Barack's Got Haters

I’m a bit perplexed. No make that downright aggravated.

One thing is I cannot let go and ignore some haters (sorry to use this term but I gotta call it like I see it). Much of why I felt so cynical last year is because folks love to sprinkle salt and of course where salt is sprinkled some by-standers will feel it under their feet. Is it me, or no matter what some people do that is good in the world, there is another somebody just lurking in the shadows to point out all the wrongs they have done? Not that I am this Miss Zen type of person, but I TRY to appreciate where someone is standing and what they have to deliver. I don’t know. It just really peeves me that many of the historical and significant strides being made are being truncated by some pissy-tailed whiners.

What am I talking about? A whole bunch of stuff but mainly the backlash Barack has been getting from many other black folks. It kills me that the beef folks have with Barack is that he isn’t black enough or doesn’t address enough hood issues. Not that those are not legitimate beefs, but please tell me these same folks are banging on the doors of their local statesmen about the same complaints. Tell me they are paying a visit to their local officials and holding them accountable for any of the world’s ills. Let me know the last time they took a trip to D.C. and actually visited the White House (Cindy Sheehan managed, or hell did they even write the letter?

Now here it is, that we are about to elect the U.S. President, and for the first time the race involves a serious Black contender who really does give a damn that he stands a chance to win, and folks want to choose this time to say just how many of the WORLD’S problems he cannot fix. I mean come on…for real!?! Who else are you holding to these standards? My point is, there will be a president elected to the U.S. office. Plenty of white men have had their chances to mess up in the name of democracy, several have left black folks worse off than when they got into office, the majority focused on the old white vote, very few learned to speak Arabic, Swahili, Japanese, etc. so their genuine interest in fair foreign relations is questionable. But it only becomes a problem that we feel so adamant about so we discourage folks from “liking” or “celebrating” a black man’s audacity to hope. Get a freaking life HATERS!

Same folks sitting they comfortable asses in a mortgaged home, driving a nice luxury cars(or they just got conscious and downgraded a bit) hopping on planes for leisure/business, attending Ivy walled schools, politicking with well-bred folk of the same ilk. Where I’m from…never mind. Let’s just say it would not be tolerated. And screw representing the people with all this incarcerated mumbo because when is the last time you did a lock-down on some Gestapo journalism, set up shop in filthy housing units, slept with Katrina survivors (not in a hotel), roughed in the Appalachian region with some folk, or visited Pakistan or Iraq, hell the Sudan? You haven’t so shut the heck up!

For real, sometimes we need to examine our shit, stop trying to make our demo sweet.
I’m ranting so this is coming fast….then people have the nerve to mention Mayor Washington (Harold Washington for folks not from Chi) like they ever lived here or can conceptually grasp what this city was like before he became CEO. You know what, Mayor Washington would be in full support of Barack Obama. And this isn’t fully about Obama, it’s just about HATING folks period.

All this hating has dampened my spirits, for real. It’s like okay yeah, most of these problems have been around for centuries, since the existence of man, so more than likely, some thing’s will continue for centuries more. But my people, damn, do YOUR small part and don’t let that part be a measurement against what someone else is or is not doing.
If you are not contributing to someone’s campaign fund, then you really do not have a legitimate beef with them…they owe you nothing. If you do not make a practice of utilizing your right as a citizen and voting, step back and go lecture yourself into a hole.

If you are number one activist in the streets going hard for the people with 1000+ blind followers, then guess what, you still got work to do…go recruit some more. If what you deliver is as good as you say it is, then you don’t have to knock somebody else’s hustle to make you shine.
I think Lil Kim said it best…”get yo own ish, why you riding mine?”

And I will go on record right now and say it, somebody has to get the job…call me simple, but I’d rather it be Barack Obama than anybody else. And I am not catching the vapors…I wrote a blog about Barack becoming U.S. President long before he even announced it. See I met him seve4ral times and know what he does on the strength.

Kick rocks HATERS!!!!