The Connecticut Murders, Barack Obama, Drones, and Hypocrisy
By Mukasa Afrika Ma’at
President Barack Obama appeared on national television to console the American citizens and the parents of the murdered children in Connecticut. This sick, depraved, horrific, and unimaginable behavior was a tragedy of the worst kind. Children are innocent. Obama should console the nation. He should console the parents. However, the hypocrisy of his tears is shameless. The hypocrisy of all those who support war and the dropping of drone bombs that kill children overseas is shameless.
Barack Obama has a kill list in which he wakes up and meets with his security team to discuss which terrorists they should be hunting down and killing in some remote villages overseas with no running water to protect the American citizens. The problem is that these are not always terrorists who are targeted. The problem is also that these drones have cause mass “collateral damage,” which is code word for the killing of innocent women and men; and yes drones have rained down and exploded on inncoent children. The President of the United States should cry and console the nation about the bloodshed of those children and other victims. But what about the bloodshed by Obama and other presidents as this country wage vicious wars overseas. How could this country continue to kill children overseas and call itself a democracy?
I am disgusted by the Black leadership. Our leadership was anti-war under President Bush. Our leadership and our people are now strangely quiet on the war issues now under the Black president. All that was needed was a Black president to change the outrage of Blacks on the issue of war. How could we go from raising hell in the streets and calling for the impeachment and charge of war crimes under President Bush and now we are strangely quiet on the issue of war under the Black president? Do you think this might be the propaganda machine of the Democratic Party? War not waged in defense is wrong, Black or White president, Democratic or Republican President. Bloodshed that kills children is wrong whether it is some sick lunatic in Connecticut or orders from Obama’s kill list. Who have shed tears for the countless children killed by US done bombs overseas? Has he even shed tears for Black children killed down the street from the White House? Obama is not the dream of the Civil Rights Movement. Obama is the continuation of warhawks.