Ether: The Cornel Obama Beef

Is it questioning the degree of Obama's blackness or just a critical look at Obama's attention to black issues. In the acknowledgement that Obama does not wear the title "Our Black President"  nor carry the burden of our communities alone, some blacks have had an unspoken yearning for Obama to be just that. People had perceived Obama as embodying some of the characteristics of black leader from the past. When Obama attended and gave the eulogy of a once Klu Klux Klan leader Robert Byrd, it should have been revealed to us all that he is very much so different than the likes of a Stokely Carmicheal. By not showing the ethno-nationalist ideals of a Assata Shakur who he is NOT, becomes evident. Given the radicality of social change orchestrated by Dr. Martin Luther King, this would not be on Obama's agenda. Subsequent to our communities political disenfranchisement, an adherence to our needs have been displace multiple cantos away from real action. Obama seems to have followed suit with the praxis of an indigenous insincere, diplomacy in matter of "us". 

Today's cyber activist are to consumed with their perceived level of intelligence evident by there uncanny ability to say and write what is always accepted "ok" by everyone. I thought to parallel their efforts with "casting a stone and hiding the hand", but their work doesn't quantify the gravity associated with this metaphor; thus relinquishing the neo-activist of any viable perspective on the matter. To overstand brother West sentiment you have to first understand his context. West comes from an era of activism that stood on a foundation of evident and direct change. A lead by brothers and sisters that possessed a selfless sacrificial presence comparable to the savior we pray to. Having his hopes held high, I feel that West has fallen victim to his own presumption. The presumption that Obama would be an incarnate to the activism of old. I don't believe the assumption was that, "Our Black President" would rectify all the problems in our community, but that he would use his position to flank, by bringing national recognition and awareness to the issues that plague the black community most.

Falling short of  zealousness found in folks like Bobby Seal, Assata Shakur, Hon. Farrakhan could have and will not be place in such a impotent purgatory sustain by self indulgence. Realizing the dichotomy of political and social leadership is essential