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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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Just curious. What is it that the Green Party represents that you cannot stomach?

Rinse and repeat history. Is that all you people know to do? Please, as a fellow American PLEASE start reading Wikileaks. They have peeled back the cutain of corruption and has printed it out for all to see. If you are going to get involved in politics and planned to vote. For they sake of our children Black and White, we owe it to them to look. He has a 100% accuracy record on the corruption that they have reported on from all over the world. To include the United States who is the final player in EVERY game. Those people that you are tossing around in your head could care less about ANY of you and surely not your opinion. They are carrying on without you. Think about this for one minute...do any of you know of an honest attorney? That is who we are dealing with. They need voted out of our houses. Every last one of them. Please look behind that curtain that was painstakingly given to you so that you could be aware of what is going on. For one thing, the famous Hillary emails consisted of making fun of black people's names. Mexicans are taco bowl voters and gays were homo jokes amoung themselves. I found that odd since that is who she is pandering to. And we all know what pandering means I hope.

I heard that speech and combed through the transcript and shame on you Leslie Wimes, your are being entirely dishonest when you say that Obama said that he would "take it as a personal insult if we didn't vote for Hillary Clinton." That is not would he said, and to even imply he said such a thing is an outright lie. You are a liar! From the transcript of his speech ( in context): "There’s no such thing as a vote that doesn’t matter. It all matters. And after we have achieved historic turnout in 2008 and 2012, especially in the African-American community, I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election." (Applause.) "You want to give me a good sendoff? Go vote." (Applause.) "And I’m going to be working as hard as I can these next seven weeks to make sure folks do." (Applause.) President Obama was clearly speaking about his legacy in the context of "Historic turnout in 2008 and 2012, especially in the African-American community". I don't know who you are or what your agenda is, but just you know, I was made aware of your article by someone on a message board who had copy and pasted it from a White Supremacist website. So nice job on that!!!! You should be ashamed of yourself!

Who do you think obama was referring to as the recipient of those votes? He's a democrat, he is stomping for democrat votes. Who is the democrat candidate? It's a typical response from a clintonite to deflect and avoid deductive reasoning. What is shameful is someone that refuses to see the truth that is overtly recorded on tv, video and news reports that a candidate is lying to America. I think this letter expresses a logic that is shared by many. I respect your right to opinion, however I disagree with you and I think it is SHAMEFUL to call the author shameful. That is judgmental, and not really a unifying attitude since I bet dollars to donuts you are both in the same party. If you want unification, try a tactic to recruit and resolve differences. It's more intelligent at the least, a skill and quality that clinton certainly lacks. She has so many fools fooled.

Well said thank you....

I was there, and what she is saying is not a lie. The President is encouraging us to vote for Hillary Clinton. He got damn sure isn't encouraging anyone to vote for Donald Trump. When he is telling folks to go out and vote, exactly who do you think he is telling people to go vote FOR? Go have several seats StoneMUTT, because you have nothing coming here! You are the one who should be ashamed of yourself! Keep preaching Leslie! Keep preaching!!

I remember integrating the schools as a child growing up in the South. I remember the "otherness" of being the only black child in my elementary classes. We have a president who had to validate his citizenship by showing his birth certificate. He has a right to feel pain and to want people of his race to support him. The only candidate that can win and carry out his legacy is Hillary Clinton. George Bush was the result of people voting for Ralph Nader. The Iraq War May never have happened if people voted for L Gore instead of a protest vote for Ralph Nader. It's not about us. It's about the world in which we want our children to thrive. Don't believe the news all the time about Hillary Clinton. Read about her life and what she stood for. Then make your selection. I believe you will agree with President Obama that she is who we need to ensure that we have healthcare, jobs, a better environment, and better schools to name a few. When I saw President Obama telling us that it was a personal insult if we did not vote for Hillary Clinton, I saw the pain in his face probably because Donald Trump purposely stated he was born in the United States. Trump arrogantly validated our president. We can't let this man win. We can't let a bully be the role model for our children.

You do the same.

Go ahead vote for Trump. I laugh at these ridiculous arguments. Keep pretending that voting a third party will do any good in a two party system. Sirry your choices are Trump and Hillary. Voting for Trump is destrpying any future this country has at sustainability jn this fucking world lol

Just remember, Hillary and Obama provided no support for the four men killed in Benghazi. The armed forces were ready and waiting for the order. It never came. Obama and Hillary aren't worth a plug nickel in my book. It must be terrifying to serve in the armed forces under them.

Obama you must be out of your mind coming to us like we are a bunch of sheep that are suppose to follow whatever you say those days are over if the democratic party wants my vote I want to see more then crumbs come into people of color communities. You need to stop supporting the tpp that your girl hillary helped write as secretary of state and will support if she is president. The democratic party and superdelegates rigged the election for hillary so let the chips fall where they may because we cant even get the democratic party to support school choice so people of color aren't forced to go to bad schools in the inner city because you would rather support the teachers union then the children.

Obama is a fraud. How dare he lecture anyone on protecting his legacy, which in reality is self-serving and corrupt. He failed to prosecute the banks and persecuted whistleblowers. While Manning, Snowden and Assange are in prisons of one sort or another, he protects Hillary from prosecution for acts that are much worse threats to our national security. She should be in jail, not the White House. Obama is ramming TPP into law and selling our national sovereignty to global corporations. He hasn't done a damn thing to end the drug war or protect people, particularly black males, from killer cops. Obama is a great opening act for the likes of Hillary Clinton. Both owned lock, stock, and barrel by the .01%. On CNN's Green Town Hall, Jill Stein speaks to the failure of Obama's war on terror and how much it has cost us taxpayers in lives and money. The only way to kill the establishment's duopoly is to vote third party. This is truly a vote for the lesser of evils. Johnson supports the TPP and wants to kill every public program that exists including Social Security and Medicare. Stein is thoughtful and reasoned. She wants to destroy fraud and waste and protect the public programs that make our country great. She is an FDR Democrat who opposes the corporate takeover of this country.

Obama hates America,as did his mother. She got out of here to find her two husbands: One a Kenyan; one an Indonesian. She hated free enterprise because some people got rich. So being successful is a crime? I despise Obama who is a racist. He's not worthy of being our President.

Obama hates America,as did his mother. She got out of here to find her two husbands: One a Kenyan; one an Indonesian. She hated free enterprise because some people got rich. So being successful is a crime? I despise Obama who is a racist. He's not worthy of being our President.

Obama hates America,as did his mother. She got out of here to find her two husbands: One a Kenyan; one an Indonesian. She hated free enterprise because some people got rich. So being successful is a crime? I despise Obama who is a racist. He's not worthy of being our President.

Obama hates America,as did his mother. She got out of here to find her two husbands: One a Kenyan; one an Indonesian. She hated free enterprise because some people got rich. So being successful is a crime? I despise Obama who is a racist. He's not worthy of being our President.

Obama hates America,as did his mother. She got out of here to find her two husbands: One a Kenyan; one an Indonesian. She hated free enterprise because some people got rich. So being successful is a crime? I despise Obama who is a racist. He's not worthy of being our President.

Thank you for writing this! I and a lot of others have felt this way ever since President Obama made those remarks, and you state it much more beautifully than I could. I usually vote Democratic, but am seriously considering Jill Stein/Ajamu Baraka of the Green party this time. I also strongly recommend conservatives investigate LIbertarian Gary Johnson. Hopefully a great deal more than 50% of the country will vote one third party or the other, and our first woman President will be Jill Stein. Then climate change will be addressed, civil rights will be expanded, money will be gotten out of politics, marijuana will be legal, our involvement in Middle East wars will end, and for-profit prisons will be closed.

You should definitely vote for Stein and Baraka. They will do way more than Clinton will ever do.

Vote Trump to Save America - Borders, Jobs, Security, Care for our Veterans, America First - not last.. How can America support the world?

Leslie, I used to think you were just another bitter woman, writing for a "two-bit column." Thank you for confirming you are also ignorant "and smelling your own musk." I'm sure your grandma taught you that one too....now go pick up that MIC I just dropped. #Obama4ever #Hillary2016

THANK YOU for saying what is truly obvious to anyone out there! This woman is one of the sorriest excuses for a so-called Democrat I've ever seen!!! Someone in the party should really investigate this good-for-nothing excuse of a so-called political player. She obviously has a hidden agenda....but is just too frightened to come out & state it. What a coward!!

"The democrats are playing you for a political chump, and if you vote for them, not only are you a chump, you are a traitor to your race." Yep it was Malcolm X that said that and two days later he was assassinated by a Democrat. Nice being a supporter that is racist in origin and thought isn’t it.

Florida Girl, you are probably one of those greasy neck bone eating, fat back having, loud mouthed broads who watches every thing Ms. Wimes does. Get a life or continue watching her from the sidelines. You appear to be the bitter one. What? You not getting it regularly?

All 3 Clinton's Called the Secret Service ‘Pigs’ and that's the tip of the iceberg.. The only thing they respect is MONEY... we are just slaves working to pay them.. No Thanks

She can't because I just stuck it up you Ass.

African-American real median household income - 2000: $41,689 2007: $39,584 2015: $36,898 US Census data

Blame that on the white folks doing the hiring. Unfortunately, selling MaryKay does pay as much in 2016 as it did in 2000. Whenever there is a recession, jobs are eliminated and salaries are cut. Did you not think the would cut "black and brown first." As a Black American, I've earned over $100k every year President Obama has been leading this country. The Labor Department today reported that the overall unemployment rate in the United States held steady at 4.9% in February, while the unemployment rate for African Americans, stands at 8.8%. The economy created 242,000 new jobs. [Related: Female Breadwinners Leading Households and Families More Than Ever] There is no question that the U.S. economy and the labor market have been on a steady climb since the jobless rate for African Americans hit a peak of 16.7% in August 2011. It hasn’t felt that way, however, because wage growth has been basically stagnant during the recovery, falling 0.1% last month, pushing average hourly earnings down 3 cents to $25.35. While policymakers grapple over how to deal with the new realities of the workplace, and figure out solutions for lackluster wages, it’s worth focusing on the changes that have taken place in the overall employment picture for blacks since President Obama came to the White House. “I really did a deep dive into the statistics on black unemployment — not just over the past year or 10 years, but over the past four decades,” says Money Coach and Author Lynnette Khalfani-Cox. “Historically, the black jobless rate has almost always been about 2 to 3 times what the jobless rate is for whites. But here’s what’s most eye-opening…During President Obama’s 7-year tenure to date, from 2009 through 2015…The jobless rate for African Americans fell to a low of 8.3% in December 2015 after [it] hit a peak of 16.7% in August 2011,” she adds.

It wasn't years ago that Hillary was calling black people names. Just a few months ago she joked about "colored people time." Yes. She did: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/on-de-blasio-and-clintons-cp-time-joke.html

Obama's record speaks for itself. He has been a great President. Hillary is not perfect. But she is smart. Donald Trump is a pig. A serial liar. And a con man. I am so saddened that millions of Americans find him to be acceptable as the next President of The United States. I was in the UK this summer when BREXIT passed, to the shock of most reasonable people. I think the same thing is likely to happen this November in America. As someone recently said, we are entering a "fact free" world.

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