There are many African-Americans who think that electing a Black President will significantly change the conditions of African-American people.  I, on the contrary, don’t think so.  Obama is running for president of the United States.  The position/job he is applying for is to work for and represent the American people, who are majority White.  Obama did not campaign like Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton did when they ran for president.  Jessie and Al could not hide their love and support for Black people during their campaign for presidency.  Obama, unlike Jessie and Al, took a neutral or non-existent stance on Black issues during the Democratic campaign, remaining neutral on Black issues throughout the democratic primaries.  He did, however, make a speech about his experiences that touched on the communications between Black and White people.  However, that was not a penetrating speech about the social issues within the Black community.  After the democratic primaries, he spoke on Father’s Day about Black fathers which I will talk about in greater detail later in this blog.   I think Obama will defeat McCain in the general election in November because Whites like him and are not afraid of him.  Whites overwhelmingly supported Obama during the democratic primaries in states like Kansas, Idaho, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Oregon, Maine, and Vermont.  These are states that make up 80-95% White population.  Check out the following numbers from Yahoo Election 2008 Political Dashboard:

The third reason is potentially the most dangerous one and is likely to have a negative impact on our people.  White Americans support Obama because he can easily be manipulated and controlled by the White power structure.  If this is the case, what is it that Whites have planned for us?  It can’t be good.  What is it that Obama is promising Whites behind closed doors that warrants their overwhelming White support?  Don’t tell me the overwhelming White support from states like Idaho, North Dakota, and Maine is because Whites are changing their attitude towards Blacks.  You can’t convince me that the Idaho, Nebraska, and Wyoming tobacco chewing cracker all of a sudden had a change in heart towards Black people!  For those of you who think that, let me remind you that while White Americans were overwhelming voting for Obama in these primaries, we (Black Americans) were still experiencing the following on our jobs and in the society as a whole:

• Still mistreated by Whites
• Still last hired first fired
• Still not being hired
• Still not given credit for our good work at the job
• Still given the most difficult assignments on the job
• Still getting shot by police officers an unjustifiable number of times

The current conditions on our jobs has gotten worse not better.  We are still catching “Hell” on the corporate plantation.  Historically, Whites have always been enemies of Blacks in this country.  They mistreated us by kidnapping us from our beloved country Alkebulan (currently called Africa).  They enslaved us for close to 400 years of physical slavery.  There are numerous documented lynchings that they planned and implemented on us.  Today, the current generation of White Americans are implementing the “High Tech Lynching” plan on Black people.  Unlike Blacks, Whites’ knowledge or information-flow has been continuous and uninterrupted from one generation to the next.  They have been able to pass their knowledge from one generation to the next generation without any interruptions.  Our knowledge and information-flow on the other hand has been interrupted for over 400 years by White Americans.  Not only was it interrupted, it has been corrupted or replaced by false knowledge or knowledge not based on our true culture.  Americans Whites forced us to accept this false knowledge of ourselves during slavery.  The knowledge of self-hatred was forced on us by the American Whiteman.  Today majority of African-Americans operate and function with that slave mind.  The slave mentality that exist in most African-Americans today are maintained and re-enforce by White Americans through the system of  “White Supremacy”.   It’s so severe that most Blacks do not realize they are functioning with the slave mind.  The analogy that best describes what we as Black people experienced and continue to experience under this “mental slave” state of mind is depicted by the following analogy:

A lion is pursued in its natural habitat by its captures.  Once the lion is caught, he is chained up and locked up in a cell.  The lion is considered by its captors to be “wild”.  Over a period of time the lion is trained to do tricks.  The more the lion is conditioned and trained, the more the lion can be let loose somewhat to perform tricks in the circus.   However, when the lion decides he wants to go back to his natural habitat and tries to break loose, he is shot dead.  That is the current condition of Black people in this country.  Just like the lion, we were pursued and taken away from our natural habitat.  We were captured, chained, and caged on the plantation.  For about 400 years we were trained to love everything White and hate everything Black.  We were trained to please and be servants of Whites.  Like the lion, once we were well trained we were “let free” to perform tricks for the American Whiteman.  Currently, African-Americans are performing in a circus, doing tricks for this Whiteman.  Once we decide or try to free ourselves from this slave mentality within the circus, we are shot down in this country like the freedom fighters or our ancestors of the past. 

Based on this interruption and corruption of our knowledge, White Americans know more about our history than we do.  I can’t understand why we (Blacks) continue to accept Whites’ lame excuse of  “It was not me who put you in slavery:  it was my ancestors,  I had nothing to do with it.”  The current generation of White Americans knows how the circus was established and they currently maintain it.  They are just as guilty as their ancestors who kidnapped us from our natural habitat.  They are the ones who are ready to pull the trigger and shoot down and kill a Blackman.  Specifically, the Blackman who is trying to free himself from this slave mentality that exists within the circus.  Another name for the circus is “White Supremacy”.  Another name for the slave mentality that exist among most African-Americans today is called the "Willie Lynch Syndrome".  Every generation of White Americans has practiced and continues to practice and implement genocide on Black people. That’s why it’s very important to re-educate ourselves on our own history.  There are many strong independent-thinking Black scholars to learn from that imparts information crucial to our existence.  Lectures by these Black scholars like, Dr. Yoself Ben-Jochannon (better known as Dr. Ben), Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Bobby E. Wright, Dr. Khaild Muhammad, Dr. Amos Wilson, Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Neely Fuller Jr., Dr. Rosalind Jeffries, Dr. Naim Akbar, Bobby Hemmitt, Dr. Molefi Asante and Dr. John Jackson can be purchased on our web site.  Check out the large selection of Black scholar lectures on our web site Alkebulan Reference Center (www.ancient-knowledge-breakthrough.net).   

So why do Whites feel so comfortable in supporting Obama for president?  The answer lies in corporate White America.  Having a Black president running a large “White” corporation is not a new phenomenon in corporate White America.  As a matter of fact, according to the magazine Black Enterprise (BE), there were 12 Black presidents running large White corporations in 1993.  In 2005, there was a 300% increase in Black presidents running large White corporations (from the 1988 list composed by Black Enterprise).   In this article, the publisher Earl G. Graves Sr. was asked whether progress has been made and his answer was "Well, yes and no.  While it is true that the corporate elite identified in our 2005 list represent a 300% increase over our 1988 list, it is also true that African Americans still hold less than 1% of the tens of thousands of senior-level, corporate posts at America's 1,000 largest public corporations."  Based on my experience working in corporate America, Whites tend to hire Blacks as presidents or upper managers who are easily manipulated and controlled by them.  They tend to hire Blacks who are not connected or who don’t identify with the struggles of other Black people.  These Blacks are used to make decisions to push the White agenda.  Most of their decisions are usually detrimental to Black people within the company.  As a matter of fact, if it were a White president or an upper manager making these same decisions they would be immediately labeled racist by the Black employees working at that company.  In many cases Black presidents or upper managers are used as a shield to push the White agenda forward. 

When Obama released his anger on Black males about not being responsible fathers and calling us little boys on Father’s Day (the only day we get a little love), you wonder what his motives were.  The hurt ran deep within me and I am a responsible Black father.  Throughout the democratic campaign he remained neutral on all Black social issues.  Why would he come out and address Black issues now when he had already won the democratic election?  I am sick and tried of people within our race making unbalanced and damaging remarks about our people without addressing the causes.  Blame only the victims for all of the problems or social ills that exist within the Black community.  You can’t talk about the lack of responsibility of the Blackman and not talk about the lack of responsibility of the American Whiteman who enslaved us and continues to do so.  Let me remind those who support Obama one-sided statement that on the plantation the White slave master rewarded those slaves who could re-produce more babies to work on his plantation.  The definition of Black manhood was re-defined by the White slave masters.  Black manhood on the plantation was defined as, "the more babies you can make (without having to take care of them) the more man you were" or I should say "are" because that slave mentality exists among the majority of Black males today.  This mental conditioning of us, Black males, occurred for over 400 years to the present day.  After we were “set free”, American Whites continue to re-enforce that mentality among Black males.  The welfare system was used by Whites for a long time to re-enforce that thinking in the Black male.  The welfare system has currently been reformed and a significant amount of money was cut or taken away that supported Black families.  There was no money towards retraining or reprogramming Black males out of that mental slave state of mind.  These one-sided actions of reform by White Americans only result in the genocide of the Black race.  Obama you can’t talk about the social ills of Black people without talking about White Americans who caused that condition.  What’s scary about the speech is, the next day he was endorsed by Al Gore and John Edwards.  That leads me to a question for Obama:  "Are you going to be a president or a puppet?  Are you going to be another Clarence Thomas?"  Must we talk about Clarence Thomas who is on record to have voted on numerous laws against Black people unlike his predecessor, Thurgood Marshall who served as one of the greatest Supreme Court justices to ever occupy the bench.  Not only did Thurgood Marshall represent the American people but he also represented Black people.  He was connected to his people.  He voted on laws that had a profound impact on all Americans, particularly Black Americans.             

I must point out the positive example of leadership that I experienced while working at the Department of Commerce (DOC) under Ron Brown.  Ron Brown was head of the DOC when I worked there.  He was a leader who stayed connected to his people.  While at the DOC, he initiated a Commerce-wide diversity program that was designed to hire more Blacks and other minorities in upper management positions or Senior Executive Service (SES).  I remember the electrifying speech that he gave introducing the diversity initiative.   He specifically said he wanted SES management within DOC to reflect the percentage of the American population.  He specifically stated in his speech that instead of Black SES management reflecting less than 1%, he wanted to bring that level up to 12%.  Twelve percent would be proportion to the Black population within America.  Ron Brown would be a good example for Obama to follow.  Ron Brown stayed connected to his people while running DOC for all people.  If Obama can follow Ron Brown’s example, I think he would be a great president, representing all people fairly.  Clearly White Americans view Obama as a puppet to be manipulated for the benefit of Whites and the detriment of Blacks.  So what will Obama do when he becomes president?  Will he be another Ron Brown or another Clarence Thomas?  Will he be a president or a puppet?

Bro. Jon

ARC