Obama: Repairing His Black Relations

A reminder of some recent thoughts by a few of America's most cogent, honest, insightful, moderate and considered black representatives:



[Pick up the video at 7:15 for the best comments.]

The New Black Panther party weighs in as well:



That "said," Mr Obama realized he needed to repair his relations with the black community.

Therefore, he held a lunch in New York City's Harlem district on Monday this week (03-28-11), with fundraising taking a back seat. He felt it was necessary to be seen and heard by his base black constituency and -- resultingly -- he was. Conversely, he wanted to listen to and observe the common black voters of Harlem in order to better understand the issues and concerns of poor black America.

With one slight exception that few if any in the MSM/DEM have the cojones to point out:

Uh, no. Mr Obama went to Harlem specifically to fundraise for his second term. He used Harlem, instead, as a frontispiece to placate and take advantage of the Ignorant Black Vote. Because the facts, instead, are these:

Mr Obama's visit was in fact a fundraiser. For only $30,800, you could have had lunch with Mr Obama at the Red Rooster on Lenox Avenue near 125th Street (looks like "poor" Harlem has gentrified to me). And color wouldn't have truly mattered unless the base color was green. Green clearly trumps black.

As you might guess, local black Harlem residents couldn't quite afford to pony up that kind of cha-ching:

President Barack Obama will fundraise in Harlem today, but many uptown residents grumble that they can’t afford to see him. The president’s hosting a $30,800-a-head fundraiser at Red Rooster on Lenox Avenue, near 125th Street.

“I think that’s ridiculous,” said Hope Cameron, 52, a stay-at-home mom who lives nearby. “In Harlem, who has that kind of money?”

Others near the restaurant yesterday afternoon echoed her sentiment — even as many said they like Obama.

“I’m an Obama fan but I won’t see him for that,” Lenny Bembry, 53, told Metro.

“I think it’s ridiculous,” added Maurice Lenin, 45, who had just balked at spending $10 on Chinese for lunch. “Harlem has been messed up since way back in the day and now they’re wanting to charge us $30,000?”

“He should be eating with us for free,” Lenin added.

Huh. Imagine that. Mr Obama may in fact be a regular politician who couldn't give one whit less about poor blacks -- unless they can kick down a good $30K for his re-election campaign.

On the other hand, that's NOT how his "lunch" will be portrayed by the GOWP media.

Damn! I hate it when a good Second Coming turns out to be a racial Socialist who wets his pants at night like the rest of us. In the quiet. In the dark.

BZ