We is the People also!

The President for all of the people...
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/student-participated-inauguration-festivities-shot-dead-article-1.1251027
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/carney-obama-is-president-of-all-people

Is Obama President to all of the families that have been forever changed by gun violence.  I'm sure that it is safe to assume that all Americans regardless of race are touched by the events in Newtown last year.  Let's face it our society is centered around the events and desires of white men.  There is no question that our Eurocentric focus is prevalent.  You would have to live in a box under a bomb shelter with no prior knowledge of society and culture to NOT know how heart wrenching losing a child in America just before Christmas... en masse... children who had not even reached puberty... The victims lived in a sleepy town... predominantly white... suburbia at it's finest.  Obama was definitely president to those poor helpless families.... He immediately made remarks that brought a tear to everyone's eyes including his own.  Yes he was president to those families.

However, is America's judgement that blacks are 3/5ths human in place here?  Hundreds of black families on Chicago's south side have been rocked by violence.  Not just on one day a few days before Christmas.  Black people are being killed by each other, and police regularly.  It may not be shocking or tragic as the media would have you believe that somehow by choosing to live in a highly populated metropolis a family unwittingly signs its rights to safety away.  No mention is made how urban families come to be in highly densely populated places.  THESE FAMILIES COME FOR WORK.  Often rural places have few opportunities for advancement.  Please remember that a person on welfare for instance in the state of Pennsylvania (or any other state) if you receive a grant of welfare, TANF... whatever... Your government benefits don't change as a result of whether or not you live in a metropolitan area. 

One would assume that impoverished families would be happy to draw their same allotment from a safer place.  Not so... Poor families need access to affordable public transportation and jobs that rural areas simply can't offer.  So does that mean one deserves to be shot?  Apparently the presidency doesn't include concern for these families and it never has.  Perhaps this is why we see little to no regard for those lives. 

Friends and neighbors in the Newtown tragedy used phrases like "nothing happens like that here" as if it is supposed to happen only to a certain portion of the population.  No Mr. President for all.  Even if you don't care about the 3/5ths humans of Chicagoans being slaughtered like dogs in the streets of your home state... Or wherever you are from.  At least show some concern for the people who are impacted on a daily basis from your wife's home state!  Do it for the Gipper if you will.  Is party affiliation so strong that you fear your position will be undermined if you shed a tear on the boob tube for people that look like your wife?

It's not supposed to happen in Newtown, its not supposed to happen in Chicago, not Los Angeles or Compton.  We the people of the urban populace didn't unwittingly sign up for our loved ones to be murdered at will because we didn't have the ability or desire to jump up and move to the country with white people.  Our children are no less important. Our concerns are no less important.  It's ok to vote and propose legislation of the constituency that helped you get in office.  Mr. President.  Don't go missing in the conversation when black honor students are murdered. 

Let's see some tears for young Hadiya Pendleton. Something tells me that her loss has significantly impacted our community.  An honor student, a good girl... Just standing out of the rain while doing what you said black folks "needed to do." As if we haven't been doing it all along... You can't even get a food stamp without making sure your children attend school regularly in these parts.  I'm sure you wouldn't know Mr. President about the struggles of the poor and you are shielded from those... Rightly so poverty is no fun and should be avoided at all costs.  Oh yes your eyes will probably never gaze upon these words... And I'm sure if on the off chance they found their way into your circle there are already reasons in your head and those of your handlers why responding to the deaths of the Americans who overwhelmingly supported your re-election campaign... It may cause a split... The GOP won't like it.

Hadiya and her classmates probably like you more than anyone you work with other than your family.  Remember that.  She thought enough of you to attend your inaugural activities.  I'm sure money was raised that parent's didn't have so that their child had a shot to be a part of your legacy.  It's a shame your remain silent.  If not for the hundreds of black men and women being murdered in the streets... For Hadiya because she and her family were doing what you said was the magic recipe for success in this country for blacks...

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2012/12/gun_death_tally_every_american_gun_death_since_newtown_sandy_hook_shooting.html

1200 Men have died since Newtown
81 Teens
23 Children

It wasn't supposed to happen there either...