Reflections From a Murky Pond

Americans have had to hear a monotonous litany of “Blamestorming” spouting from the jabbering maw of President Obama for month after month, after month now. “Hope & Change” predictably devolved into “It’s Not My Fault” the moment things got difficult, which was on January 21, 2009, the day after his Inauguration.

The constant repetitions and variations on a theme of “It’s Bush’s fault” reached the point of absurdity long ago, and yet Obama, stereotypically unwilling to accept any responsibility for the circumstances he finds himself in, just keeps spewing forth the same tired screeds.

Apparently though Obama is no longer satisfied with the response he’s been getting to, “Blame Bush.” On his way out the door to yet another taxpayer funded vacation – his 9th since taking office – President Obama stopped to talk to his pet media representatives so that he could blame Congress for dismal state of the American employment market in the wake of Obama’s “Planned Economy.”

As the LA Times reported on Friday, Aug 20, 2010:

No questions allowed because the president didn’t want to explain why despite the administration’s announced Recovery Summer Program, the jobs numbers have started going backward again after 19 months of promises and $787 billion in alleged stimulation spending. Because, faced with the uncertainty of the economy and the certainty of new taxes after Nov. 2, employers are holding back on hiring.

According to the president, he’s been “adamant” with Congress for months now about a new jobs bill to help small businesses. Obama says this really good bill is stalled in the Senate, where so much administration legislation has been crammed through so effectively by Majority Leader Harry Reid.

It’s Bush’s fault; it’s Congress’ fault; it’s the GOP’s fault; it’s the American people’s fault; it’s anyone and everyone except for Obama’s fault, or so the Canon of Obama clearly states.

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Obama, jabbering fool that he is, is lucky that Americans aren’t the evil bigots that he and the Liberals keep claiming that they are. If they were, he and his attacks wouldn’t enjoy the tolerance that has been shown so far. Instead, they would have been derided as nothing but another example of a Black blaming the White man for his own failings rather than Obama being man and accepting some level of personal responsibility.

Yes, if Americans were vile as Liberals are, there would be endless complaints being aired about Obama’s incessant “dog whistles” since blaming Bush, and Old White Guy and now Congress, famous for being a group of Old White Guys, fit the stereotype of the shiftless Black who refuses all responsibility for himself or his perennial failures perfectly.

Yeah, Obama is damn lucky that Americans, hard-working Americans, White Americans, who have been derided by him for clinging to their Gods and their guns, aren’t the racist pukes that he and his Liberals followers keep yammering that they are.

There may be some hope for America after all, but it’s an untold hope since their are far too many people in the government, the Leftist media, and the “Black Community” who have done and will continue to do anything in their power to ensure such hope remains untold.

Despite the rantings of Liberals and those minorities that base their fame, power, and wealth upon race-baiting antics, the beliefs and desires of the majority of Black population do not seem fall in line behind these jabbering rabble-rousers.

They are reported to have a far different and more honest, introspective, and realistic view of the causes of- and cures or ameliorations for any economic troubles that they might be facing.

Their views also seem to fall directly inline with those of Whites in similar economic straits.

In a recent editorial nationally syndicated columnist, author, and President of the Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) Star Parker says what the grievance-mongers and their Liberal media enablers don’t want Americans to hear:

The NAACP says it was “snookered” by Fox News on the Shirley Sherrod story.

I say we’ve all been snookered by the NAACP.

The NAACP has shown that those who have written this organization off as irrelevant are wrong. It demonstrated this past week that if it so chooses it can dominate the national discussion with its racial agenda, regardless of what the real pressing issues of national concern may be.

The accusation about Tea Party racism is ridiculous. But even if you don’t think it’s ridiculous, is this the discussion we need to be having when national unemployment hovers at ten percent, and when black unemployment is closer to 15%, double that of whites?

Now, of course, we should be talking about racism if this is what is driving black unemployment. But is it?

I don’t think so. Nor do most blacks.

In January of this year, well into our recession, and well into the emergence of the Tea Party movement, the Pew Research Center surveyed black attitudes.

In answer to the question, “When blacks don’t make progress, who or what is to blame?”, 52% of blacks responded that “blacks” themselves are “mostly responsible”, and 34% said “racism.” This is the reverse of how blacks responded to this question just 15 years ago, when 56% said that racism was the impediment to black progress.

In the same survey, blacks responded almost identically as whites to the question of whether success in life is “determined by forces beyond one’s control” or whether “everyone has the power to succeed.”

Seventy seven percent of blacks and 82% of whites said that “everyone has the power to succeed” and 16% of blacks and 12% whites said success is “determined by forces beyond one’s control.”

And when blacks were asked in this same survey about the main problems facing black families, the response was overwhelmingly exactly the same as the general result of the Gallup poll of last week. Jobs.

So, Americans of all colors today generally feel responsible for their own lives and the main concern of most is the sick state of our economy.

From what I can see Star Parker was referring to the 2007 Pew Research Center study on racial attitudes. It was a solid and hopeful study which I’ve referenced here before. Though, even then, it was in the context of disgust and borderline disillusionment.

Thankfully, Parker’s editorial goes a fair distance in counterbalancing that disgust and disillusionment. It’s heartening – and a bit sobering – to be so eloquently reminded that the caricature that the MSM prefers to paint of the Blacks in America is not necessarily indicative of their real attitudes. Only a minority, albeit a large if shrinking one – of the Blacks have been successfully indoctrinated by the Liberals and the race-baiting grievance-mongers that act as their overseers.

But of course the hope for America – and, frankly, for the Blacks within it – that Star Parker offers up is a largely untold hope. The Liberal media would only report upon it if they could luck into or arrange for someone of the ilk of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, or the newer “leadership” of the NAACP to attack Parker for being an “Oreo.”  Hence, aside from a few outlets, this will remain an untold hope.

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If you’re interested in finding out more about Star Parker’s views on the state of “Black Community” and the effects that the American government’s intervention in their lives has had, I highly recommend her book, Uncle Sam’s Plantation. I’ve included a link to it at Amazon and an excerpt from the official review to make things easier.

In Uncle Sam’s Plantation, Star Parker eloquently offers five simple yet profound steps that will allow the nation’s poor to go from entitlement and slavery to empowerment and freedom. By way of example Parker shares her own amazing journey up from the lower rungs of the economic system and addresses the importance of extending the free market system to this neglected group of people. Emphasizing personal initiative, faith, and responsibility, she walks readers toward releasing the hold poverty has over their lives.

You know – or should know – it’s bad when even the Ku Klux Klan feels the need to publicly repudiate your behavior, and that is exactly the situation in which Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church find themselves in.

The KKK Repudiates Westboro Baptist Church’s Activities

Yes, the above is a partial screenshot of the KKK’s website’s homepage which I’ve posted here both so that people don’t have to go to the Klan’s site and in to keep a record of it when they later remove the news release.

It seems that nearly everyone – even groups known for their hate and public displays – is arrayed against Phelps and his congregation.

So, now that everyone – except a few pathetic federal appeals court judges – seems to be in agreement that Phelps, his misborn brood, and his sickening followers are vile, can we, the People finally do something of a retributive and permanent nature about these creatures who harass and insult the families of our fallen soldiers?

Mr. Phelps believes that we’re nearing the end times. Let’s do what we can to ensure that for him, the 13 misborn spawn he rutted into his female, any progeny that those 13 might have spawned, and his followers and all of their crotch-droppings, and any who have supported them, it is such.

You know it’s bad when even the Ku Klux Klan feels the need to publicly repudiate your behavior, but let’s ensure that it is of Biblical proportions. Let fire be rained upon them from on high; let the waters turn red with blood; let the heads be stripped from the grain so that there is naught for them to eat nor plant in its time.

Such just retribution would, after all, fit in with Phelps’ view of his God