Obama didn’t get his way with some appointments so some suggest that he goes gangsta.

Is it racist to tell Obama he should go ‘gangsta’ against his foes?  What I know of the word and what it means is black thugs, gangs, gangsta rap.  Now if it was spelled ‘gangster’ it would reference any gang member, but typically it indicates old skool mafia mob action.

Why spell it ‘gangsta’?

Here is a clip from the author of the article, Roland S. Martin:

For me, I’m sick and tired of Democrats having power and being unwilling to use it. I’ve always respected Republicans when they had power because they were willing to use it and maybe apologize later.

Today, President Obama walked into the White House briefing room and took some questions, and one of them revolved around recess appointments.

He has watched Republicans block many of his appointments, and now he says he made it clear to them that he will “consider” making some when the U.S. Senate goes into recess.

“One senator, as you all are aware, had put a hold on every single nominee that we had put forward due to a dispute over a couple of earmarks in his state,” President Obama said.

“In our meeting, I asked the congressional leadership to put a stop to these holds in which nominees for critical jobs are denied a vote for months. Surely we can set aside partisanship and do what’s traditionally been done to confirm these nominations.

If the Senate does not act — and I made this very clear — if the Senate does not act to confirm these nominees, I will consider making several recess appointments during the upcoming recess, because we can’t afford to allow politics to stand in the way of a well-functioning government.”

Obama’s critics keep blasting him for Chicago-style politics. So, fine. Channel your inner Al Capone and go gangsta against your foes. Let ‘em know that if they aren’t with you, they are against you, and will pay the price.

The bold and underlining are mine.

So, why mix Al Capone with ‘gangsta’? Al Capone was a Gangster.

Here are a few definitions of ‘Gangsta’:

Gangsta may refer to:

• Gangsta (rapper), a one time member of The Comrads and Hoo-Bangin’ Records
• Gangster, slang for a member of a gang
• Gangsta rap
• Hip-hop fashion, a style of dress associated with the aforementioned musical genre
• (Black English) a member of a youth gang
  wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
• A member of an urban criminal or street gang; exhibiting the traits or demeanor associated with the high risk lifestyle of urban street-thugs or hustlers
  en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gangsta

• Noun

  1.

  gangsta – (Black English) a member of a youth gang AAVE, African American English, African American Vernacular English, Black English, Black English Vernacular, Black Vernacular, Black Vernacular English, Ebonics – a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States youth gang – a gang whose members are teenagers

If you are so inclined to play around, you can go here and “Shed that weak-ass honky image with your very own gangsta name!” (In case you are wondering, my gangsta name is ‘Sweet Dung Beetle’.  I don’t think it’s cool enough.)

Obama told us that words mean something and I am holding everyone to it.

Did the author commit an unconscious racist error is using what is black slang when referring to what Obama should do to the people’s representatives?  The representatives recently blocked the appointment of Craig Becker, another Chicago thug with ties to Acorn and SEIU, to the National Labor Relation’s Board (NLRB).  This pissed off Obama and I am sure his pal Craig Becker was one of the people Obama was hinting at when he said he might make appointment during the U.S. Senate recess.

Let’s figure this out, the people think that Craig Becker is no.t good for America.  You don’t have to dig very deep into his background to know that he is toxic to our republic.  Just two words, Acorn/SEIU, should tell you all you need to know about him. If you want a little more info, go here. They have a decent rundown of Craig Becker.

Here is a snip from that link:

Becker does not express a belief in individual rights of workers to freely choose to join or not to join a union.  He supports the idea that workers should be forced into collectives like unions that dominate and control individual working conditions.  Becker’s beliefs are the antithesis of American democracy and liberty, and his beliefs will have disastrous results if implemented by the NLRB.

Anyway, Obama wants this Chicago Becker thug on the NLRB. So he says he may just go ahead and tell the American people to shove it.  It was our representatives, based on our input who declined Becker’s nomination.

Evidently, the author of the article above thinks that Obama should force himself onto an unwilling population, disregard the voice of the people and thug it out, do what he wants cause he is the pResident.  We elected Obama to follow the will of the people. Last I looked, that was part of the job description when a person got a paycheck for warming the chair in the oval office.

So, back to gangsta.  Is it racist to call Obama a racially loaded name?  The author of the article is a black man, does that give him a pass?  Would it be different if the author was white?