Obama Ignores Black Economic Woes To Focus On Racism

The Daily Caller ^ | December 29, 2014 | Neil Munro

[Cincinatus' Wife]

"............................Then [Obama] claimed his government-centered policies have boosted education and opportunity among African-Americans. “The education reforms that we’ve initiated are showing measurable results… We are seeing record numbers of young people attending college,” he said.

But in Obama’s high-unemployment economy, even blacks with college degrees are doing worse than their pre-depression peers. “Among recent graduates ages 22 to 27, the jobless rate for [graduate] blacks last year was 12.4 percent versus 4.9 percent for whites,” said a New York Times article, which was published quietly on Christmas Day.

“This 7.5 percentage point difference was far greater than before the recession… there was only a 1.4 percentage point difference [in 2007], with 4.6 percent of recent black graduates out of work compared with 3.2 percent of similarly educated whites… [and] the delay in finding a job can reverberate years down the road, reducing wages over a lifetime,” the Times said.

“’I’m just surprised I haven’t gotten any job,’ said Garrick Ewers, 22, a business administration major who donned a cap and gown this spring at Morehouse College, a historically black men’s college in Atlanta,” read the Times article.

“Mr. Ewers, who would like to work in marketing, applied to Google, Apple, BET, MTV and Amazon, among others… He took a job a couple of weeks ago at a video store near his home for $8.50 an hour,” the article said.

That’s a huge drop from the future that Obama promised to Morehouse students in a May 2013 commencement speech.

“You’re graduating into an improving job market. You’re living in a time when advances in technology and communication put the world at your fingertips. Your generation is uniquely poised for success unlike any generation of African Americans that came before it… With doors open to you that your parents and grandparents could not even imagine, no one expects you to take a vow of poverty,” Obama declared.

But the established media isn’t interested in the gap between reality and Obama’s words, or in the link between reality and Obama’s actions.

The New York Times article on African-American graduates, for example, did not even mention Obama. It was published on Christmas Day and generated minimal media reaction. In contrast, the Times produced 106 articles on the Ferguson shooting in the 20 days between Aug. 10 and Aug. 30.

The established media prefers easy, TV-ready racial conflict — and Obama delivered that in a rush of words, just after he dodged Ryan’s economy question.

There is “a growing awareness in the broader population of what I think many communities of color have understood for some time… [that] law enforcement doesn’t feel as if it’s being applied in a colorblind fashion,” he told the assembled media Dec. 19.

“The task force that I formed is supposed to report back to me in 90 days… [and] my intention is to, as soon as I get those recommendations, to start implementing them.”

The media-magnified disputes between police and African-Americans “has been a healthy conversation that we’ve had,” he said, promising more of the same.

“We’ve been moving forward on criminal justice reform issues more broadly… Sometimes you’ve got a police department that has gotten into bad habits over a period of time and hasn’t maybe surfaced some hidden biases that we all carry around,” he continued.

After the press conference, the reporters followed Obama’s stage directions. For example, Ryan appeared on MSNBC and CNN shortly after she asked her question to Obama.

On CNN, the host and Ryan focused on Obama’s decision to talk about the Ferguson shooting, not about economics. “As black people, we feel certain thing that other communities don’t,” she said.

That focus was promptly touted by Jay Carney, Obama’s former press secretary. “I think it it really resonates with African-Americans around the country, especially parents, and to Americans of all colors,” he told CNN.

On MSNBC, Ryan followed Rachel Maddow’s lead and focused on male reporters’ reactions to Obama’s decision to take questions only from women reporters in the press conference. “Oh yes, they are hot, they are seething,” Ryan told Maddow, before she briefly returned to economics in the last fifth of the segment, when she cited her 2009 interview with Obama.

“For African-Americans, he said, for those who have education, good education, it’s a great time for opportunity, but for those who don’t, it is unemployment, it is a bad time, because there’s unemployment problems and the lack of opportunity,” Ryan told Maddow, before Maddow returned the president’s use of female reporters...." Full article

[Cincinatus' Wife]

".........[Liberals] hate [conservatives] because you are killers of their dream. Because you are defenders of a Constitution that thwarts their cause. They hate you because your "reactionary" commitment to individual rights, to a single standard and to a neutral and limited state obstructs their progressive designs. They hate you because you are believers in property and its rights as the cornerstones of prosperity and human freedom; because you do not see the market economy as a mere instrument for acquiring personal wealth and political war chests, to be overcome in the end by bureaucratic schemes.

Conservatives who think progressives are misinformed idealists will forever be blind-sided by the malice of the left—by the cynicism of those who pride themselves on principle, by the viciousness of those who champion sensitivity, by the intolerance of those who call themselves liberal, and by the ruthless disregard for the well-being of the downtrodden by those who preen themselves as social saints.".... David Horowitz - June 2000

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Nov 25, 2014: Dem fundraiser charged with child sex abuse met Obama often, flew on Air Force One ---- "A prominent gay rights activist charged last week with sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy is a strong supporter of President Obama who has visited the White House more than a half-dozen times in the past two years, visitor logs show.

Terrence P. Bean, 66, who raised more than a half-million dollars for Mr. Obama’s re-election campaign in 2012, last visited the White House on May 30 when he met with the president, first lady Michelle Obama and political adviser David Simas.

White House visitor logs show that Mr. Bean, co-founder of the Human Rights Campaign, a leading gay rights group, also has visited the White House on at least six other occasions since June 2012. On one visit in 2013, Mr. Bean brought along Kiah Lawson, described in news reports as his ex-boyfriend, who is also charged with sexually assaulting the juvenile."................

With Money Comes Major Democrat Party Access: Terry Bean shown with future President Barack Obama and future First Lady Michelle Obama. Source: Bean’s Flickr page.

Here Bean is shown consulting with Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi and former Congressman Barney Frank..

Democratic Power-Broker: Photo on Terry Bean’s Flickr site (since taken down) shows Barack Obama and others listening intently to Bean (second from left), at an event attended by the president. Bean is a friend of Obama who has flown on Air Force One with the president. Source: Bean’s Flickr page.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Nov 23, 2014, CNN "Bean, a real-estate developer and co-founder of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund and the Human Rights Campaign, is a powerful figure in Democratic politics.

The Oregonian reported that he helped raise more than half a million dollars for Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, and Federal Election Commission records show he's contributed thousands to Democrats, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and others."....

1993: Hillarycare

2013: "What difference does [Benghazi] make?" - Hillary Clinton

[jonrick46]

Obama’s association with gay activists like Terrence P. Bean, makes him literally in bed with the gay rights movement.

[kearnyirish2]

“Black leaders” know they can’t address the economic woes of blacks, so they cry racism to keep the cash coming. How is any president supposed to address the fact that so many people in this group have a third-grade education and many barely speak “American”? That can’t be fixed without fixing public education, and the Dems, as the political arm of the teachers’ unions, simply won’t do that.

[Old Sarge]

BUMP FL

[TribalPrincess2U]

0bama don’t care about blacks. It’s the muslims he cares about.