Next year will mark the final year of President Barack Obama’s two terms in office. At this point in time, it comes as no surprise that his largest base of supporters were voters in the Black/Melanoid community who assumed that President Obama would have their best interests in mind at the beginning of his first term.
Fast forward seven years later, and many of us (excluding the ones in the know previously to Obama’s presidency) have come to the realization that President Obama’s administration has seemingly served every other group in America besides the Black community, who ironically were his loudest and proudest supporters. Although the 2016 election is still over a year and-a-half away, hopefuls are already gearing up and positioning themselves to be chosen as the next president.
Perhaps the most valuable lesson learned from our drunken euphoric state during Obama’s time in office is that political power is useless without group economic power, which other groups have embraced wholeheartedly. As of late, the dialogue in the Melanoid community has shifted from the need for political reform in our communities, to the need for economic empowerment. As new candidates step to the forefront who clearly don’t have Black America’s best interests in mind, will this force us to learn to depend more on each other for our own salvation, as opposed to ‘extending a hand’ to strangers, as we have done countless times in years past? Or will we allow ourselves to once again fall into the endless cycle that is American politics in hopes of Melanoid Empowerment?
This is a woman who felt that Obama’s presidency would fix our issues.
Stephen A. Smith feels that we should just turn to the Republican Party to remedy our situation.
by B. Clark
PoliTricks are not for our people, and it never will be. Save your Jordan money and invest in yourself and people who look like you and share the same values like you.