MALCOLM X: "Get Your Hand Out Of My Pocket"

MALCOLM X: "Get Your Hand Out Of My Pocket": I have always wondered how much of an involvement Louis Farrakhan had in Malcolm X murder

It's Your Fault, Not Obama's!

Black people problems did not start with Obama and it is insane to believe that he can fix black people problems in 8 years when it took over 400 years to create it.  Throughout history, including the Civil Rights movement, people (black, white and other) have died, fought, and bleed, for blacks to make the strides that we have made but now all of a sudden we have a black president and all you can do is point your finger at him and say what he has not done.  He is working with what he has and at every turn he is faced with a House who does nothing but vote on trivial things, degrade him, and stop every policy he tries to push. He is doing his best to reach across party lines and he has gone against his own party doing so which he received a lot of backlash for doing. The Presidential power is limited to the vote in both the House and the Senate.  Black people problem is that they don’t vote to get the people who will serve their best interest in congress but we won’t say that congress is doing a shitty job.  We want to put a face and name with it and say its Obama’s fault.  But, since Obama is limited to the power of the vote from the Senate and the House and the people who are in the Senate and the House are the elected officials that we the American citizens put in congress to represent our best interest and black people don’t vote then it is not Obama who is the problem, it is us. You want to get things done? Then I suggest you not only vote but get involved in registering other likeminded people to vote.  There are 51 million people who are eligible to vote but are not registered, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.  If we can say that Bush is one of the main problems why black people are in the state that they are in then I still say it is our fault.  Out of the 69.7% of the registered black voters in the U.S., only 11% voted in the Bush vs Kerry presidential election.  11% and that’s up 2% from the 2000 election that Bush won against Gore.  Guess how many registered whites voted, 77%.  You can find all sorts of information out there that shows where black people are now compared to Bush, Clinton, or whomever but it does not show you the process it took to get you where you are now. And those who believe that your vote doesn’t count can discuss your issues with someone else because you don’t count (a different topic).