Welcome to the American Job Crisis: All Praises Due to American Capitalism

Welcome to the American Job Crisis: All Praises Due to American Capitalism
By Malik Sekou Osei
June 12, 2011

While Barack Obama is making his run for a second term in office, we are still witnessing a vast job crisis mushroom under his administration’s first term.

The American people and the African American community in particular are the victims -- not only of a litany of injustices and inequities , e.g., police violence, lack of health care, and lack of educational opportunities -- but on a more profound level, of the inability to come to grips with the reality that they face under this Obama administration.

There is an argument is that “we know that it’s been hard under Obama, but without him, it would be worst, as it was under the GOP.” Yet the Obama presidency has carried out the GOP agenda, hook, line, and sinker, from Afghanistan to BP (British Petroleum) and the oil spill in the Mexican Gulf, to health care, Medicaid , the federal budget, funding for education, to unwavering support for Israeli military campaigns against the Palestinian people, and the bailing out of the banks as opposed to the homeowners.

It now seems that our community has been asked to leave our critical thinking at the door, as "we" enter the White House. We are so elated by this victory in civil rights, that we have exchanged the symbolism of "realizing" King's Dream for our actual material interests. Perhaps the tune “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” is the the new national African American anthem – we should all turn a blind eye to social and economic ills in deference to our emotional and psychological well-being.

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I have to wonder if Obama was the false Democrat run in 2008?

This is doubly annoying, because there's no question that by compulsively moving right any time they're in power, the Democrats enable the Republicans to move even further right. But it also means that a Republican president and Congress in 2012 would not be the same as George Bush and the Republican Congress of 2004. They would be far more vicious, more radical, and more Christofascist.

In the short run, there's no easy answer. In the longer run, the only way out I can see is to get enough people energized in defense of liberal values to convince our Democratic politicians that there's no future for them in being faux-Republicans.

Quite frankly, though, I don't see much real chance of that. I think we're more likely to get working-class riots -- which will no doubt send the Dems scurrying to proclaim themselves the party of law and order out of some retroactive fear of Nixon's silent majority rising up against them.

I'm sure Barbra Bush would say "This is working out quite nicely for them"