Here’s Why Obama Won’t Help Foreclosure Victims
The Obama administration’s failure to spend almost any of the $7.6 billion in TARP housing money set aside for the neediest regions of the country seems counter-intuitive.
How the Obama Administration Failed Foreclosed Homeowners
The Obama administration’s indifference to the plight of foreclosed homeowners, and total subservience to the banks, is once again on public display
Needed: A Black Agenda
Barack Obama’s declaration that “there is no Black America…only the United States of America” was meant to signal the end of Black politics.
Obama and Wall Street: Two Peas in a Pod
Empire and the banks. President Obama’s State of the Union address, bracketed by imperial bombast, made actual news with yet another administration maneuver to protect Wall Street from the wrath of the states.
Mass Black Incarceration Unlikely to End Anytime Soon
For the first time since 1972, the total number of people held in U.S. prisons has gone down. And, for the second year in a row, the number of persons under supervision – such as parole – by state departments of correction, decreased. Does this mean the beginning of the end of mass Black incarceration in the United States? Not hardly. That would require an historic reversal of a nationwide policy to find new places to put Black people who refused to stay “in their place,” in the wake of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements.
How Much would Black America Tolerate of Obama’s Police State?
It has become evident that there was no line of civilized behavior that President Obama would not cross in service of corporate empire at home and abroad. And yet, his core supporters have still not reached their limits of tolerance for the man in whom they had invested so much hope in 2008. Now, with preventive detention the law of the land and political assassination official U.S. policy, Obama is poised to enter the realm of the unthinkable – a future of pure horror in which there is no rule of law.
The Occupy Movements and People of Color
The “Occupy” brand is a hit, having embedded its “99%” emblem in the popular consciousness like no other political slogan of the past two generations.
Obama Created Opening For Occupy Wall Street Movements
It is doubtful that there would have been an Occupy Wall Street phenomenon, as we have experienced it, if President Obama had not lost his last stitch of emperors clothes this past spring and summer.
Wake Up, Speak Out Against the Dictatorship of Wall Street
For decades, we have been acting under the illusion that we could empower Black people by sending Black elected officials to the city council and the state legislature – and finally putting one in the White House – only to find that their philosophy of politics was: All Power To Those Who Already Have Power.
