Opinion: Obama’s Moral Failure by Joshua Hoyt
I’m a community organizer. Last week, I did something I never thought would be possible. I met with the president of the United States in the West Wing of the White House.
President Barack Obama met for 75 minutes with 14 leaders from across the country to discuss immigration reform — and the destruction of some 1,100 immigrant families a day through deportations carried out by his administration.
The meeting was tense, blunt and passionate. And there was a racial irony to our discussion. Our labor, faith and immigrant rights leaders included seven Latinos, three Asians and four whites. We were meeting with our country’s first African-American president, the son of an immigrant father. His senior advisers at the meeting included three African-Americans (one the child of immigrants), a Latina, a Chinese-American woman and a white woman.
There were years of intertwined friendships and relationships at the table, including my own with the president that began when he was a Chicago community organizer in 1986. Yet, despite all of these ties, we were there to tell him about his moral failure on immigration, and his looming political catastrophe.
It’s sad to see a black man get in office and just be a lame duck Punk! We have an opportunity to make change and Obama just keeps going about it wrong. He needs to realize you can;t make everybody happy, and just be a LEADER, that’s what makes people respect you, leading by EXAMPLE. I have not seen any leadership by Obama YET. smh. It’s so sad, usually I think our men are too forceful but dang, it’s like someone ripped his backbone out the day he was elected… Sigh.