Obama Compares Himself to Rapper Jay-Z at Fundraiser, But What Do They Really Have in Common?
by Yvette Carnell
Obama was all smiles while schmoozing 100 donors at Jay-Z’s 40/40 on West 25th Street, where supporters paid $40,000 a plate for the privilege of getting within arms length of President Obama.
“Let me just begin by saying to Jay and Bey, thank you so much for your friendship. We are so grateful. Michelle and Malia and Sasha are mad at me because they are not here,” Mr. Obama said. “That doesn’t usually happen. Usually they’re like, we’re glad you’re going–we don’t need to go. But every time they get a chance to see these two they are thrilled, partly because they are just both so generous, particularly to my kids. And Malia and Sasha just love both of them.”
Jay and Bey?
President Obama went on to gush over Beyonce’, saying she “couldn’t be a better role model for our daughters because she carries herself with such class and poise.”
“Jay-Z now knows, you know, what my life is like,” the president said. “We both have daughters. And our wives are more popular than we are.” He turned to Jay-Z, concluding, ”So– you know. So we’ve got a little bond there. It’s hard, but it’s OK.”
Obama also noted that he and Jay-Z came from humble beginnings, which is an odd comparison, considering Mr. Obama spent much of his life in private schools. How does living a charmed life in Kansas or Indonesia compare with selling crack in New York?
It is worth considering that the lumping together of disparate African-Americans under the guise of sameness is a big deal. Outside of both men beginning life with the disadvantage of being black, they couldn’t have less in common, but we’re supposed to see their blackness as a singular unifying quality? Why? And to what end?
Going to a fundraiser thrown by hip-hop’s elite is fine, I guess (I’m still wrestling with the ethics of it), but Obama shouldn’t pretend that he and Jay are boyz. This isn’t about that. This is about money.
It’s sort of like how when you go onto a mostly white college campus, the first white person you encounter asks you if you know a girl named Shanika, because she’s black like you. It’s not just that you don’t know Shanika, you don’t even know if you’d be friends with Shanika if you met her, because black people have varied interests and idiosyncrasies. So this Obama-Jay-Z bromance has that same sort of feel, like ‘we’re black, so we automatically have stuff in common, ya know?’ No. I don’t know. And I don’t know Shanika either.
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Its not a disadvantage to be born black. It is poverty perception that is carried on from generation to generation for some. When we see ourselves as the great Kings and Queens as we are then our consciousness will be Greatness. Slavery is just one part of our history but thru the history book that is the only history that is pushed into the brains of our children and I see your writing agrees with that consciousiness. When we lift our consciousness we lift our love of life and living and we then great a better living for our selves and community. http://www.KemetNu.com
Know your history – Know yourself.
It is too bad that many of us do not have your outlook. We would be a helluva lot better off. Most of us are trying to be some conflicting white and black person at the same time.
Yep.
What they have in common is drugs,… very powerful drugs, ambition and delusions of grandeur. Neither one is helping anyone but themselves, and that is the greatest consciousness of them all in America. Me Phi Me. Amen.
PS: I know Shanika.
I could not have said it better! Nothing like Conscious thinking Sisters on this site! I get tired of the same old O’Drama, political, and entertainment garbage, but when a Sister comes with knowledge and wisdom; you can’t beat it with an egg beater!
You know, just as well as, I know, this was just a FRONT; and for the prez to LOWER himself to a sc(rap) artist, is even more devastating! I beLIEve he is TOLD where to go and, who to compare himself to, by the elitist, who control him. They want to keep our children THINKING, that being a rapper or a hip shaker is their ONLY future.
IS THIS THE REAL REASON THESE SCHOOLS ARE CLOSING AND FAILING OUR CHILDREN? THEY WANT TO PUT OUR GIRLS ON THE “POLES” AND MAKE THEM ‘HO’s? OR TO MAKE OUR BOYS THINK THAT, BEING A THUG AND SELLING DRUGS IS THE WAY TO MAKE MONEY?
h**l! Beyonce OR JAY-Z can’t even hold an intelligent conversation, so how could they be used, as role models? O’Drama NEVER mentions Black leader’s names, he decodes them with code words. O’Drama is just an entertainer, like Jay and Bey, and they are ‘BOUGHT NEGROIDS’, so, perhaps they do have something in common!
Derrick….before you open your mouth to condemn Jay_Z about holding intelligent conversations, you need to do your research and make sure that there is no evidence to dispute your claim. All you have to do is google interviews with Jay-Z and you will see that he is very intelligent. Tell me….what are your thoughts on the water problem in Africa? If you need some help putting together ideas, you can use Jay-Z’s interview on the subject as a guide.
Jay-Z is just another negroid with money and fame; therefore let’s not dis-cuss him for now.
The water problem in Afrika is caused by the foreigners, such as, china, japan, canada, germany and other nations, who are usurping THEIR LANDS! This is done to keep Afrika and Afrikans in this slave-like condition.
However, there are cities and countries in Afrika that will make New York look like a slum area. The media NEVER show the POSITIVE side of Afrika because they want to keep negroids like you, to THINK, that it’s just a contintent full of wild animals, and Black Afrikans living in huts, and poverty.
You have Black businessmen in Afrika, who OWN banks, companies, and other organizations, but the media NEVER project these men and women, who are exceptions to the rule! You have millionaires in Afrika, WHO ARE HELPING THEIR PEOPLE.
The fashion industry is booming in Afrika, but how many negroid fe-males here in amerikkka wear dresses and apparel, that are made by Afrikan women? These sisters make clothes, that caucsoids can’t copy! They make ALL kinds of clothes for the Black man and woman. Do you see this on tell-a-LIE-vision?
Europe is destroying the watersheds and futures of Africa. Go search this Truth for yourself and use this assignment, as your ‘homework’ for tonight.
Now, let’s get to Jay-Z. I’m not downing Jay-Z, you are missing the point. No way if I was prez of a country would I compare myself with an ex-dope boy! Y’all claim O’Drama is so intelligent, smart and articulate, why didn’t he use somebody that was comparable to him?
I have heard Jay-Z talk, and he talks a good slick game, but when it comes to SPEAKING OUT on issues that involve OUR people, he’s no where to be heard. If he was so INTELLIGENT, how come he didn’t keep his record company? Why work for SOMEBODY else? These caucasoids BOUGHT HIM OUT!
Just think: he could have ALL those sc(rappers) and hip/slop (hop) artist under his coat tail, but they are jumping, pumping and bumping for caucasoids. He could’ve put a lot of Black to work, if he would’ve kept his record company (or did he really own it)?
My question is; what do you youngsters see in these sc(rappers)?
By the way…you are the perfect example, how O’Drama has our youth ‘looking up’ to these
sc(rappers), as future leaders and speakers!
KNOWLEDGE IS LEARNED, BUT WISDOM IS “OBSERVING”
CHECK!
Speak man.Speak!!!
@ Derrick, love it when one gets educated as you did for free to SMT. If SMT wanted to really asked an intelligent question, he/she should have posed it to JayZ, who should have spoken on the toxic water conditions existing here in America that is killing fish, us and everything else relying on it for life! Especially the poor quality in Black neighborhoods and schools…So if JayZ really wanted to speak on something and make a difference showing true intellect, he should have spoken about water conditions here at home, where real charity begins…JayZ and Obama of course wouldn’t know anything about that bcuz they both have in common ignoring the suffering and plight of Blacks especially poor Blacks that both Obama and JayZ owe their successes too!!!
SMT before you call someone out you should do your due dilligence…So far you are blinded leading the blind.
“Jay-Z now knows, you know, what my life is like,” the president said. “We both have daughters. And our wives are more popular than we are.” He turned to Jay-Z, concluding, ”So– you know. So we’ve got a little bond there. It’s hard, but it’s OK.”
It must be hard. I sympathize with you and JZ. Hang in there. Take of your bedroom slippers and it wont be so hard.
Let’s be clear that Jay Zucker is not the first to take drug money and turn it a legitimate business. But Mr.President this is not a good look for you and more importantly for the children. No kids don’t stay in school and study to go on to become a doctor go out and buy some kilos of cocaine and sell it to strung out pregnant women,that’s what gets you the pretty girl and dinner with the president of the united states! Why is it everybody gets amnesia when someone who literally was selling death for $10 twenty years ago is considered a saint now?!? Jay Zucker bragged and preached the joys of demeaning women on just about every song on every one of his albums and our president calls him in a way a kindred spirit?!? How does this look to the world Mr.President?! This all stems from the black community giving a giant pass to drug dealers over the last thirty years. This obscene notion that if you sell drugs and stay out of jail and go on to something legitimate,you are excused because their was no other option for you to survive besides selling drugs is BS!!! Really?!? Is that all it takes for someone who is black to get ahead in America cause this is what the president is showing to those kids whose options are few for getting out of the ghetto. Does the president while posing and smiling with Jay Zucker trully realize all that crack that was sold,all those albums that glorified the n word,calling our own women b*****s and hoes,does the president realize thats where the money started from? The final destination may be clean but the departure is dirty and tainted. It took all of that to
hold that fundraiser Mr.President no matter how you spin it. Was there no others that didn’t sell death to their own just so they could live better that could raise money for your campaign? Was there no other black prominent business men who chose not to destroy there community’s by selling a destructive addictive high to ANYONE who had the cash,but chose to do without and still went on to be a productive working class citizen’s?
Very well said. Obama ought to be ashamed of himself for praising that ‘low life death dealer.’
Tell it like it is Hollywood! Some people cannot see the Forest for the trees.I Guess folks have really been miseducated.God Help Us.Some people need classes in logical thinking. Yvette Carnell “You Go Girl ” for putting this out here.You certainly will not get this from the screwballs in Mainstream news.
What they have in common is that they are successful. They also have successful wives. But they are polar opposite in how they became successful. Jay Z is a street hip hop guy. Barack is a Harvard educated intellectual man. That is it in a nutshell. It does not need to be elaborated on any more than that.
First Lady of the unuted snakes is Michelle O’Drama
First Lady of Booty Shakers is Beyonce
THEY HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON?
President of the unuted snakes is Prez O’Drama
‘Owner’ of a club is Jay-Z
THEY HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON?
Former senator was Prez O’Drama
Former dope dealer was Jay-Z
THEY HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON?
O’Drama is an entertainer, and so is Jay-Z; so, this is the ONLY thang they have in common…they both love PUTTING ON SHOWS!
OVERstand Me?
Really Greg? That’s it in a nutshell? Is this how you gloss over this pairing that one is a hip hop guy and the other is a Harvard graduate?!? So Jay Zucker is credible in your mind to become to be president then?! Come on man don’t be blindsided this. Wasn’t to long ago that Jay Zucker was up on charges for trying to stab somebody and bragged on a song later that if guilty he’s not going to jail cause he has five passports! Dont you dare say a drug dealer and a Harvard graduate are both on the same level in terms of being successful! I’m embassed for you that you typed that! Success is not,NOT something you should be proud about if that success came from you leeching off of the downfall of another.
You missed the context of the whole event. Jay Z and Beyonce were raising money for Pres. Obama election campaign. I think everybody knows what they Alll are. It was about success using success. You think Obama is going to judge popular people like Jay Z and his wife? I would think now. This happens all the time. Suge Knight once donated a large sum of money to former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan’s campaign. I am sure he went over and shook Suge’s hand during the event. I am also sure he did not turned up his nose at him and judge him. We black folks can be hypercritical of each other. Obama got into a festive mood because of the favor Jay Z and his wife did for him. And that is it. I am not trying to make them into the next Martin and Corretta King.
Jay Z. Has a past just like everyone else who’s ready to rip the president down because he’s not your Superman. H_e’s not your priest, he never said he was saved, sanctified, and filled with the holy ghost…He and his wife has the right to have friends, of there choice! If you or your children need a role models, don’t look to the president to make all ya’ll critics happy and live the way ya’ll think is best. He’s a man just like the next, he takes a c**p, he worries, he puts on his pants just like the next man…why do people want him to be this perfect super hero that pleases people which have nothing better to do…other then put him and his family on watch and lie in wait to have something negative to say. HE HAS A RIGHT TO LIVE HIS OWN LIFE AND HAVE WHATEVER FRIENDS HE CHOOSE….Mitt Romney is not getting as much critizing and he’s really gonna give ya’ll something to yap about if he gets in that freaking chair.
And let me say…It takes money, a whole lot of money to run a campaign…Mitt alone has more money then he will ever need.. NT to mention the many, many racist pigs that want our black president out of office. Beyonce and Jay got love for this man and is trying to do everything in there power to aid the president in this run foe another term. How many of you have donated or can even afford. To donate to a point it will. make makes a difference? Not me…I might have a few bucks to donate but not much….Mitt got all the money he needs. Why get mad cause the president has celebrities that are willing to use star power to help this man, the President! With this campaign!!!??? Come on people!!!!!!
To Christine Jay Zucker and his wife are not the only ones in America that can raise huge amounts of money for a campaign. This is about ethics and about the company you keep. You mention friendship in your comment,this is not about friendship. This is about politics where politicians will put aside their moral grounds in order to get what they need to help win there campaign. So your saying if JayZucker was still that dope dealer on the corner he would still be presidents “friend”? But when the president was under scrutiny for attending pastor wright’s church and the “comments” he said that threaten the Obama campagin he dropped the pastor and his church like a hot potato! I’m sure they were friends at one time but not the friend who could raise money like like a drug
dealer turned rapper could. This is about the comment that he and Zucker have a common background on how they got to where they are now. A comment that will resonate in the young people’s minds. Because not all of the kids who hear this will have the opportunity or advantages to go to school and graduate to become a senator and president. But nearly all of them could take the Jay Zucker road and sell drugs. So like I said earlier since the president considers him a kindred spirit he is basically saying its okay to follow in not only his steps to become president but Jay Zuckers as well. And really a kid can’t look to the President of the Unted States as a role model?!? Really?!? Christine then all hope for kids today really are hopeless if they have to look elsewhere than the President. And finally no he’s not superman but he is appointed by the people to represent and protect them from harm. He is the leader. He represents the morality of the nation. He can’t be 100% perfect all the time but he has to try harder than you or me because that’s part of the job for holding the highest office in the country.
Hollywood, true that to all ur comments! U r on point! The prez is much too intelligent not to know what kind of negative msg this sends by aligning himself w. this former crack dealer, but jes like Derrick said, he is doin what his puppeteers tell him to do. His alliance w. JayZ is precisely meant to send all the wrong msgs; showing our kids that its ok to aspire to be jes like Jigga. His controllers know that they can use him, jes like they use these ignorant rappers, to sell any negative bill of goods whatsoever to our community. That is his purpose, along w. his homeboy JayZ, to sellout the community. That’s what they got n common!
You got a point there!
They have one true thing in common- they know how to bend Black folks over Raw!
See you @ the poles!!! (lol)
@ Christine
“I might have a few bucks to donate but not much…”
The defense rests. (too funny) Take your money and spend on yourself. For 40k a plate-you need it more they do. They asked me for $3.00`I wouldn’t give em eye water to cry with. Tell your bonesless President to start making good in ChiTown on some his promises. At least with Mitt we know where he’s coming from.
And Christine as far as needing a lot of money to run office then why not go straight to the drug dealer on the corner and collect donations? And the donations I made never came from drug deals. And no Jay Zuckers money today wasn’t from drug deals but it was built from it. If it wasn’t from those drug deals in the past then Jay would not be where he is today. It’s a insult to all the people who have been affected by drugs being sold to the community. A mother who had lost there child due to overdose or worse,the person that sold those drugs to that child gets a pass because they took that money to start a music label and ended up a rap star that dines with the president. What’s next someone who was a serial killer and kills a dozen people for fun and then twenty years from now they are able to raise big money for a campaign should the president hob k**b with them too? What if they are friends?
This is also not about voting for Romney over The President. Far from it. This has been about telling the world that he a Harvard educated man and a dope dealing explicit rapper have a lot in common .
I don’t think this is black and black as you are putting it. I think you are holding them to a higher, unfair, and different standards than the rest of the American populus. I think each man and each woman are a product of the environments and times they grew up in. They just became more successful at each own paths. A lot of black intellectuals or college educated types believe they have been forsaken in this society. There is this spite that black folks or half black folks will get from these types of black people. It took me a while to believe the success of rappers. I could not believe that nonsense music would ever amount to anything. But they did it. I came to understand an embrace it over time. Obama still face his detrators because he is not black enough. Truthfully, we black folks do not make the rules on Who Is, and Who Isn’t. We are still in a dependent position of having to take what we can get. That means Jay Z. And that means Barack Obama. And finally, Jay Z, and Barack Obama with their lovely wives in a fund raiser.
I JUST WANT TO SAY ONE THING TO JAY-Z “THANK YOU”
HOLLYWOOD You’re just FULL OF JEALOUS s**t! I can say more, but it’s not worth IT!
“I think you are holding them to a higher, unfair, and different standards than the rest of the American populus. ”
Really? The President of the United States? A freakin Rapper dude who sales fairytales about robbing, drug sales and let the white man call him n****r?
No expectation for them at all? Wow.
But you are not some Black God to decide and judge them. All of us fall short of what we should be including non black folks. You have your opinion. But we all do. The most important thing about my criticism of your view is that it is not about any individual. We as black people are not ready as a group to hold each other to standards above the individual survival. We–and I emphasize We–do not have an independent system of our own to expect each other to this Model Standard for the whole race. We still have not settled the problem of the 20th Century the late great W.E.B Dubious spoke about in the war in our souls between being Black and American. I really believe the biggest problem we have above all is the psychology incoherence of our minds. I have seen this exists in all black folks of all walks of life. None of us in my opinion has a linear answer for this. We have not learned how to live as black folks yet. We are still in the survivors’ stage.
I’m sick of all these ignorant a*s Rap Buffoons Sambos they might as well go BuckDance & paint up in BlackerFace they Speak or Comment on Everything & are Everywhere Accept the Library lol I got a Prediction 20 years from Now all these Negroes with the Pimp Cups will be lookEd at like Fools in BlackFace lol d**n Dummies Reenforcing Stereotypes we will be Back at Mr Gilmore’s place in no time with 25 Jobs lol I just Hate Jay-z & Obama you gotta take Donations for this fool to show up @ a Black Event Crackers telling Him What to Do because he run from us like George Bush lol Obama sounding like a w***e so fools can buy Him for 40,000 a ticket? This is Sad & he avoiding the Hood because the Whiteman said it! Like I said B4 He can’t help us if he do they will Blast off! Like they did Kennedy & his Brother! Why Negroes always eating out RFK’s a*s when this MF Allowed Gay Edgar Hoover to wiretap MLK what about Deprivation & Economic Castration going on in the Hood! Chinatown is for Chinese,What do we get but some ignorant Negroes talking about this Hood is for everybody? How Braindead can you be! Accept your own & be yourself!
Thank you.
@Greg
Please find a dictionary or a Thesaurus. Therefore, even you can understand what youre talking about. ( all that dang rambling-smh)
I wasn’t aware that J-Z was “now’ a drug dealer…I thought that was in his past. Jufhe joe broen was once a thug. Former president Clinton had a thing going on with a cigar in the white house, I can sit here and randomly point out negative things about almost every body who has some position of importance. My point, if you’re looking for something negative to talk about, about almost anybody, look hard enough you”lil find something. If the president was hanging out with stuffy stiff neck rich folks. We live There would be criticism about that too. He can’t win for losing with some of you ppl… A bucket crabs. I wonder if most of you are planted by the opposition…..Mitt Romney has the rich n**i party and the Kkk rallying behind him and y’all whinnying and complaining cause the president has a friendly relationship with a couple who ya’ll think is not good enough??? Not one of you know these people personally…If yje president has enough since to run a country. I just. got have faith he has enough since to pick good decent folks to be in his and his. famiy. company….. I will always say, He has a right to choose his friends and he don’t need any of ya’ll approval or permission…
Excuse the typos…on my cell. Judge Joe Brown was a thug in the past… Clinton had a cigar party….he was able to live that down…but the president can’t get no breaks…this y’all talking bout is so petty considering what this country is up against..
Pls u people shld leave them alone and d funny thing is that if picture can be show with ur comment people will see that all u people saying s**t about the president are all white.
Christine, Thank you so much for your comments. I totally agree. While these folks are b******g about President Obama, they do forget about who is backing Romney or they thought we forgot.
Yawn
Some you people are looking at my response as a put down for the president administration. And if you would read carefully it is not that at all. IT’S ABOUT ATTENDING AND ACCEPTING FUNDRAISER MONEY FROM A FORMER DRUG DEALER WHO CONTIUES TO REFER TO HIS DRUG DEALING,USES OF THE N WORD,CALLING WOMEN b*****s AND HOES AND GLORIFY IT WITH NO REMORSE EVEN TO THIS DAY! But as Christine keeps stating that’s his pal,his homeboy they tight know what I mean son! I gotta show love to my n***a! If he throwin paper my way I gotta take it! Everybody do it why shouldn’t I! So sad that this president couldn’t break the mold and show their is a better way. And finally l***o the president doesn’t consider Jay as a friend. The president is a politician and like all politicians they’ll smile and take a picture with you as long as you contribute to their campaign. Don’t get it twisted!
Yet again, I disagree with you, Yvette Carnell. This is complete non news. You should thank America for the First Amendment to the Constitution, becuase I am amazed at the zeal with which you want to attack and bring down this President, all the time insulting your readers by claiming that you do not wish them to vote for Mitt Romney. Which is it going to be?
What ethics are involved in attending a fundraiser? Why are you picking apart a harmless comment that has nothing to do with the outcome of the election? All you want to do is sit and race-bait, taking on the cloak of perceived victimhood, and picking at the decent record Obama has with the African American community. It seems that anything the President does is wrong to you- even if he was to do something that would benefit African Americans, you would still find some fault- and all the while, you are sitting behind your keyboard, doing, yes, pretty much nothing.
And you want to prey on the fact that many African Americans may not be very well informed politically to fool them into thinking that their President has neglected them, and keep them at home on election day. This is disgraceful to me, even as a Nigerian. You have rarely if ever come up with a decent attack against the President, and I don’t hold out much hope that you will.
Let’s hope this is the last misinformed article of attack against Obama, and let him live in peace. Until you emulate his record, I don’t think you really have anything to say to the black people about him.
I like that Obama acknowledged that they both came from humble beginnings. They are both black men who grew up without there fathers. Granted Jay-Z sold drugs and Obama went to private school however they still both had to struggle through adversity to achieve there levels of success. The fact that Jay-Z has reached a platform where he can raise money for the President is a standing ovation with in itself. He has evolved as a great figure with in the black community. The focus of this article should be on the fact that Jay-Z is heavily involved with the re election of President Barack Obama and not the equity of their “poverty”. This article could have been a tool to inspire youth to get out and “vote”. Instead you focus on a trivial issue that is not even and issue. Better luck next time no wonder this article not being shared on
any social network. Thumbs down at you. Successful black men anywhere uniting should be celebrated. (SMH) o_O
A lot of you people feel that just because the president is a African American that he should not be criticized for issues, policies by people who are also African american? Sorry but you and the rest are totally wrong to think that black people should turn a blind eye to things that are questionable by the president simply because he has the same pigmentation. It’s that same blindsight that another group of people had for somebody that was voted into office in 2000 and 2004,that’s why we are in this terrible mess now. So yes I and others will continue to question and criticize issues with the president that we feel are wrong because that is our right as Americans and no color of the skin is going to change that.
My sentiments exactly,lay it out brother.
My sentiments exactly,lay it out brother.
Finally words and COMMENTS have power,especially from the president who’s every action every word is recorded for history. And frankly Debroah you don’t seem to get why we have politicians. You mention to leave the president alone to live in peace?!?! What?! This president has a job to do. A job that I and many others have placed him to do to REPRESENT us. And if I have a problem with someone I CHOSE to sit in office you d**n right I’m gonna critisize a fundraiser he attended with someone who glorifies urban crime,violent lifestyles,substance abuse,materialism and misogyny.
Right on, Hollywood!!
After having a discussion with my kids about thuis topic, I’m seeing what everyone who is speaking out about the president and J-Z bromance as some call it is talking about …seeing things a lot different. You Guys are absolutely correct…The president and the ” Illuminati”….I wont go into details but its deep…But bottom line, I can’t back the president on this one, now that I know much more….(there is so much more to this…) enough said.
Ms Carnell: I don’t know if you are a M. Romney supporter or not, but you are sure acting like it. You are just giving them fodder against a man you should be behind. I’m not saying don’t get in his behind to help blacks more, but what I am saying is can you afford to throw rocks. I don’t think any of us can. You act as if the man is powing around with terrorists. You’re belittling the man who is not supposed to be your knight in shinning armour. He’s supposed to make a difference in the world as a whole. He’s the president of the united states, not black people. Do you guys (everyone who commented here), think if he was doing everything we wanted him to he would even be eligible to run a 2nd term. NOT! I’m pretty sure that a private school in Indonesia and I know that the school he went to in Hawaii wasn’t any kind of party. Should he keep Jay at a distance because he came from a harsh background and was a disgrace to society. He only lived what he came from.
I don’t see you denigrating Mr. Romney or any other white politician. He only pointed to the fact that he and Jay have children and wifes who are more popular than them. You don’t know their relationship, so you’re statement is asinine. Beyonce is a gifted artist with an amazing voice and no different from the Aretha’s, Glady’s and Dianna’s of the world. Have you check into their backgrounds. You are just like white people, making blacks pay what just a few have done. Half of them don’t even know they’re racist, just think it’s a given right to look down on another race. It’s ingrained into their being. Until you try to teach instead of denigrate African Americans, uplift them and instill in them a sense of pride will I consider you a plus to the blacks of America.
I think you are just a republican lover posing as a black, caring and concerned about your own. Don’t forget he’s got a campaign to run also. Are you going to be the contributing factor that puts him in the competition with Romney. I think not!
Nothing can change my mind, as for which candidate is best for our country ….Obama all the way!!! No matter what….He’s the only way to go on election day!
One thing you must point out though is that if you putt all of Jay-Z albums together, all of the songs, ghostwritten and all, Obama definitely has more more people killed than jay. If your’re going to be honest.
I would not call JayZ and Beyonce role models for my children.What about all the unacceptable language JayZ uses in his lyrics of his songs.I wished they could have chosen another way.This is ridiculous.Are we going to let money buy acceptance? I do not think so.
I have found your ideals, and your comments very interesting. Yes, we are in a time of elections and fundraising, but I question the amount of people that attended that event. The admission was ($40,000.00) forty thousand dollars a plate, I believe that
($ 6,000,000.00) six millions dollars was donated.??? Not bad for a few hours of work.
It is good to see that people “( some of us Black folks that were in attendence)” can afford that type of luxury for one evening considering, how our economy has created devastating effects upon our neighborhoods.
Black folks are loosing their homes, black folks are being thrown off of their health care plans because their child has a pre-existing condition. Families are breaking up, husbands and wives are fighting, they are at each others throats all because one has lost their job, and the bill’s are not getting paid like they use too. Other’s can’t stand or handle the pressure, so they go out and purchase some drugs and get high just to ease the pain.
If we are going to fund raise then let do it for the people who needs the help. WE all know that the drugs can be stopped from coming into this country. Remember, we don’t own the planes, the boats, the trains, or do we make the deals that allow death and destruction to reach our neighborhoods. We all know that America can be great if we all took on the attitudes to share
and help each other, not just for the selected few. Yes, both men has something in common, just think about it.
As usual, we on this post, don’t agree on much but a fund raiser is a fund raiser. Period.