Posted on 05/04/2015 1:01:44 PM PDT by don-o
President Obama on Monday took a shot at the media for its coverage of last week’s violence in Baltimore, saying news outlets too often focus only on looters and rioters rather than on those who are trying to solve the complex problems plaguing America’s cities.
In a speech at Lehman College in New York City, the president said lack of economic opportunity for young people of color in inner cities helped fuel the protests that have been seen in Baltimore, Ferguson, Missouri, and elsewhere across the country in recent months. Mr. Obama said it’s vital that the nation turn its attention to improving the lives of blacks and Latinos, particularly those in rough neighborhoods or trapped in failing schools.
But the president suggested that the news media contributes little to the broader debate and instead focuses on acts of violence.
“America’s future depends on us caring about about this. If we don’t, then we will just keep going through the same cycles,” the president said. “We ask police to go into communities where there is no hope. Eventually something happens because of the tensions between society and these communities and the police are just on the front lines of that. And people tweet outrage and the TV cameras come and they focus more on somebody setting fire to something or turning over a car than the peaceful protests and the thoughtful discussions that are taking place.”
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If you voted for this POS, own him Lefties.
Hey Barack, how dare you bite the hand that has covered your sorry ass big time on all sorts of occasions (major sarc).
Gee. if only there had been a majority dem senate and house and dem president in the past six years. This would all have been fixed. Wait...
saying news outlets too often focus only on looters and rioters
In other words he supports the looters.
Once a agitator always a agitator.
Awwwwwwwww, pity poo poo...
Iz your wittle pwaan nawt workingggg, Mistah Pwesident???
Awwwwwwwww, mommy get you a cookie...
Does he mean the MSM ought to focus on the $1.8 billion ‘stimulus’ that Baltimore ALREADY got?
Pay no attention to the looters and arsonists and vandals! Instead pay attention to what Obozo says to pay attention to!
Six years of 0bammunism have trashed economic opportunity throughout America. So racist bastard Barry Soetoro only worries about 'people of color'.
Always funny that the one piece of information missing from every one of these protests is it is in a Democrat community, run by Democrats for a generation or more.
This isn’t an American problem. It’s a Democrat problem.
Yes. Yes, that must be it!
Yeah there you go, using logic again. Heh heh heh...
You’re right.
This is one thing that Bush supporters hate to think about, when you talk about what he screwed up on, didn’t correct during his terms in office.
That’s a good point.
Think Detroit might be a good example? LOL
I was a zombie during those years!!!!
a republican president an republican house and senate and we RAISED the debt and created NEW entitlements??
I tell obummer supporters to not be as blind as I was once.
NEXT TIME we have everything I want conservative LAWS PASSED
F compassionate conservative. WT@ did that mean anyway
Hey, I have a solution! Let's import 10-20 million more illegals and legalize the 20 million here already! That will fix it!
The real problem with inner cities? Yeah,it’s called the Democratic Party and all the crooks that run these cesspools of cities.
“the president said lack of economic opportunity for young people of color in inner cities helped fuel the protests that have been seen in Baltimore, Ferguson, Missouri..”
Well clean up your trashy neighborhoods, ditch the ghetto culture, and try not to burn down buildings.
Maybe start business of your own that dont cater to hair care or weave, fried foods, rap music, or sh*tty wannabe African art, and you may even attract money from outside.
We don’t make any moral obligations on blacks. It is their behavior stemming from their values that cause them to live in such savage situations. Mo amount of blood money will stem their festering.
It was code for, “Don’t worry Lefties, I can play ball with you (and you with me).”
That right there should have told us all we needed to know. Some of it did.
This is why I think we should line up early behind one Conservative man before the primaries in 2016.
We’re going to dilute the Conservative voice, and hand this to Jeb Bush. You just wait and see.
Either that or we’ll give it to a liar who will continue to lie to us afte he is elected.
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