Smiley and West Take Obama Critique on the Road (Poverty Tour)

AP via CBS News ^ | Friday, July 22, 2011 | Jesse Washington

[kristinn]

Black activists Cornel West and Tavis Smiley are planning a 15-city "Poverty Tour" to bring attention to the needy and to what they say are the failings of President Barack Obama.

West, a Princeton University professor, and Smiley, host of a PBS talk show, expect to begin the bus trip Aug. 5 at a Native American reservation in Wisconsin. With visits to soup kitchens, housing projects, farms, families and low-wage workers, they say they hope to create momentum for large-scale job creation programs and put poverty on the 2012 election agenda.

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Although their tour does not have a specific racial focus, "you can't ignore that black people are catching the most hell in this recession," Smiley said.

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Mary Frances Berry, a University of Pennsylvania history professor and former chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, said she has noticed more black frustration with Obama "in the barbershop, on the street with people. And among my own relatives."

"Everybody likes Obama in the African-American community," Berry said. "But when they see the unemployment numbers, they have friends and relatives getting put out in the street, they don't have jobs and can't find jobs, everyone starts trying to make excuses — Obama can't do anything by himself, he can't get Congress to go along."

"But after they say that over and over again and it gets worse — and it is getting worse — you get some mumblings and grumblings."

On their bus trip, Smiley and West will travel through Hayward, Eau Claire and Madison, Wis.; Milwaukee; Chicago's South Side; Joliet and Pembroke, Ill.; Lima, Ohio; Charleston, West Virginia; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; Birmingham, Ala.; Columbus and Clarksdale, Miss.; and finish in Memphis.

[abcc2011]

“Everybody likes Obama in the African-American community,......everyone starts trying to make excuses — Obama can’t do anything by himself, he can’t get Congress to go along.”

I was thinking the same thing. They blame other people. Excuses, excuses. I thought Obama was their “messiah”. He was the “One” to bring hope and change. They made Obama and the government their God.

I don’t agree with everything the preacher, James David Manning says (he has lots of bad ideas), but he is right that black people have a God problem. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djE4h5x81P4

Matthew 6:33 - “but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.”

[Recovering_Democrat]

All criticism Hussein will get from the left has to be viewed as "posing".

Hussein is a candidate, officially now, for re-election. He has been told by his puppet masters to look "moderate", so I am not going to be surprised one little bit by his cultists on the left pretending to be upset with him.

Hussein is an Alinsky disciple, and will try to deceive the middle class by allowing (encouraging?) his worshipers on the left to go out and call for him to go even FURTHER in destroying America.

This is all a SHOW, folks. If Hussein can position himself between these people on the extreme left (even though he is really one of them), and the Republicans, he hopes to win re-election.

[Huck]

Poverty pimps, yes. And race pimps. But while Rev Al and Jesse J never impressed me, I was always amused by West’s brand of intellectual BS. I find it hilarious that anyone falls for it.