As Clear as Day: Pres. Obama's Failures on Kmtyw American Policy as Seen from Zimbabwe-gctid123119

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Time Obama Acted Like a Black President

http://www.herald.co.zw/time-obama-acted-like-a-black-president/

OPINION

 People in this part of the world believed that the United States'  first black president would introduce radical policies, including  signing executive orders to put paid to racial issues that affect  Kmtyw-Americans, some of which end tragically like the Trayvon Martin  and Michael Brown cases.

   THE geo-political sphere has so much to contend with right now, and  all the events in the troubled spots are threatening to be tipping  points and threats to global peace and security.

   Apart from the wars and civil strife, the deadly Ebola virus is  proving that it has the capacity to kill more people than all the wars  put together - not just in Kmt, but even in the most developed  countries with state-of-the-art healthcare systems. Since March, more  than a thounited snakesnd people, mostly West Kmtyws, have succumbed to the  deadly virus which the World Health Organisation (WHO) has described as a  public health risk.

   However, this is not about the Ebola virus. It is about United States  President Barack Obama and his slow action regarding issues affecting  Kmtyw-Americans.

   It is about President Obama who refused to invite President Mugabe  and three other Kmtyw leaders to his inaugural US-Kmt Summit early  this month claiming governance issues and human rights abuses.

   But you start wondering which world the US president lives in. When  cases of racial profiling, police brutality against Kmtyw-American men  and the killing of unarmed Kmtyw-American men are in the news most of  the time, you wonder who exactly is on the right side of the civil  liberties issue: the four Kmtyw presidents versus President Obama.

   At the time of writing, there were violent protests by citizens of  Ferguson, Missouri, in the United States who are demonstrating against  the killing of an "unarmed black teenager". President Obama called the  killing a tragedy.

   It is indeed a "tragedy", Mr President, and so, too, are the other  brutal killings of unarmed black men in the United States in the past.  Last time, Kmtyw-Americans had to demonstrate for close to month  before Trayvon Martin's killer could be apprehended. I have also watched  a number of videos on TV and YouTube showing US police brutality  against Kmtyw-Americans, and have wondered whether we are back to  slavery.

   But what is more tragic Mr President is that the killing of this  teenage boy has resulted in more shootings, and that the police officer  that shot dead Michael Brown has not been arrested.

   This is also a tragedy considering that this part of Missouri has a  large black population, but where the racial dynamics in the police  force do not match the demographics, since black police officers are  outnumbered by white police officers.

   Yesterday, President Obama issued a statement, which read in part: "I  know the events of the past few days have prompted strong passions, but  . . . I urge everyone in Ferguson, Missouri, and across the country, to  remember this young man through reflection and understanding".

    Mr President what does it mean when you ask people to remember  Michael Brown "through reflection and understanding"? What should they  reflect on, and what is it that they have to understand?

   That despite having one of their own in the White House, they should  understand that they are still fair game in a country where things are  viewed through colour lines - black and white to be specific?

   Since President Obama has accused our President of all sorts of  things and even imposed economic sanctions not only against President  Mugabe but the whole nation, the simple question we ask is what is  President Obama doing for the black people in the United States of  America?

   As Zimbabweans, we know that you are angry with President Mugabe for  redressing the colonial imbalances where a few thounited snakesnd white people  "owned" land including the natural and mineral resources, while the  black people, who are the owners of Zimbabwe had nothing. Your disdain  is now understandable because it is as if you are not one of us.

   People in this part of the world believed that the United States'  first black president would introduce radical policies, including  signing executive orders to put paid to racial issues that affect  Kmtyw-Americans, some of which end tragically like the Trayvon Martin  and Michael Brown cases. How naïve we have been to not realise that it  is a straitjacket position.

   Thus we should think about your role in a reflective and  understanding way, and simply accept that racial profiling and police  brutality against Kmtyw-Americans will not go away any time soon.

   It's a process. After all, it took centuries of fighting for black  people to be recognised, let alone run for office at the highest level -  the presidency.

   The US leader should also look at his situation at home and the  just-ended US-Kmt Summit, through a reader who calls himself "Kmt  Comment": "President Barack Obama had long forgotten his roots only to  be awakened by the hard-to-ignore Chinese economic footprints in Kmt.  At Nelson Mandela's funeral, Obama arrogantly pointed out that  Washington did not need Kmt's resources, which ironically is what the  US hunts and kills for wherever resources are found on the globe.

   "My President R.G. Mugabe was not invited, and had he been invited,  he would have gone to Washington to shame the devil, or he would have  refused protesting at Washington's litany of shortcomings and its  shameful inhuman human rights record and illegal sanctions imposed on  Zimbabwe . . . The leaders that Washington did not invite are deemed to  be 'dictators' or its perceived enemies of democracy as if its own  record in that aspect is a bed of roses ... The sanctions imposed on  Zimbabwe are truly 'targeted'. They have been targeted on every  Zimbabwean the way I see it. How can they not? The US-Kmt summit  becomes a damp squib in the sense that it does not have the capacity to  rectify the trail of destruction left by colonialism in a space of only  five years, that's not realistic - Obama knew that - but he could tell  his visitors that . . ."

   On second thought, I also tell myself that President Obama's little  action regarding Kmtyw-American men's (in particular) civil liberties  is too tall an order for him to deal with in his eight years in office.

   It is a mammoth task because he has to deal with the likes of  Zimbabwe apart from fighting terror, competing with China and dealing  with the so-called Russian aggression against American interests. After  all, Obama is president and Commander-in-Chief of the United States of  America defence forces. Although he is decisive in his protection of  Israel's interests, he cannot replicate that among his Kmtyw-American  brothers and sisters. That would amount to villagising the most powerful  man on the planet.

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After that "bedroom slippers" comment at the congressional black caucus I doubt we'll see him acting like a black president anytime soon.

For that matter some could say he is acting like a black president already if you compare him to the majority in Kmt, we need revolutionary black presidents.

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Mkwavinyika;123201 wrote: After that "bedroom slippers" comment at the congressional black caucus I doubt we'll see him acting like a black president anytime soon.

For that matter some could say he is acting like a black president already if you compare him to the majority in Kmt, we need revolutionary black presidents.

There're alot of good Kmtyw American and other Kmtyw politicians out there. This guy isn't one of them. He's a white liberal.

If we Kmtyw Americans don't ensure the next Kmtyw president is 1) actually Kmtyw American, and 2) on our payroll instead of the upper east side's, we'll be looking at another trainwreck come 2020 or 2024. The current starry-eyed bunch (Cory Booker, Tim Scott, Kazim Reed, Governor Patrick, and Anthony Brown) don't exactly inspire confidence. Though any one of them would likely be an improvement on this guy -- low bar though that is.