Tavis Smiley is jealous of President Obama
Just because Barack Obama ran as the candidate of change does not mean that everyone supported him. He was able to sweep the nation, but he still lost most of the Deep South. Also, a lot of his supporters only supported him for the profit. Because the black community jumped on the Obama bandwagon, the “leaders” of the black community jumped on the Obama bandwagon. This includes Tavis Smiley, who has taken on President Obama at every turn.
In many ways, Tavis Smiley is worse that the Republicans who try to give the president a hard time. Perhaps he fails to realize that Barack Obama is the President of the United States. It is not the job of Obama to solely help out the black community. Smiley loves to talk about the black community moving on. If he truly means this, he would step aside. Now that there is a black president, technically, there is no need for him anymore.
Frequently, Tavis Smiley criticizes President Obama for not doing enough for the black community. If he were to do his research on the president, he would realize that Obama ran as a candidate for the lower middle class. Who, if not the black community, is the lower middle class? Throughout this Health Care Reform battle, Mr. Smiley has kept his mouth shut, but he cares so much about black America. The bill would directly benefit black America.
The emergence of Barack Obama, who is actually part Kenyan and part white, as another black person that is more important than him is eating him up. Now that it has been a year of the Obama administration, Tavis Smiley says that it is time for him to take responsibility. It is quite odd how there were 43 presidents before Barack Obama that were never held accountable. A lot of the blame falls to George W. Bush for all of this mess, but it was created long before him.
It just so happened that Bush was the president that messed with everything. With the American system held together by spit, anyways, his poking led to everything falling apart. There would have been another good ten years had he left things alone, but he did not. People praise the likes of Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, but they did little to fix the situation. A strong possibility existed that the bottom could have fallen out on Reagan, Bush I, or Clinton.
Out of all of the presidents to stroll through Washington, D.C., Tavis Smiley chooses to hold the black one accountable for a mess that has been building for centuries. The sad part about it is that he is the only president to man up and try to fix all of the problems facing America in only a single, four year term. Bill Clinton had things rolling during his eight years in office, but he only tried once to change anything. He was blocked and he only improved things for the short term.
With his attitude, Tavis Smiley might as well endorse Sarah Palin when she runs for president in 2012.
people lets grow up and understand one thing you can not change every thing over night. lets give him a chances he only human. so i say this! lets work together and make lets help him do what we put him in office to do and that is to help every one.
lee
February 27, 2010
Tavis sit your ass down and listen and learn, you have been slienced..We don’t want to hear you complain about Obama why didn’t you ask Bush/Clinton/Bush/Reagan what they were going to for the black community.. you were guiet, so get guiet now because you are not interested in us and you know that bro….
Our President is the president of the united states, not black america only.. you got that… saving our selves that’s what we need to do
Evern Williams
February 28, 2010