Velma Hart, Non-Profits and The Middle Class Sense of Entitlement: Definitely Not Baller!

I read this morning that Velma Hart, the ignorant black woman cemented in history for publicly taking President Obama to task for not doing enough to help her out economically, has lost her job.

What annoyed me was the whining albeit eloquent nature in which she did this. During a CNBC townhall meeting this troll popped out of the woodwork like a mole at Dave and Busters and then told Obama that she was exhausted from defending him and his policies and was still waiting on the change she voted for. She said this like she had practiced it in front of a mirror for days and I even wondered if it was a Tea Party stunt. Nevertheless, the clip gained traction throughout America as other middle class Americans shared the same trepidations.

Admittedly, I felt a little sorry for her. This pudgy black lady who probably felt like going to college was her ticket to financially distinguishing herself from lesser black folks (toungue-in-cheek of course), was suddenly faced with the reality of joining them and myriad others, black or otherwise, who were facing the prospect of job losses and having to alter their standards of living.

Once I learned that she was the Chief Financial Officer at a non-profit, I nearly laughed out loud. As someone who worked at one of the most well respected non-profits in Capitol Hill, The Children's Defense Fund, I suddenly understood where this woman was coming from.

As someone who had worked in HR at CDF for some time, I was privy to the pay scales of the employees working here. If other non-profits work anything like The Children's Defense Fund, its like this: You have a small group of elites at the very top that are making incomes that seem to exceed the spirit of non-profitness. For instance, you have your CEO and CFO and HR Executive and your fundraising executives that are earning in excess of $150,000 a year. Then you have your peons--researchers, educators, policy analysts and program coordinators that are continually bombarded with job description add-ons. Their pay is minimal and their tenure, tenuous. So while you have an elite group at the top that is making a ton of money for a non-profit, you have your proletariat class that is disposable and gets the crumbs.

Velma Hart is one of these overpaid "non-profit" elites--a career "non-profiteer" if you will. She feels entitled to profit off the donations of others--pretty "ghetto" if you ask me. And then has nerve enough to accost someone as dignified as Barack Obama with some accusatory, self serving nonsense.

Velma Hart, like many other Americans right now is a victim of an illusory promise that is uniquely American: If you go to college and kiss enough ass, you are entitled to a salary. NEWSFLASH: You are not entitled to a job. Go out and hustle like every other entrepreneur out there. Obama is not responsible for your pathetic career choices--you are!