In a shameless and repugnant display of racism, Barack Obama performed for the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) this past Saturday.
Employing his best black cadence, he pandered to his most important voting bloc, Sounding anything but presidential, Obama told blacks to quit crying and complaining and “put on your marching shoes” to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity.
Obama the campaigner used the annual awards dinner of the CBC to answer to increasingly vocal griping from black leaders that he’s been giving away too much in talks with Republicans — and not doing enough to fight black unemployment.
Black unemployment is nearly double the national average at 16.7 percent. The black unemployment in Michigan alone is estimated to be at 40 percent. But Obama is not ready to take any responsibility for this failure. Instead he lays the burden at the feet of others.
“It gets folks discouraged. I know. I listen to some of y’all,” Obama told an audience of some 3,000 in a darkened Washington convention center.
But he said blacks need to have faith in the future — and understand that the fight won’t be won if they don’t rally to his side.
“I need your help,” Obama said. Indeed he does.
He intoned, “Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complainin’. Stop grumblin’. Stop cryin’. We are going to press on. We have work to do.”
Can you imagine the outrage of the politically correct left if a president or any other public figure other than Obama had uttered those words?
I suspect Chris Mathews’ leg would be quivering.
