep the people oppressed, and blame an outside enemy. Works every time.
Think I’m exaggerating? Look at the women. 60% of Dem delegates this year at the DNC were women, but they couldn’t get their woman on the ballot for VP. They do almost all the work. They man the phones and headquarters, they decorate, and bring food, and get out the vote… but the white men still have all the power. Can’t actually solve their problems, can they? That would let them out of the big tent.
Contrast that with the Pubs. They solve problems, and the problems go away… and people forget the problems existed. Iraq’s no longer an issue in this election. What happened to the high price of oil? Remember that? Who ended welfare dependence? Who fixed the economy after the dot.com bust? Remember terrorism? Um, no. Before the meltdown, only 4% of people had it on their radar anymore. Now? Terrorism?
Wuzzat?
Oh, and who has a woman on the ticket?
Oct 17, 2008 - 1:49 am
CALIndie:
Sleepless in Chicago - “If he wins the sky will not fall. If he does a bad job, vote him out.”
Sleepless, did you read the article? If he does a bad job? Based on his track record, bad job is all he has done his entire community organizer career. Where are the people shouting his praises from the STREET on how Barack changed their life for the better? Where are the people that he supposedly got jobs for saying they would never have made it if it wasn’t for Barack Obama? Where are all the character references from his southside neighborhood that can’t wait to sing his praises because of his measurable, definable success and not just the color of his skin?
With the MSM in his back pocket for 2 years don’t you think we should have seen 50 or 60 “Joe the Plumbers” or “Delores the Waitress” or “Johnny the Iron Worker” or “Leticia the School Teacher” or someone, anyone who believes Barack Obama was the sole catalyst for helping them change their life and make the turn toward their goals and aspirations? Maybe they only recieved $1500 of the $150 million he dished out but it changed their life. Where are they Sleepless? The silence is deafening!
I spent 7 years as a Junior High and High School youth counselor Sleepless. My budget for the programs I ran totalled about $20,000 for ALL 7 YEARS! If I ran for President you wouldn’t be able to fit all the students (and their paretnts) in the video frame who would line up to say I (and my wife)changed their life forever… forever Sleepless. This is not great feat of mine. I was privileged to serve these young people. Teaching and mentoring them to be honest, caring, industrious young people changed me as much as it changed them. After 20 years many stay in touch with me and I with them.
In psychology there is a saying, “Behavior predicts, past behavior predicts future behavior.” Barack Obama’s behavior is very predictable. Look at who is friends are and look at his track record of decision making throughout his life and I can tell you how he will behave. We can predict what we will get from Barack Obama in the next 4 years… it will be what he has already given us. Now I don’t doubt that he can change, but change does not occur in the short term, only with long term effort. Individual change toward positive behavior and outcomes can only occur if the individual chooses different friends (environment) and they VOLUNTARILY relinquish their self-centered belief system while making a continual honest assessment of their decisions.
P.S. I teach this “behavior technology” to business and corporations who want to hire the best of the best employess. They say it is the most powerful human resources tool they have. I like Barack Obama. I’d like to have dinner with him. I would not hire him to be President of the United States of America because he does not have the behavioral skill set necessary to do the specific job functions. On-the-job training is not a viable option for this important position. No one I know would hire a CEO with the goal of letting them learn on the job.
Oct 17, 2008 - 9:54 am |
