Comments on: Nomalanga: A Love Affair with President Obama

By: minnie

minnie — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 19:47:32 +0000

Supporting “gay marriage” was a decision that President Obama says evolved overtime. Whether I believe this to be true is not what matters; what matters is that he had the courage to make a public statement and not waver.

If anyone think this was a political ploy,I question their rationality/sanity as a decision to support “gay marriage” will definitely lose the President hundreds of thousands or even millions of votes.

Haters including so-called christians, moralists, uneducated Bible thumping finatics, jealous and inept serial homophobes ought to just shut up and sit down.

I suggest that instead of always trying to demean and demonize President Obama, spend sometime reading his accomplishments since 2008 that have and will benefit this country’s populace; even those who hate him.

By: ginger

ginger — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 04:34:28 +0000

From one “carolinasistah” to another, because of your status as an African philosopher and nobel peace prize winner, you should know better. “All souls are mine…” says the Lord. Every family has someone who’s gay either male or female, sometimes both – and most of the time by no fault of their own. Love is color blind and gender blind. President Obama has come around to an understanding that many christians and philosophers need to seek out. Obviously, inspite of your intellect you know very little about homosexuality. Furthermore, if you can so easily turncoat on the President, your conviction and faith in him must have been very limited and shady from the start. He has done much for this country. He can easily campaign on his record. True love of country is not mere blind partisanship. It is regard for the people of one’s country and ALL of them; it is a feeling of fellowship and brotherhood for ALL of them; it is a desire for the prosperity and happiness of ALL of them; it is kindly and considerate judgment toward ALL of them. Furthermore, the essential condition of true progress is that it shall be based upon grounds of reason, and not of prejudice toward any. Abe Lincoln’s noble sentiment of charity for all and malice toward none is yet a living principle of action. That we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us — that we should respect the rights of others as scrupulously as we would have our rights respected — is not a mere counsel of perfection to individuals — but it is the law to which we must conform our country and national policies; that is if we would secure the blessings and abundance of a good conscious and peace. This is our time; the only time we have. The time in which we need to play our part. What our part may signify in the great whole we may not sometimes understand; but we need to play it. This we know; it is a part of action, not of whining. It is a part of love, not cynicism. it is a time for us to express love for all humanity along with our PResident Barack Obama.

By: Rod

Rod — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 19:29:54 +0000

Patori, you don’t have to lie to make your point. Dr. Cornel West never claimed that President Obama was not an African-American born here. Your other opinions show the extreme love Jones you have for Obama and I won’t even get into dissecting those points with you. All I can suggest is that you see a therapist before you start seeing visions of Obama laying in your bed. But you can at least stick to the truth when you try to present something as fact.

By: CarolinaSistah

CarolinaSistah — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 15:45:09 +0000

This is where I think many homosexuals make their mistake. Because I dissent with you on homosexuality as ‘normal’ and that there is a ‘right’ to same-sex marriage; does not mean I hate you or any other homosexual person. It means simply, I don’t agree with you for whatever reasons. My right to dissent with you and government is embedded in the U.S. Constitution; no such right to same-sex marriage has yet been demonstrated in same.

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
Wole Soyinka, African philosopher, writer, nobel peace prize winner

By: Misty

Misty — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 14:27:27 +0000

First of all, not every black person agrees with you on SSM. In fact, his support has been a positive effect on me. I’m more energized now for him than I ever was. And are there not LGBT blacks out there? And there are plenty of black leaders who support LGBT rights, so why is Obama any different? Sounds like you’ve got some issues of your own. This ridiculous hatred of gay people (because as you know there are no black gays out there) needs to stop.

By: CarolinaSistah

CarolinaSistah — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 14:16:37 +0000

I admit that I was ‘in love’ with the President and his beautiful wife and children. I was in love with the reality of having a ‘cool’ Black man leading the most powerful nation in the world. I was in love with finally being able to look at ‘white’ America and say, ‘Yes we can’ and Yes we did’!

Being in love does go through phases. I have stopped and asked myself, ‘why am I so disappointed and hurt?’ I now know the answer to my self-reflexive question – I am disappointed in my President because for me, his endorsement of samae-sex marriage was a deal-breaker.

Everyone has their own values and beliefs. Although values and beliefs can change, they often are set within the individual soul by age 5; making them difficult to change.

I have a strong faith (Christian) and set values that I am unwilling to compromise on. When then Senator Obama stated that for him marriage was between a man and a woman and that for him (as a Christian), it was a sacred union with God in the mix; I connected with him on a spiritual level — he was a fellow Christian and ‘brother in the Lord’ for me.

When he endorsed same-sex marriage and called it ‘evolving’; I called it lying. In my eyes, there is no-way to ‘diss’ God and His Word and call something that God hates, a ‘right’.

I’m not changing my mind about endorsing President Obama this election because he broke my heart — I’m changing my mind because he lied and tried to practice deception in his so-called ‘evolution’.

By: The Motown Sound!

The Motown Sound! — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:59:01 +0000

Nomalanga- you raise some valid points but I don’t think blacks in general are “disappointed”…..I suggest you look at the generational differences within the black community….

1- The passing older generation of blacks are more conservative because they were conditioned that way in line with the over-arching culture of our country….but I’d say many have “evolved”…guess in your black church you’all never had a gay person in the choir or playing the piano!! C’mon!!

2- What about are youth today?? Hmmmmm……

3- What about blacks in your age group and mine??

4- Ignorance and self-righteousness drives opposition to gays and creates homophobia, just as it did to integration, inter-racial marriage, etc….seems you don’t want to recognize the HISTORY of abuse many have experienced in this nation….

Your commentary lacks “analysis”, and appears to be more baseless ranting “opinion”…..what ever hangups you have about this POTUS, Pastori certainly laid out the facts…..

By: Sharon Anthony

Sharon Anthony — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 08:27:35 +0000

I have no problem w same sex marriage.However, I feel Obama is just as crooked as any other politician.

By: ginger

ginger — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 21:00:05 +0000

Yes Yes Yes!!! I am very much in love with Barack Obama, President of these United States! I don’t know why I keep reading this website, because it seems that it’s dedicated to low-rating the President. I am a member of a black group in a small town in NOrth carolina, and we all love our PResident as much as we ever did. Everyone has a right to their own personal opinion. Thank God for Jesus! Thank God that He’s not like man. God made us all equal. He loves each and every one of us. I am a woman of God, and believe that Jesus has unconditional compassion and love for each and everyone, even gave his life for all of us. His love and understanding is far beyond what any of us can even imagine. So, you’d better be careful how you judge. I love and respect the President even more for his inclusion of equality and justice for even those who are looked down down upon and portrayed as though they are “less than human”…afterall, as blacks, some of us sure can relate to that. Editorials/comments on this website seem to be geared toward turning people against the President. I think that is so wrong, especially given that this is suppose to be a black site. However, it alerts us to the fact that we, as those who are working to help him, has to work three times as hard. You are not helping him with all of the negative comments. You are helping the REPUBLICANS. Maybe that’s what your aim is.

By: bobby g

bobby g — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 17:40:24 +0000

He’s the president of the United States Not the president of gay people black or any other special interest group