This post I'm making kinda special in a sense, because right now.....there's a war going on. I'm not talking about east vs. west, Tupac vs. Biggie (which are both dead, may they rest in peace), or fish vs. chicken. I'm talking about a war of the rich get richer vs. the poor are as part of the Good Times theme song says "scratchin and survivin". And part of that scratchin and survivin is riding on this gubernatorial and senatorial elections come November. During this time those votes determine who will run the Senate and House in Congress, governors, state representatives, etc.
With those elections taking place, one major thing is on the line......THE LEGACY OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION. I'm sure there are people who ride or die for this president as well as those who oppose what he stands for. Sadly, there are powerful people who wanted to see him fail from the word GO. Who are those people, you may ask? It's quite simple: THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
From the time the president set foot into the White House, President Obama became their biggest threat. You had the "Tea Party" going on a full on tirade questioning his ethnicity, even going as far as using Mr. Combover himself (Donald Trump) making press conferences to see his birth certificate. Really?! No, really?! Like, where they do that at? When they couldn't make a mockery of him on that issue, then they wanted to ridicule his policies and laws that have passed to better Americans (i.e. Obamacare, The Dream Act, etc.). That didn't work. Then when the shit hit the fan about the whole Benghazi situation, that's when they wanted to spring into action and consider the idea that President Obama was deserving of impeachment.
Well according to Wiki Answers, it states that the reasons a president can be impeached would be for reasons of treason, bribery and other high crimes of misdemeanors. So now the Republican Party is trying to use the excuse of the Dream Act becoming an executive order, they want to use this to be the proverbial "wrench in the spokes" to get him out of office. Here's what I find to be funny and sad about the Republican Party: they are scrambling like roaches when the lights come on, because they know once President Obama is out of office, his legislation will still be in place long after he's gone. They are trying to do any and everything they can to discredit him as a leader of the "free world", and tarnish his name to no end. So the Republican Party knows that the disenfranchised (aka minorities) won't do anything to go out and vote. And because they are privy to that tidbit of information, they are using it to their advantage like the one person at the poker table bluffing their way into winning the game.
What's also funny is how the Republicans want to say that President Obama is committing acts that are unconstitutional and embody the definitions of what is considered impeachment, but what about President Bush (first and second)? They have committed (in my honest opinion) all kinds of high crimes. Let's take for example the "War in Afghanistan" after 9/11. They got on television boasting about how Osama Bin Laden had weapons of mass destruction, but not once did they find anything. Even former General Colin Powell admitted there were no weapons. So what the hell were our troops in the middle east for? A tea party? Baby shower? Now mind you the first Bush president was greasing palms and rubbing elbows with these same people back in the 80's and 90's when Russia was acting a fool and our government and military power needed the help of the very radicals they wanted to eradicate when the World Trade Centers crumbled to nothing. See, people need to stop and look at the bigger picture instead of the small detail or defect that's in it. Republicans see that the rich are getting even richer and the poor and working class folk are barely gettin by. Here's some facts for y'all:
- Water in Detroit is being shut off for people who can't pay their bill (that may be in the $200-$300 range). That city has been in dire straits for the past several years or better.
- The cost of living, good and services have skyrocketed over the past decade or better, but minimum wage hasn't been raised in 5 years.
- President Obama tried to get legislation passed for women to receive equal pay as men in the workforce, but Republicans oppose it at every turn.
- Congress is fighting to repeal Obamacare every chance they can get.
Ladies and gentlemen of African descent, it's time we turn off the snooze button and start waking up. Now is not the time to continually go for mediocre, status quo, or goin through the motions. We are too busy relying on politicians to do EVERYTHING for us and are too lazy to get up and do for self. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King didn't die in vain. Cesar Chavez didn't die in vain. Why should we let their legacies and their fight die with us? As much as our ancestors fought, struggled and even died to have the voting rights (or what's left of them) we have today, now is not the time to just sit back and let GOP dictate how we live our lives, how we raise our families or how we go out to make an earnest living. I constantly hear African Americans say "my vote doesn't count". THAT'S BULLSHIT! WE the people determine who gets elected into these offices of service and government. The government doesn't determine that. The voice of the people is what can make or break how laws are executed and considered. When we as a people don't vote, we lose out. Our children would suffer the brunt of what decisions were made by us from time past.
I know some people are gonna say "why are you pulling out the race card?" It's quite evident: everyone other than white won't and still don't receive the fair treatment we deserve. So what that this is 2014. Let's not forget it was 16, 17 years ago a black man was dragged to his death in the backroads of Jasper, TX. It was all of just about 40 years or more that segregation was abolished. For goodness sake, they don't celebrate Martin Luther King day in Arizona! Something is absolutely wrong and if we don't correct the problem, it's going to do nothing but get worse.
November.......GO VOTE! No excuses. Don't complain when they are locking up your family members for years on a crack cocaine charge. Don't complain when your neighborhood looks like shit after the neighborhood drug dealers/crack heads have taken over and turned it into a wasteland. Don't complain when local gangs are tagging up your community bringing the property value down to nothing. If you don't do anything else, vote to keep your children from suffering the backlash of your lack of exercising your given right. Not only is your present affected, but so is their future.
Don't let your government officials do stupid stuff by impeaching a president that hasn't robbed his own country blind and seeing for greed like the previous presidents before him. WAKE UP.
Until Next Post,
Peace & Blessings,
Untouched Jewel
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