Organizing for America | Prosy Delacruz's Blog: An Open Letter to President Barack Obama

An Open Letter to President Barack Obama

By Prosy - Mar 2nd, 2009 at 5:55 pm EST

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Tags: Abstract Liberalism, Color - Blind Racism, Cultural Racism, Democracy, Employee Free Choice Act, federal agencies, GI Bill, GOPs, Individual Rights, Loida Nicolas Lewis, media, michelle obama, middle class, Minimization, naturalization, Organizing for America, Post-Racism, Profits with Honor, Robert Gibbs, Unions, Volkswagen, Wall Street Bankers, Warren Buffett, whitehouse.gov

Dear President Barack Obama, I understand you are moving our government to be more for the middle class, the workers and the small businesses, the elderly and the children. I would like to comment on how your speeches are coming across. Yes, you are being hands-on, pragmatic, and honest and trustworthy. Yet, we need more, as Los Angeles Times and other mainstream media are miscontruing your message and are spinning it to be what GOPs want it to be. For example the headlines of LA Times screamed out that "Obama's budget in the trillions has no details and specifics and just big on deficits." Then, the internet is coordinated in their misinformation and screams out that Karl Rove attended a conservative convention and said GW Bush is a failure and so is Obama. What are they doing?

I finally understood a semblance of what the GOPs are doing and how they actively undermined your budget in the House, except for the three Senators.

a. Use of abstract liberalism unmasking reasonable racism - regardless of economic circumstances, they are calling for individual rights, for smaller gov't, without mentioning GOPs inherited billion surplus, hid the war expenses in Iraq and a trillion deficit from GW Bush, who failed us because his policies took the economy to a freefall to almost a collapse, until you interceded. You on the other hand are being PRESUMED to be a failure, in the same vein as GW Bush, yet you have four years to perform . We need more Mr. Abess stories, of capitalists who prosper with " profits with honor" and not the Wall Street bankers who profit with dishonor. And we need you to give us the real deal. Also, convene a summit of the capitalists you want to see, who act honorably, like Warren Buffett, Loida Nicolas Lewis who shared her profits of millions with potato workers in the production line when she sold her business. Profits with honor and more stories of those. Profits with honor and more stories of those. Or the examples of Volkswagen who are simply cutting hours of production employees, a shared sacrifice, instead of laying off workers. We need examples of business being imaginative towards retaining workers at work.

2. Naturalization: Normalizing what is horrible and saying that's the way it is. We need to examine and call out the behaviors of businesses that squander workers and use this recession to pad more of their wallets. Start enforcing good labor laws and pass Employee Free Choice Act. In the 50s, we were unionized at 35%, today, it is at 7%, and middle class are diminished and union busting is on the rise. We have a right to organize, and when we do, we improve wages, health care and we grow our middle class.

3. Cultural racism - " they can't get it together ". By asking you to be more specific, to be more detailed, when you are still in the process of figuring things out, GOPs are working hard to say your presidency cannot get it together. Yet, you have flawlessly run a campaign that dismantled old ways of doing things. Please give us good news each day, and each week, hold a press conference and give us the progressive status of events, until they become a critical mass. Remember when you won the primary, each week, your campaign shared news of who endorsed you, we need the same, each week, a union or a business or a capitalist won over by your policies.

4. Minimization - declining significance that race is no longer a problem. Mr. President, the GI bill did not include black families and blacks were excluded from early equity - building, and now preyed upon by predatory lenders. So, it is now communities of color that are affected in greater terms by this housing crisis. We need enforcement of laws against predatory lenders and make it a true level playing field again.

I understand you want America to be post-racism, but we are in transition. And during that transition, Robert Gibbs can do a better job of educating and informing the reporters of what your program is, of the White House agenda instead of simply parsing words with reporters who frame the questions from their GOPs owned-newspapers. It is time we get good information. And Organizing for America has not a clue on how to organize like before in your campaign, they are floundering, they have no idea on how to engage us, and they are echoing what you are disseminating inwhitehouse.gov. That is not the purpose of Organzing for America, it should have stories of how non-profits are assisting, of what is good news of folks collaborating, of good actions taken by folks defending what is true in the media. They have no clue at all on how to move folks towards the desired goals of national purpose of revitalizing the middle class and working class and the small businesses. You need better organizers in Organizing for America that include not just whites, but folks of color.

A stroke of genius to have Michelle Obama inspire best practices and quality performance from federal agencies. We love you!

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