OBAMA AND AFRICAN AMERICANS.

The Black community's reaction on President Barack Obama seems unpleasant, for the high unemployment rate among African Americans. The fact is that, when it comes to job creation, the government is limited. It cannot hire beyond what is needed to serve a particular purpose, often referred to as a "program".

The private sector is where the jobs are, as governments are not able to extend the number of work provisions or command positions to be brought into being, unless more programs are formulated to meet with public requirements. Yet, how many of these programs can be formed to absorb the unemployed?

Big companies and corporations, as well as small businesses create opportunities for people to get employed in large quantities; however, if they are not hiring, then who is to blame?

African Americans, of all people, are liable to know that the president cannot go out of his way to make programs of all sorts available to them. He is unable to conjure them up out of the blue. His position is not to cater to just one portion of the population, as he has to think about other ethnic groups too, just the same.

America, as we all know, is a melting pot, and no individual, however powerful, can even make the attempt to change that. So, if that is what U.S. House Rep. Maxine Waters has in mind, then she has another thing coming.

At a noisy town hall meeting in Detroit, she was urging the crowd to give the Congressional Black Caucus permission to "unleash" its anger on the president for the vast unemployment level among African Americans. The rate was almost two to one against them, at 15.9% to 9.2% nationwide.

Rep. Waters knows that the president is "handicapped" in many circumstances, and that job creation is one of them. It is for Congress to approve government programs, and then he will sign them into law, after the fact. Any other way is impossible.

He, Obama, has been calling out about several pieces of legislation that must be implemented by Congress to make work available for the unemployment rate to go down throughout his recent bus tour in the Mid-West region of the country. His efforts must not be underestimated by the same people he is counting on as his base for support to enable his economic policies to work.

He has named names of those that are holding things back on the floor of Congress; the rigid Republican Party's opposition to these legislations. Therefore, that must be where the pressure from the CBC must be directed and not on the White House.

The poverty tour of PBS host Tavis Smiley and Princeton University Cornel West, to many, was a "photo op", and for what, nobody could tell. They knew perfectly well that government did not create jobs, and that individuals and companies were the sources for employment.

However, the question still remained that, out of the myriad number of black sports figures, who have become millionaires from their skills as basketball and baseball players, the two men should tell us what those people have done to create employment within their own communities?

They might be investing in companies at large, but could not they form their own companies to help their own kind? They should tell black communities around the country, why Retail stores and Supermarket chains were owned by others from outside those communities.

It was therefore inconceivable for Rep. Waters, Tavis Smiley and Cornel West to accuse President Obama for not doing enough for African Americans in terms of employment. The fact was that, for ages, they have done nothing for themselves, until he came on the scene.

Have they ever attacked or criticized rich African Americans, who were supposed to be "paying back" into improving the black communities around the country, but were not doing so? What people, like Tavis and West, said should be taken with a grain of salt.

If they were as smart as they wanted us to believe, they would support Obama to win a second term, because that was when all presidents who won their re-election put their policies into practice without much hindrance. They should give him the same chance to do exactly as those before him.