As you know, during the first 100 days of his administration, Obama gave several white corporations hundreds of billion dollars to bail them out, but he has yet to provide one dime to bail out struggling black businesses in the inner-city. In fact, Obama hardly ever mentions the inner-city or African Americans in his speeches. It appears that after electing our first black president - all of the problems that once plagued African Americans and the black community for years have suddenly disappeared.
Under previous white administrations, African Americans constantly bombarded these administrations with questions regarding what they were going to do for black folks. But this is not happening with the Obama administration even though blacks lead all others groups in unemployment, home foreclosure, and other economic related problems. Not only are blacks not getting one dime of their own tax dollars to save the struggling businesses in the inner-city, their children 20 years and younger will be required to pay $114,000 each just to pay the interest on the $10 trillion dollar debt that they will inherit from our first black president’s administration. The question that no one is asking is: how will blacks benefit from that $10 trillion dollars?
For years, blacks have accused the Republican Party of being the party of big business, and the first thing we see after getting a black Democratic president, is that his priority was to save big banks and big businesses. Banks that had a history of denying business loans to blacks and businesses that had a history of refusing to hire blacks (some are doing better today than they have in the past). Now if we called black Republicans “Uncle Toms and sell outs” for supporting a party that they claimed catered to big businesses, what do we call blacks who support the Democratic Party for doing the same?
We all know that George Bush also ran up the debt on us, but at least blacks had something to show for it. Under his administration he budgeted more entitlement money for the poor than any other president in U.S. history; he gave more money to historical black colleges than any other President in U.S. History; he re-opened and got a conviction in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing after 40 years, he approved the funding for the African American Museum that will be the size of two football fields (near the other historical landmarks in D.C.) and he approved the Rosa Park Memorial. So blacks got something from his big spending. It is also important to note, that at one point during his administration black unemployment reached an all-time low.
Even though Obama may not give us much, we can be assured that he will see to it that we will never run out of abortion funds to kill our babies. But before we boast about that, we must remember that the Ku Klux Klan (which was an auxiliary of the Democratic Party) killed us for nothing.
Rev. Wayne Perryman, a former newspaper publisher and radio talk show host and in his current profession as a fact-finding investigator in discrimination cases for the plaintiff, Rev. Perryman devotes much of his time serving his church and the inner-city community.
