Living Vicariously Through Obama - The Evidence

I just had a debate with a good friend of mine named "Black Diaspora".
He challenged my claim that Black (Progressives) live vicariously through Obama.   His primary rebuttal to my argument was that IF this were so then Blacks would have abandoned Obama a while ago because of the economic consequences suffered by the Black community during Commander In Chief Obama's term.

As I clicked through the links of my "Surveillance" blog I came across the blog of another one of my good friends - Rippa.

Most people who read the words in the clip above from the "Intersection" blog will fail to note the VOICE that it is written in by the author Eco.Soul.Intellectual.

The voice that "this brother" who is speaking in is that of OBAMA.

The Burden Of Carrying Obama's Water Is More Than 8.34 Lbs Per Gallon 

I have an episode of "Obama's Rolex Watch With Roland 'Thurgood' Martin and Smokey" queued up for analysis.

As we listen to the dialogue on the debate surrounding  the recent unemployment numbers for Black people we hear the initial pain suffered by all Americans and then an emphasis upon Black Americans turned into an indictment of those who have blocked the POLICIES that the left-leaning panel ultimately desire.   Long story short - for those who have the idea that certain POLICIES are the key to the salvation of Black people - they are able to avoid bathing in the present misery suffered by Black American and then BLAME the incumbent powers by shifting to the STRUGGLE milieu.    In doing so they are able to look past the present incumbent and the growth in power over the duration that the machine that they support has wrought and instead sell the Black masses on the notion that CHANGE will come if we stay ideologically united and fight WITH the favored machine that is in power and has the POLICIES that are INTENDED to help Black people.

The importance of this vicarious connection with Obama and other favorable elected officials is that it purchases from the Black community a measure of empathy which is not extended to adversarial officials in power.  When the subject of the 16.2% Black unemployment rate was discussed on the Roland Martin show - the Democratic pollster lamented "I don't care about debt and deficits.   People need JOBS right now".  He was lobbying for the need for the government to execute another massive deficit spending program.  His own progressive tax theories will ensure that "the least of these" will never have to pay the high taxes that will need to be paid to service the interest from this growing debt.

In summary - those who have the 'Black Best Interest in mind' is the group who implement policies in the future that generate jobs for Black people.   This also means that they have no intention of blaming the machine that dominates the Black community at present yet has failed to create the jobs that had been promised during our last crisis in which they sold us on a brighter future.

 The consequence of this vicarious living is the great forbearance vault that our community's Permanent Interests must be locked up in as we are seen waiting so as not to attack the favorable officials on their failure to deliver.

For Black America at present the days in which the "dream" had to be deferred due to the presence of oppressive bigotry that stifled our interests at every corner are gone.  In its place in the modern world is a need for the Black community to develop a "human resource governance model" in which our people are allowed to see the vision of the great potential that exists within our own communities.  The very same view that the immigrants who I saw on my trip to my home town last week.   While others saw a barren cave they saw a gold mine that could be made productive with adequate  scraping and toil.

The problem with the consciousness of vicarious thinking is that it places the onus upon some future POLICY (and income redistribution) initiative that will one day bring to life our barren streets, bringing more of us into the marketplace as the nation agrees that we all have a place at the table.   People with this viewpoint are loathed to accept that as we sectionalize into smaller parcels of land the one that they control at present doesn't deliver the very same buy in of all of the masses into the cause of the domain in question. (the community, the city).  Instead there is more of a "hard knock scramble to get yours and keep others from taking from you" - all this due to the necessity brought forth by the perpetual crisis.

It seems that the "vicarious living through Obama" is, in truth, the need to place our collective community hopes OUTSIDE of the domain of our present existence for it is too depressing to consider having to work through what is in front of us.

The Black community ultimately has a HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT problem.  An inability to utilize the key institutions that are now in control by "favorable people", developing them into the end state that  the community needs them to be as pillars of uplift for our desired living standard.

Obama merely is the latest receptacle for the collective dreams of the Black community in which those with the power to do so have failed to "operationalize" these insatiable hopes into a docket of strategic institutions.

I can't help but to note that when a management plan is keyed upon servicing "The Least Of These" instead of making them the "UN-Least Of These" these type of "Remote Fist Bumps" of vicarious living are needed to keep the people from being frustrated by allowing them to fight the President's fights but make them unwilling to make note of the lack of organic development that such thinking has rendered on their behalf.