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No, President Obama, Black America Doesn't Owe You a Vote for Hillary!

September 19, 2016 - 11:30am

Hold on President Obama! We love you and all, but you stepped a little out of turn this weekend while giving your speech at the Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference annual Phoenix Dinner.

I recently wrote that Black America really didn't want to see you go, but if you keep talking like this, we'll hold the door open for you.

As I get older, I like to use phrases my grandmother used, and Mr. President, you were smelling yourself that night when you said you would take it as a personal insult if we didn't vote for Hillary Clinton.

Whether you know it or not, the smell was pure garbage.

Mr. President, our reasons for voting for Hillary Clinton should be because she represents the best person for our community compared to Donald Trump, not because it would be a personal affront to YOU. 

Just like the Democratic Party doesn't own our votes, neither do you.

Should we take it personally that she called us "super predators"? Clearly, even though she has since apologized, that hasn't been forgotten. Should we take it personally that the 1994 Crime Bill signed into law by her husband, and championed by Hillary Clinton, wreaked havoc on our community?

Hillary Clinton hasn't always been a friend to our community, so should we take it as a personal insult that you are now trying to tie our respect for you with a vote for her?

That's almost like a domestic violence abuser. "If you love me, then you'll do this! If you don't do it, then that means you don't love me."

President Obama stop it!

Exactly what has Hillary Clinton done to appeal to young black voters, except call them names years ago, disrespect them as Black Lives Matter movement protesters, and then rely on certain black surrogates such as yourself to do her leg work for her?

No, President Obama, I don't think we owe you anything. Our debt to you, if we ever had one, is more than paid in full. We stood in line for hours during two elections to ensure that you became, and stayed, a resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

We continued to have your back when other people, to include Hillary Clinton, threw you under the bus.

Truth be told, there are a few executive orders you should be throwing OUR way! Let me know when you're ready to have that discussion! Your debt to the black community is still outstanding. Pardoning some inmates is great and all, but it seems to me there should be at least one or two executive orders directed toward the black community you could have done. 

I think you getting out on the campaign trail for Hillary is great. I think using the line that black people not voting for her is an insult to you is the wrong approach.

It actually stinks of the house Negro telling the field Negroes to go support the mistress or we all are goin' get in trouble, and I'm sure you don't want us to feel like that, Mr. President.

Trust and believe that I'm not the only one who was offended by what you said.

You can't make us love and support Hillary Clinton by turning it into some insult to you. All you can do is make us look at you with a side eye.

Right now I'm side-eyeing the hell out of that personal-insult comment.

The enthusiasm level for Hillary Clinton in the black Community in Florida is swimming with the Tidy Bowl man.

Trust me, as it currently stands, folks will not be standing in line for hours to vote for her.

If You want to get enthusiasm up for Clinton, there are some things that can be done, but coming at us this way isn't one of them. 

Mr. President, you would be far better off sticking to the line that Donald Trump is bad for our community and bad for America. 

Leslie Wimes is founder and president of Women On The Move, and the Democratic African American Women Caucus, www.daawc.com.

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Are you kidding me? Hillary Clinton has been caught lying so many times, but its ok cuz she's a demoncrat. Get outta here. You're intelligence is so far off the rails you better go get some information from independent sources and get your shit back on the tracks.

Ian, you are just plain wrong. Trump has been rated the "least truthful" candidate to ever run for the OVAL office by every fact-checking organization. Pull your head out of your A$$.

Florida Girl is right.

Maybe you should put your head there and leave it there.. you would be more intelligent. Trump will give us back jobs, secure the border, take care of Vets, and strengthen SS FOR AMERICANS...

Will he do all those things? How do you know...because he said he would...you know...make america great again...LOL. You are deluded my friend. You speak of what you have no clue about, as if you're some kind of savant fortune teller. Nothing...nothing about what Trump has done in his life indicates he'll do anything but destroy our country. Nothing.

Trump's budget proposals would add over 5 Trillion dollars to our national debt. Is that really what you want?

Leslie, talk about conflicted! You support president Obama largely because he's black. Yet you oppose Clinton, the candidate of the Democratic Party, the party that makes its political hay pandering to blacks and hispanics. Have you seen through her hypocrisy?

If any African American, Hispanic American, Native American, woman, young person, or person of any other ethnic or racial background who values diversity and tolerance votes for Donald Trump, it might as well be a vote for David Duke and the Nazi Party. If members of these groups do not vote against Trump in this election, they will get what they deserve, which is more discrimination and lack of representation in government in every way. THAT is what President Obama is trying to say. THAT is why he is trying to tell you he supports Hillary Clinton. If he can get beyond their differences, who are we not to do the same? To think that Trump represents anyone other than white oligarchs is a grave mistake. It does not matter if you don't like Hilary. Vote for her anyway. She is the ONLY qualified candidate in this race!!! Our country is a joke as far as the rest of the world is concerned. I know for most people reading this column, what the world thinks of us does not matter. It will soon enough when no one listens to us anymore. GO TRUMP... OFF A CLIFF!!

That's just fear tactics. Ppl need to argue policy. Whoever has the best policies should win period. All this KKK, Black Lives Matter, and other divisive conversations only serves to distract from what America should be talking about. I'm an independent, and when I see the thirst of candidates to use gender, race, economic status, and every other duality to exploit them to get votes, I see through that b.s. and it turns me off. I will not vote for ppl who do that. I don't tolerate race baiting and class warfare. If you have something to run on, then you don't have to incite more division in this country. The first thing to truly safeguard our 1st Amendment and to enpower the voter is to encourage everyone to fact check and hold the media accountable. Half of these comments wouldn't exist if ppl did this instead of trusting "authority" and being emotionally attached to false premises.

Thumbs up!!! But probably won't sway the fact-free world that this woman and trump supporters live in.

Well said Kym Elder!

Well said Kym Elder!

Well said Kye Elder!

Lessor of two evils is not a good reason to vite for a candidate. You have no assurances that Hillary will in fact be better. Both choices are bad. Voting NONE OF THE ABOVE

Go watch Selma and then think about not voting. I don't care if you write in "Who Cares." Just vote. Too many, people have died to afford so many a right the could care less to use.

Right, Obama's done so much to help black people that's why we now have BLM oh and: African-American real median household income - 2000: $41,689 2007: $39,584 2015: $36,898 US Census data

Your figures are old and you seem to not know that the country is recovering from a recession. Put ALL the facts in, then your statements may make some sense. Many of Obama's policies have only recently begun to show effects in real incomes and other areas. Here are Mother Jones figures up through 2015, not 2007 as you cited. from Mother Jones: 'Americans across the board benefited from increases in household income from 2014 to 2015, regardless of their race, gender, age, or legal status. Hispanic families saw the largest gains (6.1 percent) in median household income, followed by white families (4.4 percent) and black families (4.1 percent). Still, those incomes remained below their pre-recession highs. '

Obviously, you have gotten beyond her Benghazi video lie and her deleted emails lie and her Clinton Foundation lies and her selling Russia uranium debacle and her pneumonia lie and her C in parenthesis lie and her FBI lies and all of her lies that I have forgotten about. Yep, she's a real winner and those who vote for her deserve whatever they get because she gave all of us plenty of warning. Most have gotten beyond HER by now.

Did you know that while George Bush was President 18 US embassies or consulates were attacked and 60 Americans killed. I don't remember those Congressional hearings.

Granted, but I don't think "it's okay because W did it" is the low bar we want to set

Hillary said she was a Goldwater Girl while in college and Goldwater was against the Civil Rights Act. Hillary was proud to call Robert Byrd her mentor and friend, and Byrd was a lifetime member of the KKK

Obama raised in Hawaii most of his life. Show us where in Hawaii was anything like Mississippi or Alabama in the 60's. You have no idea what the Hell you are writing.

Think about it. How many of your teachers, or your kid's teachers, do you respect? "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach."

Where do you get off telling us Obama to vote for a white hoe and not a Sister. What do that ole woman do foe you but lie and break your back in 07/08 campaign and she say you weren't born here. She said shame on you and expected you our next president to bow down to her. No Mr. Barrack, you owe that white woman nothing.

Let the black people think for themselves.. you think they are too stupid to get Voter ID, You think they are too stupid to get a job? Newsflash.. they are educated and milking the system.. or want to be on the plantation as you say.. or they have self respect and want better for themselves and their families.. And 70% of Women are NOT voting for Hillary..... she is a disgrace, immoral, and unfit to be in charge of anything.. She is a mess..

She's a mess? Based on what, these ridiculous emails the Republicans have been telling us are so scandalous for months now? Her crime is she used the wrong device. For this she's a mess? You are a mess.

But, she's ill..... GO TRUMP!!

Amen to all that. As a college educated, employed professional who paid her own student loans, I am totally against Hillary. I can't stand the idea that she lies to us continually and expects us to respect her. If I lied to the FBI, I'm quite sure I would not be walking around free. I also want a candidate that will support the idea of personal responsibility, not giving away more to increase the burden on the hardworking taxpayers, or increase the national debt. Of all the intelligent, accomplished women of integrity in this country, we get her?

Exactly

The President talks about racism, but his remarks are extremely racism! The people do not owe Obama anything... he works for America and that is us! How dare he be so conceded with his remarks.

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