I can’t say I thought I’d be writing a post where I’d give President Obama the Dunce Cap but so be it. I put in my time, money and effort towards getting him elected AND I voted so I have earned the right to be critical.

First of all he decided to be publicly critical of the Cambridge Police while defending his friend Skip Gates. Bill Cosby of all people stated it wasn’t a wise move on Obama’s part to the derision of many blacks. Well…when facing a rising backlash from law enforcement and a lot of whites (I read a few “conservative” blogs and trust me they were PISSED) he danced the jig yesterday. So it looks like the Cos was right all along. What exactly does I didn’t calibrate my words mean? SMH. That was a biyatch move Mr. President. Seriously.

As reader Khadijah pointed out so eloquently in the comment section of my Friday post, blacks only have but so much currency to spend during this administration. Much of it was wasted on this incident instead of something that would positively impact the collective. We are a minority population whose votes are usually taken for granted – thanks to the squandering of our clout gained during the Civil Rights era. So many people consider Obama a sacred cow they can’t fathom the concept of doing any critical thinking where he’s concerned. So obviously flexing their voting muscles is out of the question. I caught a lot of venom on a popular black political blog yesterday from those staunch defenders who insist Obama is doing a head fake by pretending to apologize. They’re the ones who have the wool pulled over their eyes.

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“President Obama said that the actions of the CPD were stupid and linked the event to a history of racial profiling in America,” said Dennis O’Connor, president of the Cambridge Police Superior Officers Association.

“The facts of this case suggest the President used the right adjective, but directed it toward the wrong party.”

“The supervisors and the patrol officers of the Cambridge Police Department deeply resent the implication and reject any suggestion that in this case or any other case, they have allowed a person’s race to direct their activities,” O’Connor said.

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“Because this has been ratcheting up and I helped contribute to ratcheting it up, I want to make clear that in my choice of words I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department or Sgt. Crowley specifically and I could have calibrated those words differently.”

Now tell me when did Shrub EVER apologize for ANYTHING?

Oh yeah, he’s invited Sgt. Crowley (“I’m-not-a-racist” but-really-he-is) to the White House for a beer – and he called him. Now that’s a awfully big gesture for a “non-apology” as so many would like to claim. If you will also recall Crowley made it clear that HE WOULD NOT APOLOGIZE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. So why is Obama “calibrating his words”? Stalemate?

Like many destructive things going on in the non-existent “black community” this Idol worship regarding Obama has got to stop! Just like the lack of accountability for many of the pathologies that have gone unchecked. Obama has people to answer to and many of them don’t want him in office period. They want to see him fail, publicly in a very spectacular way. I get that – but I don’t care right now. There’s far too much at stake. We need single-payer health care. We need jobs and career prospects. We need affordable homes and an attainable education.

I care more about the quality and trajectory of my own life – and relying on a politician to get that done is a big FAIL. Wielding power is a challenge and a responsibility. Obama is NOT beholden to black voters. He knows this – it’s too bad many of “us” don’t. Symbolic gestures amount to a hill of beans. He is not going to allow a build-up of any more white resentment than what’s already there. I know that hurts to hear for those operating under a delusion but it’s a fact. The sooner blacks accept reality and stop thinking in terms of what-ifs and what-they-wish-would-be the sooner we can take steps to get some long-lasting changes in place. That’s not going to happen though.