What Does A Community Organizer Organize? The Fruits of Obama’s Labor

May 13th, 2010 | By Sonnie Johnson

I want to share my thought process with you.  I was listening to my Ipod the other day, and Will Smith “Summertime” came on.  Especially in early spring, this song makes you feel good.  It makes you want to clean out your closet and see what you need to complete your summer look.  It makes you want to take your car to the detail shop to make weekly cleanings easier.  It makes you call up  your family and ask when’s the first cook-out.  Right in my moment of bliss a news story crosses the TV screen “Illionois state legislature calls for National Guard to curb violence”.   Way to mess up a great song with harsh reality.

The first question to come to my mind, Isn’t the President from Chicago?  Wasn’t he a community organizer?  Why are those organizations not helping to curb the violence on Chicago’s streets?  If they aren’t there to help curb murder rates caused by lack of hope and employment, then what are they organizing?  Seriously, take away the politics and just look at the people.  They can organize massive rallies and poke jokes from a Correspondence Dinner to protest the crackdown on Illegal Immigration but there is no mention of the blood being shed on American Streets.  They can push for Amnesty for law breakers but what about the innocent people caught in the middle of gang violence.  Where is their march, protest, or even recognition?

Instead we get a “Summertime” filled lost friends, imprisoned peers, and truly neglected youth.  Jesse Jackson Jr. is the incumbent of the 2nd Congressional District in Illinois, where is the Rainbow Coalition?  The NAACP?  Where are any of these groups that claim they are trying to provide Social Justice or true equality?  Doesn’t that include the right to live in City where there isn’t a murder every week day andtwo on the weekend.  If not, it  should.

Which leads back to the basic question, what does a community organizer organize?  If the President spent the majority of his young career rallying the people of Chicago to stand together, should we count 147 people dead this year as proof of Obama’s success?  While most would think that was an attempt at humor or irony, it is a completely honest question.  It only makes sense once you understand what the Acorns and SEIU’s of America are really organizing.

Let’s see what they’ve already done.  Barack Obama is for the Community Reinvestment Act.    While national averages for foreclosures dropped, the rate in Chicago actually rose.  Barack Obama is for the Unions.  The state of Illinois is near bankruptcy and a huge burden of that cost is the 5.4 billion slated for next years pensions cost to pay members of those unions.   Barack Obama is for Green Jobs.  The Unemployment rate in Chicago is 11.3% and rising.  Are any of these statistics worthy of praise, never mind the Presidency.  These results are lack luster and destructive and the people of Chicago have to deal with its effect.

They are organizing a revolution.  They are creating division, separation, anger, dashed hopes and unobtainable financial security.  If Chicago is the template for what’s to come in America, then we need not look toward Greece for inspiration to save our country.  We should look right in our own backyards. We should look at our Presidents stomping grounds. 

But let’s change our perspective along the way and this time look at the people.  It’s black kids that are dying.   The same group that comes out and roots for Barack Obama as a savior are the same ones that fear walking the street after dark.  They have Barack Obama bumper stickers on their cars as they drive along funeral processions.  They answer the Democratic call to organize when Acorn funding is at risk but angry mobs of teenagers creating damage to life and property goes unchecked.  They are organizing the first wave towards the destruction of the United States of America as a Democratic Republic.

If you are a black American, or African American if you prefer, and you truly believe America is a racist country then you should be afraid that I’m right.  If you believe with all your heart and soul that the white man doesn’t want you to have anything andwe are on our way to a Revolution, then are you really in a position to dispute what I’m saying?   Black segments of the population will be the first to go.  What we need to understand is the color of your skin means nothing, it’s more about your stature and net worth.  The POOR will be the first to go.  This will mean black, white, brown, and any other classification we use to separate ourselves from the truth of Big Government. 

An all powerful Government will protect itself first and foremost, always.  People be damned.  So just imagine a population that fears no response for their actions because the Government not only doesn’t step in, they encourage rage and anger at the very situations they created.  Take into account we as a black people are predisposed to burning down our own communities, what will happened when Government can no longer provide food stamps, unemployment checks, or social security benefits?  We will be the first group to take to the streets and we will be made into an example and I can assure you there will be no black groups standing up for the atrocities.  Just like they are vying for their place at the table now, they will show their true colors then as well.

We need to wake up and realize Obama’s efforts in Chicago were a success.  The corrupt state and local government has choked the life and spirit out of the city to the point they would actually consider allowing armed Military Forces take over their streets.  If you fear the local police, just imagine Federal Soldiers with the ability to shot to kill.  This wouldn’t scare me so much if most poor Black and Latino men and women weren’t  also brought up with a shot to kill philosophy.  Both entities believing power comes from the barrel of a gun.

Summertime is coming but we haven’t yet began to feel the heat.  When state workers get IOU’s instead of paychecks, beaurcratic jobs start to disappear, and the people realize Hope and Change really meant the distruction of their current way of life then we will see the fruits of Obama’s labor.