For Obama, 50 years after historic march, economic equality the path to racial justice

Washington Post ^ | Aug 17, 2013 | By Zachary A. Goldfarb

[Jim Robinson]

President Obama has only occasionally used his bully pulpit to confront racial inequality in America, even if race inherently has been a backdrop of his tenure as the first black president.

He has, however, made fighting economic inequality a central goal of his presidency, delivering forceful speeches and advocating policies aimed at shrinking the income gap and increasing social mobility.

When he speaks later this month on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Obama will be at the confluence of efforts to reduce racial and economic divisions.

As the president addresses a crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, current and former advisers say, he will want to impress upon listeners how progress toward racial equality will require progress toward economic equality.

Obama, who keeps a framed program from the “March on Washington” in the Oval Office, has said he has often reminded people that the march was as much about what he called economic justice as a demonstration for civil rights.

“He wants to create opportunity and to make sure the level playing field is ready for everybody,” said Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama’s senior advisers and close friends. “If you look at poverty or unemployment, they disproportionately affect people of color. People who don’t have health insurance are disproportionately of color. There is inevitably an overlap in addressing racial equality at the same time you’re trying to create economic empowerment.”

[Jim Robinson]

So, you're going to use the force of government to take from those who have and give to those who don't. Economic justice. Marxism. Communism. Fascism. Under any name, it's tyranny. FUBO!!

[Jim Robinson]

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

[Standing Wolf]

...you're going to use the force of government to take from those who have and give to those who don't.

No. Marxists take from those who work and give to those in power.

[dandiegirl]

Racial “justice” = revenge.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Remind me, is Mr. Obama the descendant of slaves?

[fieldmarshaldj]

"President Obama has only occasionally frequently used his bully pulpit to confront enflame racialsm inequality in America"

[Mortrey]

Hey, Val...we KNOW you’re an Iranian by birth...hows about taking the test and then imputing it into Benghazi Barry’s teleprompter?

No?!? Didn’t think you would.

BLACK POLITICAL HISTORY: THE UNTOLD STORY
NOTE: All answers are “b.”

1. What Party was founded as the anti-slavery Party and fought to free blacks from slavery?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party

2. What was the Party of Abraham Lincoln who signed the emancipation proclamation that resulted in the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black communities today?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party

3. What Party passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting blacks freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party

http://www.nbra.info/DYK-HistoryTest

[fieldmarshaldj]

Slave Dealers.

[cloudmountain]

Economic equality?
Where's he been?
Doesn't he know that communism is a failure?

There IS NO SUCH THING as equality--except our value as human beings in the EYE OF OUR CREATOR.

Ah me, so many so dumb.

[spokeshave]

Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama’s senior advisers and close friends. “If you look at poverty or unemployment, they disproportionately affect people of color.

Hey Valerie...if they could "do cursive" ...communicate in a language other than Ebonics and manage to keep their pants up maybe they would find employment.

[funfan]

I imagine this will be broadcast all day long at nauseum.

[Blackirish]

So when we’re all broke his job when is complete.

[Jim Robinson]

The “poor people of color” are definitely not going to find economic justice or equality as long as they depend on the government plantation for subsistence . The government plantation industry is designed to keep them poor while their race pimp leaders like Obama lord it over them. Where’s Obama golfing today?

[willywill]

if I try and put myself in the position of a minority, say African American or jew, and then I imagine things like slavery or the holocaust, I cannot possibly imagine any type of forgiveness, even though nobody alive today had a hand in it.
if I were either one, I would work tirelessly to be sure the white Christian male can never perpetrate anything like that again.
certainly, when I look at Michael Bloomberg, and all the freedoms he wants to take from us, I see someone thinking along those lines.
likewise for Obama. I have to say that if people think Obama has any love for the white race, or is looking for justice for everyone, black and white, they are mistaken.

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

Since the different races are, on the whole, unequal in their skills, it’s logical that the different races would have unequal economic outcomes. Politicians and “elites” have committed to not only ignoring all evidence that contradicts the aforementioned statement (a statement that was accepted as obvious truth up until the past several decades), but the elites are also hell bent on quashing any dissent via character assassination.

As we have also seen the past several decades, the method of reaching racial economic equality will be to use federal government power to redistribute wealth and to tip the scales against white Americans. This will only continue to get worse.

Interestingly, both Asians and Indians do not seem to be affected by alleged institutional racism as both groups now have a greater average household wealth than white Americans. This, of course, is never mentioned when discussing economic inequality as a result of the institutional racism because it unmasks that narrative for the sham that it is.

[MeshugeMikey]

Remember the OLD DAYS...and Amos N Andy-Bonix?

Such Sweet Memories

[ConorMacNessa]

"When he speaks later this month on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Obama will be at the confluence of efforts to reduce racial and economic divisions."

And as is his wont, he will use the occasion to exploit racial, class, and gender divisions to effect his marxist agenda.

MLK must be spinning in his grave to see what these demagogues and poseurs have made of the cause he served.



"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Windflier]

Since the different races are, on the whole, unequal in their skills...

I can guarantee you, that if you were raised in the toxic environment that most blacks are, your skills would be pretty unequal too.

Blacks who are raised among the majority population, and who have a mother and father at home who provide a loving home with a positive upbringing, do just about as well as anyone else.

[Jim Robinson]

[Except for every day, "President Obama has only occasionally used his bully pulpit to confront racial inequality in America..."

B. Hussein Obama - the first president of black America,

[Just mythoughts]

I can guarantee you, that if you were raised in the toxic environment that most blacks are, your skills would be pretty unequal too. Blacks who are raised among the majority population, and who have a mother and father at home who provide a loving home with a positive upbringing, do just about as well as anyone else.

I agree with you 100%. It is demoralizing to see what liberalism has done to so many peoples... race notwithstanding.