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 weeks 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 Americas 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 its 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.
Americas future depends on us caring about about this. If we dont, 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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Clown Prince nobama is such a fool.
In the end, we have to discipline OURSELVES and make demands on OURSELVES.
That is how we mature and grow...it doesn’t come from OUTSIDE
I think ‘bammy’s less about helping “people of color” than he is about vengeance on Saltine Americans.
a rino wont win again. Bush barely won twice. Cruz or Walker or both, early.
If they didn’t cover it then it never happened.
Let focus on solutions to those bad area’s problems.
Like raising taxes.
Raising the minimum wage,( Baltimore city’s is only $12.50 per hour)
More spending, lets pay to rebuild the burned out buildings.
Funny how various members of my family, going back centuries in this country, have been poor and deprived- yet they did not riot or attack the majority population or police...
"Look! A bear!" The classic Homer Simpson line when he was in a jam and fled in the opposite direction.
Sorry Spanky...in 09 and 10 You and your fellow Commies controlled all 3, HOR, Senate and Presidency.
You were too busy filling the pockets of Corporate Shysters like Solendra and Green Tech Auto (Terry McCaulliff-scam)
to address Inner City strife.
Or perhaps you have those uneducated, low IQ Citizens right where you want them. Ignorant and impressionable with a text on their Government funded phone.
You aren’t kidding anyone Emperor Nero...Rome is collapsing on your watch.
We dont 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.
Eric Holder said we are a nation of cowards on issues of race, and we need to have frank discussions, etc.
Yet if anyone publicly says what you just wrote, they would be condemned as racist. So then the discussion ends, and nothing gets resolved. So how does that help anyone???
No jobs for Blacks because they are taken up by ILLEGAL ALIEN, and guess who allowed that to happen.
The homo, fairy, Muslim slime of Obama.
What about the woman who watched as teens stole prescription drugs from a pharmacy and ALLOWED IT TO CONTINUE???
Politicians, including Obama, just read from the same old scripts regarding the same old problems.
How many $Trillions has Obama had to spend in the last 6 years?
He was talking infrastructure and jobs half-a-decade ago. Where did that money go?
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Same old scripts. Same old results.
@#%^#$&^$%&**!!!!!
Gee, I’m supposed to feel sorry that there aren’t job opportunities in the inner cities? After the thugs burn down the existing businesses?
Just because the thugs are stupid, don’t expect me to feel sorry for their plight.
“lack of economic opportunity”
That’s because they use the Liberal/Democrat economic method when it comes to businesses in the area: Burn The Bitch Down.
The community organizer in chief has spoken. Give the clown some rocks to throw.
The people Obama wishes they’d talk about have given their blessings, silent tacit agreement with, and/or participated in the looting and riots.
During the riots, commentators kept on excusing the behavior as justified, as emotional outrage, as targeted insurrection and a result of neglect and racism.
The left has done a great job of projection. They say that whites/ Republicans, middle class business people keep blacks poor as an example what will happen to others if they
make a stink about raising the minimum wage , that is, everyone else will end up on welfare without a job and start stealing bathroom tissue.
The left keeps blacks in their self-selected ghettos as a threat of violence, if we do not give them ransom money in terms of stimulus funds, Headstart, jobs programs, etc. which just go into expanding the whole democrat machine, they will unleash the blacks on 24 hour news TV and project that threat into our psyche.
In other words, Owebowma want the media to acknowledge the loting, but then have full-bore democrap news conferences extolling the vitues of the welfare state.
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