Yawn. Another bitterly disappointed Obama supporter calls critics of the President “racist” — a response I’m actually starting to sympathize with.

Hear me out.

So many invested so much into Their One and now he’s not only a complete failure as a president, but he’s also on the fastrack to becoming a national joke. Supporters like Lil Wayne have nothing positive to defend him with and so they’re shattered, broken, hurt, desperate… 

This isn’t a cry of racism, it’s a cry for help from those disillusioned by the fact that the oceans did not rise.

And yet, even Lil Wayne has to admit Obama deserves criticism for his failed economy.

“You learn from what the right-wing is doing and you take something from it,” Wayne tells VIBE. “I feel like as a people the most that we can do is better ourselves and learn. Then look at yourself and ask ‘Am I the person they’re talking about or am I not?’ You have to make the most of who you are because the Republicans are never going to like us.”

Wayne added that the right-wings’ at times blatant disrespect of the oval office has more to do with Obama’s racial make-up than his policies. He admits that while he understands the criticism over the President’s handling of the economy, he says some of the talk has gone beyond politics.  “I don’t think I have to say that for everybody to know that,” Wayne says. 

The Left will never stop calling us racist, but they are running out of one thing…

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From Dr. Alveda King’s blog, which you should bookmark (along with her Twitter feed):

A friend of mine told me about a new video by Lil Wayne entitled “How To Love”. Normally, I don’t agree with Lil Wayne’s music content or use of inappropriate language but I have to admit, he did a great job addressing a serious problem in our country today.

The video addresses the issue of choice and how one choice can lead to the next choice. Depending on what choice you make in the beginning can and will affect the subsequent choices you make. Those choices also affect your children and how their lives may turn out.

The video posted August 24, 2011, just 8 days ago, has already received over 6.5 million views. I pray that everyone watching will stop and think about the message of the video: Abortion is not the answer, showing your children how to love and how to be loved can change their lives, children do better being raised within the context of a family unit (married mother and father), education leads to a future, and hearing a doctor say “you’re pregnant” is a blessing and a gift from God.

May Lil Wayne’s message be used to bring people to the pro-life movement because the astronomical number of abortions, especially in the Black community, is just devastating. Numbers don’t lie.

Here’s the video…

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Somewhere over the last 25 years, the idea of what constitutes a “celebrity” changed from a person with some kind of history of achievement to pretty much anyone with a pulse who manages to get his, her or its mug splashed across a TV screen.  Actually, as the wailing and gnashing of teeth surrounding the death of Michael Jackson demonstrated last year, the pulse is now optional.

Nowhere is this more apparent than the ridiculous, cynical remake of “We are the World,” an exercise that according to news accounts seemed less focused on assisting the people of Haiti than on stroking the egos of the pseudo-stars and future nobodies who did the yodeling.

The tiresome video (directed by the tiresome Paul Haggis) raises an important question – who the hell are these people?  I think one of them – the dude with the expensive clothes and dull stare – was Puff Diddley or P. Daddy or whatever idiotic moniker he’s using this week.  You know, there was a time when grown men used their given names instead of childish nicknames that are just emblems of the eternal adolescence that modern pop culture worships. 

Now, the original “We are the World” was itself nearly unlistenable, but that’s a matter of taste and reasonable people can disagree (I thought the British supergroup Band-Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” was a much better song, though it shared “World’s” inexcusable refusal to confront the reason the Ethiopian drought turned into the Ethiopian famine – the cruelty and stupidity of its left wing government ).  However, at least most of the participants were people with track records of success.  You had Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Diana Ross, Bob Dylan, Dionne Warwick and a bunch of others.  Now, not all of them might have been your cup of tea – I’d rather pass a kidney stone made of broken glass than listen to the Boss – but you had at least heard of them. (more…)

Nidal “Gary” Hassan – All-American boy was haunted by memories of Gitmo, ‘Nam, Hiroshima INEVITABLY, ANOTHER SOLDIER SNAPS Distraught pacifist conscientious objector tormented by horrors of war, as far as you know Newsroom experts: stress, violence, stupidity, tragedy a way of life for GIs Former M*A*S*H stars say it’s finally time to disarm the military Hollywood insiders: Sean Penn early favorite for lead in planned Oliver Stone biopic

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