FAR more Black children are aborted than Whites or Hispanics.
Are you a Racist?
Posted on 07/16/2009 8:21:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
President Barack Obama speaks during the 100th anniversary convention of the NAACP, Thursday, July 16, 2009, in New York.
President Barack Obama on Thursday traced his historic rise to power to the vigor and valor of black civil rights leaders, telling the NAACP that the sacrifice of others "began the journey that has led me here." The nation's first black president bluntly warned, though, that racial barriers persist.
Take a look at the best photos of President Obama and his family captured during his first year in office. View Slideshow People around the world welcome Barack Obama as America's 44th president as a symbol of hope and change. "Make no mistake: The pain of discrimination is still felt in America," the president said in honoring the organization's 100th convention.
Painting himself as the beneficiary of the NAACP's work, Obama cited historical figures from W.E.B. DuBois to Thurgood Marshall to explain how the path to the presidency was cleared by visionaries.
Obama's remarks, steeped in his personal biography as the son of a white mother from Kansas and black father from Kenya, challenged the audience — those in the room and those beyond — to take greater responsibility for their own future. He told parents to take a more active role and residents to pay better attention to their schools. Rousing up a friendly crowd, Obama made his first speech so directly linked with race since he took office; the White House says he worked on it for about two weeks. Implicit in his appearance: He is seeking the backing of the powerful NAACP and its members for his ambitious domestic agenda. The president said that in the current down economy, blacks are suffering high unemployment and are afflicted with more diseases but are less likely to own health insurance. He said that the African-American child is about five times as likely as a white child to be sent to jail.
Obama touted education as essential to improving the lives of all children. He said the state of schools is an American problem, not an African-American one.
"You know what I'm talking about. There's a reason the story of the civil rights movement was written in our schools. There's a reason Thurgood Marshall took up the cause of Linda Brown. There's a reason the Little Rock Nine defied a governor and a mob," Obama said. "It's because there is no stronger weapon against inequality and no better path to opportunity than an education that can unlock a child's God-given potential." "We have to say to our children, 'Yes, if you're African-American, the odds of growing up amid crime and gangs are higher. Yes, if you live in a poor neighborhood, you will face challenges that someone in a wealthy suburb does not,'" Obama said, returning to his tough-love message familiar from his two-year presidential campaign. "But that's not a reason to get bad grades, that's not a reason to cut class, that's not a reason to give up on your education and drop out of school," he said. "No one has written your destiny for you. Your destiny is in your hands and don't you forget that."
Obama expanded his message of equal rights beyond the black communities. He said many Americans still face discrimination.
Racism, he said, is felt "by African-American women paid less for doing the same work as colleagues of a different color and gender. By Latinos made to feel unwelcome in their own country. By Muslim Americans viewed with suspicion for simply kneeling down to pray. By our gay brothers and sisters, still taunted, still attacked, still denied their rights." Obama also pressed for NAACP members to encourage their young people to find new role models beyond sports or music. "I want them aspiring to be scientists and engineers, doctors and teachers, not just ballers and rappers," Obama said. "I want them aspiring to be a Supreme Court justice. I want them aspiring to be president of the United States." To bolster his argument that it's within their reach, he cited his own biography, growing up with a single mother. "I don't come from a lot of wealth. I got into my share of trouble as a kid. My life could easily have taken a turn for the worse. But that mother of mine gave me love; she pushed me, and cared about my education; she took no lip and taught me right from wrong," Obama said. "Because of her, I had a chance to make the most of my abilities. I had the chance to make the most of my opportunities. I had the chance to make the most of life."
Mr. Con Man speaks.
Why did he mention 'child' here? Odd?
Karl Marx led him here.
Apparently Obama's honky roots didn't take hold.
Orval Eugene Faubus was a six-term Democratic Governor of Arkansas
he cultivated ties with leaders of Arkansas's Democratic Party, particularly with progressive reform Governor Sid McMath
In the 1954 campaign Faubus was compelled to defend his attendance at the defunct northwest Arkansas Commonwealth College in Mena, as well as his early political upbringing. Commonwealth College had been formed by leftist academic and social activists, some of whom later were revealed to have had close ties with the Communist Party United States of America.
The 1954 election made Faubus sensitive to attacks from the political right. It has been suggested that this sensitivity contributed to his later stance against integration (YEAH, RIGHT!) when he was challenged by segregationist elements within his own party.
Though Faubus later lost general popularity as a result of his stand against desegregation, at the time he was included among the "Ten Men in the World Most Admired by Americans", according to the Gallup Poll for 1958.
Beyond initial matters of racial integration, Faubus always was regarded as a progressive.
While he was still an outcast from black leaders, Faubus nevertheless won a large percent of the black vote. In 1964, when he easily defeated the Republican Winthrop Rockefeller, Faubus secured 81 percent of the black vote.
Brother Love's Travelin' Salvation Show.
I watched this speech and he scared me. He seemed angry and almost about to spit. This sent chills up my spine!
I read it. No mention of why if you are black you arte more likely to live in the ghetto. No mention of why you are more likely to be incarcerated. No mention of personal responsibility.
I have no education past high school, I have been a drug dealer (dozen years ago) and a pimp. I applied myself and gave some thought to my personal destiny and at my mid thirties, I have a good career and a great life. No silver spoon here even if my skin is white.
The only thing holding the ghetto back is a sharp dose of “Holy Crap, do I want to live like that?” On the other hand the government could go broke giving away money and not change anything.
This all goes along with Rush’s assessment that Obama is here to punish America.
He took on a real Jeremiah Wright persona, did he not? Right down to the ‘preacher’ sing-song (don’t know what that’s called).
Just a guess, but I'm perrrrty sure there was a tacit understanding that it was the White Man's fault. (if not George Bush, specifically).
Just keeping up his street cred.
The sacrifice of Otters ?
I know, I watched the speech too and had the same reaction- it’s probably his verbal spanking to the black community before he hands out the welfare jelly roll;icing and all.
I saw some of it too. Notice how he tried to impersonate Rev. Wright and Martin L. King, Jr.? His act needs a lot of work because, as you say, it came off as 'scary'.
Montezuma and a few pharaohs said that, too.
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