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The Barack Obama Effect on Black Men

When I was a boy, I would overhear older black men talking about this evil, mythical figure called "The Man." I thought there was Batman, Spiderman, Superman, and The Man.

The Man was accused of selfishly hoarding power and resources that prevented black men from getting jobs, owning businesses, and having greater opportunities in general. As a young impressionable child, The Man seemed like one bad mutha. It took me some time for me to figure out that The Man was the white man.

As humorous and antiquated as this notion may be, it surprises me that The Man still lives in the minds of many black men today. After listening to Barack Obama make his presentation at the Democratic National Convention, which coincided with the 45th anniversary of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, there is a palpable energy, optimism, and pride that I'm sensing in my conversations with other black men. An awakening that's almost spiritual. A fertile synergy that can produce the seeds of a movement - a black male movement.

While the women's movement has been legitimized and publicized in the press since their struggles for liberation began, there is a potential - and much needed - black man's movement that's underway. Of course the media has not picked up on it because they don't consider it newsworthy or noteworthy, but conscious black people, especially those who desire and seek financial, mental, and vocational liberation for themselves and their children, are well aware of it.

It's the effect that Barack Obama's campaign and legacy will have on black men.

To really understand the magnitude of this effect you have to go back in history to another speech. It was given at a graduating ceremony for Howard University in 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson in the aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination and the passage of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin.

"You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: 'Now, you are free to go where you want, do as you desire, and choose the leaders you please.' You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race, saying, 'you are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe you have been completely fair...This is the next and more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom but opportunity-not just legal equity but human ability-not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and as a result."

The bill was later amended to cover discrimination on the basis of gender. That amendment largely benefited white women and opened the floodgates for their entry into the workplace.

As more white women migrated into the workplace in 1964, occupying jobs they were "allowed" to have and armed with new legislature and a spirit of liberation that would gain momentum and evolve into the women's movement, black women would soon follow suit and be deployed in less desirable roles while black men would essentially be displaced; spawning an employment imbalance in the black community where the men consistently have higher rates of unemployment and underemployment than black women.

This statistic holds true to this very day.

When I Juxtapose today's work environment with yesterday's, I see that black men still comprise the bulk of the work force that's relegated to manual labor or undesirable jobs with marginal pay. I searched, but did not find, statistical data on the ethnic composition of the labor force of FedEx and UPS, but through observation, I'm willing to bet they are among the top - if not 1 and 2 - employers of black men, closely followed by any company that provides security (guard) services.

They are all jobs that place physical demands on their employees. Black men have always been used and valued for their physical strength since they stepped (chained) foot into this country. After all this time, we are still more likely to be paid millions for our muscles than our minds.

The Barack Obama Effect will cause the pendulum to swing in the other direction.

In the 60s, gainful employment was denied due to racism, fear, and distrust. Racism is not what leads to unfavorable employment conditions that black men have to overcome, it's negative perceptions about black men as a group that have proven to be a greater economic and psychological barrier to our success. It's the internalization of these perceptions that impact us. There's extensive research that proves how devastating these perceptions can be when internalized by young black males.

According to Dr. Alvin Poussaint, psychiatrist and author of Lay My Burden Down: Unraveling Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis among African Americans over the last twenty years, suicide rates among young black males between the ages of 15 and 19 increased 114%. Head coach of the Indianapolis Colts lost his 18 year old son to suicide in 2005 and finally the epidemic caught the media's attention, albeit for a fleeting moment.

With commonplace scenarios such as fragmented families that are often headed by single mothers, lack of male leadership, negative influences, and continued discrimination in our schools from teachers who do not embrace, nurture, or support young black males as readily as their white peers, it's no wonder that so many young black males fabricate false bravado and a cool facade to camouflage low self-esteem, and often seeking validation through sports, entertainment and sexual conquests. Even worse, it creates a fixed mindset.

Author Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., who is widely regarded as one of the world's leading researchers in the fields of personality, social psychology, and developmental psychology, notes that psychologists know that negative stereotypes and labels are harmful, but they are still discovering just how negative labels harm achievement. She writes in her book Mindset: The New Psychology Of Success, that a fixed mindset limits achievement. It fills people's mind with interfering thoughts. It makes effort disagreeable, and it leads to inferior learning strategies. What's more, it makes other people into judges instead of allies.

My father told me at an early age that black men have to work two to three times harder than white men to achieve the same success. We also have to work smarter to be as successful. There are political, psychological, racial, and legal elements at play in every arena that we thrive in. It behooves us to know how to best navigate through situations that pose a threat to our success.

Whether it's working harder or smarter, extra "work" is inevitable. Dealing with the inertia that stems from apathy in many of our neighborhoods, communities, and homes; dealing with lingering fears and stereotypes, and having to exert constant effort to fit in with white men who don't feel as comfortable with us or in our presence. Historically, our prosperity as black men has always been tied to our ability to successfully interface with white men.

I imagine that living life as a paraplegic or without one's sight is probably harder in terms of difficulty and adaptability, but certainly not capability. That's where the line gets drawn and a new way of thinking can begin. Yes, being a black man is harder for some black men and it certainly has some societal drawbacks, but like those with the aforementioned physical challenges, we must view them as just that; challenges not disabilities, and certainly not handicaps. Being a black man is hard, but being a black man who is president will be inconceivably hard.

What do we find when we delve into Barack Obama's background? Let's see:

Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to a Kansas-born mother, Ann Dunham (who is a distant relative of Robert Duvall) and a Kenyan-born father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., who met while both were attending the University of Hawaii, where his father was enrolled as a foreign student.

His mother and father divorced when he was two and his mother re-married and they relocated to Indonesia. His father attended Harvard, traveled around the world on official business for Kenya and saw Obama only a few times by the time he turned 10, at which point he was sent back to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents so that he could attend the highly-regarded non-sectarian private Punahou School where he graduated from.

Obama studied for two years at Occidental College in California before transferring to Columbia University, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations. He became a community organizer for a small Chicago church-based group for three years, helping poor South Side residents cope with a wave of plant closings. He then attended Harvard Law School, and in 1990 became the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review.

He turned down a prestigious judicial clerkship, choosing instead to practice civil-rights law back in Chicago, representing victims of housing and employment discrimination and working on voting-rights legislation. He also began teaching at the University of Chicago Law School. Eventually he ran as a Democrat for the state senate seat from his district, which included both Hyde Park (where he currently lives) and some of the poorest ghettos on the South Side, and won.

In 2004 Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat, representing Illinois, and gained national attention by giving a rousing and well-received keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston; won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word for the CD version of his autobiography "Dreams From My Father" (2006); won his second Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for "The Audacity of Hope" (2008); sought the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Presidency (2008).

It's a brief overview that highlights great accomplishments, but his origins are similar to most black men I know: He came from a single parent household, had a strained relationship with his father, a close relationship with his grandparents, and had to make choices.

Law school, community organizer, civil-rights activist, Grammy award winner, member of the U.S. Senate, Presidential candidate - they are all talent and value based decisions. None of them would be feasible if Barack Obama did not truly believe that these goals were possible and put forth the consistent effort to reach them.

What will happen if Barack Obama gets elected president? What will happen when black men stop blaming the man, and start being The Man? Every door will be open. Every American dream - including being president - can be a reality.

Our view and definition of The Man will finally be flipped; replaced by a positive self-image and greater awareness of the super powers we possess, but seldom activate. We will become more motivated to utilize resources, get better jobs, start successful businesses, and capitalize on opportunities because the leadership and role model that so many of us have lacked, will have emerged in the highest visible position in the country - the presidency.

In short, The Barack Obama Effect will mean that our statute of limitations on excuses will have officially run out. The fixed mindset that has plagued black men for centuries from the aforementioned internalization of negative perceptions will be repaired. The Effect Of Barack Obama will germinate a growth mindset which will benefit black men for centuries to come.

Dweck writes: The growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts. The growth mindset takes the teeth out of stereotypes and makes people better able to fight back. They don't believe in permanent inferiority. She also writes: Prejudice is a deeply ingrained societal problem...a growth mindset helps people see prejudice for what it is - someone else's view of them.

The Barack Obama Effect will inspire little black boys to find the courage to choose the road less traveled and explore the many options available to them. The Barack Obama Effect will motivate the parents of little black boys to instill an authentic, deeply rooted confidence which allows and enables them to have personal and professional lives that are only limited by the boundaries of their imagination and efforts, not lack of opportunities. The Barack Obama Effect will linger because black men and black boys will know that in their hearts and in their minds, they are The Man - the only man - who controls their own thoughts, actions, and destinies.

 

About the Author

Gian Fiero is an educator and speaker who lectures throughout the country. He is also an adjunct professor at San Francisco State University. His specialty topics include business development, career planning, public relations, and personal growth.

Obama has helped wall St have the biggest bonus record ever this year! What about our jobs?

All those bailout banks and Goldman sachs are going to have best year of bonuses due to the stock market run up. Public basically fronte the money for them to make more money. If they lost it they're just going to get more bailout. They won't even let small businesses borow money to make jobs!

Obama is worse president than bush! No jobs hasn't done anything but help rich!

That seems to be the purpose of the American government these days.

Cronies of the politicians get the bulk of the loot.

People are still losing their homes and jobs, but the government only wants to make their cronies and special interests ever-richer at the taxpayers' expense.

The big banks were bailed out, and they're rewarded themselves with big bonuses, and also raised credit card interest rates to record levels.

Gee, thanks Owe-bama.

And the insane orgy of spending by Congress and the President continues, unabated.

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Why President Obama Fascist Policies Will Make Deflation & the Greater Depression Worse

How President Obama Fascist Policies Will Make Deflation And The Greater Depression Worse.

By Delwyn Lounsbury - THE DEFLATION GURU

How President Obama fascist policies will make the deflation economy and coming GREATER DEPRESSION worse.  Webster's New World Dictionary defines fascism as:  A system of government characterized by rigid one-party dictatorship, forcible suppression of opposition, private enterprise under centralized governmental control, belligerent nationalism, racism and militarism, etc. See also NAZI - and defines Nazi as: …Political party (National Socialist German Workers' Party) ... systematically eliminated opposition, and put into effect its program of nationalism... Note the word socialist!  So, Obama is a socialist, Marxist, communist and now turning fascist. Obama wins the prize. What's the etc. for over at Webster's, anyway?  Just say Hitler!

Since all the political power is now in one party, the definition fits.   The Democrats have control of both houses of congress and can pass any law they want.  This has given President Obama fascist force to suppress opposition from the Republicans, the Tea Party, the Libertarians and the conservative independents.  Most Americans are middle-of-the-road to conservative with only some 20 percent being true left-wing liberal.  The President Obama fascist policies of beating up on the opposition:  1. Saying the Republicans drove the economy into a ditch. 2. Bailing out the banksters and unions (GM's unions got to stay while investors were wiped out). 3. Beating up on business (killing free enterprise and regulating and taxing the daylights out of those bad businesses making too much money with the audacity to create private sector jobs). 4.  Bringing big swaths of private enterprise under government mandate and control (think ObamaCare). 5. Beating up on western countries for past and present colonialism (the west must pay dearly for ripping off the third worlds resources was Barack Obama Senior's socialistic dream but it's now our nightmare). 6. More socialism (more government controls like cap-and-trade and all his other wealth redistribution and increased tax ideas. Your taxes will rise too. 

Yes, you! We will all pay and pay for this mountain of debt the progressives are hanging around the world's neck.  All governments are Keynesian these days.  John Maynard Keynes advocated pumping downturns in the economy with stimulus money. The problem is stimulus creates violent whipsaw effects in the economy.

President Obama fascist policies aren't even missing militarism.  He is the one that ramped up sending more troops into Afghanistan to appease the military industrial complex just after getting elected.

Racist?  David Limbaugh's new book, "Crimes Against Liberty" says he is deeply racist. Obama spent years listening to his pastor Reverend Wright saying, "God d**m America."  There is a new 10 percent tax increase on tanning salons.  Who, but white people go to tanning salons?  Sorry. It's just funny.

The only thing missing from President Obama fascist policy is belligerent nationalism.  The Obama administration has focused on "hitting the reset button" and avoiding the "arrogance of power."  Consequently, his weak position is saying to the world -the United States was crucial in establishing a system of global inequalities and poverty by an undue privileged few.  Is that more Marxist speak or what?   Karl Marx wanted capitalism to fail.  So does Obama. Russia, Iran, China and North Korea will just keep causing havoc because Obama will do nothing to stop them.  Obama is helping bring on world war three.  Stop him!Then there is his stupid bowing to third rate political heads of tiny nations.  Why?  Doesn't he know this is a sign of weakness.  I say he is doing it on purpose.  He is saying - thank you for giving me the Nobel Peace Prize and the one million dollars when I hadn't done anything to deserve it yet.  The power elite bought and paid for their President Obama fascist first thing after his election.  I think it was a down payment up front to their new not so secrete socialist agent for a one-world-government/new-world-order fascist future wet-work.  Didn't he just have Osama bin Ladin exterminated right under the whole worlds noses?  Osama bin Ladin was unarmed! 

In the area of foreign policy, the President Obama fascist intent actually threatens our national security and leaves the world more open to terrorist attack.  His policies are geared to hastening a crisis so that government's size and control can grow larger.  Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff until he left the position on 10/1//2010 said, "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste."  Why do you think Obama drug his feet and did virtually nothing for months in the Gulf Oil spill crisis?  The sinister message here is the Anglo American power elite will use every means to grow their new-world-order/big brother socialist fascist big government. 

Now, in a disturbing turn of events the IMF or International Monetary Fund which is headquartered in a 12 story building right on the corner of H Street and Pennsylvania Avenues in Washington D.C. is ramping up plans to be the world central banker of the G-20 nations and big brother us all to death.  It blatantly plans to use "money as the medicine" to build "peace through economic stability."  It's going to be cradle to grave control if we don't watch out.  Total control of you and your children!  Is that what you want?  Watch out!  The IMF is out for domination at warp speed.  Forget about the World Bank and the United Nations.  The IMF is trouble.  It's head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, however, has been charged with two counts of sexual assault as of 5/15/2011.  The power elite think they can get away with anything.

Obama is beating brother Israel up over the Sinai settlements situation.  He pulled planned Polish and Czech Republic missile defense systems first thing when he got into office - a slap to democratic nations freed from communist control by the old Soviet Union.  He won't pressure Iran.  They now have two nuclear installations. Obama's policy of doing nothing with Iran has made an Israeli strike more likely.  Can you say World War Three!

Obama campaigned that he would stop the opium poppy growing in Afghanistan.  He hasn't done a thing about the problem.  Liar!  Corruption and heroin money still buys guns to kill our own soldiers. It's still a fact of life.  Poppies grow everywhere.  It's bad karma. It's heroin for crying out loud.  Heroin kills people and ruins lives all over the planet.  I also fault George W. Bush for not doing anything about this problem during his term.

Obama is constantly subordinating American policy to international consensus like the socialistic United Nations.  A global cap-and-trade commission will be the next giant leap toward a one-world government and the loss of what is left of our FREEDOM.

Putin and Russia realize a nuclear bomb armed Iran is more of a problem to America.  Huge Russian oil income and a history of unrelenting propaganda against the U.S. mean they will keep up the war with neighbors.  With no pressure possible coming from a weak President Obama fascist foreign hidden agenda, we are in for more trouble.  This is all leading up to WORLD WAR THREE, which started with the 9/11/2001 World Trade Center attack, according to Robert Prechter.

21st century American "Liberal Fascism" is a movement of the left leaning Democratic Party with a secondary smaller culprit the Republican Party.  So far, there is no visible racism or cults.  Let's be honest here.  Fascism is when big business is fused at the hip with big government.  Think Hitler and Mussolini.  Obama has government owning 60 percent of General Motors or should I say Government Motors. Fascism!

Franklin D. Roosevelt's, New Deal experimentation, was patterned after Russian and German fascism.  Both Hitler and Mussolini praised FDR.  They had similar policies like the New Deal in effect such as: setting maximum work day hours and minimum wages, a progressive tax system, state run schools, control of money, the constant growth of government and the military controlled by those at the very top. FDR started us down the road to socialism leading to the next and worse depression.  He even outlawed gold ownership and made up government jobs instead of lowering taxes which would have helped business create jobs that would last.  Instead the jobs disappeared when the d**m dam  or other government project was done.  FDR and his (hair) brain trust even decided low prices were the problem.  They sought to restrict supply by paying farmers subsidies not to grow or produce and thereby raise prices.  Even though people were starving!  We still have those farm supports and subsidies today.  They were never repealed.  What's up with that?

Leftist intellectuals saw the New Deal as a good thing. Likewise, the President Obama fascist facts are:  Use the government to coerce people into preferred behavior.  Use the environmentalist movement as a smokescreen for taking more control of the citizens and funding pet projects.  Back a socialist health care movement taking 20% of a free economy and putting it under government control.  Did our congress representing only 20 percent of the people do this without even reading (or writing for that matter) the 2,500 pages of the act?  Wow!  Now, that is an example of fascism.  They don't care what the law says as long as it means more government control.

American progressive (socialist – statist) thinking has a fascist mind set!  "Enlightened" (anointed) leaders and technocrats like this Obama piece of work rejoice in taking away individual choice and the use of the power of the state to sway people's moral and material well-being without even asking.  The anti-messiah is here!  We elected him to the highest office in the land!  Every law, regulation, rule, code, ordinance, permit fee, fine, citation, ticket, tax, influence, politician, bureaucrat, ambassador, agency and even lobbyist behind the anti-capitalist push for socialism and wealth redistribution is in an unholy marriage with fascism when they reach these exorbitant levels.  Obama is not following the CONSTITUTION.  He's trampling all over it.  The new Republican platform says every law and act proposed will reference and point out the specific language in the Constitution enabling and validating it.  YES!  I'll believe it when I see it.

The Federal Reserve and many in both parties of your government are in on a new-world-order/one-world-government 100 year long conspiracy.  They don't care how it's done or how long it takes.  There I've said it.  OUR FREEDOM FAVORING FOUNDING FATHERS would not believe what TYRANNY is going down.   Read the book, "THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND" 1994, by G. Edward Griffin if you don't believe me.  Banksters as big brother?  Every word is true.

What we have today is one big PRICE FIX!  It's not FREEDOM.  If you tell me what to do and back it up with the police power of penalty of jail time or fine you are "fixing the market."  LIBERTY goes out the window and a little more fascism leaks in under the door.  Of course, you get the increased prices, waste and inefficiency of bigger and bigger government in the bargain.  Government was only 6 percent of the economy before the 1930's depression.  Here in the middle of a deflation economy leading into the GREATER DEPRESSION the parasite that is government at all levels sucks in over 25 percent of the wealth. Government employment was up 10% last year, while business unemployment rose 10%.  Who is getting bigger and more top-heavy here?  Where does it end?  Where do you draw the line and get the nightmare to stop and reverse?

All this government has lead to a credit inflation mania blow off commensurate with a 96% loss of value of the money in 100 years time.  A huge deflation economy and the GREATER DEPRESSION are the only cure for credit inflation.  Even fiat money leading to inflation is a tax for god's sake.  Credit inflations always end in a deflation economy and depression, by the way.

Let's just not abdicate more freedoms and let government get bigger in this depression.

Free markets and free money (private gold money - not government paper gold - ha!) are the best for job creation.  Gold money would keep everyone honest.  It's not someone else's debt. Small limited government would mean society would have to take up the slack and peer pressure people into behaving.  Religion and the blinding light speed of the Internet would fill the vacuum of reduced government.  New grassroots services and individuals could be "whistle blowers" and "squeaky wheels" and "Squawker Geese" pointing out potential problems and "bad apples."  Don't cockroaches scatter when you turn the light on them?  Same with a dirty politician, a fraudulent businessmen and a control freak International Monetary Fund.   

Go Libertarian!  Contract out a smaller government to the lowest bidder.  The Libertarian motto is "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."  Keep an army though, but for protection only.

When "God is dead" again like during Hitler's Auschwitz you can bet law-making killed him.  Don't let a President Obama fascist fraud fool you. Is this guy even a citizen?  Where is his birth certificate?  Impeach this fascist fanatic Barack Hussein Obama!

Copyright 2011 by Delwyn Lounsbury – THE DEFLATION GURU                               Reprint rights and use of this allowed with attribution back to:

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About the Author

Delwyn Lounsbury - THE DEFLATION GURU is an Eagle Scout.  He has been an award-winning real estate agent with Coldwell Banker in California since 1968.  He published the Economic Survival Letter in the late 1970's.  Get Free 90 page Download "Deflation eBook" at: http://www.deflationeconom.com      email: [email protected]

 

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