Thursday
Nov292007
OH Lord: We Do Not HATE Barack Obama... We Just Ain't Enraptured
Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 7:08AM The Blogmother
So my sources tell me that some Obama folks are in a tizzy because of a couple of little posts at my tiny little blog. Now you would think they would be in a tizzy over the fact that Senator Obama has been totally and completely silent on Dunbar Village and other horrific crimes of violence against BLACK WOMEN. You know the BLACK WOMEN that are a huge chunk of the voting block in SC. Yeah, those BLACK WOMEN.
But instead of focusing on asking his staffers why the Senator's Washington staff said he was going to issue a statement back on August 7,2007, but apparently he didn't, they are sitting around trying to figure out how many people read my blog. Well it's called a sitemeter and if you are really clever, you might discover it one day. You should be more distressed however about my technorati rating after a mere six months. THAT ought to terrify y'all
As far as your concern about how many people read this blog, if you knew anything about blogs, you would know that you should be less concerned about how many people read it as opposed to how influential its reader base is (y'all did notice my picture plopped right next to the Senator's in the December issue of ESSENCE didn't y'all- Y'all got to be more vigilant!) and you can't go by the folks who leave comments either(although they are impressive). I am amazed at who reads this blog. You should be far more worried at a terrible knack I and my readers have for stumbling into newspaper and magazine articles. If you think Dunbar Village and this current unrest in the Black community about Black on Black crime is going to go away, you are in a dream world. People are ENRAGED about the silence on Dunbar Village and other crimes against Black women and children
FYI. Clinton knows about Dunbar Village and has been silent. Edwards knows about Dunbar Village and responded with a request for a donation. Richardson knows about Dunbar Village. About the only candidates we have not contacted are the Republicans, but you know if y'all keep irritating folks, don't be surprise if we put up their contact information for the readers one day. Y'all gone be real embarrassed if a Republican candidate picks up on the absolute RAGE simmering in the Black community about Black on Black crime. We are simply all thugged OUT.
Why Dunbar Village? Well because it is indicative of so many other horrors. We've talked about the 11 year olg girl that was gang raped by at least 20 men and boys. We've told you abut Dangela Dawson, whose home was firebombed.
Now if Barack Obama can't be moved to talk about any one of these horrors, somebody tell me what you have to do to a Black woman or child in this country to get our leaders to open up their mouths and SPEAK?
Just this week following the death of an NFL player, the issue of Black on Black crime bubbled up AGAIN and members of the media are joining me in questioning the immoral indifference to Black victims of crime in this country who are victimized by other Black people.
Jason Whitlock just out and called them "The Black KKK." Clarence Page did an article about Black on Black crime that is still being reprinted in syndication everyday in a new newspaper.
OH and If y'all are scared about the blog, what you really ought to be terrified by are my Dunbar Village videos. Well over 100,000 hits in a month and a half and those are the views I can track. They're viral and I don't even promote them on this site. People are emailing them all over the country. Obama and others are mentioned.
So while you plot your strategy against me and this blog for being Obama haters ( an outright LIE). My question is why you aren't spending your time as Black Women for Obama asking the Senator why he will speak out on behalf of Black women in Darfur and white men in America, but won't speak out about Dunbar Village and other atrocities committed RIGHT HERE in the USA. You might want to point out that he is about to be on the wrong side of history on Dunbar Village. He better call Al Sharpton.
As far as "targeting" Obama. I am not the one writing all these articles about Black women and Obama and the article I referred to is not the first. This blog is about the negative portrayal of African American women in popular culture and I think this inference in MSM that Black women who don't vote for Obama are somehow being disloyal is idiotic and stupid. If he wants Black women's votes, he ought to hustle for them.
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But instead of focusing on asking his staffers why the Senator's Washington staff said he was going to issue a statement back on August 7,2007, but apparently he didn't, they are sitting around trying to figure out how many people read my blog. Well it's called a sitemeter and if you are really clever, you might discover it one day. You should be more distressed however about my technorati rating after a mere six months. THAT ought to terrify y'all
As far as your concern about how many people read this blog, if you knew anything about blogs, you would know that you should be less concerned about how many people read it as opposed to how influential its reader base is (y'all did notice my picture plopped right next to the Senator's in the December issue of ESSENCE didn't y'all- Y'all got to be more vigilant!) and you can't go by the folks who leave comments either(although they are impressive). I am amazed at who reads this blog. You should be far more worried at a terrible knack I and my readers have for stumbling into newspaper and magazine articles. If you think Dunbar Village and this current unrest in the Black community about Black on Black crime is going to go away, you are in a dream world. People are ENRAGED about the silence on Dunbar Village and other crimes against Black women and children
FYI. Clinton knows about Dunbar Village and has been silent. Edwards knows about Dunbar Village and responded with a request for a donation. Richardson knows about Dunbar Village. About the only candidates we have not contacted are the Republicans, but you know if y'all keep irritating folks, don't be surprise if we put up their contact information for the readers one day. Y'all gone be real embarrassed if a Republican candidate picks up on the absolute RAGE simmering in the Black community about Black on Black crime. We are simply all thugged OUT.
Why Dunbar Village? Well because it is indicative of so many other horrors. We've talked about the 11 year olg girl that was gang raped by at least 20 men and boys. We've told you abut Dangela Dawson, whose home was firebombed.
Now if Barack Obama can't be moved to talk about any one of these horrors, somebody tell me what you have to do to a Black woman or child in this country to get our leaders to open up their mouths and SPEAK?
Just this week following the death of an NFL player, the issue of Black on Black crime bubbled up AGAIN and members of the media are joining me in questioning the immoral indifference to Black victims of crime in this country who are victimized by other Black people.
Jason Whitlock just out and called them "The Black KKK." Clarence Page did an article about Black on Black crime that is still being reprinted in syndication everyday in a new newspaper.
OH and If y'all are scared about the blog, what you really ought to be terrified by are my Dunbar Village videos. Well over 100,000 hits in a month and a half and those are the views I can track. They're viral and I don't even promote them on this site. People are emailing them all over the country. Obama and others are mentioned.
So while you plot your strategy against me and this blog for being Obama haters ( an outright LIE). My question is why you aren't spending your time as Black Women for Obama asking the Senator why he will speak out on behalf of Black women in Darfur and white men in America, but won't speak out about Dunbar Village and other atrocities committed RIGHT HERE in the USA. You might want to point out that he is about to be on the wrong side of history on Dunbar Village. He better call Al Sharpton.
As far as "targeting" Obama. I am not the one writing all these articles about Black women and Obama and the article I referred to is not the first. This blog is about the negative portrayal of African American women in popular culture and I think this inference in MSM that Black women who don't vote for Obama are somehow being disloyal is idiotic and stupid. If he wants Black women's votes, he ought to hustle for them.
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Now, that's gansta!!! LOL.
Jason Whitlock is NOT a good example. His Step-N-Fetchit routine so gets old.
Well...if Obama ain't worried now. He will be.
This is getting interesting.
The thing is, there is NO REASON for there to be any feuding between black women on this issue! We are all on the same side!
I would love to come on here and say 'y'all, let's all vote for Barack because he's going to do X,Y, and Z for black women'!! Like Gina said in yesterday's post: make the case! That's all we're freaking saying!
Hi Gina,
I only discovered your site a few days ago and you are a great blogger. Very good insight into the issues. Keep up the good work!
Thank you Gina and others for standing up and not being afraid to forcefully state another point of view. I have become addicted to your blog.
To Obama's Staff & Supporters:
Friendly Advice. I understand your temptation to fight back against this blog - BUT WAIT - think Hard about that.
The ONLY response that will benefit Sen. Obama in the short- and the long-run, is to simply & politely have your folks answer the questions asked. These Are Black Women - don't act like you don't know what this could escalate into! You cannot possibly believe that THESE women will allow themselves to be "Shh- ed" (Shh!) and then slink away.
SO - Call off the dogs on this blog. Cultivate a respectful relationship with these bloggers. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Both ways. If you give you will get.
Stop this bickering here and now, then move forward. Or you will be talking about this issue("Why do some black women think Obama ignores The Black Woman?) on the campaign trail in 2008. No one wants to see that!
If you don't have any current positions on black women - Get Some - and let them be known.
*tee-hee* Gina,
I kinda mentioned to a co-worker at my PTJ (who works as a full-time campaign staff person for the Senator) that Senator Obama was silent about Dunbar Village (in response to the USAToday Story) as well even after he PROMISED to make a statement about it. I kept saying what happened to August 7, 2007? He wanted to discuss it further, but told me that he wasn't sure Barack would be able to focus his attention on Dunbar because of the fast approaching IOWA caucus.
I kinda told dude that alienating black women as an electorate in ANY way could kinda stop his bid for the presidency even before the race gets interesting. I think he's now reading this blog and by now I am sure you may have heard from him or another henchman by now.
Even my mother, who is a RABID Obama supporter who has hosted and organized several fundraisers in South Los Angeles, is having questions about the Senator.
You'd be surprised (nah, I'm sure you ain't) about the far reaching influence of your "little" blog.
KUDOS!!!
P.S. *Kiss to She Codes and Attorneymom*
So while you plot your strategy against me and this blog for being Obama haters ( an outright LIE).
Though I am an Obama supporter, I honestly believe this. You're not a ' hater'. You're a 'skeptic'. And, with so many 'skeptics', you have POLICY issues with the Senator. And, as I have said elsewhere, the 'Skeptics' are the most honest, because they tell Senator Obama straight up, no chaser as to what he needs to do in order to get your support.
Keep on asking the question until you get an answer. I am wondering if others here have gone to the website and asked why he hasn't spoken to WAOD? You might not believe it, but I have. And, I'll do it again.
I am going to ask this:
Just what are the specific issues that are of concern you think, to Black women, and nobody else.
Not him speaking out on Dunbar Village, but 5 POLICY POINTS that you want addressed that speak to Black women alone.
1. Research funding and treatment for the various ailments that disproportionately afflict, maim and kill black women. Particularly fibroids, breast cancer and heart disease.
2. Drug rehbilitation programs specifically for women with children. I don't know about the rest of the country, but there is only one such facility in Alabama and it's chronically full. Black female addicts enter the criminal justice system and 80% of them are mothers. Meaning their children then wind up languishing in foster care which then continues the loop of criminality.
3. High school drop out rate. This one is self-explanatory.
4. Crime and violence directed towards black women. Make violence against women a 'hate crime,' giving prosecutors access to another tool to get these monsters off the street.
5. Make access to higher education easier and more affordable with loan forgiveness for certain jobs and/or volunteer work.
6. Affordable daycare, much as they have in the rest of the industrialized world. So that women aren't disproportionately burdened with the outlandish cost of childcare.
7. Reasonable family leave for EVERYONE. Some women have no access to leave at all after having a child. Others have as few as six weeks. The rest of the industrialized world give women a year or more.
8. A reading initiative. This would go a long way towards addressing the horrific drop-out rate in this country. Much as the formula companies ensure that every parent leaves the hospital loaded up with artificial baby milk, we want families to go home with books for their children. We've had serious public service campaigns to address every ill in this country. It's time to start one that addresses reading. Every parent, read to your child every day.
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Roslyn,
I would like to make a full post from your points, if I can have your permission.
I am going to ask this:
Just what are the specific issues that are of concern you think, to Black women, and nobody else.
Not him speaking out on Dunbar Village, but 5 POLICY POINTS that you want addressed that speak to Black women alone.
Rikyrah,
It really isn't a matter of issues that affect us alone, it's more issues that affect us disproportionately. My past blog post, plus Rosyln's comments are examples of those issues.
I still care tremendously about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan(remember that?), the environment and other issues, but don't think that I should have to squelch my concern on black women's issues in exchange. That's all I'm saying.
Go ahead shecodes. I'll link it to my blog as well.
I'm not black, but I totally understand your point. I would not support anybody just because he is of the same race. Do WOC only experience violence through white men? Probably not. It would be so wrong to assume that just because someone is of the same race that he has the best for me in mind. If Obama's strategy only consists of highlighting his race and guilttripping any black woman who refuses to vote for him, then he deserves to lose.
Peace sista!
I am in love with you page and all of your ideas. I feel the same as you do. We need things to change and change now! It starts with us.
Please visit my page I have created around July of this year.
www.myspace.com/antibitchtrickandho
If you are on myspace, please reach out to a sista so I shout your messages loud and clear (I'll be doing that anyways...lol).
Thank you so much for being who you are and caring about our sistas as we all should.
Much love and respect!
Peace,
Shonda
A.B.H.T.C.