Comments on: President Obama, Conservatives and Immigration: Political Warfare

By: MySister'sKeeper

MySister'sKeeper — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:51:12 +0000

While blacks demand jobs and education and get nothing. How is the fight of the LGBT community and Latino community any greater? We are just ignored. Maybe because we have too many black apologists who make basic statements regarding fighting in own communities while failing to recognize that many of us are doing so but are still not being heard.

By: apple

apple — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 05:46:47 +0000

i guess my comment is never coming

By: Kirsten West Savali

Kirsten West Savali — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:27:18 +0000

I would suggest that anyone who “just can’t” with my writing…please don’t. I won’t mind at all, seriously.

The point some of you seem to be missing is that many black Americans are waiting on President Obama to move mountains when we aren’t even demanding anthills.

But, instead of fighting that fight in our own communities, we want to talk about what President Obama should be doing. What about what we should be doing?

And for the person who thinks calling the president a hypocritical politician who shifts and follows the vote is “throwing rose petals.” Really? I’ll just let you think on that for a moment.

And yes, @LemonNLime, it’s insanity to expect legislation that we don’t demand. Latino/Hispanic voting bloc demanded D.R.E.A.M. Act based legislation — guess what? They got it. LGBT demanded repeal of DADT and support of marriage equality — guess what? They got it. Women demanded legislation enforcing equal pay — guess what? They got it. Everyone else is demanding, while many of us are still rocking Obama ’08 shirts. But considering that your criticism stems from the “this used to be their land” argument, I don’t expect much.

Thanks for reading all, :-)

By: secret6

secret6 — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:43:38 +0000

I happened to be cruising through Clutch, saw this article, read some of the comments, and decided to post mine. First of all, why are Black people, in the 21st century, still waiting around for ANYONE to DO SOMETHING FOR US? With a spending power of nearly $1 TRILLION dollars, somebody please tell me why a large majority of what some of us have to show for it are a bunch of tricked out cars, fancy and expensive sneakers, expensive hairstyles and acrylic nails, but no viable businesses that could be creating jobs and opprtunities we’re still begging the government to do instead? Why oh why are we not more involved with our children and their education? Please explain to me why people who have no business being together to begin with are somehow creating children together, and producing a bunch of drama and the continuation of a destructive cycle of children growing up without fathers? How is it that with the amount of money we spend in this country, we’re still leaning on the gov’t to financially take care of HBCU’s? You can call my comments what you want, but at the end of the day, until more of us start acting like we mean business (financial responsibilty, demanding more from our children, being repsonsible with our ability to reproduce, taking care of one another and our communities) then we really cannot sit back and complain how other groups/ethnicities are being ‘helped’ more than we are. If we cannot demand excellence of ourselves and one another, then how can we demand anything from anyone else?

By: LemonNLime

LemonNLime — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:16:35 +0000

@befree

Thank you! Sometimes I just can’t with her writing.

“The Latino bloc has proven to be swing voters”… not really. Latinos overwhelmingly vote Democrat. This, of course, excludes Cubans who tend to vote Republican because many are the descendents of those that fled Cuba during the revolution so they have a bad taste in their mouth regarding anything seemingly left.

“The point is that taking a diplomatic approach instead of herding children and young adults like chattel and removing them from the only country they’ve known is admirable.”
“it is the height of insanity to expect more from him than he ever said he would be — all because he’s half black, sang a few notes of Al Green and has a mean jump shot.”

Really, so it is insanity for us to expect equal enforcement of the law…that is until it has to do with getting votes from Latinos, then we’ll do whatever we have to under the auspices of diplomacy. Right. Let’s see if that would have happened if it was a large majority of Haitians sneaking in. I’m betting once again we’ll see an unequal enforcement of the law.

But considering she started off with the “this used to be their land” “argument” I really don’t expect much.

By: LemonNLime

LemonNLime — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:14:26 +0000

Oh so THAT went through…

By: LemonNLime

LemonNLime — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:14:05 +0000

LOL right

By: LemonNLime

LemonNLime — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:12:01 +0000

Thank you!! Sometimes I just can’t with her writing.

But considering she started off with the “this used to be their land” “argument” I really don’t expect much.

By: Nikesha

Nikesha — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:06:08 +0000

the arguments for and against the executive order and who it does or does not benefit are moot.

this is simply good politics.

he’s playing to win.

no DREAM act leaves the Hispanic vote in the swing. This executive vote locks up the crys from the bloc who will soon become the largest minority.

Black issues can’t be dealt with under this president. that’s not good politics because he’s the first black president. Having a black agenda would be seen as pandering and discriminatory and the president would be ripped apart more than he is now.

this is an election year. if he wants to win he’s got to play politics like he wants to win.

this is what this is.

if he secures a second term he can go after passion projects like a black agenda because he will never have to face a re-election firing squad. just congress.

though i don’t know which is worse.

By: girlformerlyknownasgrace

girlformerlyknownasgrace — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:54:27 +0000

I just know that Romney is not a better alternative.