This ain't FUBU...

Imma just get right to the point.

Some of us have no idea what the hell we are playing at.

I get on my FB timeline this morning and more than anything else, I see some of us with our ghetto shout outs and street-themed photo mock-ups of President Obama and it makes me sick.

Political cleverness requires that one be informed about the issues. And yes, I do throw innuendos about black culture into politics. Escalades, BBQ and my man, 2Chainz, for example. But I am completely cognizant of the context in which I mesh these subjects into politics and it is always to illustrate a larger point. That, my confused, misdirected people, is one thing....

But its a whole other thing to act like this man is somehow just a homie who made it out of the hood and one-upped the white man in a presidential election.

We get mad at the white folks for saying that we only voted for him because he's black.

But then we turn our black asses around and perpetrate a fraud against the fabric of who President Obama really is as a man and as President of the United States.

For some reason, whenever one of us "makes it" out, we have some kind of sick need to keep them on our level. To keep the perception that they are "down" with us.

I don't want no "down ass" President. Black or white.

As long as he is President, I don't need (or want) to know that he likes 2Chainz. I don't give a damn if he wears Jordan's or rocks Ray-Bans. I don't ever want to see him at anyone's backyard cookout unless its his family's or at least somebody in his tax bracket. He don't need to know the dang "Wobble" or the "Electric Slide." Beyond his wedding band and a good watch, I don't ever want to see him rocking any "bling." And I would hate to know that he ever drove a vehicle with anything other than factory rims on it.

My dude is President of the United States. Not Hood Ambassador.

Tupac and Biggie gone. Some of y'all want to try to make us believe otherwise, but I'm almost sure they ain't coming back.

See the way it sounds, some of us feel like President Obama being re-elected is some kind of pay back for what you think D. White Man has done to you.

Sad part is you overlooked what the hell you've done to yourselves.

D. White Man, who I don't really know, might have done a few dirty things to me in my lifetime. But guess what? D. Black Man, who I know very well, has done some dirty stuff, too.

But color don't matter. ANYBODY that gets in the way of my progress can get it. Twice.

I ain't never been no slave.

I don't never plan to be one.

I ain't never been a nigger.

And I don't never plan to be one.

It's not what they call you. It's what you answer to.

Y'all sit right there and pay too much attention to these right wing, Tea Party, extremist mother-effers and let them get under your skin and pull you into their efforts to divide this country and make it harder for President Obama to do what people with good sense elected him to do.

Black folks make up roughly 12% of the population of the United States. Study your damn math and you'd realize that there is no way that just black folks had a hand in his re-election.

This ain't FUBU. When is the last time you seen somebody rocking FUBU anyway?

Its white folks out here, struggling just like us. Unconcerned with color. And only concerned about feeding their families. Just like us. Dummy.

Let me put y'all on to something.

Its Mr. Barack Obama, President of the United States.

Not Mr. Barack Obama, Black President of the Black United States.

What I am saying does not excuse the poor behavior of those who disrespect the man and the office with their hateful, racist remarks.

But until we recognize that as his supporters, we downgrade him in the same way when we try to paint him simply as "one of us," we have no right to be upset.

Y'all better get right.

*drops mic...*

On second thought...

*picks mic up, exits stage left*

Just in case I need to come through here again.

Towanna