If Ann Coulter Were Black
Ann Coulter is a white Crystal Wright. I met Crystal more than ten years ago when I interviewed her for my book, In Search of Black America. She is still sharp and beautiful even though her contemporary web persona is puzzling yet extremely entertaining. On Twitter, her handle isGOPBlackChick and she is editor ofconservativeblackchick.com. The last headline on her website proclaimed “Blacks are Fed up with Obama; It’s about Time.”
Really Crystal? Are blacks fed up with Obama? Every sign of black opinion on Obama I see is compatible with the recent Pew-USA Today poll, which places President Obama’s favorability at its highest since 2009. I have not seen any evidence of black discord from those numbers.
It must be so frustrating to be an Obama-hater now. Perhaps it is like being a liberal who did not consider Ronald Reagan to be the God of the White House in the ’80s. Now, through the sequester and a shaky economic recovery, Obama clearly displays some of that Reagan teflon that easily carried the former president through Iran Contra. This is a moment of Revenge of the Liberals who survived the Reagan years. In fact, one of Wright’s own tweets yesterday implied Obama supporters were as locked to the president as Reagan-lovers were during the Eighties. Wright tweeted, “if the president told his supporters to jump off a bridge for hope & change, they would say how many times?”
Now it is time for my own confession: I love reading the blogs of conservatives, especially black Obama haters. Maybe it is a fascination with “the other.” Maybe it is akin to my comfort and ability to be entertained in a room of Ronald Reagan lovers 30 years ago. Conservative tweets are great bedtime reading — almost like watching Comedy Central. Conservative William Carter Jr. describes himself as “God-fearing, Husband, Father, Brother, Son, Friend, American, Gamer. Life is short, enjoy it while you’re here, you only get one.” Carter tweeted that the president could propose to bring back slavery, and his supporters would “clap at the SOTU when it’s announced.” Derrick Burnette says: “If Obama spit in his supporters face they’d say thanks 4 the rain Mr President.” Just pass the popcorn or pour me another glass of Merlot.
Wright, Carter or Burnett may have felt at home at a dinner I attended in the ’80s with black Republicans honoring Richard Nixon. Someone compared Tricky d**k’s record on race to Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. To be fair, the speaker was referring to the former President’s black capitalist initiatives.
Beyond her tweeting sensations, Wright makes some solid points. There are some thoughtful elements in her blog posts exploring the GOP’s pathetic efforts to reach out to black voters. And she takes us back to those “binders” — not Romney’s books of good women. Wright notes that the Congressional Black Caucus gave President Obama “binders full of blacks to appoint to cabinet positions but Obama isn’t giving his 95 percent a single nom. Zero.”
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A daily growing % of Blacks are waking up, realizing that they have been used and discarded by the Obama camp and, yes, are fed up with Obama.
We have been treated this way by others, just as other cultures have and continue to be used as pawns; however, with one of our ‘own’ we, collectively, expected better. This is why the status quo treatment for Blacks by politicians will no longer be tolerated.
Reach out to some real Black people who are not still drinking the kool aide and have stepped back to get a better and more complete look at what is and has been going on….do this and you will see that ‘yes’ Blacks are fed up with Obama and the % is growing.
1. Illegal immigration = amnesty (let’s face it, a Latino issue) hurts Black communities directly.
2. Gay rights (affects 5% of the population with only a % of that % affecting some Blacks…non issue for us. In fact, in our conservative, often spiritual part of our communities view this action is another slap in the face to some.
3. Gun control….swingin’ at ‘White folks, here’ Mr. President. Blacks own guns legally, mostly; however, most semi-automatics are owned by a different community of people. Speaking of this issue that little part of this issue that gives the government and our President the power to arrest, without cause, any American citizen; prevent them from making any phone calls (so to your family you just ‘disappeared’ without a trace) and locking them up indefinitely not only offends us but, like most Americans, scares the p**p out of Black Americans – making us not only fed up with Obama but suspicious and distrustful of any person who would support this clause.
So, yes, Black people are at that point and growing. Obama had better had better do something that is exclusively, specifically and by name for Black people or he will lose our support and, like it or not, he will need it in the upcoming months and years.
Black and proud.