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  Date / Time: 11/18/2008 7:13 AM UTC

  President-Elect Barrack Obama and the African-Americans
  

  President-Elect Barrack Obama and
  the African-Americans

  Written by Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd  

  http://www.conversations-of-africa.yomn.net/

   

  The election is finally over and now that Barack Obama has won and we are feeling good to see an African-American family preparing to move into the White House.

   

  However good we African-Americans and by extension to some extent all Americans feel about our Brother President-Elect Barack Obama,

  we African-Americans are being whipped and spanked with joblessness, unemployment, underemployment, losing mortgages and housing, becoming homeless and hitting the bottom of the barrel. Yet we witness the collapse of GM, and the auto industry, desperation, the collapsing financial industry lined up to get billions of Government tax funds as a stimulus to resuscitate these ailing industries.

   

   George Bush threw America head long into 2 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that stimulated weapon making industries and a few favored no bid contractors like Halliburton Corporation however the American economy tanked right as the presidential election was ending exposing the bankruptcy of the Bush Administration and Bush years to the American public!

   

  The weight of war and the billions sent every month to Iraq and Afghanistan have been great factors in bankrupting the American economy however African-Americans were the first victims of Bush neglect because African-American interests were invisible to George W. Bush.

   

  We African-Americans were the first to feel the Bush neglect suffering all 8 years including the well-known neglect of Katrina Storm victims. Yet we African-Americans should not have been ignored because we are like the canaries in a coal mine. Minors carry Canaries into the mines because these birds will be the first to sound an alarm about air quality. In the same way if African-Americans are doing okay economically one could say every one else is also doing well. George Bush had such blinders on that he could not see, feel or hear the cries of anguish in our communities,

   

   

   

   

  until Wall Street and Main Street started crumbling threatening all of America. We felt the Bush neglect and now we need to have our needs met too!

   

   

  Now billions are being distributed to millionaire and billionaire companies

  and banks while African-Americans and other rural and urban poor are waiting at the back of the line. And we are at the back of the line waiting for help to trickle down needing jobs and paid job-training programs in our communities to be greatly expanded to employ the urban millions of unemployed. President Elect Barack Obama please do not leave us at the back of the line behind the banks, financial industries and auto companies waiting for help to trickle down! I know you are not yet President however

  please send a signal with your magnificent communication skills that you get it because we all realize that George W. Bush will never get it

   

  The African-American economic needs are on the scale addressed by the WPA of the mid 1930’s and1940’s! Addressing African-American and urban poor economic needs will require a Civilian Job Corps for those

  24 years and older to receive training for old and new economy jobs,

  along with dramatic expansion of Job Corps Centers for high risk youth 16 to 24 years old to meet growing economic and job training needs.

  Community based organizations that manage non-profit job training programs will also need to be dramatically expanded even larger than the Concentrated Employment and Training Programs of the past.

   

  African-Americans like all other Americans are waiting for Barack Obama to turn things around for the middle class but also for the working class and the under classes where we African-Americans are well represented! We are also well represented among those with adjustable rate loans!

   

  We African-Americans join with all other Americans in wishing President-Elect Barack Obama success in his efforts to resuscitate America including African-Americans.  We African-Americans also need stimulus funds all over this country as soon as possible more than the failed bankers, Insurance Companies and failing automakers!

   

   

  Byline: Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd, born in San Francisco, graduated from Balboa High School in 1970 and entered University of San Francisco and received a B.A. in 1974 in Political Science and Ethnic Studies (African American).  His quest for education continued at Golden Gate University in San Francisco where he received a Masters in Public Administration (MPA).

   

  During his early University days he met Chinwe, a Nigerian woman who was also a student, whom he eventually married.

   

  After being disillusioned by the racism encountered while seeking a career in corporate America, he decided to seek alternatives.  In 1977 he and his Chinwe moved to Nigeria where he took four-year appointment as a lecturer of Government at a Boy’s High School in Benin City.

   

  While in Nigeria he appeared on Nigeria Television on many occasions, wrote poetry and in his leisure time worked on his 1982 Novel, The Black Expatriate in Africa.

   

    Ukali completed Journey To The Motherland, from San Francisco To Benin City and it was published in 2002.  Between 2002 and 2004 Larry completed History To Destiny Through Afrocentric Poetry and a Master’s of Arts in Educational Administration at San Francisco State University. Ukali has completed a DVD/CD Black Love Spoken Word and LOVING Black Women a book of praise poetry for Black Women released June-06. In 2007 Ukali produced The Second Annual African-American Spoken Word festival in San Francisco, California (2/3/07) and in 2008 Ukali produced the Third Annual African-American Spoken Word Festival. The 4^th Annual AF/AM Spoken Word Festival is being planned as we speak for February 2009. Ukali has written 2 new books this year! Long Distance Love and The New Black Power: Why we African-Americans Should Love Africa, Each Other and Africans All Over The World.

  For more info about Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd or his books, go to his website: http://www.lovingblackwomen.com/

   

   

  Discussing Barack Obama on Wed 11/19/08 at 8 AM Conversations of Africa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   

  Wednesday 11 19 2008 8AM Pacific Time Conversations of Africa

  Call in Phone number Area Code347-215-7831

   

  Link:

   

  http://www.conversations-of-africa.yomn.net/

   

   

   

  Questions for discussion on the Wed. 11/19/2008 8AM-9AM Pacific Time Conversations of Africa this week

   

   

  1. What is the historical significance of the President Elect Barack Obama winning the United States Presidency?

   

  2. Who would you like added to the President-Elect’s cabinet to represent African-Americans at the cabinet level?

   

  3. What is the most important cabinet post to you and who should be appointed from your point of view?

   

  4. What should be President-Elect Barack Obama’s priorities for the first 100 days in office?

   

  5. Should President-Elect Barack Obama knockout Bush Administration Executive Orders with an Obama Executive Order?

   

  6. Who should be appointed to the Senate to replace the Barack Obama Senate seat?

   

  Please call in Wednesday 11/19/2008 between 8AM and 9AM and express yourself!

   

  Sincerely,

   

  Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd,

   

  Black Liberation Facilitator of Conversations of Africa

  http://www.lovinmgblackwomen.com/

   

  Check me out at www.lovingblackwomen.com or at my You Tube channel: Ukalitheafrican at this link. http://www.youtube.com/ukalitheafrican

  You can also check me out at Blackplanet.com at this link: http://www.blackplanet.com/Ukal2003/ .We are proud to be apart of the Afrikan Sistahs Media Network entering our second year on Blog talk radio. Also I have 2 Books Loving Black Women 2006 and Journey To The Motherland From San Francisco To Benin City (2002) available for purchase at http://www.amazon.com/ and http://www.lovingblackwomen.com/ !

   

   

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