1. Why are you folks so crooked?
2. Why are you folks so stupid?
3. And finally:
Posted on 09/20/2013 7:10:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Barack Obama will join members of the Congressional Black Caucus and other political heavyweights at the group’s annual Phoenix Awards Dinner during its legislative conference in Washington, DC on Saturday. Obama, the dinner’s keynote speaker, made waves during the same event in 2011 at the height of the CBC’s demands that Obama do more about the economic woes of African-Americans, when he told the group to “stop complaining” and get to work with him.
But those were the bad old days of Obama’s first term, when black members of Congress echoed the frustration and disappointment of their constituents, in districts that bore the brunt of the economic crisis. Obama’s second term has offered an opportunity for the president and the CBC to get back on the good foot.
The president’s responses to the killing of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of George Zimmerman–his articulation of African-Americans’ pain–recast the community’s perception of Obama as tone-deaf and absent on black cultural issues.
Still, the economic forecast for blacks remains dismal. And a range of other issues affecting many African-Americans–and millions of other Americans, for that matter–continues to fester. Here are eight key issues the president should address.
Unemployment/Wealth
This year marked the 50th Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. While much has changed for African-Americans, progress has remained slow. The black-white economic and employment gap has remained wide and largely unchanged over the last half-century. In 1963 the average annual unemployment rate for blacks was 10.9%, compared with 5% for whites. Today, the unemployment rate for blacks remains about double that of whites, at 12.6 for blacks and 6.6 for whites.
The unemployment rate is just one indicator of the challenges that black Americans face. The income and wealth gap also continues to expand....
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Seems like the CBC is a racist, leftist abomination.
Unemployment/Wealth
Stand Your Ground laws
Gun Violence /Gun Legislation
Education
Health/Obamacare
Voting Rights
Food Stamps
Pardon/Clemency
CBC = Gimme yer wallet.. jewelry.. wife.. daughters..
I want yer vehicle.. home.. job.. givernment.. rights.. honor.. self respect.. even yer vote if I vote more than once.. several times..
AND.. leave me alone to steal.. attack you.. call you names.. rape.. pillory.. cuss.. riot.. perform treason.. sedition and espionage..
AND LIKE IT!!..
Gotcha... CBC but you’ve talked to the wrong Honky..
I don’t play that..
How about school choice?
When is the White Congressional Caucus convention and will Obama speak there?
1. Why are you folks so crooked?
2. Why are you folks so stupid?
3. And finally:
8. 24 or 26 inch rims
7. KFC or Popeyes
6. Michelle, man? woman? beast?
5. K-Y or Astro glide
4. Marijuana or coke
2. Me or God
1. Best “down low clubs” in America
He’s cutting short his day of golf to preach to the choir? What a hard worker.
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