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Joshua DuBois to unemployed African-Americans: Have you considered a career in poetry?
Mofo Politics ^

Posted on 08/21/2014 2:52:03 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal

Joshua DuBois is the author of The President’s Devotional: The Daily Readings that Inspired President Obama and Stories of Faith in the White House.

Dubois headed the Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships during Obama’s first term.

And he’s a buffoon…

Chris Matthews: What about the kid who begins to start thinking about his life in his mid-teens…and he’s thinking, ‘where am I going in this world?’

(SNIP)

Dubois: I’m gonna say to him, ‘tap into your inherent creativity and your inherent strengths’. Cuz he may be a poet. He may express that poetry in terms of rap music.

Matthews: Where’s the money in that?

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To: ObamahatesPACoal

I’m the lyrical Jesse James


21 posted on 08/21/2014 5:42:44 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: cloudmountain; right way right
I got one for you:

He's a poet and didn't know it.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

...But his feet show it.

Long, fellow.

22 posted on 08/21/2014 7:02:12 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: Laslo Fripp
...But his feet show it.

Long, fellow. They are longfellows.

Harhar, I remember that one now! I love it. :o)

23 posted on 08/21/2014 8:13:22 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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